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Connie getting ready for her wedding at the Hyatt Hotel, overlooking the ice skating rink next to the “Vaillancourt Fountain” at Justin Herman Plaza (created by Quebec-born sculptor Armand Vaillancourt) not far from the Ferry Building on The Embarcadero at Market Street.

Connie Wong and Alex Wang were married at the Town Hall Restaurant in San Francisco on one of the last days of 2009. One of the things I discovered about both of them is they like food. I mean they really like good food and so the location for their wedding was not a difficult decision. It was at one of their favorite restaurants in San Francisco and I can only agree they served some really fantastic food. The Town Hall is now my favorite place to eat in San Francisco.  The BBQ Gulf Shrimp with Worcestershire sauce is to die for.

Connie and Alex were unsure if I would be able to get good photographs at the The Town Hall because the light was a little dark. The atmosphere was good for dining but with some help from some additional strobes and diffusers I was able to light the place and I am happy with the light in the pictures.

Meeting Alex and Connie I was taken right away with their intensity and joy of living. After spending the day photographing their wedding I was impressed  with the love and respect they have for each other and their families and friends. I had to laugh and cry at times as they were toasted with stories about them from family and friends. It was cool watching Alex serving food to Connie and everyone at the family table. And then as he fed his bride the food that he served. It reminded me of  films like “Eat, Drink, Man, Woman” and “Like Water for Chocolate”.

I do not mean to go on for so long but I was surprised finally at the end of the evening when one of Connie’s friends who is Jewish, arranged for them to dance the Hora to the traditional Jewish song Hava Nagila “Let us rejoice and be glad…” and everyone danced and lifted them up on chairs and I almost thought I was at a Jewish wedding fro a moment. Eveyone there did indeed rejoice. Enjoy the photos below. There is a gallery at the bottom with a complete selection of highlights. It was difficult to edit them down.

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Photographs by wedding photographer Daniel Sheehan, a Seattle photographer who specializes in people and portraits and travels to photograph weddings in a photojournalist style that is real, artistic and unobtrusive. Named  the best Seattle wedding photographers by the Wedding Photojournalists Association.

All photographs on this website are by Daniel Sheehan © 2010. All Rights Reserved. Please inquire for permission before using.

Connie Wong and Alex Wang were married in San Francisco at the end of December last year and I have just finished editing their wedding photographs. Tomorrow I will post a selections of images highlighting my favorites along with a mini gallery.

I wanted to mention that I am experimenting with a marketing idea to see if anything comes of it. I decided to offer a free engagement session, web gallery and print coupon, which is good until the end of the month to anyone who books a wedding in February and mentions this coupon from my google listing: Engagement Coupon

Photography by wedding photographer Daniel Sheehan, a Seattle photographer who specializes in people and portraits and travels everywhere to shoot weddings in a photojournalist style. Daniel was named among the best Seattle wedding photographers by the Wedding Photojournalists Association.
All photographs on this website are by Daniel Sheehan © 2010. All Rights Reserved. Please inquire for permission before using.

I had photographed Mollie and Justin’s engagement in the Seattle Arboretum last year and we had a good time walking around making pictures there and it was fun working with them. Months later then I again had a great time photographing their wedding at Willows Lodge in Woodinville, WA The garden at the Willows Lodge, which is just across from the famous Herb Farm restaurant, is a great location for an outdoor wedding and the ballroom perfect for a reception. Mollie and Justin had a warm, and wonderful wedding there. The wedding ceremony was in the gazebo which was really stunning and was adorned by a beautiful floral arrangement. I like shooting weddings there because there are so many places to go off and do pictures with different backgrounds. The panorama large group portrait was easy to do there as well. I will post it sometime later. Here are some selected highlights and a web gallery with some more just below.

Justin reenacts his proposal of marriage with his best man.

Mollie and Justin asked me to shoot them with this sign for the thank you card they were planning to send out to their guests.

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Wedding photography by wedding photographer Daniel Sheehan, a Seattle photographer who specializes in people and portraits and travels everywhere to shoot weddings in a photojournalist style that is real, straightforward, subtle and unobtrusive. Daniel was named among the best Seattle wedding photographers by the Wedding Photojournalists Association.

All photographs on this website are by Daniel Sheehan © 2010. All Rights Reserved. Please inquire for permission before using.

Tonight is Conan O’Brien’s last night as host of NBC’s The Tonight Show. No one would begrudge him some bitterness over his being forced out, but he’s taking it and having some fun with it.

I don’t know if you have been following the Conan O’Brien and NBC saga but on Wednesday night  Conan got  back at NBC by spending more than $1 million of NBC’s cash before he leaves the show. Conan O’Brien’s unveiled his show’s newest character, the “Bugatti Veyron Mouse,” a $2 million Bugatti Veyron, which claims to be the world’s most expensive car.

“The good news is, until NBC yanks us off the air, we can pretty much do whatever we want,” O’Brien told the audience. “And here’s the beautiful part: We do whatever we want, and they have to pay for it.”

Interesting enough, since word got out about Conan’s departure the ratings for his show are up more than 50%.

Conan O’Brien’s Wedding Photo – Liza and Conan walk down the aisle at St. James Cathedral

You may be interested to learn that on Saturday January 12th, 2002, I was Conan O’Brien’s wedding photographer when he married Seattle native, Liza Powel, at St. James Cathedral, during a downpour. The ceremony was private and was attended by close friends and family. Here is the one photo that they agreed to release to the press.
The bride, daughter of Seattle Dixieland band-leader Jake Powel, wore a Vera Wang white, empire-waisted gown which was covered by a lace floor length coat. She carried a matching purse and red roses. O’Brien wore a dark suit, white shirt and cream tie. Conan is abut 6′6″ and Liza is almost as tall.
It was a really fun wedding to photograph. Conan was kind of camera shy for the first part of the day. I found it hard to understand at first but then I realized that he works around cameras and is very conscious of them and it was hard for him to relax and be his true self. My camera must have made him feel like he was working and he did not want to feel that way on his wedding day. He did relax later on at the reception at Union Station, and he seemed to be unaware of me making the pictures there. He even got up at one point and played guitar with his house band from the show, The Max Weinberg 7. It was really great.

Here is the large group panorama wedding photograph from Monte Whitbeck and Annette Barniville’s wedding celebration, a Black and White Masquerade Wedding party on Halloween at the Tibbetts Creek Manor, in Issaquah. It was a rocking good celebration of Monte and Annettes wedding which actually took place not long before in Fiji and they just wanted to celebrate it with all of their close family and friends and Halloween was a great time for a party. Wedding photography by wedding photographer Daniel Sheehan, a Seattle photographer who specializes in people and portraits and travels everywhere to shoot weddings in a photojournalist style that is real, straightforward, subtle and unobtrusive. He was named among the best Seattle wedding photographers by the Wedding Photojournalists Association.

All photographs on this website are by Daniel Sheehan © 2010. All Rights Reserved. Please inquire for permission before using.

Ezra got hoisted up onto a chair as his friends dance to the music and raised and lowered him up and down.

During this section of the dancing it’s also traditional for the guests to dance together in a big circle, with the newly married couple hoisted into the air on chairs .

Laura has her turn being hoisted into the air.

Ezra and Laura’s Wedding at The Seattle Tennis Club. First Look

Here is Ezra getting the first look of his bride to be Laura from all angles at the entrance to the Seattle Tennis Club on a extremely rare rainy Sunday in mid August. What a beautiful dress.
Laura and Ezra’s spirits remained high all day despite the fact that the wedding which was supposed to take place outside on the grass, got moved indoors due to the constant rain. We were hoping it would blow away but it never did. The chance of a sunny day for their date was supposed to be 99.7%.

Laura and Ezra’s spirits remained high all day despite the fact that the wedding which was supposed to take place outside on the grass, got moved indoors due to the rain all day.

Ezra waits and watches as his bride Laura comes walking down the aisle at the start of the ceremony at the Seattle Tennis Club

Laura get walked down the aisle with her father and mother at the Seattle Tennis Club.

Laura and Ezra exchange vows in a Jewish wedding ceremony in a Sunday wedding at the Seattle Tennis Club.

Laura and Ezra Kiss near the end of the ceremony at the Seattle Tennis Club.

As the rabbi looks on, the traditional breaking of the glass marks the end of the Jewish wedding ceremony of Laura and Ezra.

Ezra and Laura during their first dance out on the dance floor just after they made their appearance at the reception. they look so great together out there.

Laura dances her first dance with her Dad, Steve as a married daughter.

Another wonderful photo of Laura dancing with her dad Steve surrounded by their family and friends all dancing.Wedding photography by wedding photographer Daniel Sheehan, a Seattle photographer who specializes in people and portraits and travels everywhere to shoot weddings in a photojournalist style that is real, straightforward, subtle and unobtrusive. Daniel was named among the best Seattle wedding photographers by the Wedding Photojournalists Association.

All photographs on this website are by Daniel Sheehan © 2010. All Rights Reserved. Please inquire for permission before using.

Mollie and Justin walk down the aisle after their ceremony at the Willows Lodge in Woodinville, WA.

The garden at the Willows Lodge in Woodinville is a beautiful location for an outdoor wedding and Mollie and Justin had a great wedding there last year. I will be posting some more very soon from their wedding here when I get the chance. It has been very busy week meeting with prospective clients planning their 2010 weddings and I am looking forward to a very busy summer wedding season. Click here on this link Willows Lodge Wedding Pictures to see the rest of the photos  from the Willows Lodge Wedding  of Mollie and Justin Wedding.

Photography by wedding photographer Daniel Sheehan, a Seattle photographer who specializes in people and portraits and travels everywhere to shoot weddings in a photojournalist style that is real, straightforward, subtle and unobtrusive. Daniel was named among the best Seattle wedding photographers by the Wedding Photojournalists Association.

All photographs on this website are by Daniel Sheehan © 2010. All Rights Reserved. Please inquire for permission before using.

Jody and Mike at WAKE, in the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Park.

Although Michael Zawacki and Judith Sanders were married  at St. Benedict Church in Wallingford,  in September and had their wedding reception at the Edgewater Hotel, we and their entire wedding party took a limo down to the Olympic Sculpture Park to make some bridal portraits and and photos of the wedding party using the sculptures fro a background. The photo above was one of my favorite wedding pictures from last year. The light was very nice just before sunset. It  had been raining earlier but we had the usual sun breaks at just the right time for pictures. I have always loved the sculptures of Richard Serra the piece of his they have there, WAKE is one of my favorites. Wake, 2004, consists of 10 plates, 5 sets of locked toroid forms made of weatherproof steel. Back in the days when I was on staff at New York Newsday in the 1990’s, I was assigned to photograph Richard at the Museum of Modern Art and found him to be a wonderful person as well as an artist. There was an installation there that was interesting but I think seeing WAKE out in the open, under Seattle skies, it surpasses that presentation.
Anyway I made a number of portraits of Jody and Mike and the wedding party around WAKE and then we were breaking up and moving on to another location in the Garden when I noticed Jody and Mike stealing a kiss. Everyone one else appears in their own world by they are together in one of their own.
It was a great moment and seems like a good example of a wedding photograph that tells the story of their day in one moment.  I had a call recently asking me if I had shot a wedding there so I wanted to put these up to show them off. Here are some of the other photos from our photo session at the park.

Wedding  photography by Seattle wedding photographer Daniel Sheehan, a Seattle photographer who specializes in people and portraits and travels everywhere to shoot weddings in a photojournalist style that is real, straightforward, subtle and unobtrusive. Daniel was named among the best wedding photographers by the Wedding Photojournalists Association.

All photographs on this website are by Daniel Sheehan © 2010. All Rights Reserved. Please inquire for permission before using.

Connie Wong and Alex Wang were married on Sunday Dec 27th a little more than a week ago. The wedding and reception took place at a venerable old San Francisco institution called the Town Hall Restaurant. Towards the end of the evening we cleared out some tables and chairs and got everyone in attendance together for a large group wedding picture right there in the center of the restaurant. I shot a number of frames but these two seem to be the best as far as exposure and best number of people looking good.

This one above one is cropped a little too tight on the here, but the original has all the details. Which one looks best to you?

You are welcome to leave comments below. Some time over the coming weeks when the editing and processing is done,  I will post a gallery of the highlights of this fun San Francisco wedding here on the blog. This picture reminds me how fantastic the food at the Town Hall Restaurant tasted. Check it out next time you are in San Francisci. It is at 342 Howard Street,  S.F. CA 415.908.3611.  Panoramic photography by San Francisco wedding photographer Daniel Sheehan, a Seattle photographer who specializes in people and portraits and travels everywhere to shoot weddings in a photojournalist style that is real, straightforward, subtle and unobtrusive. Available in Seattle, WA, San Francisco and Los Angeles, CA. Daniel was named among the best wedding photographers by the Wedding Photojournalists Association.

All photographs on this website are by Seattle photographer Daniel Sheehan © 2010. All Rights Reserved. Please inquire for permission before using.

Belly Bump Picture made on Sunday…….

…on Tuesday she arrived as a  newborn baby. Above baby picture shows  bella baby Harper at six days of age. She is so amazing to see. My youngest daughter Claire is now 7 1/2 years old so it has been a while since I have been with such a cute baby. Actually there have been a number of other cute babies since then but each one seems so special.

If you have been following this blog, a few weeks ago Molly and April came into the studio on a Sunday in the beginning of December for a baby belly picture session. Two days later their very bella baby daughter, Harper McAllister Sather was born.   After 5 more  days later I dropped their house by to make some newborn baby pictures of her to complete the second half of the before and after photos. . Talk about good timing. Here are our first but not our last newborn baby photographs of her. Below are some more baby pictures from the same session.  ( Although baby pictures are not very common on this blog, they will occasionally make an appearance. After all, first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the couple with a baby carriage…..)

Molly with Harper in her arms. I have been returning to photographing with an old Hasselblad and black and white film and I have to say I really enjoy the results. Not that I will give up on digital, but film is back in my arsenal of photographic tools.

I love the baby yawn pictures.

Molly and April with newborn baby Harper at 6 days of age. Baby photography by Seattle wedding photographer Daniel Sheehan, a Seattle photographer who specializes in people and portraits and shoots in a photojournalist style that is real, straightforward, subtle and unobtrusive. Wedding photographer Daniel Sheehan was named among the best wedding photographers by the Wedding Photojournalists Association.

All photographs on this website are by Seattle photographer Daniel Sheehan © 2010. All Rights Reserved. Please inquire for permission before using.