Quinn Photography Blog

Mike and Laura both graduated from UC Berkeley some years ago. What brought them back to shoot their engagement shots here was for nostalgic  reasons-they both met here and fell in love at UC Berkeley. Every picture in this series has sentimental  meaning to them. From the streets of Berkeley, to the restaurants, to the University they all have special meaning to this cool loving couple.

I can’t say enough wonderful things about how our day started and ended. It is always a treat to have the couple treat you to a pizza, especially since the pizza represents the beginnings of the love fest between the two.  Zachary’s Chicago Style Pizza is where their love started and continues to grow. A slice of pizza and a Corona was all I needed to get the creative juices going. Of course it always helps to have extra imaginative people to help and Laura’s sister, Catherine, was the reason for such great and creative photos.  Well,  Laura and Mike helped just a little by being so cooperative and willing to do anything to get just that special picture.

Laura is one of those organized kind of people I hate-because I’m not. I didn’t have to come up with one idea. She had locations printed out, maps with stars corresponding to the locations and descriptions of the places all on two sheets of paper. Mike and I only had to make sure we showed up to film. Well I shouldn’t paint Laura quite like that. She was fun, spontaneous, beautiful and a good sport to try anything to get an unique picture for the day. The big picture was to have their special places serve as backdrops to all the photos. I think you will see some very familiar places of Berkeley somewhere amongst the pictures.

Here’s to Mike and Laura for such a great day of fun, posing, eating, drinking, brainstorming ideas and most of all being themselves-it was such a treat to be with them. Enjoy!!

Ty, my son, is my second shooter at weddings and we occasionally get together to shoot for fun. This was his idea of a fun shoot so we prepped the pool for a fashion shoot under water. All this was his idea and shot selections as well. I was his helper for the day. Boy was it fun to hang with some pretty girls and shoot with my son.

Nick and Lindsay love  San Francisco. They met there, worked together there and are now  engaged there. They are a couple that know the  places which have meaning to them, places that elicit fond memories which we built on for their engagement shoot this past Saturday.

The weather was  perfect- no clouds, no fog,  no heavy winds, no cold temperatures and best of all no Giants playing a home game at AT&T Park.  Nick and Lindsay are avid Giant’s fans so they wanted to have some pictures at the ballpark. You’ll get to see some from the ballpark area  in this set.

We arrived at Crissy Field at the golden hour and had the opportunity to have some fun. We ran into a visitor who was curious to our party and hung around for some shots much to our chagrin. We left Crissy Field and headed to the Palace of Fine Arts only to find it closed for renovation. The best we could do was take some pictures from across the lake from the rotunda.  I hope you enjoy the pictures as much as I enjoyed Nick and Lindsay’s company.