Engagement photos are a time to get a great set of professional photos, but they can also be an opportunity to relive memories — and even to create new ones. So we love it when we have engagement shoots at personally meaningful locations! Eric and Cory’s first date was at Stanford, and for their engagement photos, we started at the cactus garden and then moved onto main campus. The golden glow of the setting sun provided a perfect feel for this shoot; it was like a materialization of the warmth and love between them and gave these photos a look that perfectly matched the feeling of our hour together. [ read more … ]

Five years ago, we celebrated Alisha and Andrew’s wedding in Sunol (they’re actually the very first post on our Instagram!), and now they have more exciting news coming up… a baby on the way! For their maternity shoot, we went to Foothills Nature Preserve in Los Altos [ read more … ]

The last time we saw Lydia & Jessenia was one pandemic ago — yes that’s a unit of time now — when Lydia brought her girlfriend to the most scenic basketball court ever and proposed. A couple of weeks ago, we met up again for engagement photos. They had originally planned to do these photos at the beach, but some unexpected fog rolled in at the last minute so we ended up relocating to sunny Palo Alto [ read more … ]

I’ve been doing a lot of shoots at the rolling hills of the Pearson-Arastradero Preserve lately, but they’ve all ended up quite different! I’m finishing up editing for this latest set of dreamy outdoor maternity photos for Amy, a mom of two and soon to be one more. [ read more … ]

To memorialize Blanca’s pregnancy experience and her soon-to-be baby boy in just a few weeks, we took a hike in the hills of Palo Alto for some maternity photos. And how stunning does she look at 36 weeks? She couldn’t have chosen a more flattering red dress, and her hair & makeup were perfection [ read more … ]