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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.
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