About Julie
I am growing a small family in Santa Cruz, California with my hubby, Rodney and our two kids, Isabella and Luke. I love meeting new people and learning their stories. It is a joy to work with people. I feel so blessed to be able to meet so many awesome people and share with them my love for photography.
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Kristin’s whole wedding is themed around Tiffany & Co. She is in love with their blue and bling. Who isn’t?! With her wedding in Carmel at La Playa Hotel, she wanted their e-session in Carmel as well. So we started downtown before heading to the beach for sunset.
Kathy + Gabe are getting hitched up at the regal Hollins House this summer. I’m so looking forward to seeing all the beautiful details she’s dreamt up with the team over at Coastside Couture. Hollin House is a favorite venue of mine as I’m in love with oak trees and the ceremony site is below a big beautiful one. The venue also over looks the Monterey Bay which is another love of my life. There is a old classic feel to the Hollins House inside that draws you in but keeps you gazing into that big Pacific.
Kathy really wanted her engagement session at a winery. She said was nervous about her shoot and asked about grabbing drinks before hand. Of course, I’ll join you! 
So we kicked off their session with a little wine love to loosen them up. We caught the leaves changing color last fall and made our way around the ground at Thomas Forgarty which boast not just beautiful vineyards but a little pond and a fun vintage truck.
Jennifer and Toy are getting hitched this August at her grandparents property up in Pescadero. I’m so excited for their big day, especially after a little walk through of the place before our engagement session. It’s so fun to see the before of a space before it gets transformed into a brides vision for her big day. Jennifer’s going to rock cowboy boots, have the guest seated in a circle for the ceremony and have a set of doors cover her until she makes it out to the big field she’s getting married at. There is this beautiful tree with hanging moss at the ceremony site with a creek wrapping past the whole area. So pretty- can’t wait. We had such a blast this day. We started up in Pescadero just down the road from her grandparents place and then headed south to Panther Beach for sunset.
I found the perfect spot just up the road that had both yellow flowers that Melissa wanted and redwoods that Mark had requested! The redwoods were filled with light too, my favorite kind. Mark was a trooper walking through gopher holes while battling an old injury that left him with some pins and screws in his leg. I had no idea until after I asked them to do a little run together, he finally spoke up. Hope Mark will remember this as a sweet adventure with his girl. Congrats on your up coming wedding this summer!
Tyler and Allie busted out this engagement session in less than an hour since Ty had a game he wanted to catch. Not hard with beautiful light and a beautifully in love couple. They are up from LA, so when I asked Allie about a feel for location, she mentioned she liked a little country feel so we hit up Wilder Ranch which is full of barns and animal life. She rocked it out in cute cowboy boots and a sweet blue dress to pick up on her gorgeous eyes! Can’t wait to shoot those close up on your wedding day that is just around the corner- JULY! Whoo hoo.
After a last minute change of time and location, we met up at Lighthouse Field to kick off Steve and Jennifer’s Engagement Session before wrapping up at Natural Bridges. I can’t wait for their beautiful wedding at Rancho Soquel. That venue looks like a dream with a zillion different backdrops. These two are both on the path to public services. Big jobs, that make big differences in people’s lives. Love it! Despite a few logistics with directions, we still walked away with some great shots. Thanks you two for hanging in there, it was a bit of a roller coaster with all the change ups along the way.
Small height difference with the heels off.
Ella and Andrew found me online and were up from down south for a little vacation. We headed up the coast to the secluded Panther Beach that boast some funky rock out croppings, a natural rock bridge and a dynamic sunset. Ella walked straight off the pages of a magazine in her navy dress and glittery heels. Smokin’ hot and a heap of fun to hang with too. Check them out…
Lisa and Brian took me to where he proposed to her, a beach near Ano Nuevo called Stumpy’s. I always love asking couples about how they met and how they got engaged. They are both there chiming in on who thought what, who said what and the two sides to every story always comes out. These two are so easy to hang with- I’m totally looking forward to their wedding! They have an AMAZING 16 inches difference (it could be 18, I forget), so we tried a few tricks to close the gap. We had Lisa on hay bales, jumping into his arms, seated, perched on the up hill of the sand doons to name a few. Before on the sand doons, we stopped off at Pie Ranch cuz I saw the fog ahead and wanted a little sunshine for their session. After the goats and hay bales… we headed north. Ano had stunning landscape all around us with some fog creeping in overhead and the moon on the rise. They braved the cold, wet, and wind and hopefully had a little fun along the way. Here are a few from their session…
Love this one.
This lovely bride, Jessica comes to me via her little sister, Farron, who was my dear friend all through high school. We were both the new kids on the block at the new school, so at freshman orientation we locked eyes as loners and the rest is history… and by history, I mean we got into mad mischief. Good times we had, and through it all, we spent much time hanging out in the kitchen with her older sister, Jessica. After catching up with Farron down in LA after a wedding, she told me her sister was engaged. Yeah! So fun. Jess met Loren online which is starting become the majority of many of my couples. I’m so happy for Jess. Loren is perfect for her. He is funny and calm admist her super bubbly, half-spastic personality. I’m so looking forward to their beach front wedding at The Cliffs, down in Pismo.
Jessica requested an all night time engagement session in San Francisco which I had never done before and I was sure she was made aware of before attempting it. She was gracious in saying she had no expectation, so I agreed. The small world of all this was that as I looked for some night time locations in the City online, I came across one of the other mischeif makers from high school who ended up marrying a wedding photographer. Really?! I shot her hubby an email and he ended up coming out with us that night to nail some bridge shots. Big thanks to Josh for helping out that night! We walked away with some killer shots thanks to him. We started over on the Mill Valley side of the bridge to get the Golden Gate all lit up with the city a glow in the background. Then we headed into the City for some shots. Jessica needed to stop off to adjust the hair trial that was blown to pieces on the bluffs, so we popped into a restuarant. When I called her to come across the street, she waved me into the restaurant where she had a seat all warmed up, coat off, purse hung, and a drink at the bar. Love the girl. She said, “this is so us, having drinks, out at night.” So I began to capture them there before we headed out to top off the night. **I used radio poppers with two 580exii flashes. One on camera, one off. At times, just off. Check it out.
