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San Francisco Photographer – Bay Area Portrait Photography bio picture

welcome to my blog and website!

I love what I do - I'm a mother to my 2 year-old baby girl named Gemma, wife to my amazing husband Scott, sister (youngest of 6) to my wonderful brothers and sisters, and daughter to my supportive and sweet mother and father (may he rest in peace).  I am also a photographer in the Bay Area with passion for people and telling stories.  

For 15 years I produced video games, focusing mainly on art, animation and story. Now I'm applying those artistic and story-telling skills to my photography and having so much fun!  

Thanks so much for stopping by and checking out my site. Drop me a comment and let me know what you think - I love hearing from folks!  :)

Enjoy life!  Enjoy my site!  Gracias!

Category Archives: love stories

raquel + horacio = engaged!

I had such a great time with Raquel and Horacio shooting in San Francisco for their engagement session.  They are so in love and so adorable together, seriously.  While we were galavanting around the city, we even heard this group of women say, ” They are so adorable it is disgusting!” – That made us all laugh.  Thanks to Raquel’s brother and sister-in-law for setting them up because they are a perfect match.  Can’t wait to shoot their wedding in August.

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Yesenia + Alex = Married!

Last month I had the great pleasure to photograph Yesenia & Alex’s wedding in San Francisco.  It had been raining but not for the big day.  Luckily, we had a gorgeous and slightly chilly San Francisco day – just perfect!  Yesenia was a gorgeous bride and I can’t wait to shoot their Trash-the-Dress session sometime when it gets a little warmer.  Thank you to my second shooter, Gerald, for help that day.

This photo was taken by my second shooter for this wedding, Gerald.  It made me laugh and thought it went well with the photo above:

I love how happy she looks here, ready to celebrate:

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Katia & Eli | sneak peek

Recently I had the pleasure of working with Katia & Eli on their post-elopement engagement photos.   They were both really nervous at first but we had so much fun working together and letting them just be them.  We shot into the night and were able to come up with the photo below.

Her are 2 takes on the same photo taken by the Bay Bridge and Ferry Building in San Francisco.  Which do you like better?img_8644t-2_web2img_8644t-2_web3

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JNP Studios Workshop

I had the great pleasure to attend Jeffrey Neil’s fantastic first ever workshop with the amazing Elisea Johnson of Photogen Inc. and fabulous Jonathan Metcalf of MetMedia. It was a jam-packed day filled of inspiration, branding, photo critiques, laughter, music, awesome live shoot in small groups and great food provided by Jason’s Downtown Restaurant in Santa Ana.

And on top of all that, the awesome ladies at Utterly Engaged and Treasured Petal created a super beautiful table scape for us to practice our detail shots on.  The setting was very unique and made with the males in mind and will be shown in the March edition of Utterly Engaged E-Zine.   Check them out if you haven’t already.  For a sneak peak of the table, see either Jeffrey or Elisea’s blog, we’ve been asked not to blog them until the magazine comes out.

One of my main goals for this workshop was to conquer my fear of the tilt-shift lens, and I’m happy to report that I DID!  🙂  For the couples shoot, I forced myself to shoot only with my 45mm TS.  Tons went wrong and some went right.  I really appreciate Jeffrey & Elisea’s one-on-one feedback and advice working with the TS.  Thank you guys.  Also, thank you Jonathan for your encouragement during the shoot and tips on post process.  You guys all have such big hearts and I’m so happy to have met you.

Below are my fav photos from my day with the TS at the workshop.

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One of the other great things about the workshop is that I got to meet some really great people and fellow photogs:  Gina Zeidler, Cami Poblete, Lara Holmes, Jon Dunning, Robert Tran, Maya Tasaka, Melissa Oholendt, Lindsey Besthorn and Kelly Aguilar.  It was a super cool mix of people and I loved meeting each one of them. Thank you guys for making the workshop that much more enjoyable!  🙂

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Yesenia + Alex = Married! | Sneak Peek

This Saturday I had the great pleasure to photograph Yesenia & Alex’s wedding in San Francisco and Foster City.  It was filled with so much tenderness and love and dancing.  We took tons of pictures of this beautiful couple – here’s one from our night session.  Enjoy!yesenia_alex_w02_blog

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Yesenia + Alex = Engaged | mini sneak

Yesenia & Alex are getting married in 3 short weeks!  With the holidays upon us and rain on the day we scheduled to shoot, we took it indoors with my off-camera lighting setup and did  a mini e-session instead.  Our goal was to get just _one_ shot for the wedding.  Well, here’s the shot.  Really looking forward to shooting their wedding in January!   And looking forward to an awesome Trash-the-Dress with them!  yesenia_alex02_web

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