San Fransisco Wedding Photographer :: Danielle & Roy

Everyone is life needs a nickname. After meeting Danielle and Roy for 5 minutes, Roy had affectionately dubbed my "Hotsauce". Roy went by "RoyAL", (could you have a more perfect alias?) You guys are the epitome of cool.

Rarely is it that I meet the subjects of my lens the day of the shoot. In the case with Danielle, (whom is a Dr. I might add) and Roy, they were married just the day before and THIS was a post wedding session. Sadly, I was booked and couldn't shoot their fabulous Westin St. Francis Wedding. Lucky for me, they thought enough of my work to hire us for their post wedding session. We even had access to the penthouse suite where they spent their first night as husband and wife. THIS particular suite was even used by our current President, Mrs Obama during a recent trip. Thats pretty Roy-al if you ask me.

We did well guys. REALLY well. Thanks for having me. :)

BIG thanks to Luke from Synder Photography for helping as assistant on this session. Major help my friend. Thanks again! Also wanted to say a nice thank you to the folk over at the Westin St. Francis for the referrals. These good folks were kind enough to to place us on their preferred list for photographers after we shot THIS wedding there last year. Mighty appreciative for the vote of confidence.

It's Tuesday. :)

~Sam





I love this shot.


Roy had to have this shot. I almost want to get myself a poster of it and put it in the garage with a pool table and neon lights.











Dude, you guys could BLEED cool. What gives man.
No city like our City.

Hillary & Don :: Engagement Session in North Carolina

Hillary and Don, you have so much style it hurts!



What was I doing in North Carolina? This: Genesis Workshop (group photos were arranged by yours truly). Hi kids! Love you!

A couple things about these two. Don is a rock-star photographer in the Nashville area. His work is excellent and if your in need of a photographer in the Nashville area, (and beyond) check out his work here. Dude is savage. Hillary is a FAMOUS!, (yes I said famous) She does event design with a specialty in floral and is ranked the HIGHEST in her area of Nashville. Go see the awesome here.
The style you two brought was so good. And WOW to that ring. Amiright?

Such an amazing session here. The crown of it all was having my great friend Mr. Tony Hoffer as an additional shooter, (no, I can't call Tony a "2nd"). We also had the company of a few students during the first half of the session. For that I say THANK YOU Hillary and Don!

Also wanted to say a big THANK YOU to the great folks at The King's Daughters Inn
for the use of their wonderful place. We had the pleasure of staying there as a base/hub for our workshop together. It was amongst the nicest place I've EVER stayed at. YES, that good.

Lastly, these great folks will be tying the knot in....wait for it....HAWAII!! YES, I will be going to shoot it! :D

HAPPY THURSDAY!

~Sam








Image by Tony





Image by Tony
Image by Tony
Viva la Hawaii!

The Washington D.C. Engagement Session :: Kristiaan & Lionel

Random Hassas fact. I grew up in D.C.





Say hello to Kristiaan & Lionel. Kristiaan is said, chris-tee-on. Lionel is said....Lionel.
These guys are a no nonsense photography team taking the greater D.C.area by storm.
These guys were so cool to shoot for. When I FIRST started, I thought shooting for other photographers would be the most awful, nerve racking thing ever. FAR from it. When you are shooting for folks that genuinely appreciate what your doing things are easy. I look forward to it now.

Guest what, to top things off here, I had the company of non other then Mr. Tony Schreiber shooting along side me. You can see his take on the session here.
You can see our group shadow shot below. :D

Thanks for the look see folks. Have a great Wednesday!!

~Sam












After I'm satisfied with the session and feel I have a good dose of great shots, I open it up to some fun, different, artist, whatever shots. Here's one below. :D
My old stompin grounds. **single tear**
The team. :)

Kristiaan got me perhaps the most epic gift that she presented me at the tail end of our session. Get this, a custom made cookie with MY name on it!! HA!!!
It tasted every bit as good as it looked. So good. Thank you Kristiaan!