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Halfmoon Bay Heritage House Wedding, Farallon Restaurant Baluga Room Reception at The Kensington Park Hotel

admin — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 21:45:59 +0000

Mike and Alexia contacted me through the Knot and we booked the wedding over the phone. We photographed their engagement session at Sutro Heights above the baths at Ocean Beach in San Francisco a few months ago. When I found out their wedding details I was completely excited to be able to document their wedding. It seems the wedding was designed to be sweet, beautiful, tasteful, classic, chic and without airs. The Hastings house boasts stunning gardens with a clean cottage to get ready in and has the beach as a backdrop, the Farallon Restaurant’s Beluga Reception Room at The Kensington Park Hotel doesn’t get any more classic, tasteful and quintessential San Francisco than that. Completely up my alley and the thing that synced it for me was Alexia said they liked my work because it felt alive the other work they looked at seemed soulless. I think it’s still one of the best complements I have ever received. I respect her politics tastes and her amazing education. Alexia and Mike are a wonderful couple who seem to operate on courtesy, partnership, mutual respect and an honest friendship. I learn a lot about people at weddings and Ian I left wanting to be more like them. After hearing Alexia’s mother’s speech about how her daughter chose a husband I wanted my daughters to learn from Alexia. Ian and I also enjoyed them immensely. It’s a day for us either will soon not forget.

We ate a very late dinner at the Farallon restaurant and it was one of the most amazing meals of our lives. I can still taste it.

Beautiful Daughters Chico California

admin — Mon, 17 May 2010 00:03:32 +0000

This week the theme was prom. Beautiful dresses, daughters and life. A time and a place for them to shine and feel beautiful. They are beautiful inside and out.

Little Miss Lani Pie, Baby Photography in Lake Almanor

admin — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:52:36 +0000

I met Kelley when she was in the 3rd grade and I helped plan her wedding and because I was planning it I brought my camera and I shot some of it. This is what she wrote on my facebook page:

” I have known Kim for many years now, as I went to school with her oldest son. When I got married in the summer of 2007 I asked Kim if she would help with the organizing part of my wedding since I already had chosen a photographer. Kim took some pictures anyway because she was just beginning to build her business. I wish now that I had chosen her to do all my wedding pictures as the ones she took were ten times better then the others. Since then, Kim has only continued to grow in her creativity. I have used her for family photos and pictures of my little girl. She is such a talented woman and I highly recommend her for any line of photography beause she has the capability to adapt to anything!”

I spent dusk at our local park with her and her children.

Like her mother

admin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:28:08 +0000

She is probably going to need to be an agent or photographer as she doesn’t like being directed. Sort of like me.

at butt lake

It’s one of my favorite photographs…..just taken

Jane and Tristan

admin — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:21:53 +0000

Most of my summer days are spent pretty much the same way. An hour or two in the studio editing. Working in the garden with Jane and T, back to the studio more editing or marketing, lunch and chores with Jane and T..they walk the dogs, back to the studio. Make dinner, go swimming or go to Tristan’s baseball game. If I am lucky I get to work out around 10pm, to Bill Marh or Oprah or something. It’s a round robin of chores, studio, garden, lake, that starts when I wake and ends about 12 am ish. It is a rich, fast, abundant, crazy, gorgeous, life I get to live with them and at times, frustrating. They are preteens, on the cusp and are talking back and challenging, and to cover all of this, I bring my Fuji s7000. It was my first digital camera I bought from Costco 7 years ago. 6 mega pixels, raw format, video, manual modes and a hot shoe. I only shoot in manual and raw on this camera. It has a delay, but I am so familiar with it and I can usually time it. All of these images were shot with my Fuji. I don’t bring my mark 111 or 5D or 30D. Especially in wedding season. I worry something will happen and I won’t have them when I need them. The Fuji is actually a bad ass little camera. It comes everywhere with me and it preforms. Besides it was my first and I am a loyal girl. I will keep it and use the heck out of it til it dies.

: Butt Lake Days

She H A T E S !!!! to model for me

Fish out of Water

The Bugs are out and hungry..Zaks light from one light

: Tristan skipping them at Butt Lake our favorite private beach

: Jane and Tristan at Catfish Beach with Mama

Tristan making it home