We were honored when our friend Sheila asked us to photograph the wedding celebration for her and new husband John at the Family Bible Fellowship in Newark. They’d married in a private ceremony at the end of last year in John’s hometown of Bakersfield.

They first met, and were friends, years ago at school and until recently had lost contact. Their celebration day brought family and many friends together for the first time and saw old school friends reunited.

We wish you a wonderful and happy life together John and Sheila!

Little Jordyn loved being in front of the camera -

- she looked so cute with her angel wings and bell, introducing Sheila and John to their guests.

We just love Black and White!
On more than one occasion, we’ve thought about limiting our output to just B&W, but the world is too colorful for that.
This post is just an excuse to post some B&W pictures we love from recent work. These started life as 21MP color digital files, but have our secret B&W conversion process, plus layers of grain added to mimic B&W printing techniques. Hmmm, probably too small to see on the blog – ho hum.

We’d been looking forward to shooting this wedding ever since their great engagement session in late summer and had a wonderful time capturing the day.
Fresia and Brandon were very relaxed in front of the cameras and the Japanese Gardens in Castro Valley were the most beautiful backdrop for the formal photographs.
The celebrations continued with a dinner inspired by the origins of their Peruvian and Italian families and wedding cake made by the bridesmaids Kitty and Carla!
Here are some of our favorite pictures from the day.