San Francisco/Napa Wedding Shoot { Aaron & Andrea }

Today was HOT, I think it was over 100. Not has hot as some earlier destinations we've had this year such as Singapore, or Brazil, next to the equator with 95% humidity and 98 degrees. Regardless, It was a challenge, but I'm stoked with how everything came out. The heat really takes the energy out of you, but its days like today when I get to work with such a great couple, and my team is awesome, and when I'm watching sweet images come out of the camera, I can't stop. Today we shot at the San Francisco Theological Seminary. Here are a few of my fav's as we drive back before crash out tonight. I love being a passenger and blogging while driving. Anyways, Aaron and the guys looked pretty suave. Normally I don't shoot inside if I can, but today it was hotter out side and inside was bearable. I tried this shot, I've never done it before, but I love how it came out.

moments before the ceremony was about to hit, Aaron happened to glance over.

Upstairs the girls were getting their "game plan" on. I suggested the idea and they rolled with it for a good while. I never imagined it would bring as many laughs as it did.

The guys wanted to help with the flowers and were joking around, so we rolled with it.

This venue had TONS of pianos in every room. They were crying out, SIT ON ME! and shoot me! So I broke down and we shot some sweet shots on them. I love shooting portraits, especially of the bride when they are not standing, everyone has those shots, I find it fune to try and get something different.

Cameron, thanks for inspiring me a bit on this one.

feel the love? Aaron was loving it and was so sweet to his bride. It was so cool how enamored he was.

The architecture of the castles we were surrounded by was an amazing backdrop, as were the hills we were nestled in.

David, a new, up and coming photographer from bakersfield came out to help us today. I fired off this shot as he met another guest from the same bako hometown.

Larry & Trudy + San Francisco

Sunday in San Francico, This was an amazing day. We headed up the coast to the city for "tour de San Fran" We hit up 5-6 locations in a limo, so we could relax and maximize shooting, and minimize stress. This was perfect.

Larry has this Harrison Ford attitude and style, and I loved this shot of him.

It was so sweet to see the romance and character they had together. Rachel and I LOVE so much the blessing it is to work with a couple who are so passionate about each other.

At the Palace of fine arts, which is a fav for us, brought us great evening light and it was clear enough to have an empty backgroud. You'd think the park was empty.

Nothing beats a Scomas dinner on the water. That is one of the Best restaurants in the city!

Aaron & Yoko

This sweet couple contacted me a few weeks ago for their upcoming wedding in Carmel, Ca. at the Amazing Highlands Inn We shot their session in San Francisco, and in the middle of the shoot, the most horrible thing happened, they got their car broken into, We felt so bad, and ended the shoot with plans to finish the next week. Bouncing back from that, we had pt2, another amazing session with the couple, which ended up being a treat to hang out with them again. Then later we took them out to a sweet dinner at Scomas on the water in the city there Scomas. a family favorite for decades. Thanks Aaron & Yoko. We are really looking forward to your ceremony and wedding day!

Salmon Fishing

Every Year all the guys in our family go out fishing, we love deep sea fishing, fly fishing, spear fishing, trolling for trou in the sierria's. Its all good. This summer we kicked it off with a trip out of San Francisco, waking up at 4:15 to get to Emeryville and board the boat before its light, Today we are set out to get our limit. Going past the Golden Gate bridge and up the coast towards Stinson Beach, our captain searches for fish. Once we drop our lines, we troll for the best ocean fish in the world, King Salmon! The tender red meat that is OH so good. After 2 hours i caught 1 of the 4 salmon caught, but the deckhand shouts out "green" which means the endangered Coho salmon, so we release them. Soon after the captain askes if we want to head out to the farralon Islands to catch some Cod, he says we can catch our limit. So we do, and we all catch our limit, we keep following the fish, in water about 100-180 feet deep, we drop our lines to the bottom, as we pull the fish out, their eyes bulge out as they come up to the surface, under no pressure. My brother brings up a cod, and then the prized Lingcod bites onto the smaller fish, and the deck hand shouts out, "hitchiker" which means he has to spear the fish, because it will let go once the smaller hooked fish is out of the water and the net will surly scare him away. All in all, we catch 30 fish between my brother and dad. Heading back to port, with our catch and thoughts of fresh sushi and fillet for dinner.

San Francisco...

I met up with my buddy Garrett Burdick who owns GB photographers and has an amazingly cool location scout companyBirdman with over 500,000 locations logged digitally. Pottery Barn and Williams Sonoma are just some of his clients. The image was shot thanks to Laura who owns a great album design company. We all had breakfast and talked about the wedding photography industry, where its going, the trends and how much of a blessing it is to be a photographer. Thanks for breakfast Garrett!