Steve & Audrey | UC Berkeley | Clark Kerr | Berkeley Marina | Target | Engagement Session

Steve and Audrey are good friends of ours and we are soooo happy for them!!  They met for the first time at UC Berkeley's Clark Kerr Campus, so they wanted to relive old memories there and the first picture pretty much sums up their excitement.  Steve is super athletic, so please don't try this at home or on another engagement session.  Look at how much air he got! 

We had so much fun shooting their engagement session, because they were up for anything!  Steve is such a good sport for agreeing to get all dressed up at Target.  I don't know about you, but I think he looked great in that feather boa! 

Steve and Audrey are kicking off the new year by getting hitched this January!  I love January weddings, because everyone is feeling great about the coming year and excited to see a new family come together.   Steve and Audrey are one of the most giving couples we know.  They have touched countless lives - Steve as a college minister and Audrey as a kick butt school teacher.  People who know them would agree when I say that they are Rock Stars! 

 A little fountain action.

 We hung out at this gnarly tree and then had fun throwing some fall leaves around.

 This is one of my favorite engagement shots.  It reminds me of the movie, Big Fish!

 I love this shot of them.  What are they staring at so intensely?

 So many great titles come to mind when I see this picture.  "Miles to go", "With you", or "Over the hill together".  Anyone else have a great title for this?

 RUN!

 This is how good they look after that long run.

 I love how Target has rebranded themselves and given themselves a whole new look.  Steve is an awesome soccer player, so we had to showcase his aiming skills. 

 We got some funky looks from people for this one.

 Target should pay us for this free advertising.  It looks like they're having so much fun shopping there. 

Nina & Chang Soo | Berkeley Botanical Garden | Bamboo Forest | UC Berkeley | Sproul Fountain | Memorial Stadium | Engagement Shoot

Nina and Chang Soo are close friends of mine from college.  They've been together since highschool and are FINALLY tying the knot.  Nina is one of the sweetest girls I know and CS is well...CS.  I don't want to blow his head up here, but he's somewhat smart and one of the wittiest guys I know.  He's so funny in group settings, that I sometimes secretly wish that my jokes were as good as his.  I wonder if that makes me sound like a loser.

Nina is one of my top blog stalkers and has slowly converted CS into one too.  So I knew going into this session that I had to kick major photography butt.  Well Nina's really easy on the eyes and CS is a big ham so it wasn't too hard to make them look good.  We first went to the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden and got some natury shots.  I love shooting there because the grounds are huge and there are tons of places to shoot. 

The best location by far was Memorial Stadium though.  Before Memorial Stadium, CS was like most guys and just going along with the whole engagement shoot thing.  But the moment we stepped into Memorial Stadium, he had the hugest smile and was running around the whole field screaming like a little boy. 

We didn't know that the stadium would be open and empty as it was right in the middle of the football season.  Luckily, it was a bye week for Cal and there was no practice going on that day.  We're all huge Cal football fans, so this was like striking gold.  We were so stoked!  GO BEARS!

 

Nina looks like a million bucks and no CS I'm not hitting on your woman.   

I think they told me that CS had been practicing the "look" for this shoot for quite some time now. HOTNESS!

CS's can't contain his true colors though.  I didn't want to embarrass him by posting up his monkey in the bamboo forest pics. 

Gotta love the reflectors in action.  Don't they look like models in the pic on the right? 

Nina had some really nice jeans on, but of course I had to ruin them for the look.   

 I will never be able to look at the student poster board the same again. 

 

 This was taken right before the sunset in pure golden light!  Any Berkeley people recognize this fountain?

CS was giddy with excitement the whole time we were at Memorial Stadium.  I have to admit that I was too.   

Touchdown!

 

It was eerie at times to see the stadium so empty.  I'm used to seeing thousands of fans here. 

 This one is for all you Cal fans out there, GO BEARS!

I LOVE this shot!  What a way to end the day.