This is part one of a 2-part series of this blog. In part 1 here, I'm sharing the photos of the engagement session. In part 2, I will be blogging more about the behind the scene experience of this excursion with my clients E + M.    

This engagement session was scheduled for their destination wedding in Tulum, just the day before their wedding at the resort.   I have never been to Mexico at this point, and I was...

     I love being a wedding photographer.  But sometimes, I REALLY love being a wedding photographer.  This time, I was contacted by a couple from a galaxy far far away.....Los Angeles.  OK. Maybe not that far away. I guess if you squint really hard, the Mojave desert does look like Hoth, 

     They had a vision.  A George Lucas inspired vision.  A Star Wars themed wedding.  And to start things off...

Venice.  California.  It would seem almost preposterous if you had to describe it.  And yet, when you get there, you feel like you belong.  Energized and youthful even.  It is the same stretch of beach as Santa Monica, just up the street, but feels more like its bizarre and artistic sibling, in the best possible way.  My couple were visiting from Hong Kong and had decided to do an engagement shoot here before their wedding. We...

Wedding photography is intimate.  A relationship between the photographer and the bride and groom.   The best wedding photos are not the ones just about expensive clothes or fancy trinkets, but the ones that capture the chemistry between people. The best way to capture this is to build a relationship during an engagement session.  

My bride and groom-to-be in this engagement session were absolutely wonderful...