Just wanted to share a few photos from a recent family portrait in Oakland.

Shooting with Open eyes, an Open Mind and Open Heart.
Still need family portraits this season? Give me a ring and I’ll squeeze you in! For inspiration, here’s a recent portrait session of this super fun family at Joaquin Miller Park in Oakland. I just love love love the sibling dynamic in the first one. I close my eyes and imagine them looking at [...]
On Tuesday night, the best of San Francisco and Bay area wedding industry vendors braved the rain to attend Martini Madness, brainchild of wedding and event design Duncan Reyes. In a nutshell, it offers wedding peeps an excuse to get together, network, share bridezilla stories in a super fun atmosphere. And the promise of alcohol [...]
Australian photographer Yervant is considered among the best wedding photographers in the world. Every year, his WPPI Plus class gets sold out, so I consider myself one lucky gal to get a slot in his class this year. Yervant came to our classroom, strolling in casual, with no pomp and circumstance. Dressed in all black, [...]
I rarely have a Saturday off. But I do love to shoot. And so when my friend Linda Trudeau asked me if I was free that weekend to help her out at a wedding, I hesitated just a wee bit at the prospect of giving up my one free Saturday in three months. The clincher? [...]