Many of my clients don’t know that I used to photograph home interiors and gardens for the national interior design magazines. Although my primary focus these days is weddings, I still do some shooting for local San Francisco and Bay area interior designers, architects and contractors. I recently shot a few interiors for a wonderful designer named Sylvia Brown of designHouse. I’m hoping Sylvia will be building her website soon with some of these lovely interiors. She’s TERRIFIC with color! Enjoy!
Posted on 1/22/13 in Architecture, Thoughts | 1 Comment
I’ve been back almost a week from my shoot at Rancho La Puerta and have missed it so. My friend Laurel and I have already heard from a few of our ranch friends, all just as nostalgic as we are. There’s a saying at the ranch, which is “take the ranch home with you,” and I’ve been trying! I’m still going to bed pretty early (they even have a lecture on sleep!) and getting up early to do stretches before starting my day, and every day has had some form of exercise but one!
Because most of the tables in the dining room are community tables, we got to meet so many fascinating people. More than one described the ranch as “summer camp for adults” and I would agree. That’s a great description. The guests are limited to 100 a week and many guests sign on immediately for the same week the next year so they can see their ranch pals.
Cooking school, organic garden tours, swimming pools for relaxing AND water classes, a world class spa, 3,000 mountainous acres for hiking, and healthy, organic, mostly vegetarian eating. I would say it’s perfect. Travel and Leisure magazine apparently agrees because it named the ranch the “Best Destination Spa in the World.” Brides, if you can go to the ranch with your besties for your bachelorette party or just with your mom and sisters for a little R&R before the wedding (I ran into one of my former brides and her mom and sister in a swimming class!), I would HIGHLY recommend it!
Enjoy the photos!
Posted on 4/15/11 in Architecture, Destination Weddings, Green Weddings, Thoughts, Unusual Locations | No Comments
The incredible people behind Rancho La Puerto—a Mexican fitness resort and spa just an hour south of San Diego—invited me this week to photograph the resort’s fitness department and its new cooking school and chef for marketing materials. I love, love, love Rancho La Puerto. I love its unique atmosphere, its classes that promote a lifetime of health, its place beneath the mountains.
Because my assignment was the resort’s fitness and cooking departments, I didn’t get to photograph its lovely spas, grounds and pool—maybe on my next visit. This place is truly transforming. I think it may be perfect. Most of the vegetables and eggs used in dishes prepared here come from the resort’s onsite organic garden. Its spa treatments are to die for, as are the resort’s serious classes and workshops. I even went on a seven mile mountain hike this morning!
I’ll be sure to post more when I return.
Posted on 4/08/11 in Architecture, Destination Weddings, Thoughts, Unusual Locations | 3 Comments
Vivian and Cliff envisioned an urban city engagement session — the opposite of their upcoming Carmel Valley wedding — so we trekked across the classic backdrops of San Francisco, from the Ferry Building to People’s Pier to the Embarcadero. We even beat the threat of rain and were able to keep the session outside. We had a blast!
Posted on 3/11/11 in Architecture, Engagements, Unusual Locations | 3 Comments
I also sometimes photograph home interiors. If you read my bio on the website, I got my start in photography over 20 years ago photographing home interiors and gardens for the national interior design magazines and every once in a while am asked to photograph an interior. Here is one I shot for Julie Brown of ReDesignsSF:
Posted on 2/11/09 in Architecture | No Comments
