A Small City Hall Wedding - Amy Perl Oakland Photographer

At the end of February I photographed a small wedding at City Hall in San Francisco. I am a big fan of using as much natural light as possible, and city hall being full of windows...of course there would be plenty of light! Well...it was a cloudy and rainy day. Of course. Fortunately, my camera (Nikon d700) rocks in low light, so it all ended up being great. I love the shots we came up with. The couple is super artistic and so let me have freedom to be artsy too! Love it.

Snow shoeing in Colorado

Last weekend I went out to Denver to visit my BFF from college, CU Boulder. I have not been back in 15 years! I forgot how stunning the mountains are there. I have to say, I'm pretty sure this is the most healthy weekend trip I have ever taken. Jogging, snow shoeing, eating healthy, plenty of water...much less debauchery than I'm used to. But it's great! I wasn't paying for it for days and days....I didn't take my camera out much, just to snap a few shots during our hike. Thought I'd post them, just because.

As Ginger pointed out, the Rocky Mountain National Park isn't as pretty as the Swiss Alps, but they looked pretty good to me!


I'm the one in the blueberry pants

First time on snow shoes - I could get used to this




Fun fluff through the trees on the way down


This scary looking place is my first apartment with my (then boyfriend) husband. I made Ginger drive me by it. At the time, it didn't seem so sketchy, although it is in an alley...but it just looks like a scary crime scene place or something to me now..


and this...I just had to share this. This is my husband and I talking on Skype the other day while he was at work, he also had to take a work call, so I took the opportunity to photograph the scene with my iphone. Jeez...talk about tech-geeked out.
The thumbnail of me is in the bottom left corner.

Not just photos for work.... - Amy Perl Oakland Photographer

Believe it or not, I actually like to photograph just for me sometimes! I forget that I like to, from time to time. We all get caught up in our busy lives, we all forget to let loose and do something we love, just for us...well, I'm making a serious effort this year to do some more shooting for me...because it feels good, and I can do whatever I want!

I am sitting here at my computer thinking of some of my favorites, and looking around in my folders on my computer and I ran across these photos I did of a car show in Golden Gate park, I think it was 2006 or maybe 2007. There are a couple of shots of Isaac, my son. I love the one of him with my camera, shooting a car too. My dream boy.

Way back when (feels like a lifetime ago now) I co-founded a kids/baby clothing company. There were a handful of tee shirts that we made using my photography, and the one image in here of a red Camaro (I think) is one that we used on a tee.

I love these shots, I hope to do more *for me* this year!

My little photojournalist - Avi Perl Photographer

My daughter and I went to get our nails done on Monday. The kids were both out of school, we're finally pulling out of a long spell of being sick, and my son was off at a friends house. So we went to go make ourselves feel better by having paint put on our nails. It was fun. The place was not that great, and not too cheap either. My daughter didn't want to go to the good place we've been to before because, well, she didn't understand anything they were saying to her...Well, we ended up at another place where she didn't understand the language. Here is her photo essay on our experience.

Photos to share - Amy Perl Oakland Photographer

I did a couple of fun sessions this past week and wanted to share some from them. One is from the baby's (don't want to name names....) first birthday. I met her when she was in her mama's belly still, then at about 6 months, and now for her first birthday! I don't think I've ever met a one year old, that didn't seem like a one year old. She seems much wiser than her year. And a solid walker too!

The second round of photos are of a trio of brothers at my studio. Their mom mentioned that she liked the printed backgrounds that I have in my portfolio on my website, so I went out and picked up a few more patterns. I love the new look it gives the studio shots. Not that I don't like it on white, but it's fun to change it up now and again!

I think I'm finally getting back into the swing of things here...keep posted for more new work in a few days time.











and here she is in front of her traditional korean birthday table of food, and in her fancy korean dress, happy birthday girl!


Brothers -