Every year since Margaux was 2, I’ve made her Halloween costume, and a Halloween themed dress. Even when I was busy running my blowout salon in Dallas (yes I owned a blowout salon in Dallas) I still made time to make her a costume and a dress. Or a shirt at the very least. What […]

A few weeks ago I was photographing my friend Heather for an Instagram takeover she was doing for the Walnut Creek Anthropologie. While I was over she had some yummy food, including a lemon olive oil cake that was phenomenal. She mentioned that she used Ayesha Curry’s recipe (found here) and that it was super […]

Every now and again, I add a new lens to my arsenal. I mainly shoot with prime lenses, which are fixed at one focal length (read: no zoom!). I was photographing a recital for Luna Dance Studio in Palo Alto, so I decided it was time to add a zoom to my growing collection. I’m […]

It’s official, y’all. Summer is here! I cannot tell you how thrilled I am! It’s my favorite time of year because there is just so much potential for adventure, excitement, and doing absolutely nothing (and not feeling bad about it). To kick our summer off we spent an afternoon in the backyard with the sprinkler […]

Every late spring/summer I wait and wait and wait until lo and behold: PEONIES ARE BACK AT TRADER JOE’S! And you know it’s a big deal because literally the day after I snagged mine I spotted them on not 1, not 2 but 4 separate photographer’s Instagram stories. Apparently photographers love peonies…and Trader Joe’s. Seriously […]

We’ve been living in Fremont for about two and a half years now, and had been living in the same apartment since moving to the Bay Area. We had been looking for a rental house but couldn’t really find anything in our price range that we actually wanted to move to (because moving is a […]

If you’ve been thinking about booking an in-home session but have been on the fence, I have a deal for you! From now until November 18, I am booking 20-minute in-home minis! This is the perfect way to capture your family in the place you spend the most time, at a fraction of my regular […]

My daughter is now 5 and still isn’t very confident in the water. We decided that this was going to be the summer she would learn to swim and ride her bike without training wheels, and so to tackle the first of those two goals we enrolled her in swim class at Aqua Adventure water […]