One of the things we love most about taking photos of happy couples is capturing the feeling in each photo. Whether we’re editing the photos, putting them together on a blog post like this, or just looking through them months or years later, we’re always taken back to the moment the photos were snapped. The afternoon sun’s warm light, Maddy and Josh’s playful smiles and laughter, the ocean’s soft spray, it’s all there once again every time we look at these engagement photos. [ read more … ]

“Karl the Fog” is a fickle beast, though perhaps a generous one at times: on the evening of Renzo and Joseph’s proposal, he decided to roll into the city like a low, cottony blanket, gently covering the slopes and curves of the Bay inlet. While visibility near ground level was nearly zero, the top of Slackers Hill was just high enough to peek over the low-lying fog, revealing an incredible, once-in-a-lifetime view of the Golden Gate Bridge poking up through the fog, with the city far away in the distance beyond.

It was at the peak of Slackers Hill that Renzo presented Joseph with this epic Golden Gate Bridge surprise proposal. [ read more … ]

Since first meeting in San Francisco, Xander and Andrea have both enjoyed exploring the great Bay Area outdoors together, and one place in particular that had been on their list to visit was Slackers Hill. [ read more … ]

This was our last photo shoot of 2021 before taking off for a much-needed vacation, and what a perfect way to end the year! We couldn’t have asked for a more lovely couple or a better backdrop for this sunset surprise engagement [ read more … ]

Danny and Alyssa first met in high school and were even prom dates back in the day. But it wasn’t until they reconnected more recently that things got really serious, and earlier this year, Danny proposed at a winery up in Napa to seal the deal. For engagement photos, they actually decided to have their shoot at their wedding venue. [ read more … ]