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Saturday, December 24, 2011

Aloha `Oe Hawai`i and Hello San Francisco! | San Francisco Wedding Photographers

As Darren and I celebrate our very last Christmas/New Year’s on the islands, it certainly brings back a lot of fond memories of this wonderful place where we called home for the past 6-1/2 years. Just within this such short period of time, we both went from working for someone else to building our own businesses, to partnering with VISIONARI, one of the most sought after wedding photography companies on the Hawaiian islands and now expanding the brand, VISIONARI SF to our hometown in the San Francisco Bay Area.

It definitely has been an amazing journey, especially the past year which has been a year of change, challenge and growth… We made the decision to move to O`ahu after living on Mau`i for 5-1/2 years to join the VISIONARI and Dulce wedding photography teams in Honolulu; we constantly challenge ourselves to be better people and better photographers; and we keep growing and learning our craft every single day. We are blessed to be able to do what we love, and we can’t wait to shoot weddings, engagements, family, kids and pet portraits in the San Francisco Bay Area under our new brand VISIONARI SF. We look forward to reconnect with our past clients and meet with future clients at our new live/work artist loft in Emeryville, CA.

To all of you who helped shape us and were a part of our lives in the past few years, we thank you for all of your love and continued support. Have a wonderful holiday season and see you all in 2012!

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Posted in Personal, Photography Tags: Hawaii Wedding Photographer, Honolulu City Lights, San Francisco Wedding Photographer, VISIONARI San Francisco

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Friday, December 16, 2011

The Jarboe Family Portrait Session | Hawaii Lifestyle Photographers

Posted in Babies | Kids, Families

Ericka and I have known each other for a few years now. We both started our wedding planning on The Knot and we have kept in touch all these years with this amazing group of women. When she told me that she and Jeff and Baby Elle would be stopping by Honolulu on her way to visit her family in the Philippines, and she asked if Darren and I could do a family portrait session for them, of course we said YES!

Our session was originally scheduled for the Saturday after Thanksgiving, but it was pouring that afternoon so we rescheduled it for the next morning. It was a very windy day but at least it didn’t rain anymore and Baby Elle was in a much better mood as well.

Happy holidays, the Jarboe Family! It was so nice seeing you guys and we look forward to visiting you in D.C. one of these days!

To see a slideshow of this family portrait session, please CLICK HERE!

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Posted in Babies | Kids, Families Tags: Ala Moana Beach Park, Magic Island

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Friday, December 9, 2011

Yvette & Richard’s Engagement Session | San Francisco Bay Area Wedding Photographers

Posted in Engagements

Yvette and Richard are such a fun loving couple. We took a few shots of the 2 of them during a family portrait session when we were back in the Bay, and we had such a great time that they decided to book us for a full engagement session the weekend after that. We met up at this amazing store in the City called Flora Grubb Gardens. If you like gardening, this is the place to be. They have all sorts of plants and gardening accessories for your outdoor space. I am a “brown thumb” and totally not into gardening at all, but I love this place as there are so many cool spots to shoot. They have plants totally growing out of cars and trucks; they have colorful tables and chairs hanging on this wood wall; they have beautiful planters hanging on colored walls. We had an awesome time there.

Then we headed out to Baker Beach for some sunset shots. That’s one of our favorite locations for engagement or wedding photos. There is nothing more iconic than the Golden Gate Bridge in the background. It’s soooo romantic! We ended the session at the Xanadu Gallery on Maiden Lane right by Union Square. It was originally the V. C. Morris gift shop designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. As we did our last few off camera shots outside the gallery, it started raining… but it was a really fun day.

Congrats, Yvette and Richard! We look forward to catching up with you both soon!

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Posted in Engagements Tags: Baker Beach, Central Park San Mateo, Flora Grubb Gardens engagement photos, Frank Lloyd Wright, San Francisco Wedding Photographer, Union Square, Xanadu Gallery

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Friday, December 2, 2011

The Choy Family Portrait Session | San Francisco Bay Area Photographers

Posted in Babies | Kids, Families

It’s always great to reconnect with past clients. Ivy and Howard got married at the Olowalu Plantation House on Mau`i back in September 2008, and I was their planner at the time. We kept in touch all these years and since January 2011, their family has grown from 3 (including their fur baby, Rala) to 4.

Darren and I had such a wonderful time photographing the family at Piedmont Park last month when we were back in the Bay. Baby Quinley was a doll, she was smiling the entire time during the shoot… what a sweetie pie! Ivy and Howard, it was so nice seeing you guys again and meeting Baby Q. We wish you a happy holiday season and we can’t wait to hang out with you soon in our new neighborhood! :)

To see a slideshow of this family portrait session, please CLICK HERE!

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Friday, November 25, 2011

Kathy & Dan’s Engagement Session | San Francisco Bay Area Wedding Photographers

Posted in Engagements

Darren has known Kathy since their college days at UC Riverside. Every time when the 3 of us get together, I hear about all these fun anecdotes and group activities that they used to organize such as their ski trips, group dinners…etc. Even though I went to a different college some 90 miles west of their school, I felt like I was part of their group already!

The last time we saw Kathy, she came to Mau`i for a visit with a very “special” friend, Dan. She told us that they were dating and wanted to see how things go. Fast forward a year and now they are engaged! Dan actually proposed right after they crossed the finish line at the San Francisco Marathon. We couldn’t believe that he was running the whole time with the ring in his pocket! Needless to say, Kathy said “Yes”!

While we were back home in the Bay last week, we did an engagement session with them and spent the entire afternoon around the City. It was a lot of fun. We are so excited that Visionari SF is going to shoot their wedding next coming February. Congrats, Kathy and Dan! Can’t wait to see you both very soon! xoxo