Personal Lifestyle Session | Stanford Cactus Garden
Nobody tells you about the Stanford Cactus Garden. It doesn't show up on the photography location lists and it doesn't look like anywhere else in the Bay Area. That's exactly why I wanted to shoot there.
Personal Lifestyle Session | Stanford Cantor Arts Center
Most people walk past the Cantor Arts Center and see a museum. I see a location that most Bay Area photographers haven't fully figured out yet.
Evening Light at Montalvo Arts Center: A Personal Lifestyle Session in Saratoga
Villa Montalvo looks like a film set at dusk — lamps lit, the formal gardens going dark, the estate completely empty. Most photographers are long gone by then. We were just getting started.
Spring Light and Wisteria: A Personal Lifestyle Session at Gamble Garden, Palo Alto
The message came in at 7pm. By 6:30am the next morning I was already at Gamble Garden, camera bag over one shoulder, walking the paths alone. Forty-five minutes of scouting before she arrived — and wisteria at absolute peak.
Dumbarton Bridge Shoreline Trail Personal Lifestyle Session
Most people drive over the Dumbarton Bridge without a second thought. The shoreline underneath it is one of the most photographically strange locations in the Bay Area — rusted infrastructure, tidal flats, graffiti, and a sunset that turns the whole bay orange.
Coastal Beauty: A Full-Day Cycling Adventure on 17 Mile Drive
Twenty miles of cycling on 17 Mile Drive, from Pacific Grove to Pebble Beach and back. Changing coastal light, wildflowers on the Monterey Peninsula, and a couple who just wanted their day on bikes documented properly.
Cutting the Christmas Tree at Radonich Ranch
Nobody at Radonich Ranch is standing still and waiting to be photographed. They're in the rows of trees, arguing about height, dragging things around in the mud. That's exactly what makes it worth shooting.