The JOURNAL

Some friends and I were having a conversation recently about light and dark. There are so many levels and applications we could mention and you’re probably naming five to yourself as you read this, but in this particular conversation we correlated just two. In photography, there must be both dark elements and light elements. A photo […]

For David and Crystal, San Francisco is a place of beginnings and deep and meaningful memories, so it seemed fitting to take their engagement photos in such a special place. We spent the afternoon walking around University of California San Francisco campus, hiking to the top of Inner Sunset hill and around Lands’ End, and ended our […]

Six or seven years ago (it’s all a blur), I remember talking about dream jobs with Jeff and Jamie and some other friends over lunch. It was a time in all of our lives when our aspirations and career dreams were just starting to formulate. We dreamed together about what it would be like to do […]

Sometimes birthdays don’t go how we plan. We get all the decorations right, the perfect cake, and the cutest outfit ever…. and it just doesn’t happen. But the way I see it, those moments when our plans don’t quite work out and real life creeps into the photos we hoped would depict the perfect picturesque moment […]