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I’ve photographed tons of events – corporate retreats, black tie dinners, company parties, heck – even my daughter’s Girl Scouts father/daughter dance; but somehow I’ve yet to shoot an actual high school prom. A past client called me up a couple weeks ago and asked if I was interested in shooting her daughter’s high school […]

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Bay Area mystery writer Laurie R. King needed some new publicity photos to adorn her book coming out this fall, so I came to her home for a few studio-like and natural portraits. I enjoyed talking with her and am excited to read my new signed copy of The Beekeeper’s Apprentice (I do love a […]

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Santa Cruz, CA – January 23, 2012 – For the second year in a row, WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding Marketplace, is excited to announce GoodEye Photography + Design has been selected to receive the prestigious WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2012 for Photography! The esteemed annual awards program recognizes the top local wedding vendors from […]

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What an enjoyable engagement session at Three Mile Beach (3 miles north of Santa Cruz) – Katie and Wesley are getting married in October and after meeting them I truly can’t wait. They’ve got chemistry, love, and everything in between. I’m so glad I met Katie’s sister Hollie during our portrait shoot last year. See […]

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With a wedding in the morning at Seabright Beach in Santa Cruz, and the reception at Quail Hollow Ranch in Aptos, Laura and Kalen had two beautiful locations to celebrate their union with all their friends and family. The ceremony was held inside a ring of flowers and bubble making favors with all the guests […]

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This was my first wedding at Sand Rock Farm Bed & Breakfast, so there’s always a little anxiety related to shooting at new places – which is why I show up early to get the lay of the land and scope out all the cool places to shoot. Nestled in the hills of Aptos, this […]

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Grace was visiting Santa Cruz from Southern California and wanted to get some professional photos of herself with her son, Ian. We met at Seabright Beach, which is always a great location (and within walking distance of my house!). I like Seabright in the morning as the sun is off to the left side of […]

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Julie and Derek are scientists working in the Monterey Bay on contract. They were in the Santa Cruz area only for a short time, but fell in love with the weather and all there is to see and do here. Not surprising coming from the midwest! They wanted to get some family photos done along […]

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I met Ben, Juniper and their little cuties Laila and Aurora at Lighthouse field, Santa Cruz for their family portrait session. After all this rain the grasses were so high, at times it felt like we were lions stalking prey in the African savannah… But the only guns were my Nikons, which managed to help […]

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The Brown family was a pleasure to shoot and hang out with at the ever popular Natural Bridges State Park Beach in Santa Cruz, California. The park has everything – green fields of grass (in the spring), huge trees, fallen dead wood, blossoming flowers, a marshy pond, monarch butterflies and of course the beach with […]

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I’ve known Shawn and Joy for a long time – we met when they were just dating back in college at Cal Poly, SLO. We did a lot together back in the day, then went our separate ways, and only recently have rekindled our old friendships now that life has brought us back on the […]

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What a cute couple of kids! Wyatt and his big brother Dash posed for me in their backyard which is basically their playground. They’re simply adorable, and made it easy for me to get some great shots. This was a super quick session but we got a surprising number of keepers. Enjoy the pics below, […]

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Senior portrait photography is kind of a new pursuit of mine. It’s an honor to capture this time of transition in a person’s life, and I consider it a personal challenge to capture an individual’s true personality. I had a great time navigating 3-Mile beach with Emma and her mom, even though getting down to […]

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I woke up this morning to helicopters overhead, thinking – hmm, that can’t be good. Bleary eyed, I picked up my iPhone, loaded Facebook and realized that Japan had had a massive earthquake, and tsunamis were headed to our west coast. My wife had already left to take our eldest daughter to school, so I […]

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I have nothing but respect for couples that choose to adopt children; it’s such a selfless and loving decision. John and Kathleen welcomed Adane into their home last year, and he couldn’t have asked for more adoring parents. Children can often be, um, difficult during photography sessions – but Adane had nothing but smiles and […]

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The all grown up Ray siblings got together in Saratoga to catch up on old times and visit with mom. They live in different parts of the country, so it had been over a decade since they’d all been in the same place, but you wouldn’t know it the way they playfully joked around and […]

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I will forever remember this photo shoot – not because of the lovely Anna and all the great photos from her Senior Portrait session, but rather for the wicked case of poison oak I acquired during said shoot. I was dressed in a t-shirt, shorts and flip-flops (typical Santa Cruz attire, mind you), which was […]

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Santa Cruz, California – January 25, 2011: WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding technology company, is thrilled to announce GoodEye Photography + Design has been selected to receive the prestigious annual WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011 for wedding photography! Recognition for the Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011 is determined by recent reviews and extensive surveys from over 750,000 WeddingWire […]

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