Laura and Nick rocked Mid-town Sacramento then we did a little night photography around the less well-known parts of Old-town, it was great! Awesome couple, can’t wait to photograph their wedding later this summer!

As the wedding season is heating up, engagement sessions are in full swing so you know I’m happy as I love a good engagement session!. Annabelle and Vinnie are a great couple who were totally devoted to getting great images. They are completely in love and so easy going, they were such a pleasure to get to know! San Luis Obispo engagement sessions are so great because we have everything from completely rural to modern architecture and just about everything in-between! I love shooting in San Francisco and other great cities but there’s a reason why I can SLO my home.

The last 6 weeks have been incredible! I want to welcome all my new clients (there’s a ton of you!) and introduce everyone to Lisa and John who’s engagement we shot up in San Francisco. This was our second or third attempt at shooting as we kept getting rained out but it finally worked out to shoot during the Superbowl. If you aren’t a huge NFL fan, then Superbowl Sunday is a great day to hit up all the normally crowded locations you wouldn’t normally go to!
Lot’s more fun stuff coming up in the coming months; New York weddings, Biltmore Resort in Santa Barbara, Napa Valley engagement session, San Luis Obispo family sessions… tons of exciting shoots!

Had such a great time getting to know Tamara and Joe a few weeks ago for their engagement session! Being a wedding photographer my favorite part of the job is making clients happy, but that is closely followed by just getting the opportunity to meet so many great people! Tamara and Joe were a ton of fun and their interactions with each other was so great to see. The wedding is just a few weeks away at the stunning One Fort Mason in San Francisco and we are expecting some beautiful weather!
The best part of the shoot was when we were talking about places to get a good view of the city at night and we talk through a couple locations before Joe says “Oh yeah, my office has a nice roof-top if you want to check it out.” We head up there and it’s stunning! Check out the shots at the end, there was even a giant sculpture of a heart!

So funny! I’ve had a couple people tell me they can’t access my blog from work because my previous post from Nettie and Leon’s engagement photo shoot includes the word “wicked.” I guess the work filter blocks it in case it’s a cult website! How funny is that?

It was an engagement photo session marathon the other weekend in San Francisco! Somewhere in the middle I had a mountain bike race too (I did well, 3rd place in Cat. 2) so it was a very exhausting weekend! Stephanie was along helping out so it made it so much easier, thanks Steph! We met with Ben and Sarah in Golden Gate Park and while I grew up in the Bay Area and drive through the Park all the time, I haven’t actually been in the park since probably the early 1980’s! I vaguely remember a museum and something about King Tut then going to the SF Zoo and riding a camel. I was probably 4 years old at the time. Funny thing, when we met with Sarah and Ben the King Tut exhibit was back at the de Young Museum! That’s gotta be a good sign!

We explored the park and found some locations that made it look like we ventured far into the outback (Ben in from Australia so I had to throw in an Aussie reference somewhere!) though we were actually right in the middle of things. Ben is a fellow bike rider so we had a great time laughing at all the $7K bikes being cruised around the park as if they are made for such a lowly existence!

Sarah and Ben have a great connection and had a great time just doing their thing. Plus they are both super mellow and wonderfully warm people so it was a very pleasant afternoon. It made me really excited to shoot their wedding, fortunately, I don’t have to wait long as it’s about 2 weeks away!

I love musical theatre, I really do. Some people think it’s funny but it’s actually in my blood as my grandparents were opera singers. When I did a study abroad in London I must have seen 15 plays, it was awesome! Being in San Francisco has the advantage of getting to see lots of show being tested for potential runs on Broadway so we try to get to a couple shows a year. But I have to admit, I pale in comparison to Nettie and Leon! My first clue was the meeting place: the classic Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco. The next was that they brought their own playbills as props. Then I found out they have seen Wicked 17 times! Okay, they win!
It was a really fun day and Leon and Nettie are a gorgeous couple and a ton of fun. Leon I hardly recognized as he’s gotten himself super fit over the past few month, nice work! And Nettie just can’t take a bad picture, she’s just so elegant! They have been together for years and have a maturity in their relationship thats really great to see, I’m very much looking forward to what is sure to be an awesome wedding!

Yes, the hill really is that steep! Nettie is showing off her heel skills here!

Day wouldn’t have been complete without this shot!

Wow I’ve had a great year of couples! One couple after the next just have this amazing connection that makes my job so much fun! It really is great to get to hang out and get to know people that are so in love.
Ashley, Brandt and I started out at Summerwood Winery, (which is ever so conveniently located at the bottom of my road!) before heading around the Paso Robles for their engagement session. It was pretty windy and a bit chilly, well, actually it was freezing but we toughed it out. Always easier for me to say as the photographer who can wear a hat and jacket lol
Looking forward to the wedding at Robert Hall Winery!

Had a blast last weekend with Melanie and Nick shooting around San Luis Obispo, Morro Bay and Cayucos. They are a great couple who are a lot of fun to be around and obviously very in love. We started out at Cal Poly as the light was perfect for a shoot in some of the buildings around campus. It was spring break so campus was like a ghost town! We then headed over to a cool spot on the beach where I broke out my lighting and got some cool sunset images before heading to Cayucos to the Cayucos Tavern for some pictures and a few drinks The wedding is going to be in Cayucos on the beach so it made sense!
I’m really looking forward to their wedding and know we will all have a ball!

I love shooting engagement sessions in locations that have real meaning for the couple, Lori and Bobby have tons of history together at UCSB so what better location to shoot? You don’t have to twist my arm to get me down to the beautiful town of Santa Barbara! In the middle of a January heat wave with a hot couple? Even Better! I went to Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara for photography school so it’s always nice to get back there.
Stephanie (my wife for those that don’t know) decided to join me to assist. It was her birthday so we figured we’d go out after the shoot (at Los Olivos Cafe). We met up in Isla Vista and headed right into campus. There must have been 20 new building on campus, it was pretty crazy. Sure would be nice to sit in class and look down the beautiful Santa Barbara coast line!
Lori and Bobby were super nice people and a ton of fun to get to know. We went all over campus and even shot in the library where Bobby worked for several years. Next we went to a couple different beaches (that were packed because of the gorgeous weather) then back to campus for some night shooting.
I can’t wait to shoot the wedding this summer at Gainey Vineyards in Santa Ynez, it’s going to be amazing!

Gotta love night shoots!

Lori looking gorgeous

super wide angles sometimes are fun!

Out in the fields…well, actually not but it looks like it

Making out in the library… If only all studying was this fun!

Gotta love sunset in California!

I love this shot, so much fun shooting at night!

This is a totally funky building with all these fluorescent lights that cast some very interesting colors.

We had a blast hanging with you guys and can’t wait for the wedding!