San Francisco wedding and lifestyle photographer, focused on real moments and emotional, inspired imagery ~ serving the San Francisco Bay Area & beyond
I am so excited to share Tracy & Aaron’s wedding feature on I Do Venues! Check out the feature here, or their full blogpost!
Thank you to all the amazing vendors who helped put this beautiful wedding together!
Getting Ready Location: Ritz Carlton, San Francisco
Ceremony Location: St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, San Francisco
Reception Location: St. Francis Yacht Club
Videographer: Phillip Velasco
This session may have to go down as one of my all time faves! Besides the fact that I love, love, love shooting in Napa (where I’m based), I also just loved hanging out with Katherine & Ben!!! They are super interesting, and sweet and kind and just plain easy to hang out with! And yet another reason that the referral chain is the happiest source of wonderful new clients. These two were at Natalie & Ethan’s wedding a few years back, in fact Ben was their officiant. Now Ben & Katherine will be tying the knot this November in San Francisco, and I’m so excited to be there to capture it!
For their engagement session, we found some quintessential Napa spots with olive trees, grape vines, a big red barn & a few oak tree-lined lanes. Below are just a few favorites, or view their slideshow here.
{PS} As I write this, we’re still having some technical issues with the transition to the new site/blog, so if you see images after this post that are missing, just know we’re working on it! Thanks for your patience!
Katherine & Ben, thank you so much for inviting me to capture your sweet love!
For more information about wedding or lifestyle portrait photography in the San Francisco Bay Area, album design or other fun photography tips, feel free to reach out by email: lori@loriphoto.com or via the contact link on my website.
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Hello lovely blog readers! Please bear with us today, as we just took the new site live (yay!), and some of our older posts seem to have lost links to their images. We’re on it now, and it should be fixed shortly! In the meantime, feel free to head over to the new main site and give it a whirl! We’d love to know what you think!!!
So fun to see Marissa & Joe’s beautiful wedding published on 7×7! Check out the feature here, or their full blogpost!
Big thanks to the wonderful vendors who helped to create this wonderful event!
Reception Venue: Oceano Hotel and Spa
Event Planners: Bellissima Vita Weddings, Simply Stunning Weddings and Events
Floral Designer: Bloomsters
Cinema and Video: Permagrin Films
Band: The Groove Kings
Transportation: Mr. Toad’s Tours
Newborn photography is always awe inspiring. It’s amazing to me, to meet this new little person, working so hard to understand the world and grow and develop. Newborns are so strong, yet they are so dependent on their parents to guide them and keep them safe, especially in these first few months. I can’t get enough of their connection to their parents, and their many, many expressions. And their tiny fingers & toes. Such sweetness! Meeting Jude was all the sweeter, as he is the newest member of my own extended family! How awesome is it to gain a sister this year, and then become connected to her family? Jude is my sister-in-law Elisha’s nephew, and I loved getting to know this little person and his loving family!
A little side not on my approach to newborn sessions… I love a cute newborn pose as much as the next person, but I rarely ever pose newborns. To capture those super-studio style newborn shots with the baby perfectly curled up, with it’s head resting in it’s hands, or bundled up in a basket, means the newborn really has to be in a deep sleep, and even when they are, the process of getting a newborn into a “pose” can be very taxing on the little ones, not to mention their parents. Instead, I really focus the flow of my sessions on the comfort of my tiny new friends, and I find it produces lovely images of their expressions and details, and authentic moments of interaction with their family. I find that if everyone is comfortable & relaxed during the session, beautiful moments naturally present themselves.
Here is one of my favorite non-posed shots from the session, that I couldn’t have planned if I tried!
Here are a few more favorites from the session, or view Jude’s slideshow here.
Hilary & Matt, thank you so much for letting me capture this sweet & wonderous time in your family. I so enjoyed spending time with you all and getting to know you better!!!
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For more information about wedding or lifestyle portrait photography in the San Francisco Bay Area, album design or other fun photography tips, feel free to reach out by email: lori@loriphoto.com or via the contact link on my website.
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