Pacific Ridge Vineyard Estate

I worked with Stefanie this weekend again, helping her with Heather and Devin's wedding in Aptos.

Heather & Devin got married in this wonderful location, it was a nice day outside and everything was just right. This location defiantly worth the extra mile of driving, i can't wait for my next event there.


Devin met Heather at REI, it defiantly explains the selection of this location, very natural but still comfortable








ok, enough talking, some more pictures:



As corny as it may sound, this is what i like about weddings, capturing the excitement of the couple and Devin was plenty excited :)


The flowers where spectacular, lots of attention for small details
And the Band was great! i was amazed how much equipment they had.
Such a cute baby ...

Stanford

Just came back from a fun wedding in Stanford university, Elizabeth and Dirk are a wonderful couple and we had fun in there wedding
here are a few images from today
Some of the amazing flower sets Elizabeth mother arranged:
Getting ready:

nice shoes Liz

love the dress


Wow, look at the bride...
during the reception we enjoyed some talented musicians



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Senior portrait

It's been a crazy week, I'm so busy recently I had no time to post any new stuff and I have been shooting a lot lately...













This is a Alice, she is the daughter of a co worker. We did some portraits of her before she goes to college.

Alice had a lot of fun doing the portraits, everybody loves feeling like a model. She had so much fun she promised to come back with more friends. great! thats what i need, more gorgeous women

Golden Gate School

What a week!!!
i spent all week in Oakland with a large group of professional photographers from all over the states attending Golden Gate School. i participated in Mark Allen class, Mark is a leading photographer and educator and he teach advanced studio lighting and posing. I'm fully charged!

If you are a pro or even an aspiring photographer, dont hesitate and register to next year GGS, the instructors they bring are the best in the industry and the tuition is not high compared to other solutions in the market

Los Altos Hills

I helped a friend of mine this weekend with a Bat-Mitzva in Los Altos for a wonderful family. the event was very special, part because of the very mature girl, Lea, and part due to the amazing location. i don't envy the gardener in this house but what a beautiful location. Jeanne De Polo did a great job as usual and arranged everything beautifully, it's always a pleasure working with Jeanne, i always learn new things.





This is Lea's sister

Lea during her speech

Just a cute and tired little girl :)

Atara was the Rabbi in the ceremony , she is very unique and non conservative

Mirror mirror on the wall...

Who is the most beautiful of them all?
It turns out a neighbor of mine is an amazing artist and a great guy, he makes very artistic mirrors, beds and other stuff from iron. I had a long day on location shotting some of his latest job, but the best is still yet to come. We are working on it and i will post it here in the near future.

Eitan has some more samples in his website.












Lately i have a LOT of product photography work, i actually like it but there is nothing like the rush from a wedding.

Maradonna

It's been quiet this week so i spent some time meeting customers for upcoming weddings and working on some product photography (will post some once its done, don't want to jinks it)

i got commands from the general commander (my wife) to take my son to his soccer training and come back with goos shots, she said it has to be in focus and sharp.

since i know what's good for me, i did just that :)











Even Maradonna needs a break, right?

















And a group portrait...

Lucie Stern - Palo Alto

This weekend i assisted Stefanie Herzer with a wedding in Palo Alto, we are both members in PPGBA and one of the best advantages in such a professional group is backup. We all help each other all the time. I can defiantly say i learned a lot from this group and it helped me become a professional photographer.

Amy and Peter is a very special couple, they love nature, preservation and organic food. The ceremony was very special, instead of the normal church ceremony they had special vows (in the church) followed by a water ceremony and then Dixieland band marched everybody to the main building for dinner!

Busy week...

Its been a few days since i updated the blog, it was a busy week i helped a good friend this week with some "engagement" pictures, it wasn't really engagement pics since they already did that, they just needed some pictures so they can leave a print on every table, so i met Roberto and shilan in a park next to there house and we took some quick shots














Later on that same day i did some headshots to a Realtor, she is my favorite Realtor

once we finished that i had to quickly pack since we went to Point Reyes for the weekend, now i need a vacation from this long weekend.

Trip to Capitola

It was a nice day yesterday so we went to Capitola with a few friends and many kids. I love the Ocean here in California, its not to hot and not to cold right now.

As usual i carry with me (in the car) a small light stand with Umbrella and i use it to bother the kids and create nice portraits of them. if you want to learn everything there is to learn about flash photography check out this web site

for you photographers out there, i used Qflash on manual mode bounced to an shoot through umbrella

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