A huge thank you to Brittany and Triton for being so awesomely patient with me while I’m recovering! After their San Luis Obispo wedding at the awesome wedding venue Flying Caballos. I’m just finishing up the editing now but couldn’t resist posting at least one image tonight as they have been so good to me. This picture was from the rooftop balcony on Brittany and Triton’s Burning Man bus. Yes, I’ll explain more on the full post

In case you were wondering where I’ve been, that rock circled in red has held me captive for a few weeks now. I was out celebrating the end of wedding photography season by going for a ride when I clipped my back wheel at high speed and crashed into this rock. Unfortunately I broke my pelvis, wrist and dislocated my shoulder. I was able to get myself to the ER and have been in recovery mode since. It’s been 2 weeks now and I’m feeling pretty good though I have a cast on my right hand so have had to use a laptop track pad rather than a mouse to do image editing. Thankfully I was all caught up on work so this is only minimally holding up my work and I thank my wonderful clients for their patience in getting their albums finished. Also, thanks everyone for the well wishes, cards and advice. And yes, I’m sticking to the mountain bike from now on!

Jesse and Meghan’s wedding at Lago Giuseppe in Paso Robles was truly a great time! I’m friends with Jesse as we are both local cyclists and have been riding together for the past couple years. I was totally honored when he asked me to shoot his wedding at the beautiful up and coming Lago Giuseppe Cellars in the mountains above Paso Robles.
I knew a ton of people at the wedding and it was an awesome crowd. Everyone who knows Jesse and Meghan know what amazing people they are so it was a celebration everyone was excited for as they are such amazing people who inspire those around them.
Thanks for having me and I wish you guys a lifetime of happiness, you deserve it!

I met up with Melissa and Jason in Petaluma for their engagement session. Great times doing their engagement photos around the quiet ends of Petaluma and hitting up a couple of my favorite fields. I’m super excited to be shooting at Flying Clouds Farms again, I love that wedding venue!

Kids LOVE to cook! Well, mine do and they are the only kids I know so I’m going with that assumption. If there’s anything they like more than cooking it’s a good picnic. We are so lucky to have great neighbors who have kids the same ages as Caiden and Kyla. On one of the last warm evenings of the year here in San Luis Obispo county, Kyla helped make the kids dinner then Eva and Ella joined them for a picnic out front. Good time ensued, especially for Amber the dog who cleaned up anything left unattended!

This is such a great time of year for a wedding; the weather is cooling off, we’ve got some nice clouds here on the coast and the air so so clean and clear. I arrived at the Waterfront Hotel in Oakland to shoot Wendy and Derrick getting ready. On my way down from Petaluma there was a bit of rain but still plenty of blue sky so I was pretty excited to get to work in gorgeous conditions. I arrived early and had a great time shooting the getting ready and all the little moments that make me love doing wedding photography. Everyone was super nice and having a great time.
We all jumped in the limo bus and headed off to the church for a very touching ceremony, Derrick brought the entire place to tears with his emotional greeting when he saw Wendy walking down the aisle, I don’t think there was a dry eye in the house! I got some great pictures of that but Derrick is a great Bay Area wedding and event DJ who has DJ’d San Francisco weddings I’ve shot like Kathryn and Tim’s Hamlin Mansion Wedding so I won’t embarrass him like that! How good is Derrick? Check out the picture of him with President Obama from when he DJ’d an event the President attended recently, how cool is that?
We headed back down to the Jack London Square area then up to the reception at Lake Merritt. The food was fantastic, the mood was chill and everyone had a great night.
Huge thanks to Brooke Beasley Photography for the help!

Dave gave me a call about 5 days before his job (he’s in the Air Force) shipped him out of the area on his next assignment to do his wedding engagement photography. Now, this isn’t a whole lot of time to plan but seeing as he has been living in Avila Beach for years he knew that he and Isabella would want to show the beauty of the Pismo and Shell Beach areas as well as a little bit of vineyard pictures. His next assignment is in Florida so I wanted to really capture the uniqueness of the Central Coast but in a intimate way that is totally unique for this area.
I had exactly 1 day not already booked with weddings or other engagement sessions so we were totally lucky that the weather held out for the day we could shoot. I don’t do a ton of beach engagement sessions but when I do I want them to all turn out like this as the weather was perfect, Dave and Isabella were awesome and the lighting was everything I could ask for. After the beach we headed out to Edna Valley Vineyards near San Luis Obispo and while it was a little darker than I hoped for we still got some very unique and fun pictures that are sure to be remembered.

I have been so busy I have not had the time to blog so there’s going to be a bunch of posts while I try to catch up over the next month!
Carolyn and Cameron had specially requested I shoot more candid and photojournalism at their wedding and while my photography is always skewed toward photojournalism this was a ton of fun. I always mix it up but this was the perfect group to let loose and have a great time and not worry too much about posing.
I drove up from San Luis Obispo the night before and stayed with my family in Petaluma before heading over the hill to Calistoga to the Silver Rose Inn. I have shot across the street at Solage Calistoga so I knew exactly how wonderful the light was going in the late afternoon so I was very excited. The Inn didn’t disappoint and Carolyn and Cameron (and guests!) were all very laid back and ready to have fun. The entire day was spent at the Inn and vineyards so that always makes for plenty of photo-ops! My favorite parts of the wedding were how emotional Cameron got when he saw Carolyn for the first look and when they decided to get a bit “nontraditional” with the cake cutting! See below for some pretty hilarious pics.
Congratulations Carolyn and Cameron!

I know everyone must get sick of hearing this but I’m going to say it again, I really love being a wedding photographer!
Keeley and Seth were an absolute riot to photograph, I had a great time! We started off out in the vineyards near Edna Vally Winery where we goofed around and got both some really cool and some utterly hilarious pictures. Seth and Keeley have amazing chemistry together and were total naturals in front of the camera, it was great! While few are completely comfortable in front of the camera at first, these guys just fed off each other and their enjoyment of each others company was enough to translate to comfort in front of the camera. We then moved on to a neat office building that was built but then abandoned for some great light and interesting architecture. We finished off with a little night photography in San Luis Obispo to get some amazing colors in the sky. Along the way some vanilla coke was drunk, good times were had and new friends were made!
I’m really looking forward to being their wedding photographer!