Can’t wait to share with you their wedding photos!  For now – I love gazing on these .

Shameless plug now over.

And Sara and Ryan are most certainly among that group of “really special people.”  We had SO MUCH fun with them down in San Francisco – at AT&T Park and down by the waterfront.  Here’s a sneak peak at their engagement session!

Thanks Sara & Ryan!  This was a great shoot!!!

I love albums in particular because it provides the perfect medium for showcasing images in different ways.  For example, some images are simply stunning and striking when showcased BIG and all by themselves.  But some strong images tell the story best when showcased in a sequence – when you can see similar images next to each other on the page.  And sometimes one image stands out when it is supported by small images off to the side.

Here are some examples:

I LOVE this picture so much. It’s like there’s a beam of light emanating from her engagement ring!

Their pug, Roscoe, came along…

One of my new favorites…above and below!

If you’re looking for a photographer to take your engagement pictures, give me a call!  I’d love to work with you!

Sara

Yoko and Joji are planning a destination wedding in Oregon in just a few weeks.  We can’t wait to go and be a part of it!!!!  They are just delightful as individuals…and even more charming together.  Their wedding is going to be fabulous!!!

This engagement post is a little different than what we usually do.  A lot of couples wonder what to do with their engagement photo’s – so I wanted to do a post to show you what Chris and I think you should do with the images .  We love to make the images into a guest book that you can display at your wedding and have the guest sign.  Not only do you get 2 keepsakes in one (a guest book and an engagement album) but you get to show your guests your engagment pictures.  How can you go wrong?

Here’s the album I created from Yoko and Joji’s session!  Enjoy!!!

I am so thankful to have met Kendra and Nathaniel.  They both have a sincere and quite confidence about them.  They are sweet and wonderful and simply perfect for each other!  All four of us had a ball last night at Lime Ridge Open Space.  They were such great sports and their laughter and smiles are just contagious.  Take a look!  You’ll see what I mean:

The next three moments are brought to you by Christopher Goetz, photographer extraordinaire!

Did I mention I love my job?

While we were reminded of how wonderful is this season of life is through Higgley Town Heroes, it was personified for us during our date night with Katie and Daniel.  Last Saturday we journeyed over to Daniel’s house taking pictures, cook dinner (well, mostly they cooked…) and just chit chat the night away.  It was so wonderful to be with them.  They love each other so much and are so excited for their life together – it was inspiring.  They know exactly who they are as individuals – they know what they love about life, about God, and about the world…and because of that, Katie and Daniel together are something stable and secure.  I love being around people like that.  It was a blessing.

So, the story of the evening went something like this…

- get some great, natural shoots outside,

- get some fun, candid, relaxed portraits in the kitchen – their favorite room of the house

- go to Whole Foods, get some fun pix there…(but we totally FAILED at that…no pix allowed in Whole Foods!!!)

- go back home and make dinner!  Then eat it, yum!!!! (this was super fun, but we got to talking and didn’t take tons of pictures…that’s Okay, ’cause check out what we DID get…)

-  play guitar hero!!!  ROCK ON!!!!!

Katie and Daniel, we can’t wait for your wedding!  Enjoy your pictures:

Anyway, check out their slide show! They are super cute. Oh – and I was such a dufus I left my car’s lights on the entire time and battery was drained so I needed to have my car jumped! TJ totally took care of me and handled the whole thing. TJ – you rock!