Holiday || Me!

Obviously, I took my own holiday card photos. Fernando and I recently moved to San Jose, and we wanted to take our photos here to highlight the life change. While jogging one day, I came across San Jose’s rose garden and knew this would be the place. We came around 8:30 a.m. on picture day, and I’m glad we did because around 9:00 a.m. the garden started filling with other families taking holiday photos. Looks like we picked the spot! The morning fog provided the a nice hazy background and the softest morning light. In 30 minutes we had enough selection for the holidays, and beyond!

Portrait || Fernando

Fernando is notoriously camera shy, but he graced me with his presence in front of the camera because after months of bar studying I was itching to take some portraits. We headed to Indian Rock Park in Berkeley to get the rocky, bright light backdrop I was looking for. We also found some beautiful plants near by so we had to take advantage of those, too.

Graduation || Fernando

In law school I was lucky enough to find Fernando. We met in our first year as members of the La Raza Law Students Association and after a class together and a summer working in the same building, we started dating in our second year. Since then, Fernando has been my support system throughout all of the stresses of law school and my #1 cheerleader for all of my successes.

He promised me in the beginning of our third year that I could take his graduation photos and when the time came, I was so ready to thank him for his love and care by creating some enduring memories for him. He tends to be camera-shy and that was only exacerbated by his rather grown out mane, but we made it work.

I am a sucker for including nature in my portraits so obviously the two photos with flowers and leaves are my favorites, but they all look so good. I am glad I got to capture his typical serious look, but also some smiles and laughs along the way. Thank you for everything, Fernando!