Every year, one of my favorite things to do is work with other wedding photographers as a second shooter. Not only do I get to hang out with some great people, but I pretty much always learn something as well. This year I mainly worked with two different Bay Area wedding photographers: Holly Drennen and …
Kristen and David’s San Jose wedding was my last of the year and I couldn’t have hoped for a better grand finale to the 2016 wedding season. From the wonderful people to the beautiful venues to the amazing weather, weddings don’t get much better than this. Kristen’s ladies were so much fun to be around …
Ever since the first time I stepped foot in San Francisco’s City Hall, I knew I wanted to photograph a wedding there. The architecture is just so grand and classic, it seems much more like a wedding venue than a government building. In the past few months, I’ve had the opportunity to photograph a couple …
When a couple is getting married and I’m photographing their wedding, I always try to meet with both of them before their wedding day. Typically this happens automatically, either during our initial meeting or at the engagement session. Every once in a while though, I’m meeting a bride or a groom for the first time …
Dear Amazing Couples Whose Weddings I’ve Photographed, I still think about you. All the time, in fact. You’d probably be surprised by how often I’ll see something and it will bring up a memory from a wedding I’ve photographed. Or, instead of your wedding, maybe it was just something I picked up during a conversation …
Melisa and Evan’s San Francisco wedding marked many firsts for me. Theirs was the first wedding I booked once moving out to SF. Theirs was both the first engagement session and wedding that I actually photographed right here in the city. And on a personal note, it was my first cable car ride! With all …
When a couple spends lots of time creating all of the details for their wedding, you know that they are very meaningful. Almost everything that you see here, the table decorations, the bouquets, the cheese cake, and many details that you don’t see here, were all hand made by Haley and Bryce (and a few …
I love being a second shooter at weddings. In the past, I averaged 2nd shooting 15-20 weddings per year. This year was a little different, though. Since I moved to San Francisco, I didn’t know as many photographers, so I didn’t get to 2nd shoot very often. Fortunately, the weddings I was able to be …
Out of all my years in business, 2015 will go down as one of my most memorable. Not only did I have some wonderfully amazing couples who showed me huge amounts of love and appreciation, but I also moved from Denver to San Francisco! This meant I was traveling back and forth all summer to …