angel island

New year, new resolution to post more pictures! Last July already, I went with some friends to Angel Island. Located in the middle of the bay, it is a great place to spend a long afternoon touring the island either on foot or by bicycle (which you can rent on the island). There is a long outer loop of the island and a shorter inner loop both of which are very bike/hike friendly. From the inner loop you can hike up (no bicycles) to the top of the island. From this top point, there is a 360 view of the bay area, from SF to Sausalito and Marin to Berkeley to Oakland and back to SF. On this particular day, the views of Sausalito were so pretty, they reminded me of the costal towns of italy.

We started the day at the Ferry Building which is a great place to grab some lunch from the Farmer's Market to picnic with on the Island. The Blue and Gold line to Angel Island picks up behind the Ferry Building (but will only drop you back off in Fisherman's Wharf) and you can buy your tickets either in the building or even on the boat itself.

It was a good time of year for flowers at the Farmer's Market:

The views as the ferry leaves SF are really great. I tried to make these first few look like old postcards, I think it worked!:

America's Cup Prada boat & Alcatraz: 

Some panoramas happened:

On the island itself, there are lots of interesting buildings from back in the day when it was a fort and immigration station:

The views just really aren't bad:

The Portofino-esque Saulsalito:

cornhenge

A couple of exciting things happened on a quick trip back to Ohio over the holidays. First, I got to see some snow flurries. And second, we visited Cornhenge. This is a field of corn statues officially called Field of Corn (with Osage Orange Trees). Although it is is in a very office-parky area (located at 4995 Rings Rd in Dublin, OH), it is quite pretty and I think the world needs more oddball stuff. Giant corn statues? Why not.

While driving up 33/Riverside Drive between Upper Arlington to Dublin (where Cornhenge lives), we also stopped to take a few pictures of the pretty trees along the river. 

newborn - baby b

Just a couple of months after the Baby B Maternity shoot, I was thrilled to go back and meet the brand new Ms. B in person! At just 10 days old, she was a trooper. Again, it was great to take photos with her parents who this time were more than fully prepared with the baby outfits. My favorites are the hand and feet photos.

 

maternity - baby b

My first maternity shoot! This was a ton of fun and the couple was prepared with lots of cute ideas and were game for just about anything. I'd done some maternity photo research online in preparation and the one thing that seemed an absolute requirement for a good maternity shoot was a field of wheat. That's a tall order in San Francisco, but we found the next best thing up on Bernal Heights Park (you know, that beige hill to the south of the Mission that you always wonder about).  Turns out, it's a great place for pictures!