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Jenn and Brandon | Yosemite Wedding at the Ahwahnee Hotel | Yosemite National Park, CA

admin — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 15:03:31 +0000

Jenn and Brandon’s wedding was my last Yosemite wedding of the year and it took advantage of the great fall color in Yosemite Valley. The color was absolutely spectacular and it was a joy to spend the day searching out the most vivid locations. I love these small Yosemite weddings – everyone has such an amazing time and there’s always a room full of personalities. Thanks Jenn and Brandon for sharing your day with me, please enjoy some of my favorites from the day.

Chrissy and Raul | Tenaya Lodge Wedding | Yosemite National Park

admin — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 08:35:47 +0000

Chrissy and Raul’s wedding was one I’m going to remember a long time – both of them were SO expressive and full of joy, it was a pleasure spending the day with them. To top it all off, we were treated with the nicest day I’ve ever experienced up at the Tenaya Lodge. Take a few minutes and enjoy a few of my favorite images from the day…

Yi-Hsing and Daniel | Ahwahnee Hotel Wedding | Yosemite National Park

admin — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 18:53:32 +0000

Any wedding day in Yosemite is bound to be a beautiful one, and this day certainly didn’t disappoint! Weekday weddings in the park are great as even in the summertime the crowds are smaller and it’s pretty easy to get around the valley floor. Daniel and Yi-Hsing are new residents of New York by way of Japan, and on the way they had a little wedding under the apple tree on the Ahwahnee Hotel’s Wedding Lawn. Enjoy a few of my favorite images from the day…

Daniel and Yi-Hsing | Yosemite Engagement Session | Yosemite National Park, CA

admin — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:38:31 +0000

Continuing with the “Summer in Yosemite” theme, here’s Dan and Yi-Hsing’s engagement session. I shot this wedding with the wickedly talented Mariano Friginal on video and we headed up the day before to shoot a little engagement session ahead of the wedding. Just another amazingly beautiful day in Yosemite! Take a minute to enjoy a few of my favorites.

Marissa and Geoff | Ahwahnee Hotel Wedding | Yosemite National Park

admin — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:05:56 +0000

Marissa and Geoff were married on a beautiful, warm day in Yosemite National Park. After getting ready and having a tea ceremony at a cabin in the Yosemite West development we all rode together down into the valley, navigating some epic summertime weekend traffic! Then it was time for the ceremony underneath the old apple tree on the Ahwahnee Hotel’s Wedding Lawn. I’m so excited to be able to shoot 5 different weddings in Yosemite this summer and fall, it’s an amazing place! Enjoy a few of my favorite images from the day…

Lauren and Bryan | Yosemite Chapel, Ahwahnee Hotel Wedding | Yosemite National Park

admin — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:12:31 +0000

I have a pretty cool job, for sure, but its coolness reaches a whole new level when I get to “work” in Yosemite. It’s still unreal to me when I arrive that I’m so fortunate to be trusted with photographing a couple’s wedding and to top it off I get to do it in one of the most breathtaking places on Earth. This is Laruen and Bryan’s day in Yosemite, enjoy my favorites!

Marissa and Geoff | Yosemite Engagement Session | Yosemite National Park

admin — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 09:00:07 +0000

Marissa and Geoff are getting married today! A couple of weeks ago though, I met them for an engagement session in the park and these are a few of my favorites…

Stacy and Adam | Winter Wedding from the Tenaya Lodge | Fish Camp, CA

admin — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:39:01 +0000

Take a look at a few of my favorites from my first wedding of the season. This time it’s Stacy and Adam’s turn up on the site and their beautiful wedding up at the Tenaya Lodge. It was an absolutely beautiful setting with the snow covered surroundings, a warm fire blazing in the stone fireplace, and huge guest list full of those closest to Stacy and Adam. Enjoy the slideshow!

Allison and Sepehr | Tenaya Lodge Wedding | Fish Camp, CA

admin — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 20:51:58 +0000

Allison and Sepehr were married in early October on one of the strangest weather days I’ve ever experienced. We started under blue skies with the most beautiful scattered clouds followed by a huge thunderstorm that arrived just before the ceremony. Thankfully the ceremony was in a sheltered area and we got most of the photography done before the storms hit. As a bonus, the sky was really cool when we went outside to do a couple portraits after the rain moved on. Check out a few of my favorites from the day…

Sarah and Edward | From the Wedding Lawn at the Ahwahnee in Yosemite National Park

nate — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:08:01 +0000

I gotta love a May that sends me to Yosemite National Park TWICE for weddings. The first was an amazing day, and Sarah and Edward’s wedding didn’t disappoint either. After several straight days of rain – and more rain in the forecast for the wedding day – remarkably the clouds parted and didn’t drop more than the tiniest of a sprinkle at any point during the day. Sarah was total trooper marching around the park, unafraid of a little dirt, in the quest for some amazing portraits. Sarah and Edward were married on the Wedding Lawn and the historic Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite Valley following an afternoon roaming Cook’s Meadow, El Capitan Meadow, and the Yosemite Falls trails for their portrait session. Their reception followed the ceremony in the Solarium inside the Ahwahnee with dancing following in the Winter Club Room. Below are a few of my favorites from the day…Enjoy!

PS: Yes, that’s a bear. I went outside at dusk to get a shot or two of the Ahwahnee (see the last image as well as the vertical showing the solarium and the sunset image of Half Dome). I took the first image and noticed through the trees that the sunset was hitting Half Dome. So I started to walk across the meadow to find a better angle through the trees, looking at the LCD on the back of my camera as I walked. I look up after a few steps and just a few yards in front of me was a huge bear! For a moment I just froze, looking at him, looking at me. Then he walked off and headed towards the trees at the far end of the meadow. It was at that moment that I realized, DUH!, I have a camera so I fired off a quick couple of shots and then headed out to take the shot of Half Dome as I intended.