Addition under a Driveway
We photographed this project for architect Steve Swearengen with The Architects Office.  The homeowner wanted an addition and Steve designed an addition to fit under the driveway, the part of the house that shows just to the right of the main house. With all the glass and the north facing facade we decided this would photograph [...]
Diablo Magazine article on The Heart of the Home Tour
The April issue of Diablo Magazine has a fantastic article about the Heart of the Home Tour which is taking place on April 26 and 27. Â The tour visits five The article is illustrated with photos we captured on behalf of The Children’s Support League of the East Bay. Â The tour provides an opportunity [...]
For a Good Cause
We’re photographing a series of homes that will appear on the Heart of the Home tour in April.  This is a fund raising event for the Children’s Support League of the East Bay. We’re offering our services pro-bono and having fun visiting and photographing some amazing homes in Piedmont.  The 25th Annual Heart of the Home [...]
Steel Clad House
We were contacted by EcoSteel Building Systems who asked us to photograph a house in Saint Helena which had incorporated their product into the construction. The exterior of this house is clad with steel.  This is a new house designed by Carlo Di Fede, architect with Di Fuede Design Group.
Picture Perfect Burgers
Yesterday we had the opportunity to photograph a new restaurant in Berkeley, Victory Burger, located at 1099 Alcatraz Ave (at San Pablo) in Oakland. The general contractor Black Creek Builders hired us to photograph the project and the restaurant owner, Sal Bednarz of Actual Cafe (which is adjacent to Victory Burger) came on-board to share the experience. While we [...]
Article about Octavia Court
Here’s an article about a project we photographed earlier this year for Ignition Architecture. You can click on the image captured from the on-line article below or click here to read the article.
Article in the Press Democrat
A project we photographed recently appears in an article in the Press Democrat. This project represent the work of one of our clients, Leff Construction in Sebastopol. Click on the image below, clipped from the Press Democrat article, or click here to read the article.
Photo in the San Francisco Chronicle
The San Francisco Chronicle ran one of our photos in the Home & Garden section of the Sunday, September 23, 2012 edition.The article features the design work of April Gruber the property owner and designer for the project.  You can read the article on SFGATE. Our connection to this project was through David Thorne Landscape Architect [...]
Room with a View
We recently had the opportunity to photograph a remodeled condominium on Russian Hill. The interior designer, Bonnie Blickle, the contractor Plath & Company Plath, and the architect DomA Architects, Inc. all pitched in to create a package deal. All the parties ended up with some awesome photos at a savings.
More Gold Nugget Awards
Two of our clients, Related Companies of California and Essex Property Trust, Â won Gold Nugget awards this year. Related won and award in category 15. Renovated or Restored Residential Project with the Marcus Garvey project. Essex Property Trust won a Grand Award for best Mixed Use Project for the Via project. The Via project also [...]
Albany High School Aquatic Center Opens
I’ve been watching the Albany High School Aquatic Center take form over the past year or so. It seems like it’s been a long time since the old pool closed. This is just a block and a half from my house, so it’s easy access. Having just opened I thought it would be fun to [...]
Union Bank Exhibit
Union Bank will be putting this image up as part of an exhibit. Â This image of the Fox Court housing project in Oakland was created on assignment for Resources for Community Development. Union Bank was the lending partner on the project. This project presented several challenges, with the facade facing North we determined that the [...]
Take the Train
Essex Property Trust asked us to photograph the Via Apartment project in Sunnyvale. They were looking for photos that would show the project in context with the adjacent VTA light rail line. Â The resulting photos will be used for an award entry. This is one of a couple of dozen photos we captured to illustrate [...]
Streetscape – Park Street
This is a work-in-progress which will ultimately include a rendering of trees planted along the street. This work was commissioned by Ignition Architecture working in conjunction with the City of Alameda. The architect consulted with us after severeal unsuccessful l attempts to create an image on her own. The challenge was to create a streetscape that would show the [...]
Congratulations to our Award Winning Clients
Congratulations to FMS Projects, Leff Construction, and McCutcheon Construction, Inc. for taking first place in the REMMIES awards. McCutcheon had several enteries, and the two entries for which we provided photos won first in kitchen and bath categories and the kitchen took the grand prize as well. The REMMIES is an annual design contest sponsored [...]
Albany Cabinet and Design
Here’s a project we recently photographed for Albany Cabinets and Design. Isabel Tsang and her team took on some interesting challenges here that involved taking out a couple of walls. Isabel does amazing work.
High Sierra Architecture
It isn’t uncommon that I’m off hiking in the mountains when I’m not photographing architecture for clients. What is uncommon is stumbling onto a fine piece or architecture at 8600 feet in the Sierra, just out side of Sequoia National Park. My wife found this spot, Sequoia High Sierra Camp, after attempting to get into [...]
Creating a Clear View
We captured this image several years ago while photographing a Victorian remodel in San Francisco. It was photographed for Jeff King and Company, the general contractor responsible for the project and later used by the Architect, Malcolm Davis. The project won a number of awards for both Jeff King and Company and Malcolm Davis, with [...]
Rise and Shine in 2011
It’s time to rise and shine and get to work on making 2011 a productive and profitable year. We photographed this bedroom recently for a new client, Lockwood Electric Company of Novato. One of Lockwood’s specialties is high end residential. The bedroom illustrated here features fluorescent lights to highlight the ceiling and LED down lights. [...]
Kitchen for Leff Construction
Here’s a project we photographed for Leff Construction of Sebastapol. The whole house had been remodeled and we spent a day and a half on this project photographing most of the interior spaces as well as some of the exterior spaces. We worked with Karen Ellis, the Marketing Director at Leff Construction. Karen was motivated [...]
Pool with a View
Here’s an image we captured while on a photo shoot in Tiburon for Studio Green. John Merton of Studio Green wanted to capture with pool, and the glass fence with the city of San Francisco in the background. We decided the best way to capture this would be to work at dusk so that we [...]
Residential Showcase
This project which we photographed for Essex Property Trust and Christiani Johnson Architects is being featured on the Residential Showcase of the Architectural Record website. This is a 171 unit mixed use multi-family project. We’ve put up a gallery of additional images that show both exterior in interior photos we captured.
Client wins Gold Nugget Award
One of our clients, McCamant & Durrett Architects won a Gold Nugget Award with an affordable housing project, Petaluma Avenue Homes. The project provides 45 units of affordable housing with solar power and a wildlife area. We photographed this project in March and one of the things we like is the open space and pathways. [...]