I had the awesome privilege of shooting with Becker from Orange County, CA this past weekend at a fabulous wedding in Carmel Valley, CA. Becker is definitely one of the coolest guys in the industry and someone whom I look up to and respect greatly. Not only all of that good stuff but we absolutely had a blast shooting Scott and Meghan’s wedding along with Keats (Becker’s assistant).
The wedding took place on the luxurious Santa Lucia Preserve in Carmel Valley amongst a beautiful redwood grove. I don’t think that there is a more beautiful venue in the world. Meghan was completely stunning and her smile was just radiant. As we got to talking, I found out that she went to school one town over from me (I went to high school at Palo Alto High and she went to Menlo Atherton) and that we actually knew some of the same people. What a trip. I knew there was a reason some of the people there looked familiar. Meghan’s Monique Lhuillier dress and Stuart Weitzman shoes were paired wonderfully. Add a few pearls that were her grandmother’s and a gorgeous ring, and she was complete.
Here is a teaser photo for you and it got me to thinking about the subject of black and white vs. color. Which one do you like? What do you prefer? When do you like one over the other? Please leave a comment down below, I’m interested to hear what you guys think.

A photograph made on the beach in La Jolla, CA right near La Jolla Cove.

I love this photo I made while in traffic (don’t worry, the car was stopped) crossing the Bay Bridge from Oakland to San Francisco. My favorite element of this photograph is definitely the light pole at bottom right. It is framed within the cables and it adds somewhat to the viewer’s sense of scale. Details are so important in a photograph and it would have been so easy to just crop out the little light pole.
If you’re a pro photographer who follows and reads my blog, I totally encourage you to get out there and take photos that mean something personal to you. I’m a wedding photographer, but I’d be remiss is all that I shot were weddings. Shooting personal work makes you a better photographer. Enjoy.

We had a sweet room on the 28th floor of the Hyatt Grand Manchester in Downtown San Diego overlooking Coronado, the Bay on one side and Downtown San Diego, the Harbor and Point Loma. One night I walked down to the grocery store to by some breakfast snacks, Odwalla Superfood and some fresh fruit for the family and came home to everyone being asleep. The lights glowing in Downtown San Diego were fantastic, the skies were ever so dramatic and I knew I had to grab my camera and make a few photographs.
Here are a few that I really liked. The first one was shot with a fisheye lens and you can get a nice view of the downtown landscape and cloudy skies. The second one has a little tilt shift thrown in by one of my favorite new lenses. Trust me, none of the blur was done in Photoshop. All I do in post is color and sharpening (plus a little grain for a film photo look). I hope you enjoy.

I love to use my camera and make pictures, period. There isn’t much more I’d rather be doing than creating a visual document of something with the awesome tool called a camera. I’ve been privileged to travel this great state I live in and I’m on a mission to create photographs that document the beauty of the state in a different way. Will I ever publish a book? Maybe. How long will it take? Probably twenty years. What will make your photographs so much different than everyone else’s? They’re mine. Enjoy the awesome.

This was photographed while on vacation in La Jolla, CA. Such a beautiful gem on our Southern California coastline. A limited number of prints will be available of each photograph. Please email me at Scott@ScottAndrewStudio.com for more information about purchasing limited addition prints from this series.