Jason finally finishes

Last Monday, Shawn and I went down to Stanford to watch Jason defend his thesis. I didn't really understand much of anything after the introduction, but in the end it still didn't sound like he'd cured cancer, so I'm really not sure what the big deal was. . . I did make it onto the acknowledgement slide though! And I'm pretty sure that's akin to getting my own PhD.




Anyway, his cake said "Dr." on it, so I guess that makes him the real deal.




People in his lab telling stories about him.






Then we went out to dinner and dessert with the fam.




Jason always complains about how he doesn't like me to take pictures of him, but I'm gonna speculate here that maybe if he'd stop talking for a few seconds, he would take a descent picture and then not dislike it so much, but seriously, yap yap yap- in every shot.


Anyway, good job J. :)

Sandra and Derek- sneak peek

Just a super quick peek of Sandra and Derek from last weekend on Treasure Island. These two were ONE HUNDRED PERCENT LOVELY! . . . With perfect taste in shoes to boot.

Union Street at dusk

Leaving work last night. Pretty.

Quepa and Kirin

It's always interesting to me how we generally name our pets before we really know them, yet so often they grow into their name just right. Quepa means "to fit" or "to belong" and that is the perfect name for her. She fits absolutely perfectly into Susan's life, lap, house, hobbies, and heart. And it warmed my heart to spend the afternoon with them. Quepa (the red head) also has a younger sister Kirin (the blue head), but this photo shoot was especially for Quepa since when Susan and Curtis called me back at the beginning of the year, they knew they didn't have much longer with her. The goal for the shoot was just to capture what a true and fitting companion she has been in their life for the past 12 years.































Quepa passed away not long after we did these photos but Susan told me she was 100% her until the very end, just like she was for our shoot- swimming, picnicing, frisbeeing, loving.

Todd and Dana's Engagement Session

Last month I did Dana and Todd's engagement shoot down at the Sutro Baths on what I'm pretty sure was the foggiest day of the year! ( . . . except for maybe that day I got lost on my way to Trader Joes up on Skyline Blvd a few weeks ago- no joke. It was that foggy . . . or I'm that lame). Anyway, in this instance here, the foggy day did not equate with me getting lost, but rather with these super fun engagement pictures.

Todd and Dana are getting married this weekend at the Fairmont and I'm super excited! Just look how cute they are.













My wonderful new assistant Mariana took these two shots and I LOVE them. . . although it kinda makes me think I should get rid of her for showing me up like this.




These two scaled mountains, climbed up rusty old bunkers, balanced on narrow edges- they were great.
















They were being so cute and cuddly and giddy here- it kinda made me want to jump in the fun . . . but you know, coulda been awkward.

Beach girls

Back when I took pictures of Mr. Oliver up at their family's house in Tiburon, I had a little 30-minute side session with his two cousins, and these sisters really are as sweet as they look- those poses aren't even staged in the least- they really just genuinely like each other!

Jason's . . . really good at genetics

When I was working on Charles and Tessa's wedding last week, I found these pictures that Jason took of Shawn and me that day. The light was so pretty at the moment, and I just thought if I did all the settings for him, and told him exactly where to stand, he could get it right. . .


Wrong.

But that's ok; I'm sure he's really good at what he does. . .

:) Ok, they weren't all that bad, and after a little cropping and PS magic, here's a few cute ones.







except, he made my nose look huge. So yeah, his photography still needs some work.