One of the main reasons we love being photographers is that we love meeting new people, having new experiences and exploring new places.  See a theme?  So, even though we were pretty familiar with the Brazilian Room in Tilden Park in Berkeley, we had never been to the Botanical Gardens just down the road.  We were super excited when April and Jace decided to do their portraits there before the ceremony – the place is a living candy store (a ten acre garden to be exact) bursting with many of California’s most beautiful rare and endangered plants.  Our portrait session in the gardens, with April and Jace taking in the beauty and serenity of the trees around them, was the perfect way to start their wedding.  What followed was an incredibly intimate celebration where each guest toasted and gave their blessing to the couple.  April and Jace, we wish you many happy years!

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When I first started taking pictures seriously (in college), my camera was attached to my hip and I obsessively took photographs of everyone I ran into all the time.  A few years into my career, I started getting really bogged down by all of the post-processing, and somewhere in that period, stopped carrying my camera with me all the time.  Now, I’m feeling re-invigorated and one of my goals for this year is to do a better job of documenting my personal life.  Recently, we took a mini trip to Tahoe to meet up with some of our dear friends.  While waiting for them, I made Adm ride his bike around in circles in the parking lot so that I could photograph him in the gorgeous backlight.  This isn’t the greatest picture by any means, but I love that he is totally just humoring me in his expression.  Those little expressions and moments that hint at the nature of our relationship are the kinds of things I want to remember when I look back at pictures.

Sometimes I think we’ve never met a challenge we didn’t like. So, when Grace and Michael came to us with the idea to take their wedding on the road, all we could think was how much fun it would be to have an adventure wedding.  Besides, it is the perfect wedding for photojournalists because what adventure doesn’t make for a great story?

Grace and Michael wanted to make their wedding special for all of their friends, and they wanted to make it unique to them.  Originally, they had planned for a large June wedding, but when a family health issue arose, they moved their wedding to March and had to come up with a new plan quickly.  What they decided was to have a private San Francisco City Hall ceremony and then take their guests via bus to all of their favorite places in San Francisco, making toasts and sharing memories along the way.  We could go on and on about how much fun these two were to photograph, and how the light in City Hall is always so perfect, but we’ll let the pictures do the talking.

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