Congratulations Nikita: Graduating from St. Mary’s And Heading To Dental School

The St. Mary’s campus in Moraga is scenic, peaceful, and sprawling. I had my first opportunity to shoot here when I met Nikita, soon to be graduating with a bachelor’s degree in Biology. She was looking for portraiture to commemorate this milestone, and what luck to attend a school that offers such a nice backdrop….

Star Wars and A Cloudy Hike: A Maternity Session For Jacen

After seeing some newborn images I shot for a co-worker, Lisa contacted me about shooting a maternity session with her and her husband. At only a few weeks away from her due date, we chose a morning session that weekend in order to get the shoot in right away. The morning of our session ended up…

Big Earrings, Hair Chat And Lots Of Color: Bay Area ‘Fro Friends and Big Chop Accessories

Some of you may know that my daughter is of a mixed ethnicity; My husband is black, and hair care, celebration and maintenance are a large part of black culture, and one that I am honored to participate in. I look forward to our weekly ritual of washing and conditioning her hair, moisturizing it, and…

Those Aren’t Tears, I Have Allergies: My Brother-In-Law’s Senior Portraits

When your older sister-in-law is a professional photographer, you get to do whatever you want with your senior session. Jordan is graduating high school next month, and we’ve been capturing senior images of him all year long. Jordan has been an avid film fan his whole life, and has participated in video productions throughout high…

Rattle Snakes and Golf Clubs: A Senior Portrait Session at Roddy Ranch

Danielle and her Mom recently attended an auction event to benefit a local youth swim team. It just so happens I had donated a gift certificate to be raffled at this event, and they won! She had been in the market for a senior session, and applied her gift certificate to her senior portraits! As…

PRESERVING OUR PAST: PHOTO RESTORATION

Photo restoration is something I don’t do all that often, but it’s a process dear to my heart, and one that I think I’m pretty good at. Once our loved ones have passed on, we rely on photographs as our only way to revisit their faces. Our memories are there but they are fluid things,…

Castles, Wine, and Aspiring Life Coaches: A Family Portrait Session In Napa

Some time ago I shot a maternity session for a first-time Mommy expecting twins. She has a sister who in the last several months has started her own organization for mentoring young women and is working on offering services as a Christian life coach. Andrea Taylor came to my studio by chance and chatted with…

You Better Work: Covergirl Demi

Nisha came to me via a recommendation from a friend who had seen my work online. It happens that her daughter Demi was a model for the same agency that my own daughter was recently interviewed at. (Oh? How’d she do? Oh, she bombed it-Crawled between my legs almost the whole time. What can you…

50 Years Of Marriage: A Golden Anniversary

I think we all enter into marriage with the intention of being together into the golden years, and this couple embodies what all of us hope to look forward to. I was contacted to shoot a 50th wedding anniversary and vow renewal last week. This couple was surrounded by the generations of family members that…

Do It For The Gram: Black Diamond High Class of 2015

Increasingly so, new clients are finding me, and booking with me, through Instagram. Recently I was contacted by the leadership teacher at a local high school who followed me on Instagram and showed my feed to her students. They chose me to shoot the senior portraits for their graduating class this year. I was able…