• Heather – Family Session – Hartwood Acres Mansion

    Finally, after years of doing her family’s birthday photos – we got a NOT scorching hot/humid day! Heather always comes back to us in June for her boys’ birthday photos and unfortunately, it’s always so darn hot for outside photos. But this year, we got a gorgeous day to run around the mansion – what a great time we had!

    Two smiling children lying on their backs on green grass, wearing green shirts; one has blue-framed glasses. Two smiling boys lying on grass, overlapping heads, wearing green shirts; carefree sunny day in a yard or park. Left panel: a family of four posing at a stone doorway—the man and woman hug while two boys, one running toward the camera, stand in front outdoors. Family group holding hands and walking outdoors beside a sandstone building with a steep triangular roof, trees in the background. Outdoor birthday scene with two children and large gold foil numeral balloons, one sitting and one standing, in front of a stone building and greenery.

  • Samantha and Cole – Engagement Session – Oakland

    Their schedules are so busy, but I got to meet up with Samantha and Cole this summer before their wedding. Luckily, summer sunsets are nice and late, so we can squeeze in engagement sessions after work! And the sun did not let us down – we stuck to Oakland because the light was glowing and we got so many incredible images within a block! Oakland (to me) is definitely the most variety for your buck and a great engagement session location! Couple dancing outdoors, woman in a white dress embracing a man in a gray suit in front of a large red door. Silhouette of a man in a suit on the left, facing a woman in a white dress beside tall columns of a classical building. Couple posing outdoors: a man in a gray suit sits on a stone ledge while a woman in a white dress stands behind him with her arms around his shoulders. Collage of a bride in a white dress and a groom in a gray suit outdoors: left panel shows them holding hands under a parasol in a sunlit park; right panel shows them embracing and looking at each other beside a stone building. Couple on stone steps beside large columns: a woman in a white dress stands by a wall while a man in a gray suit sits on the steps. In the right panel, two people in white dresses hold white parasols in a sunlit park at sunset, holding hands. Left side shows a shadow of two hands reaching toward each other on a textured wall; right side features a smiling bride and groom posing together beside columns. A couple in formal attire stands among tall stone columns, with long shadows from the sun on the colonnade.