If you haven’t already booked your stay in Mendocino, I do recommend getting an Airbnb over a hotel as often times the properties through Airbnb’s are nicer. Many couples like to do family photos and/or the “first look” before they leave for the venue and a nice Airbnb can give us a great location to take those photos. This also eliminates a trip to another location would could involve many cars driving together and having to park separately somewhere else. Pro tip!
Also, engagement sessions are longer which gives us a great opportunity to get to know each other and for me to find your best looks. A photographer that just shows up to your wedding day having never photographed you (or even seen you before) may not get the photos that someone your experienced with will. I really think that having trust in your photographer to capture you from the best angles on your wedding day is vital to creating beautiful images.
To sum it up, proposals are a surprise. Engagements are planned.
Although 2020 will be remembered as the year of the face mask, I had the fortune of capturing the beauty of many people without masks. I was also able to explore many new locations from Half Moon Bay on the peninsula, to Pacific Grove on the south end of Monterey Bay. That’s a pretty amazing stretch of coastline. In this week’s blog I will recap my 4 favorite portrait shots of the year and tell you why I think they deserve top billing. Let’s dive in.
I was aware of this well ahead of the Dec 21, 2020 conjunction and prepared. Now, how does a photographer prepare for something like this? You have to think about what gear you have. I knew I didn’t have a lens that was long enough to show me Jupiter and it’s moons along with the rings of Saturn and its moons, so getting a very tight shot of them wasn’t in the cards. So I had to think wider.
The bluff tops became an integral part of my life. My dad’s house was (in currently is) less than a quarter mile from the ocean so I walked and biked those bluffs all the time. I knew the trails better than the back of my hand (which I know extremely well). I guess it makes sense that my first published photo contains those same bluff tops.
Above the rest. Revolving around you.
