Sabrina & Andrew // A San Francisco Engagement Session ft. Conservatory of Flowers & Golden Gate Bridge

Wandered around San Francisco, ate pizza. The usual. But for real, check out the Conservatory of Flowers. It’s free every first Tuesday of the month, and so few people were there. There’s so many cool parts of San Francisco that not a lot of people know about (myself included). Anyway, here’s some pics ft. two real neat people in a few real neat spaces.

Christian & Micole // A Monterey Engagement Session ft. Garrapata State Park

I met up with Christian and Micole for a day spent in the best way, wandering the coast. Here is a brief excerpt from it.

Erin & Kevin // A Mill Valley Wedding ft. The Outdoor Art Club

I think about memory a lot. It’s strange to me that, for the most part, memory seems to work a lot more like a snapshot of a moment rather than the rolling camera that is our life. We live in a video but remember in pictures.

One of the nice things about having some down time is that I get to go through a bunch of old work. Years have passed since this little wedding in September but there are two images that immediately come to mind when I think of it. The first is the amount of people wandering Mill Valley on the day Erin and Kevin were married. A wedding day is stressful enough, adding in a ton of traffic and some time delays due to an art festival can definitely heighten things. More importantly though is the second image, one of their family and friends. It’s a group of people bustling about trying to “keep their shit together”. Not from the crowds, or the schedule running a bit behind, but from a place of pure love and joy at watching two people close to them come together. Here’s a few images, just as they appear in my mind, from back in 2018 at the beautiful Outdoor Art Club in Mill Valley.

Traces of 2019

So that’s 2019. Another year that exists solely in memory, which is really trippy and makes me uncomfortable with how fast time moves.

Instead of showcasing a bunch of images from the past year that belong in a portfolio I’ve been wanting to put together something that runs through the traditional wedding, and focuses on little visual stories. So this is just that, from start to finish, jumping between moments from each wedding I had the privilege of being a part of this year. A special thanks to everyone in these photos, jumping into your lives and capturing these frames has been such an awesome experience.

Kendra & Jordan // A Berkeley Wedding ft. The Brazilian Room & The University of California Botanical Garden

As Jordan read his vows during the ceremony there was a moment, on the quiet hilltop in Berkeley, that he was drowned out by motorcycles passing by below. At first he tried to power through it but the attempt didn’t last long. His parents, respectfully sitting in silence moments before, burst out laughing. The crowd joined in. Life doesn’t care about your plans, and that’s what makes this whole thing enjoyable. Here are a few snips from that day in the beginning of November, at the beautiful Brazilian Room.