Weddings and portraits in Northern California, including San Francisco, East Bay, Napa Valley and Sonoma Valley

Open public spaces in the Oakland/Berkeley area are at a premium.  Eschewing all suggestions of the morbid or macabre, Mr. M tore down stereotypes and rocked Oakland’s most scenic cemetery.  The first photographs I ever took with aesthetics in mind (when I bought my first single-lens reflex film camera) were at Mountain View.  Mr. M was more than enough reason to return.

Mr. M’s switched from a beige v-neck to a vibrant red sweater, which gave me pause at first. After seeing it in the photos, though, I wouldn’t have done any different.  The vibrant color complements his enthusiasm for running amuck.  His mother and I were in the same high school class.  Luckily for her, she looks the same as she did the day we gradauted.

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Lora and Ty found me through a mothers group in Castro Valley.  They introduced me to Mr. T, who took the opportunity to explore the park around Lake Chabot, kick a few leaves, and show us his stair-climibing and stair-descending proficiency.  True to two-year-old style, Mr. T made sure none of the geese at lakeside got too comfortable.  Lazy geese be darned!

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Four months after my first visit, I got to see Miss L with Mum and Dad as well as their pooch Belly. It was a chilly December morning, and L let us know we only had a little bit of outside time before she directed us all back inside. Belly dutifully followed us everywhere, and even got in for a few family portraits. When I called L’s Mum today to get her print order, L was laughing up a storm that Mommy was talking on the phone. When you think of it, it is kind of funny that we hold pieces of plastic to our ears and talk to them.

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