GoodEye Photography + Design Blog

I have a really hard time picking my favorites from each shoot, but it’s a great exercise to review your work from time to time. This is the first installment of what I hope becomes an annual tradition – picking JUST ONE photo from each of my shoots from the past year, be it a business portrait […]

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I’ve waited SO long to do a Trash The Dress (TTD) session with one of my brides. Everyone always chickens out, but I can see why – the wedding is still fresh, and nobody wants to leave the party to change out of the wet dress (or destroy it, for that matter). Last year I […]

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Even though I’m a Santa Cruz-based wedding photographer, I’m often traveling all over the Bay Area for my clients. Danny and Rachelle wanted their engagement shoot up in San Francisco, so I was excited to oblige. It was my first session at Stow Lake, which is part of the expansive Golden Gate Park. I got […]

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I’ve covered the annual tree-lighting ceremony at the Four Seasons hotel in East Palo Alto several times over the last few years – they do such a great job of having lots of activities for little kids, plus yummy drinks and snacks for the adults. Santa arrived in an Escalade (what no Prius Santa?), and […]

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PotD: 2010.10.15 Date Taken: 2010.03.11 Photo Specs: Nikon D3 + 60mm/2.8 lens, 1/800 sec, f/8, ISO 500 Lighting Specs: The setup and location for this shot is much less pretty than the shot itself (see below). The key light is coming from three Nikon SB-800 speedlights optically triggered and shooting through a 30″ softbox camera-right. […]

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Jared at Kaama Lounge whipped up some snazzy new cocktails to photograph today. The ones I tasted are as great on the palate as they are on the eyes! Feast your peepers on these, folks – my faves below. Or you can just check out all the photos from the shoot. For you strobist people, […]

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JT & Chloe’s mom hired me to take some photos of her kids as a surprise for father’s day. They are super cute, and very sassy with each other. I tried to capture all the in-between moments, the tickling before the pushing, the hand-holding before the pinching, the arm around the shoulder before the headlock […]

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I’m lucky enough to be in a position where I can both photograph and design magazine covers, but in the real world it typically doesn’t happen this way. Often the magazine art director (AD) isn’t even involved in the shoot – they simply receive the end result and need to “make it work.” When I […]

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After one postponement due to the rain, I was determined to make today’s engagement shoot with Leon and Jennifer happen. The weather was iffy in Carmel according to the interweb, but we met up at 4pm anyways at Carmel Beach (Carmel-by-the-Sea). It’s a gorgeous, beautiful, stunning location – and the quality of light was simply […]

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The folks at Four Seasons, East Palo Alto know how to throw a tree-lighting party. The place was swarming with giggling children and parents desperately seeking out steaming coffee, or perhaps the famous hot chocolate put out by the high-end hotel. Regardless, there was no shortage of things to do: an outside movie theater, cookie […]

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Menara Moroccan has graced Gish Ave. off 1st St. in San Jose for over 30 years. When you walk through the large double doors inside, you’re left blinking for a minute so your eyes can adjust to the relative darkness. This is one of those interiors where some special attention to the photography and post-processing […]

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Junnoon wanted to freshen up their photo archive so they kindly called on my services for new interiors, headshots, details, food, cocktails, etc. I spent about 3.5 hours over two days to complete the project. There’s so much going on in the well-designed interior that it’s a joy to shoot in. The lighting, the decor, […]

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