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Downtown San Jose Family Session

alfred — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 17:59:32 +0000

Thank you Nesta and Unity (love these names!) for spending the morning with your new “Tito Alfred”.

Ask Sir Nesta about the Milky Way and he will blow you away with big words like quasars and binary systems. I had to do some googling when I got home!

P.S. I’m loving the new art installments in the form of pianos that are all around the city.

Banff Trip

alfred — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:16:25 +0000

Sometimes, in the blur of wedding season, personal projects get shelved. For weeks now, Emma had this little post-it tacked to my monitor and it read:

design the banff album…please!

Here are some of my favorite spreads for such a much-needed trip. The breather really helped us gear up for phase II of wedding season. Now on to phase III!

Excellently and awesomely designed album by me!

Palo Alto Wedding

alfred — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:03:34 +0000

I recently had the pleasure of second shooting for a friend of ours, Jessie Cho. I had a great time with Jesse and Jeff and the wedding party was so much fun. The bride and groom could not have been nicer.

Family Session

alfred — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:48:51 +0000

I’ve been shooting a lot of family sessions and newborns lately, while Emma notices a lot of new album orders. Hmm…what does this mean? The holidays are near! Ella already has her long Christmas list ready. In fact, we knocked one off the list when she nearly had a heart attack when she found a Pillow Pet on one of our errand runs. The squeals that emerged from her tiny frame melted my heart, and against Emma’s fair warning that I shouldn’t give in every time she gushes over something soft and fluffly….I got her a puppy pillow pet. Can you blame me?

Mary, Mike, and Matthew were so awesome to photograph. They even let me incorporate some flash flavor into their awesome family session.

Jen and Red Get Married {A Backyard Wedding}

alfred — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:00:07 +0000

You might remember Jen and Red’s schoolyard engagement session. We got to attend their wedding as guests…yes guests! We were beyond stoked to be a part of their wedding. They wanted to keep everything real casual like, so they didn’t have a professional photographer, so we were able to sneak in shots of our own.

Such a classic, backyard wedding. Casual with a dash of Antrhopologie.

Yup, Emma even dressed to match the colors.

Stephanie + Josh {Santa Clara University Mission | The Sainte Claire}

alfred — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:39:22 +0000

This was our first time shooting in the Santa Clara University Mission and it was so lovely. Candles lit all around. LOVED IT!

Steph and Josh had such a lovely wedding, filled with smiles and jars of candy. How could you go wrong?

Emma and I split up again for the first part of this wedding. She got to hang out with the guys, and David and I were there for Stephanie and her girls. We love seeing how each of our sets of photos turns out at the end of the day.

Ceremony: Santa Clara University’s Mission Church
Reception: The Sainte Claire in San Jose

Coordinator: Ilona Rubashevsky- Fantasy Events – http://www.fantasyevents.net/

Dress: Allure

Bridesmaids dresses: Jasmine

Hair/Makeup: Patricia – A Perfect Look http://www.aperfectlookmakeupandhair.com/

Floral: Luxuries Floral Design Fredrick V. James http://fvjluxuries.com/

Cake: Margarget’s French Bakery

Linens/table design: Details By Linda

Video: Capture It All Productions http://www.wix.com/just1click/captureitallproductionsvideo22

Candy Buffet: PreePree’s Kandies – http://www.preepreeskandies.com/

DJ – A Reason To Celebrate Robin Cortez

Invitations/Favors – we made our own! (Denise Paulus & Gwen Caldwell)

Associate shooter: David Kim

John and Janice {San Francisco Engagement Session | San Francisco Engagement Photographer}

alfred — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 02:41:16 +0000

John and Janice are friends and coworkers of rockstar bride Rana, so we were super stoked to be covering their wedding.

This was such a fun shoot, because John and Janice are so comfortable to be around. Engagement sessions are our chance to get to know our couples better. Are they funny, quirky, romantic, artsy, or urbanites? John and Janice were definitely a combination of funny, quirky, and romantic. I hope their photos do them justice.

I can’t wait until their wedding!

Ruzzel + Ramon Aftershoot

alfred — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:00:28 +0000

Here is the aftershoot for Ruzzel and Ramon. It was such a cold day (which happened to be the theme for each time we see this lovely couple…it’s always FREEZING!). But, they were such troopers.

From the very first consult, Ruzzel and Ramon felt like old friends. It was great seeing them again. I even managed to get Ramon and his twin to watch Iron Man with me so that Emma could go watch a chick flick with her friends.

[Legion of Honor Wedding Photography | Marin Headlands Wedding Photography]

Some behind the scenes of our awesome aftershoot.

This shoot took a village. We were doing a special project for the studio (so excited!), so the awesome Mon Villacorta and Jason Magbanua came out to shoot some behind the scenes footage. The very talented Missy Moran dolled Ruzzel up, and my future brother-in-law Jae Escalada came out and did some lighting magic.

Thanks to everyone!

Site Visits

alfred — Sat, 08 May 2010 02:48:50 +0000

In the midst of the chaos that comes with wedding season, we find time to schedule our site visits. We like to visit venues that we’re covering, mostly to get familiar with the area so that on wedding day, we don’t turn to each other and say

Uh, duh, where was that exit?

Site visits are also for family time. For adventuring to places that we would ordinarily not visit, and for the cost of time and gas, we get to take a break from the busy and just breath.

Angeli + Mike

alfred — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:54:22 +0000

Angeli and Mike are family friends and we couldn’t be more thrilled to be covering their wedding a few weeks.

Coincidentally, Mike is just as much as a comic fan as I am…so when he brought me a Comic-Con swag bag as a birthday gift, I was beyond stoked. We were even more jazzed that they said we could take them anywhere for their engagement session, so we spent the next few hours driving to some of our favorite spots.