So, it’s been awhile. In fact, it’s been so long, I am trying to type this on the new (how new? I have no idea when Gutenberg got integrated) wordpress editor and I have no idea what the heck I’m doing! I’ve been busy with my growing family and, well, like everyone else, the pandemic has definitely occupied a fair bit of time. Still, imagine my embarrassment when I logged in for the first time in a year to find that a couple pages on my website have had broken links for five years?! Yikes yikes yikes!
Needless to say, I’ll be doing some tidying and updating behind the scenes. Who knows, maybe I’ll even get around to posting my engagement / wedding backlog (quadruple yikes!). Or make a mobile site that doesn’t look terrible. I’m still very much around, and I’ll dedicate an upcoming post to my current business model so you all can listen to me blather about the stay-at-home-mom/self-employed mom/art for self/art for hire/ART balancing act and what it all means for Funny Bunny (though, mostly it means my office hours are 1 am to 3 am). 🤗 You can also join me at my recently rebooted instagram (@funnybunnyphoto) or my more wild, personal, and sporadically updated handle (@funnybunny.fambly) that confusingly also used to be my kind-of-pro account. 😬
Here are a handful of photos of my kids from the last 6 months to tide you over. 😘
Lindsay and Ralf are just classic. Everything about their wedding was classic, beautiful, perfect (do I say that all the time? yes, probably, because you do you! there are no wrong answers!). End of September, huge bouquet with beautiful arrangements, redwoods deep in the mountains of Ben Lomond where you get no cell reception. So deep in the woods, in fact, I pretty much thought I was going to die in my beater car. 😂 I can’t believe what a beautiful gem that the Waterfall Lodge is!
I think the best thing about these two is the incredible community surrounding them. Family and friends came together to celebrate, and showed their support actively throughout the day. From my arrival and watching the cake being iced at the venue, to the fifty thousand speeches, family singalongs, and the laughter and tears, it was really a moving wedding. Click through for nature, bright colors, and tears! <3
Oh this sweet, darling couple! When I first started chatting with Kit, little did I know that she was IN JAPAN and trying to coordinate her move back to the states as well! We finally met up in September to capture her and Cyrus’ engagement photos, and although we’d originally planned to NOT spend all our time in the Golden Gate Park Tea Garden, we ended up lingering, if only because it was super busy that day and we had to wait our turn for each spot to clear.
I’m always stoked to have a reason to grill other people about their Japanese experience, so I know I was pleased as punch walking around with them for two hours. They shared their engagement story, their love of making things (they’ve forged their own wedding rings! probably not in the fires of Mt. Doom), and told me all about the amazing healing powers of curry! Never underestimate the healing power of curry!
Side note, huge shout outs to the talented Becca at BeautifulOne Makeup Artistry for the hair and makeup on Kit! <3 She is the best (well, Kit, too!) and her make up looks are always PERFECT.
Without further ado, the photos that we’re all here for! 😉
And we’re back! Sort of! I’m still working madly on the wedding season editing, and I’m graced that my wonderful son is just (barely) independent enough that I’m not falling behind spectacularly! Also, I’m sleeping less. I read a book recently that noted even when people claim they are working more than 50 hours a week, the actual time tracking doesn’t pan out through distractions, long lunches and breaks, what have you. BUT ANYWAY. Enough about my addiction to productivity and self-help books…
Jeanne and Jason! This wedding is close to my heart for many reasons, but I was so happy to be able to take on this wedding and give Jeanne her dream photos. At one point, I apologized to the groom for taking so much time with the photos, and he said, “This wedding is all for Jeanne, we’ll take as many photos as she wants.” Ahhhh, swoon!!!
Not only is this a return to the Winery SF after almost FIVE years (wow! I really feel like I’m at a new place every other week!), but it’s with a cute as a button bride and my 4th military wedding in the last two years. With an impeccable sense of style and a deep love for San Francisco, this whole day was basically gorgeous. We started at the Le Meridien SF, a hotel with stunning views from every window, a photo session in downtown SF, and a couple shots of how the whole thing looks from Treasure Island…Well, keep reading, and drink in the photos!
I don’t do a lot of families, but every once in awhile, I get the chance to capture something special. In this case, these three are becoming a family next June when Becca and Josh get married, so this was a kind of combo engagement / family session. Tilden Park is an East Bay classic, so I was also pretty happy to venture off the beaten path and hide from the typical Merry Go Round photos. Just wandering around one of the park’s many trails and bask in the classic Bay Area scenery of green redwoods and yellow fields was a great change of pace.
Becca and Josh themselves are both so sweet, and boy, they have their hands full with their daughter! I gave her one small taste of power by letting her direct them in a few photos and she took off running with it! I also quickly discovered that she took pride in never EVER looking at the camera, and it was both hilarious and adorable. The nerd highlight was Josh convincing her to bang a stick on a bridge yelling, “You Shall Not Paaaaasssssssss! … wait, but why?” “You’ll get it when you’re older.” Ha!
LOOK AT THIS PHOTO GUYS. LOOK AT IT. Basically, what I’m saying is that my 10 year anniversary session with Adam and Carin was perfect. Perfect, perfect, PERFECT. It had everything I love, from two very fun geeky / nerdy people, to sun! ocean! lush greenery! Oh, Bay Area, you are just beautiful. Never change!
I also must take some time to gush over Carin and Adam, who put up with ongoing scheduling problems while I was getting my life back together this past year. When we finally met, I learned so many endearing things about them, and we were able to keep up a good conversation much of the time. I don’t often feel quite so at ease with people, and it was wonderful to just click. Even now, I have an e-mail in my inbox from Carin that’s asking me questions I’m going to have to write a short thesis for! 😉
Watching Adam and Carin together during the session was also such a privilege. At every turn, Adam had a new compliment for Carin, and they both had great ideas for how to improve or set themselves up for the photos. Ever been on a photo session and not known what to do with your hands? This was totally not the case here, I swear, those hands changed position every shot. It’s the details that matter to my eyes, and it was wonderful to have that one detail off my mind while I was rolling around in the beach sand, blithely forgetting that I was wearing a second camera in my harness and getting sand all up in there. 😂 Please enjoy this small selection from their gorgeous session! Let’s start off with some faux American Gothic!
I’m probably going to do a small post soon on how I hate blogging and social media and the ins and outs of it all, but, one of the reasons I haven’t blogged in SO long is because I’m supposed to “do SEO.” Well guys, I GIVE UP. I am three years behind now, so, I say SCREW IT and I’ll just type like a human being, best business practices be darned. I’ll pay lip service to it, but I’m not going to write about this “Island Club Wedding” forty times.
AS WELL, because I’m so behind, we’re going to be doing a bit of a “all over the place” thing, where I’ll post about the latest things I’ve done, and then jump back in time with other updates until I’m actually caught up.
Josh is an old…friend-quiantance? He is part of my main core of friends from high school, but he has always been on the outskirts of my personal circle. Likewise, Josh has been bringing Angela to weddings with our friends for years… So I knew what she looked like even if I’ve always been too busy working to socialize. Still, like any of my friends who get married, I’m over the moon to do photography for them. It gives me a chance to do something for other people that I love, and all the more so in cases where people aren’t even sure they’re going to HAVE a photographer!
It was a real pleasure to see both Angela and Josh’s real joy in each other. I’ve really never seen Josh smile so much or so easily. Angela was continuous smiles and laughter all day. And I really can’t ask for more in any wedding. Photos and more commentary below!
This Rodeo Beach engagement session with Sara and Duarte was magical. I still look at these photos and can’t wrap my mind around how I managed to capture them and the environment together in all its crazy, gorgeous beauty. It was cloudy when we all pulled up but, of course, it is the Marin Headlands. I always explain to people that this part of the world is so green and isn’t in the same amount drought as the rest of California because, frankly, it’s always covered with fog. Still, I was determined to make use of that huge open gray above us and all the soft light it afforded us…
I always love to include a few photos with silly faces. Why? Because it’s who you are, and it’s who I am. There are the looks of love between two people, and then there’s the meat of who they are on the day to day together. I love presenting as many sides as I can. (more…)
Hello all! Dealing with a fusspot of a baby this past week after my husband got sick attending GDC, thus later infecting myself and baby. Luckily, my immune system kicks butt, and babies with the cold often don’t get as sick as their parents if they’re exclusively breastfeeding, but poor David still doesn’t understand why he can’t breathe and scream-coughs his life away. It’s heartbreaking! We are finally returning to normal today, but I need an easy week, so I’m happy to finally share the details on my civil wedding to my husband James.
We had a proper big shindig in April, but we wanted to get civilly married at the tail end of 2015 for the ever romantic reasons of taxes and health care. As a photographer, I also wasn’t going to miss the chance to get married in San Francisco’s City Hall and I knew just the person to hire. Please admire her lovely work! I’ll pepper the photos with the hilarious story, so read on!
First – I handmade my bouquet and the rings the night before. It just didn’t seem right to not have ANYTHING to exchange! (more…)
