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hiroko and michael were referred to us by some of our favorite clients, alison and bryan! when i asked about engagement session locations, michael had a great idea. we went to the place that hiroko and him had their first date, father’s office in santa monica. the restaurant was nice enough to let us take some photos inside, and then we had an amazing lunch. if you live in the area and have never been to father’s office, go, go right now! after lunch we drove through venice and found a really nice secluded beach area almost in the marina. there were hardly any people and across the street from the beach was an awesome patch of flowers and vines that i knew i would have michael and hiroko jump into ;). we had a wonderful time shooting with them and cannot wait for their wedding coming up in august!!

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ilona and patrick are getting married next saturday so we wanted to get this post up before then! we met in santa monica and strolled along broadway, ending up near third street. when i say near, i mean not at the obvious “3rd street promenade” because as you know from past blog posts we don’t like to shoot at the conventional locations, and what fun is that anyways! if you ask us to shoot at the pier or santa monica, we go in the alleyways and behind the stores ;). lucky for us, ilona and patrick were amazing models and great sports. they didn’t look us strangely when we stopped in front of what we thought was an abandoned building and then got yelled at by the people who lived there, they took our little posing notes but added their own spice to the photos, and also brought some of their own ideas to the session which we love! we can’t wait for their wedding, only 7 short days away!

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we met natalie and jeremiah at the santa monica pier. we started the session early enough to try avoid crowds, but even though it’s supposed to be winter it got hot and the crowds came :). we like to start our sessions in the most random places first. so instead of walking on the pier, we went around to the back and of course we found some awesome wire fences, staircases, the freeway overpass! natalie and jeremiah worked the session like pros! when we asked them for fierce, we got it, funny, we got that too! perfect models :). we cannot wait for their wedding coming up in january!