When Adm and I first moved to Oakland five years ago, I didn’t know much about some of my relatives on my dad’s side of the family who lived up here. I felt a little apprehensive meeting family for the first time in my twenties at a birthday party in Oakland’s Chinatown. After all the milestones...
When we arrived to photograph Adm’s niece Lily, she was wearing her Cinderella dress and playing with her dad, Adm’s oldest brother Aaron. Lily is four, and “a big girl now” she will be happy to tell you. Her Golub traits were quickly made apparent as she cheesed for the camera, ready to pose and...
Here’s the latest set of images of Eli and Lilian. I photographed them at Lake Merritt in Oakland, and enjoyed taking pictures at the perfect time of day (just before sunset). They’re getting pretty big and were scooting around on their little bikes.
Last week, Adm and I had the pleasure of photographing the Chow and Liu families! They’re actually all my family so it was a fun excuse to see them and photograph them all together, a rare thing since half of them live on the East Coast. We had three generations, my auntie Shirley and her...
Utterly Engaged and Ever-Ours came up with a great way to help the disaster relief effort in Japan. They are fundraising for ShelterBox. ShelterBox was one of THE first organizations asked by Japan to help and were on hand on the Saturday after the quake. Each large, green ShelterBox is tailored to a disaster but typically...
It feels so strange blogging such happy, innocent family photos when there is so much tragedy and strife in the world right now. However, when you look at these family photos, it makes you realize what’s important is family. We have been photographing Eli and Lilian since they were six months old, and when I...
