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March 15, 2014

Coffee Culture no. 1

March 10 happens to be the day I was born, so this year I decided to bring together a few things I love to properly ring in my new year:

Photography + a Good Girlfriend + Coffee + San Francisco = 1 Excellent Birthday

The Mission: Visit 10 San Francisco coffee houses on March 10 with my good friend Kristina (be sure to see her take on our day here).

Mission Status:  Partial completion – with all of the eye candy and chatting to be done, we made it to half of the spots on our list.  Not one to leave things unfinished, this seems like a good excuse to take another day off and visit the rest of my list in the near future!

Stop 1 | Cafe St. Jorge, Bernal Heights

Favorite | The “Where are you From?” guest book sweetly placed below the owner’s wall of photos from her home country of Portugal…

Stop 2 | Sightglass Coffee, Mission location

Favorite | The friendly barista who shared a few of her favorite coffee houses to add to our list…

Stop 3 | Wrecking Ball Coffee

Favorite | The smell from the in-house Marla Bakery that greeted us at the charming walk-up window…

Stop 4 | Four Barrel Coffee, Mission location

Favorite |  Best pastry award…

STOP 5 | Reveille Coffee, The Castro

Favorite | Toss up between the the beautiful tile work and the awesome conversation with our new friends, Joe & Martin…

I know, WAY more than 10 photos on the 10th of the month.  Hopefully you’ll give me a birthday pass?!

*update: click here to see part 2 of our San Francisco coffee house adventure*

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FILED UNDER: Personal
TAGGED WITH: Coffee, Creative Field Trips, San Francisco

February 28, 2014

A Reason to Celebrate

6 years.

4 different cities.

1 supportive wife.

3 important letters: PhD

When this hard-working guy achieved his long-imagined accomplishment of earning a PhD in Computer Science, his wife suggested two things:

1.  He needed to come out from behind his desk and update his online image and

2.  They needed to celebrate this incredible achievement!

They invited me up to San Francisco on a rainy Saturday afternoon to shoot a few photos of the graduate…

We all know these kinds of accomplishments always have an amazing support system behind them…

(I’m not sure the cat really supported him, I just thought she was super cute).

So we decided to grab a few shots of the happy couple to use for their party invite…

This just arrived in my mailbox and I think the happiness and pride jump off the card.  The celebration of Trägen Vinner (a Swedish saying meaning the persistent will win) is bound to be as epic as the journey to this point has been, congratulations Doctor D!

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FILED UNDER: Lifestyle Photography
TAGGED WITH: Headshots

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