Azat - Portraits and Head Shots in Downtown Oakland

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San Francisco Engagement Photographer - Killian and Silvestre at Sutro Baths

I love Sutro Baths. I'm not normally one to play favorites (I enjoy a wiiiiiiiide variety of people, situations, and things) but if I were pressed to choose a favorite location to shoot at in San Francisco, I'd probably choose Sutro Baths. There's just such a huge variety of photos to be found there; lots of nooks and crannies to explore and stunning backdrops to make use of. Plus, it's an awesome place for silhouettes, which I just can't seem to get enough of.

I met Killian and Silvestre there a couple of weeks ago for their engagement session, and true to form, it was magical. Of course it didn't hurt that Killian and Silvestre are pretty great themselves: down to earth, laid back, and fun to hang out with.

We wandered Sutro Baths and came away with some photos that I think really capture the essence of who they are together.

I just love this photo of Silvestre. (By the way, his nickname is Silver. Is there anything cooler than that?)

Silhouettes. Yum.

And the light just kept getting better and better.

 I've been experimenting recently with creating double exposures in-camera with a new technique, and I have to say I'm a little bit addicted.

Thanks guys, for such a fun session!

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A Couple of Portraits

So . . . . blogging. Hmm. Yeah, back to that. I know I've been away awhile (which we can partially blame on laziness, absolutely, and also partly blame on this really weird unexplained medical phenomenon wherein my left elbow basically stopped working mid-January and has only recently gotten semi-back-to-normal and which was not conducive to typing a lot).

Anyway, I still love this blog. I still want to be here. I have blogging plans, people! They will happen. I know they will. To start off, here are a couple of mini-portrait sessions that I didn't really think needed their own blog post, but also didn't deserve to be ignored entirely.

I have so many sessions in the blog backlog, so expect to see more here soon. More portraits, more weddings, more dogs and cats and guinea pigs. It's all on its way. More film. More photos of jam. I'm still making jam up a storm and I've branched out to pickles as well and I am totally obsessed with Weck jars as new vessels to can things in. And then I want to photograph them all since they're so pretty.

See you soon here, on the blog! I promise.

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Nathaniel - One Year Old!

I can't believe I haven't shared this session before - it was such a beautiful day. It was Nathaniel's first birthday, and although he started out a little frowny, he got smiley pretty quickly.

He was a little cautious with this cake at first, but then he got into it.

Yum!

And then it was time to get clean!

Such a handsome family.

Thanks guys for such a fun session! I love it when clients come up with such great ideas for photos and really put effort into planning the session. Then we end up with great photos like these!

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