Sarah and Erik were really sweet and their engagement session was one filled with laughs and beautiful, tender, loving moments. Weeks before the engagement session, I often ask couples to prepare for it by choosing (from a list I send them) some fun things to do together – integrating some of these into the engagement
We love getting to know our couples. Q. {From Sara} What kind of food do you like? What are your favorite restaurants? A. I love Mexican food and Clint is a cheeseburger guy but we share a love for Italian food. We love small places like Piatti or Osteria Romantic at La Jolla Shores but
This is Joe and Brittany. I photographed their engagement session a few weeks ago up in Cuyamaca Rancho State Park and we finished up in nearby Julian. Both are locations I have not photographed before. I loved getting to spend time with this couple in these great locations, and I even coaxed my daughter Sierra
Meet Jeff and Jenny. These two are an incredible match, I couldn’t imagine anyone better suited for one another. We started our engagement session at UCSD and that’s where the fun began. The best part by far was when we decided to try to pull off the “kissy shot”. This is the black and white
What a fun time I had photographing Melissa and Julian up in Los Angeles for their engagement session! I love opportunities to shoot in new places and the Disney Concert Hall was right up my alley: reflection galore! Last fall, after I created a blog post about our trip through the redwoods, I got an
The similarities between Ashley and Rory and me and Shawna go on and on…Like us, they met on Match.com. Ashley was nervous before their first meeting and almost backed out. This was the same for Shawna as well before meeting me. Luckily, our friend Tom convinced Shawna that she could be missing out on meeting
I had a great time photographing Chris and Valerie’s engagement session a couple weeks ago. They are both creative types – he works in set design and she is a costume designer. For the engagement session, they wanted an architectural setting so we decided to shoot at the Salk Institute in La Jolla. I love
My clients put a lot of trust in me. Enough trust to follow me onto a path that I say will lead into a great big canyon while admitting I’ve never actually walked the path myself, and I might not really be sure how far of a walk it is or how steep. I like
