When I first met Hannah and her mom, Amy, I instantly knew we would work great together.  In Amy’s words, “Well, this was a great first date!”  It was indeed and I was very excited for our future dates!  I met Dave for the first time on this shoot, and meeting him really completed the picture for me.  They could not be anymore perfect together.  I love the way they adore each other and just how they really complete each other.

Hannah’s an interior designer, so I had her pull some textiles together.  I love the way she mixed patterns here!  (Something I cannot do!)  It was the perfect place to cuddle.

LOVE this shot:

I can’t wait for their wedding next year!  They’re just so sweet together.  You know it’s going to be special!!

In other news, I’m getting ready to send out exclusive info about the workshop in the next few weeks. Are you on the list yet? Don’t be left out, sign up now:

Can you believe this is LA?  With just a short hike, we exchanged the hustle and bustle for this calm and serene river.  It rained the day before, so we had a healthy body of water to play in!  I have a super sweet couple to introduce you to today.  Meet David & Ann:

They love exploring nature.  This whole scene represents them so well too – gorgeous in such a natural way.

Honestly, I feel so lucky that I get to visit all these great spots.  Without photography, I would most likely never go to the beach or see these gorgeous trails.   And for sure, without photography, I would not get to share in such intimate moments like this with such a beautiful couple.

How cute are they??  I love real laughter:

On our way out, I saw this pretty gap between the trees and made them hike up.  I just love how the trees frame them:

Til the next adventure!

I have THE sweetest engagement session to share with you today!  This was recently featured on Green Wedding Shoes, so if you haven’t checked it out, go see more photos there!  Tianyi is the owner of TISELLE, a line of gorgeous letterpress cards.  I first met Tianyi long before she was engaged, and absolutely fell in love with her work.  It’s witty, clean, and feminine.  When she contacted me last year about shooting her wedding, I was (needless to say) estatic!  I knew we would click asthetically & personally.  I didn’t meet Dan until this shoot, but when Tianyi told me how they met, I already liked him.  Guess where their first date was… oh, just Tibet.  Yes, Tibet.  In Tibet, they hung up traditional prayer flags together, which you’ll see represented with silk ribbons at the end.  They are world travelers and spent most of their relationship long distance.  They would meet up in different parts of the world and kept this journal together:

Tianyi’s favorite book is Anne of Green Gables.  We wanted to use it as our inspiration for the feel of the shoot, but really keep it about their story.  Another piece of their relationship that worked really well together was Dan’s family tradition of making cherry pies.  His mom has a secret recepie and gets special cherries that are $20/lb!… or something like that.  They shipped the cherries to LA to bake for their wedding!  With those two elements, we came up with a unique shoot, just for them, and all about them!

I just love how happy they are together, and so happy for them that they’ll finally live in the same timezone!

Special thanks to Kelley from Picture Perfect Events who helped with the styling and was my photo assistant this day!

Dan can cut a PERFECT slice of pie!  Even the first slice!!

I love these last few shots we got with the ribbons:

Janet & Stephen just tied the knot this weekend!  And I just shot their encore session yesterday (today, if you’re up late reading this).  I didn’t get to blog this before their wedding, but seeing their engagement photos displayed around their wedding made me get to it asap!  Can I just say how much I love that first image?

And not sure why, but I just adore this next image:

I love the light we had this day, and the colors they wore.  So cheery!

I love both of Janet’s outfits, but I especially love the details on this one:

One of my favorite spots:

And this is a really small detail, but I love the scallops on the top of this next image:

I used to do silhouettes on digital all the time, but they just never really worked out for me on film.  This is my first silhouette on film:

Can’t wait to share with you their beautiful wedding!