The Tates (and extended family) have been coming together every year to stay at a house in Pajaro Dunes (Watsonville) for the past 38 years. That’s a commitment! Of course the family gets bigger every year with new kids and marriages adding to the crowd. This year they hired GoodEye to capture some family photos […]
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Tags: beach, candids, family, family photography, family portraits, mary tate, ocean, pajaro dunes, Portraits, sand, santa cruz, santa cruz family photography, tate family, watsonville
Carrie and Steven are good friends of recent family photography clients of mine here in Santa Cruz, so I was happy to capture some precious moments between them and their little rugrats, Maya and Ryan. It was chilly out, but we had blue skies and puffy white clouds floating above – and these guys really […]
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Tags: beach, carrie, family, family photography, kids, kingsley, Maya, natural bridges, ocean, photography, photos, pics, playing, ryan, sand, santa cruz, steven
The Queen family drove over from Gilroy to get their professional family photos done at the beach. They’d already had to take one rain check (literally, because of rain!), so Marcia was concerned about the weather as it was yucky in Gilroy. But as is often the case, the weather in Santa Cruz was the […]
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Tags: beach, family photography, kids, Marcia Queen, natural bridges, ocean, Paul Queen, portrait, professional, Queen Family, sand, santa cruz
After an extremely wet Santa Cruz weekend, I was dubious about this morning’s 9am session with the Day family. But when I spoke with Patti (resident Grandma), she sounded peppy and ready to go, so I figured if they could do it, I certainly could! Patti and her husband Paul moved to Santa Cruz a […]
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Tags: arch, beach, connor, family, family photography, goodeye, jen day, jennifer, kyle, monarch, natural bridges, ocean, photography, photos, sand, santa cruz, schell, toddler, walkway
Today I met Nicole and Joey Baker and their adorable little girls Mackenzie (lil’) and Madison (lil’ bigger) at the house they rented for their Santa Cruz vacation. It was a little chillier than they expected so of course mom had to go shopping for some more appropriate accoutrement 🙂 I’m glad she did, because […]
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Tags: baker, black's beach, family, family photography, joey baker, kids, mackenzie, madison, nicole baker, ocean, professional, sand, santa cruz, sunset, waves
Alice Wan called me up to get some photos of her brother who came up from LA and parents, who just arrived from Hong Kong. We had a lot of fun walking around downtown Capitola and the beach. Here’s my favorites from our shoot, all 74 photos are here.
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Tags: alice wan, beach, capitola, city, downtown, family, family photography, goodeye, mural, ocean, photography, photos, Portraits, river, sand, wan
Rocio, Sebastian and 18mo Aiden are residents of Capitola, so it made sense to get some professional family portraits done near their home. We met downtown at Zelda’s and trekked to the east side of the beach, near the cliffs, for most of our photos. It was a quick session, not even an hour, but […]
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Tags: aiden, beach, california, capitola, family, family photography, fun, ocean, photography, photos, professional, rocio llontop, sand, sandy, santa cruz, seb frey, sebastian frey, shoot, tidepools, toddler, waves, wet
Although this looks more like an engagement shoot, this was actually a celebration of Jack and Karen’s third wedding anniversary! Usually I don’t see a whole lot between newly married couples and those celebrating their 50th anniversaries, so it was a treat to see someone celebrating in-between, just for the heck of it. Karen surprised […]
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Tags: 3rd anniversary, anniversary, bay area wedding photographers, bay area wedding photography, beach, capitola, downtown, engagement, evening, jack, Jack Lin, karen, Karen Lin, Lin, married, ocean, photo, photography, photos, pier, reflections, sand, session, sunset, water, waves, wet, wharf
I met this lovely couple a few weeks ago during our initial wedding consultation, and they wasted no time booking a date to get their engagement photos done. They are beach people, and it just so happens I live in a beach town – so it was a natural fit! We actually went up to […]
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Tags: bay area wedding photographers, bay area wedding photography, beach, chris schmauch, engagement, goodeye, heather, heather terbeek, ocean, pescadero, photography, photos, Portraits, sand, sea, session, tim, tim eads, water
Kurt Kemling is a good friend of mine (even though we’ve only met a couple times) – it’s weird how you can get to know someone without ever spending time with them. He’s also a professional photographer that I admire, with two adorable girls near my own girls’ age, as well as a wife named […]
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Tags: beach, beckie, Children, family, katie, kemling, kids, kurt, monarch, natural bridges, ocean, path, photography, photos, Portraits, sand, santa cruz, sophia
I met Gaurav through my Yelp profile, he originally wanted me to take photos of his actual proposal. I was thinking, cool, I will finally be hired to to Schmauch-arazzi work! But alas, plans changed – I guess the pressure was too great. However, his fiancee said “yes” this morning so I made my way […]
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Tags: affection, bay area, bay area wedding photographers, bay area wedding photography, beach, best, big sur, big sur wedding photographers, big sur wedding photography, chris schmauch, e-session, engagement, gaurav, good eye, goodeye, gupta, hiking, images, indian, inn, isha, love, may 8, ocean, pfeiffer, photographer, photographers, photography, photos, pics, romantic, sand, santa cruz, shoot, ventana, wet, windy
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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Tags: bay area, bay area wedding photographers, bay area wedding photography, beach, best, carmel, carmel engagement photographers, carmel engagement photography, carmel wedding photographers, carmel-by-the-sea, chris schmauch, dramatic, engagement, foursquare, good eye, goodeye, images, jennifer, leon, light, lighting, lightwaredirect, ocean, photographer, photographers, photography, photos, pics, sand, santa cruz, shoot, water, waves
I walked to the beach this late afternoon with my family, and took 10 minutes away to walk around and get some handheld five-shot HDR photos of the lighthouse and surrounding area. Usually I do HDR with a tripod because all the photos have to line up, but I managed ok for most of the […]
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Tags: bay area, beach, best, cement, chris schmauch, crash, detail, good eye, goodeye, hand-held, HDR, high dynamic range, images, lighthouse, ocean, outcropping, overcast, photographer, photographers, photography, photos, pics, rocks, sand, santa cruz, seabright, walton, waves, weathered
OK, so I mainly chose the location because of the iconic natural bridges that give the park its namesake, but if I’ve learned anything about photography, it’s to assume nothing about weather, light, kids good behavior, camera and lighting gear functioning properly… you get the picture. Anyways, I met the Lorig family in the parking […]
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Tags: bay area, beach, best, chris schmauch, family, good eye, goodeye, images, kids, lorig, natural bridges, ocean, photographer, photographers, photography, photos, pics, portrait, sand, santa cruz, session, water, waves
