Blessed to have had repeating clients year after year, since I started my business back in 2011. Yet, this creates a challenge for me. How can I push myself creatively to bring my clients something different? In this particular case, I came to photograph one of my favorite families ever. I am mostly in love […]

Family photography is an art which value only increases with time. I haven’t yet come across with anyone that has regretted getting family pictures. Here are some reason this is a fact. First of all, families grow (as in with more family members); or grow apart, yet there is that unity of what was that […]

Elena is graduating in the most challenging year you could ever wish to graduate.  Pandemic, politics, uncertainty, global climate change, and so many other challenges that will leave this generation; perhaps, being the most resilient generation ever to go into the real world; which today is still partly partly virtual world.   The year 2021 was […]

Melanie was the last participant of my portfolio building experience to help people in The Bay Area bring love into their lives. I have been single myself for the past almost 4 years, and I have navigated the “Online Dating Apps” and “Match Making World”; such I came to the realization that there is a […]

I was trying to capture the essence of what a full custom sessions looks like photographing this beautiful family of six. These type of sessions are the ones where I have time for creative freedom. First of all, I trust and faith that the universe put this family in my path for a reason. With […]

My dear parent of a child graduating high school in the year of the Pandemic. They had no in person school. No sports. No college tours. No big parties. No teen hang outs. No last anything. No graduation ceremony. Nonetheless,  they can still be celebrated! I promise this year more than ever, getting them in […]

My senior year in high school was one of my favorite years ever. I felt excitement about my future; what it made it better was being surrounded by my friends, and the infinite activities and clubs I was part of. I was busy, but I loved it. I can’t imagine what it would be like […]

This year has rattle us like no other. Some of us can’t even begin to comprehend the impact “this” has had in some many families. But with challenges come new beginnings; new opportunities; and the making of new memories. In the middle of packing and moving out of state; this family of 4, including a […]

Photographing this family during one of the most challenging times our generation has experienced:  a global pandemic; and historic large California fires,  makes me appreciates my clients more than any other time in my 8 years in business. It fills me with joy; it makes me grateful; and it gives me purpose; which research shows […]

This is the story about  time in our lives where I could no longer hug my clients when I first met them for a session. About a time when I had to pull my rarely used long lens to take pictures of them. It was also the time when I couldn’t greet them with my […]