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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

Melissa + Fernando = married | sneak peak

I had the great honor of photographing Melissa & Fernando’s wedding this past weekend. It was full of joy, tears, music, culture and lots of dancing. Here’s a sneak peek. I love how cuddly and happy they are here:

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Melissa + Fernando = Engaged!

Fernando & Melissa are an amazing couple. Their love is so sweet and true and we had so much fun hanging out and shooting their engagement session. They were actually married last night in Berkeley and WOW, that was incredible to shoot too. I’ll blog their wedding shots too but for now here are the rest of my favorite engagement shots:

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Iggy is their beloved dog and of course he had to join in on the fun. 🙂
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Marie + Randy = Engaged!

Marie and Randy are such a wonderful and fun couple.  They met while dancing Salsa with PB &G Dance Production‘s training group where they were dance partners.  Well, they hit it off and never looked back since then.  They’ve been committed to each other for several years now and have their adorable little girl Mia as proof.  Now they are taking their commitment to the next level and getting married in Hawaii later this month.

Funny note about the engagement and wedding plans.  Well, they are made for each other and they knew they were eventually going get married and had been talking about it. Well, Marie was so comfortable and confident that she booked the wedding location even before Randy officially proposed.  Bold, I say! He likes to tease her about that and they both have a good chuckle about it.

We had a super fun time at The Palace of Fine Arts and China Beach.  Marie & Randy, thank you for letting me capture your love and playfulness in these engagement shots!

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Taking a little break to check out the swans with Ms. Mia.

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Melissa + Fernando = Engaged | Sneak peek

Wow, what a fantastic couple.  They are fun, playful, sweet and very much in love.  We had a wonderful time hanging out and shooting in Oakland and Berkeley.  Here’s a couple of my favorites from our shoot together – more to come.  Can’t wait to shoot their wedding later this month.  melissa_fernando_e_blog_15

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Ellie Trashes the Dress | sneak peek

Ellie and Sam were married this past weekend and I couldn’t attend since I was at Jazz Camp. So we decided to do a post-wedding shoot, what I call ‘Rock the Dress’, in the Mission District no less. Hey, they are from NY and wanted to embrace the urban experience and boy, did we. This picture doesn’t show all the wonderfully random experineces we had on the shoot but it does show how beautiful Ellie is and I wanted to share it with you all. Will post up a full blog which will include Sam, graffiti, taxi cabs and much more. Here’s Ellie rocking her dress!Ellie&Sam_02

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Dan + Zita = married | Sneak Peek

This past weekend I had the amazing honor of photographing Dan and Zita’s wedding day at the Mountain Terrace in La Honda. They are such a fun, quirky and unique couple and the love they share is so apparent in all they do, but especially on how they celebrated their wedding day. More to come on that in a bigger post but for now here’s a sneak peek.

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