Among our friends, it became almost a tradition to go mushroom picking some time right before Thanksgiving holidays. This year was not an exception: we rented a big house and spent 3 fantastic days overlooking Bodega Bay.
Mushroom picking is extremely popular and widespread in Russia; people are both passionate and competitive about it. Back there people call it a “quite hunt” – you get all the rush of real hunting without killing anything.
It was pretty warm but really foggy there. The fog would come in several times a day and every time it would be very sudden and unexpected. We would look out of the window and see the bay and only 15 minutes later everything would be plain white.
We spent our days hiking, cooking, playing music and naturally taking tons of photos.
Our view of Highway-1 from living room windows:
BBQ coals warming up:
Our friend Stefan and his mussels :)
Jamming:
A giant Porcini:
Natasha
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Now that we’re finished with our last 2007 wedding we are greatly looking forward to the holidays as well as to relaxing a bit, having fun, and seeing our friends who haven’t seen us in ages since we’re always busy on the weekends.
But we wouldn’t want our blog readers to think that these winter months will be spent just in leisure: we’ll be finishing the designs and printing of your albums, shooting lots of engagement sessions, and networking with our favorite vendors. We also have fresh new ideas and projects which we’ve been keeping in our heads throughout the busy summer that we couldn’t yet share with you guys.
Now that we have more time we are eager to start working on all of this so stay tuned for exciting announcements soon!
Mike and Natasha
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This was actually Natasha’s first time seeing Shelly and Josh as she was away to visit her family when I met them. The late-afternoon light was perfect when we met up at the Rose Garden in San Jose.
There were indeed plenty of flowers in bloom even during November. There were also beautiful and tall evergreens as well as some great backgrounds that we were able to use for this photo session. Shelly and Josh really seemed at ease with us and it made it simply a joy to capture some wonderful moments.
A behind the scenes:
One more of our favorites:
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After a lot of talking and describing what this book looks like to our clients we now have a studio sample Sign-In Photo Guestbook! This album is custom designed with pictures from the Engagement Session. The idea is to leave a lot of empty space on the pages so that guests can write down their wishes to the bride and groom on the day of the wedding.
The standard size book is 7×10 inches and has 28 pages. Of course, as with all our albums, both the size and number of pages can be customized. This album also features a frosted hard case that protects the book and allows for easy portability. We find that this book is such a big hit at receptions that there’s usually a line of people waiting to see and sign it.
Because the production of this book is done in Japan, it takes us about a month to have it printed and bound after the design is complete. If you’re thinking of having a Sign-in Guestbook, order early so that we have enough time to print it in time for your big day.
Here is the sample and a slideshow of the layouts:
Natasha
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