5 Mistakes Brides Make When Booking their Wedding Photographer Hiring a wedding photographer can be one of the most stressful parts of planning a wedding! After all, this is the person intrusted to capture one of the most important days of your life! So let’s take a minute and review some of the top mistakes […]

Your sweet precious newborn baby sleeps soundly, your eyes are glued on this amazing miracle. Excited you eagerly anticipate your photographer’s arrival to capture this fleeting moment in life when your newborn child is so small and new. As a new mom, you are just trying to sleep when you can, and may not understand […]

As we walked and chatted Romita shivered with cold on this brisk San Francisco summer day. It is the middle of August and yet the chill in the air bites like that of winter. Romita and I had been planning this San Francisco photo shoot for several months. What started out as a lovely June […]

As I walk into my client’s house and I hear the delicate cry of a newborn, my heart swells. Their sweet cry is never as innocent and precious as it is in those first few weeks. Aiden awoke within 15 minutes of my arrival, as is often the case with newborns, almost as if the […]

The Rose Gardens at Heather Farms, is one of my favorite places to shoot, especially in the spring and summer. The roses are everyone you look, not to mention a plethora of flowers, trees, plants and yes even little animals. The first time I ever shot a wedding as the primary photographer was The Rose […]

He has finally fallen asleep, the moment his mom and I have been patiently waiting for throughout the night. The defiant eye he’d been half opening, finally closed. Peaceful and still, sweet and innocent. These are the moments every newborn photographer waits for, and Everett here didn’t disappoint…not that anyone could be disappointed in a […]

Let me take you back in time…. My heart was beating a mile a minute with images of different newborn poses running through my head. This was my first paying family client with Summer Bear Photography and I felt as though my entire future was riding on the next few hours of my life. I had […]