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!

I’ve been working on a pumptrack (sort of like a mini bmx bike track) at my house in Paso Robles for the past couple of months and finally finished it the day before it started raining. It would ruin it to be ridden while wet so after all that work all I can do is make sure the water is draining well and wait, bummer! Oh well, at least I got one day or riding!
Caiden wanted to help me do some trenching today but I think he really just wanted to stomp through the mud! We went out just after it stopped raining and he just ran back and forth, falling several times. He ended up getting really cold so I had to toss him in the bath! lol, it’s great to be a kid!

Caiden has been riding a bike with training wheels since he was 2 1/2 so about 2 months ago we decided to go for no training wheels (he’s 3 years old now). He loves riding his bike with me and tries things (like going down big hills) that really surprise me! I got him real excited about trying no training wheels as on a previous attempt he got frustrated because he is used to riding all over with no effort but without the training wheels he didn’t have that mobility. We went over to a nice slight downhill lawn and we tried for a few minutes. I put my hand on the small of his back and he gave it a shot. The key is for me to keep him moving but not to hold him up or else he doesn’t learn balance. The lawn was too hard to roll on so we went to a quiet parking lot and he picked it up in no time! Pretty impressive I think
This bike is his reward for the hard work. I’m in the process of building a BMX track for both of us along with jumps (big for me, small for him). He’s jumping off curbs and (as long as he’s wearing pads) doesn’t mind crashing too much lol
Oh, and 80’s fans just got to love the glasses in this pic!

Getting back to actual photography for a second, look for a bunch of posts in the next week as I’ve had some awesome shoots in Texas, Carmel, San Francisco and Santa Barbara. Also, I will be in Las Vegas for a week in February so if you want to do your engagement session or day after session out there let me know, it’s an amazing city to shoot in!

This past August I was on my way up to some meetings and a commercial shoot in San Francisco when my friend Sara called me up to see if I could help her out with Stephanie and Blake’s wedding in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Having grown up just a few miles from the venue I just couldn’t say no! It was a beautiful and very warm day up on the summit. I do find that I’d much rather be the primary than the secondary photographer but I do think it’s fun to try to emulate the other photographer’s style so the client gets images that really work together.
Stephanie and Blake are a great couple and very gracious, I especially enjoyed that blue shot that is in the picture below, that was delicious! lol

So some of you think it’s really fun to give me, as a photographer, a hard time about not getting many pictures up right away! Explanations about how the film is at the lab and will be back Thursday just don’t seem to appease you so here you go, all the baby Kyla pictures you can handle! I will still post up the stuff from our time in the hospital as soon as it gets here. These are just some quick pics from bath-time.

After a long 9 months and 12 hours of intense labor, Kyla Janette is here! 7lbs, 2oz of healthy baby girl arrived last night around 1am after Stephanie went through a 12 hour induced labor with no pain medications! I can’t believe how tough Steph is, I was truly amazed by her incredible strength! I will post much more about all this later but wanted to get a single image up now of Caiden enjoying becoming a big brother

Christmas morning- Caiden rode his bike around the living room and kitchen until I could get him calmed down enough to put on some clothing for a ride outside!

Looking down a bit too much!

He’s really having fun now, he picked it up really quickly.

We rode a big loop to the park where Caiden was riding his bike from one play structure to the next…and back…and forth…and back…and forth!

I’m thinking he will have the training wheels off sometime this spring (he’ll turn 3 in April). He loves to follow me around the driveway and try to bunnyhop and do wheelies like daddy. Funny thing is that with all this time of cruising around the driveway I’m actually starting to get pretty good at wheelies