We are Fun Loving, Adventure seekers, Documenting life’s most Genuine Moments
This is our STORY
MEET JOSH
Josh is a father to two beautiful children, and a loving husband to his best friend. He is a board sports enthusiast and spends as much free time on his board as possible. He also owns a grass roots skateboarding company that focuses on local art and culture.
On his off days you will find him on the mountain snowboarding, riding our backyard skate ramp & local skatepark as well as enjoying the local mountain bike trails. His personal mantra is “no regrets”.
Fun fact: Midwest born and bred and proud attendee at the University of Iowa. Will literally cross the street to talk to anyone wearing any sort of Hawkeye apparel.
MEET SANDRA
Sandra is a mother to two beautiful children and a loving wife to her best friend. She is an avid outdoors lover who thinks that every cloud has a silver and sometimes sparkly lining.
In her off time, she enjoys yoga and hiking the open trails with her family & three canine companions. Paddle boarding the crystal clear alpine lake waters has become her favorite summer time love. Her personal mantra is “must love dogs”.
Fun fact: Used to be an event planner for a boutique vineyard that specializes in weddings and events. Graduated from SDSU with a B.S. Degree in Outdoor Recreation.
We met in San Diego when Sandra was a senior at SDSU. At the time she was working at the Mission Valley Skatepark where Josh frequently skated. Having heard from friends that Josh worked at a local camera store. One fateful day she approached him to see if he could develop an unprocessed roll of b&w film.
The film was developed and as a thank you to him, we went out for some drinks at a seedy bar in North Park called the Alibi. You could buy $2 “schooners” of beer there which we took advantage of. This led to us hanging out as “friends”.
After graduation, Sandra left for Alaska to work for Fish and Wildlife Services in Homer. Having a sweet rental in Ocean Beach with coveted off-street parking, she asked Josh to stay at her place and watch her two dogs for the summer. It was during this time we genuinely started missing each other. Upon her return, he ended up moving in for good as we decided we no longer wanted to live apart.
A few years later a good friend who happened to be a skatepark ramp builder…the same one in fact who had built the Skatepark where we met was getting married. Knowing we were into photography, they asked us. We had never photographed a wedding before and were nervous at the idea of taking on such responsibility. They ended up talking us into it and it ended up literally changing our life course. Talk about destiny.
The next year, we ended up getting engaged and married ironically in South Lake Tahoe in the forest. Our lives together then brought us to the Bay Area and now to South Lake Tahoe where we have now lived for over 10 years.
We have been blessed with two blue-eyed kiddos and three fur babies who steal our hearts each and every day. We are truly each other’s best friends and spend a ridiculous amount of time together….we’re talking you will always see us dropping off the kids at school or grocery shopping. Marrying your best friend definitely has its perks!
STYLE & PHILOSOPHY
Our photography style is really a fusion of he+she…Kind of like a boy meets girl outlook on love and life witnessed together and captured through our lens. No stiff and awkward poses….just the moments captured as they unfold. Your images will be authentic with true to life colors and details that reflect what was truly captured. When you are looking back on your photos we want for you to be able to remember the true colors of your wedding day and be able to reminisce just how the day or moment felt.
We go all out to capture images filled with genuine authentic emotions and the moments in between. We’re talking we’ll get in the water and climb all the things just to get the best angles. Our mantra is that every minute lived is a time to be treasured and it is with this inspiration that we pursue our daily lives and subsequently our work behind the camera. When we aren’t working you will catch us out on the lake on our paddleboards, at the skatepark or on the trails on our mountain bikes. From our initial client meeting to the editing and design of your album and products, we oversee every last detail of our business and wouldn’t have it any other way.