I've never gotten over that. Not because it bothered me personally, but because they deserved better. Every couple deserves better.

Before I picked up a camera professionally, I spent years in hospitality. Mostly in the kitchen, some front of house. I learned that how you make someone feel stays with them long after everything else fades. That standard follows me into every wedding I shoot.

Here's what you actually get when you book me. Someone who shows up fully, who would rather experience every moment of your day with you than miss a single thing, and who genuinely cares whether you enjoyed your wedding, not just whether the photos turned out. I'm a Northern California wedding photographer, and every wedding I shoot gets that same standard

You've spent months on this. You deserve a photographer who treats it that way.

I've seen every Star Wars film more times than I'm willing to admit. Growing up, my family watched Indiana Jones, Disney, pretty much anything worth watching. I'll go to the theater alone if the movie is good enough, and I have, more than once. There's something about the way a great story is told visually, the composition, the light, the moment that lands just right, that I never stopped paying attention to.

That's how I shoot weddings. Every frame is intentional. Every moment is worth capturing the way it actually felt, not just how it looked.

I didn't set out to be a photographer. There's a story behind how it started that involves a hernia, and I promise it's worth asking about.

What I can tell you is the moment I knew this was what I was supposed to do was at my stepsister Melissa's wedding. The day was everything. Then the photographer left early, phoned it in, and when the photos came back, they missed all of it. Every single thing that made that day special, gone.

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