Congratulations and welcome!

You are in love and planning your celebration. The day is chosen and even the stars have conspired to align just so. There is only one day to capture the moments that will become the living legacy of your vows. One day to capture what you have spent so many days dreaming of.

I invite you two to settle in somewhere comfortable, have a snuggle, and allow yourselves the time to view some of my collections of real wedding photos taken throughout Northern California in Humboldt, Trinity, Del Norte, Mendocino, San Francisco, and beyond!

Collections of highlights selected from six real, unique, and moving celebrations.

Love is love. All love is grand.

Planning to elope? 

If your love can't wait, meet me here in the giant redwoods

or anywhere else in the whole wide world.

My passport is in hand, I stay ready to travel.

Among the giant redwoods: Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, Women's Federation Grove, Founder's Grove, Sequoia Park, Miranda Gardens resort, Pamplin Grove, and the Trees of Mystery.

Along the miles and miles of coastline: College Cove Beach, Russian Gulch State Park, Mendocino Headlands and Historic District, Mackerricher, Moonstone Beach & Merriman's, Luffenholtz Beach, Gualala Regional Park, Warner Point, Point Cabrillo Lighthouse, and Patrick's Point.

At gorgeous venues: Fieldbrook Winery, Rosina Vineyards, Red Barn Ranch Events, Eleven Roses Ranch, The Fortuna Riverlodge, Baywood Golf & Country Club, Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens, The Wharfinger, Eagle House Inn, and The Morris Graves Museum. 

In: countless vacation rentals and backyards of Moms and Grandmas. There are so many special places to get married in Northern California.

At twenty two years and counting, I am the longest continually operating wedding photographer in the Arcata, Eureka, Garberville, and Trinidad areas. Being chosen to photograph for so many couples is such an honor. This trust and faith is not taken lightly. I will be there for you today and I will still be there ten years from now. Weddings are my specialty, not a fleeting curiosity.

I've also traveled and photographed extensively throughout the states and overseas. On your wedding day, I bring with me the experience needed to both create artistic wedding photographs and bond with people from all walks of life.

Using ambient light and limited flash, I create a natural and honest record of how your celebration was seen. How it was felt. The anticipation filled first looks, hilarious reception candids, romantic portraits, and the true to life color rendering mean that even one hundred years from now, your photographs will still be timeless.

Many of my clients have told me after seeing their online wedding gallery that I captured intimate moments they had not even known I was around for. My cameras and lenses have been chosen for their ability to shoot at a distance and practically in the dark. Beyond the planned portraits, I am as unobtrusive as possible. I know where to be at each moment, quietly.

That is what good wedding photography is all about. Capturing the day exactly how it happened and exactly how it looked. Creating a time capsule that you can open again and again.

Whether your day is a grand black tie affair in a ballroom, a barefoot ceremony on the beach, a country chic love story set next to a rustic barn, traditional or offbeat, I will capture your experience faithfully and with my whole heart. Elopements are treated with as much respect as large weddings that add a second shooter. 

I make the process easy and the experience fun. Let me help you enjoy your day and create a pictorial legacy that will outlive all of us.