spoiler alert: i want to be tanja’s friend and i don’t think she knows it. yet. so here i go… tanja i want to be your friend. and although germans would laugh at such a […]
Category: Portraits
expats | shanghai china | christina
christina and i met online. my first [and only] official internet relationship to date. wait, that’s wrong. first came my junior high boyfriend that i would spend hours IM’ing from my parent’s dial-up computer. but […]
expats | shanghai china | xavi and qiawen
i first met xavi in his restaurant during happy hour. my friend and i overheard two cute guys speak spanish to one another a few tables behind us. excitedly and a bit jalapeno-margarita-induced, i said […]
expats | shanghai china | lin and dom
changshou lu. i exited the steepest metro staircase. that’s where i first met dom. she escorted me back to her apartment behind the metro stop. i stubbornly inconveniently forgot my umbrella. i detest lulling it […]
san francisco california
todd and tamara are the cutest. the sweetest. we met to shoot around before their wedding day back in july. yes, i am pretty behind in blogging. they are getting married this august and i […]
san jose portrait
its their first anniversary =] i am so happy to have photographed derik and sarah’s engagement, wedding and now first wedding anniversary. tk and i met them in san jose on a warm friday at […]
mammoth california
this was sure to be an unique engagement. amanda + spenser, based in LA, wanted to meet somewhere out of the norm for their engagement session. they decided on mammoth for their destination. the goal: […]
santa cruz california
i met kathy + craig at the santa cruz warf for their engagement session. our original plan of shooting along the boardwalk was delayed a bit due to the summer crowds. so we opted for […]
sacramento california
this is a side tangent that i have thought about recently [and is no way inspired by this couple but rather just conversations i have had with friends recently]: if you have been married longer […]
san francisco california
meet gary + heather. they are getting hitched in august. and its going to be one big celebration. these two are so vivacious. i knew we were a good match for one another right when […]
shoot and share contest
I partook in the Shoot and Share contest back in the beginning of January. Out of a lot of amazing photographers (1,660 of them) and a bazillion great images (26,433) divided into 20 categories (engagement, […]
san francisco engagement | adam and laura [and stanley!]
i ventured over to the city a couple sundays ago to do a pre-wedding practice session [ie engagement session] with adam + laura at their home and around their neighborhood. i had had the pleasure […]
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san francisco portrait | ryan and kristen
happy monday! last tuesday, i was able to bounce around little italy and baker beach with ryan + kristen during their anniversary trip to san francisco. they were in town from las vegas to celebrate […]
sacramento engagement | jake + miranda
when miranda told me she had a car load of vintage props and wanted a railroad backdrop for their shoot, i immediately thought about old sacramento train station. so we trekked up to sacramento for […]