Here’s an image from Mitzi & Jake’s Rockridge engagement session in the Oakland hills a few years ago.

We shot around Rockridge, the neighborhood where I met my own beautiful wife, and then drove up to Skyline on a whim. That’s their car’s headlights through the fog in the background. It was cold, but the views were stunning and the atmosphere was electric.

Engagement sessions are tricky for me; my background is in newspaper photojournalism, and I pride myself on my documentary coverage of weddings. It’s hard for me to showcase my skills at capturing candid, honest moments at fundamentally posed engagement sessions, but it’s also an opportunity for me to explore graphic and artistic components of photography.

Also, some news: as of 8 days ago, I’m a father. Two weeks before that, I accepted a job on the product photography team at Stitch Fix Inc. I’m very excited to continue to photograph weddings; I’ll be taking fewer commissions each year so that I may focus more on my clients.