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I had a wonderful family photography session with the Johnson family at Seacliff Beach / Rio Del Mar Beach in Aptos, California. There’s been so much driftwood along the coast since that whole Japanese Tsunami thing, so of course people have naturally created a myriad of structures out of it. We explored the structures as […]
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I woke up this morning to helicopters overhead, thinking – hmm, that can’t be good. Bleary eyed, I picked up my iPhone, loaded Facebook and realized that Japan had had a massive earthquake, and tsunamis were headed to our west coast. My wife had already left to take our eldest daughter to school, so I […]
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Today I met Nicole and Joey Baker and their adorable little girls Mackenzie (lil’) and Madison (lil’ bigger) at the house they rented for their Santa Cruz vacation. It was a little chillier than they expected so of course mom had to go shopping for some more appropriate accoutrement 🙂 I’m glad she did, because […]
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Rocio, Sebastian and 18mo Aiden are residents of Capitola, so it made sense to get some professional family portraits done near their home. We met downtown at Zelda’s and trekked to the east side of the beach, near the cliffs, for most of our photos. It was a quick session, not even an hour, but […]
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Although this looks more like an engagement shoot, this was actually a celebration of Jack and Karen’s third wedding anniversary! Usually I don’t see a whole lot between newly married couples and those celebrating their 50th anniversaries, so it was a treat to see someone celebrating in-between, just for the heck of it. Karen surprised […]
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I met Jada, a fellow resident of the Seabright area of Santa Cruz, at 6:30am over at Aldo’s by the harbor. I got dressed in the dark this morning, so I was glad to see I hadn’t put on anything backwards when we saw each other. When we’d discussed the plans for the shoot the […]
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After one postponement due to the rain, I was determined to make today’s engagement shoot with Leon and Jennifer happen. The weather was iffy in Carmel according to the interweb, but we met up at 4pm anyways at Carmel Beach (Carmel-by-the-Sea). It’s a gorgeous, beautiful, stunning location – and the quality of light was simply […]
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I walked to the beach this late afternoon with my family, and took 10 minutes away to walk around and get some handheld five-shot HDR photos of the lighthouse and surrounding area. Usually I do HDR with a tripod because all the photos have to line up, but I managed ok for most of the […]
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OK, so I mainly chose the location because of the iconic natural bridges that give the park its namesake, but if I’ve learned anything about photography, it’s to assume nothing about weather, light, kids good behavior, camera and lighting gear functioning properly… you get the picture. Anyways, I met the Lorig family in the parking […]
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OK, so I don’t know if it’s simply by chance or my clients recently *just happen* to choose beach locations with “clothing optional” northern sections. Luckily this time we were able to keep our distance and I didn’t have to worry about “units” in the background of my photos, but still… When we were leaving […]
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Here’s a shot from an engagement photo session I had with a couple yesterday up in San Francisco. It was pretty overcast, which gave me great, flat exposures which I could really bring out in post. I think 95% of my exposures were within the dynamic range of my d200 – no clipping in shadows […]
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