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Jessica + Justin | Married! – SF Fairmont & Cliff House Wedding

02.08.10

A little while ago we were invited to shoot Jessica and Justin’s wedding at the Cliff House at Ocean Beach in SF. Jessica and Justin already had one of my very favorite engagement sessions of the year, so I knew the wedding was going to be fabulous. They certainly didn’t disappoint! Jessica is wonderfully expressive, Justin is a dapper fella, and their families were absolutely hilarious!

We started things off at the Fairmont Hotel. She was already ready for the most part when I was scheduled to arrive, but I got this right after she got in the dress. Sarah Morris did the hair, and she always does a stellar job. I highly recommend her!

Love this!

We shot a few in the lobby and then headed over to Huntington Square.

One of my favorite portraits of the season.

Grace Cathedral in the background. A little bit of Paris in San Francisco.

Jessica and her dad walking up to the ceremony. Masoud the event coordinator for the Cliff House in the background.

Love this first kiss! Not a bad background for a ceremony eh?

Married!

The details. Check out those hot shoes!

Some great reactions during the toasts! To protect the innocent, I won’t mention what was said to get the last 2 reactions from Justin.

Jessica and Justin’s sister. They already seemed like family.

Jessica’s dad was such a character!

Justin’s dad had a great time too!

Thanks Jessica and Justin for having us along, we had a great time!

Cliff

Married! | Tags: Cliff House Wedding|Fairmont Hotel San Francisco Wedding

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Ryan - Great coverage man! You've got some really well lit shots in there with some sweet compositions. Nicely done.

Rebecca + Faisal | Married! – Brazilian Room, Berkeley

02.04.10

Rebecca and Faisal had a lovely intimate affair a little while back at the Brazilian Room in the Berkeley Hills. They may look familiar from their engagement session if you’ve been following for a while. The day was a lot of fun, everyone was very close and many of their friends are musicians and dancers so it was a very lively reception! I always enjoy being right in the action so I had a great time!

Love all the reactions to Rebecca’s makeup.

We set up a great first sight moment.

I think this was the fastest portrait session I’ve ever had, I think we only ended up with about 5 minutes! Beautiful backdrop.

The details:

This was the most challenging bridal party portrait I’ve ever done. The timing for this was after the sun had already gone down, and it was pitch black outside. In fact, the power for the venue had gone out, so I had to use my battery powered lights just so I could see them at all, and I had to to jump up and down and yell so they knew where the camera was! To get color in the sky I had Malarie light everyone individually and did a separate long exposure. This is a combo of several separate frames. I loved the result, glad it worked!

One of my favorite dancing images ever.

Loved this girl. She decided it was her duty to carry the dress around the reception.

Lost in thought staring at the fire. I wonder what he was thinking?

Faisal and his Dad did a performance together, and I snuck out back to get an interesting angle.

The action on the dance floor was so much fun to shoot!

The action was a little much for these guys!

Thanks so much to Rebecca and Faisal for sharing their day with us!

Cliff

Married! | Tags: Brazlian Room Wedding|Tilden Park Wedding

by Cliff

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rebecca - I love all these photos so much!! I have so many favorites, you have such a great eye. Thank you so much Cliff. I especially like the first look and portrait session, I'm glad we decided to do all those before the actual ceremony.

Published! | Kristin + Peter on Snippet & Ink

02.01.10

One of Kristin and Peter’s images was featured as a “Sunday Edition” image on one of my very favorite wedding blogs, Snippet & Ink! Thanks so much to Kathryn for the feature, and to Kristin for that fantastic reaction! If you haven’t ever spent time at Snippet & Ink you owe yourself a look!

News | Tags: Snippet & Ink|Sunday Edition

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The Knot Best of Weddings 2010 Pick!

01.22.10

We’re proud to say that we’ve been rated by local couples and voted a The Knot Best of Weddings 2010 Pick in the photographers category! We’re honored to be selected, mainly because it’s a distinction selected by the couples themselves, and it means a lot to us that our couples have been thrilled enough with their images that they’d vote for us without any prompting from us whatsoever. I had no idea we were even in the running, so it was a nice surprise!

Thanks to all our fabulous couples, and here’s to 2010!

News | Tags: The Knot|The Knot Best of Weddings

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Matthias Giezendanner - Great job job Cliff, you deserve the kudos.

Brenna + Jon | Engaged! – UC Berkeley

01.22.10

We had an engagement session a little while back with Brenna and Jon on the UC Berkeley campus, where they both attended. We spent time at both of the buildings where they spent most of their time on campus, but while scouting I realized that the stadium was open following a practice session, and I couldn’t pass up the chance to shoot in a nearly empty Memorial Stadium. Knowing that they’re big fans and season ticket holders, I even went as far as calling them in to the shoot a little early so we wouldn’t miss the opportunity. I don’t think we were technically allowed to be there, but sometimes it’s best to live by “It’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission.” On to the images!