They are twins, not identical… but how cute?? :)

So, here is Isabelle (and her daddy):

I tried to bribe them with balloons.

And this pretty is Sophia:

Somebody lost a shoe on the way…

How cute are they all?

Looking for daddy…

I learned that Isabelle already walks by herself… Sophia still needs a helping hand though…

Life with twins? Busy, especially when they both are hungry!

It was hard picking only some pictures to publish, these two cuties are adorable (although they did give us grownups some hard time… at this age you can’t pretend they stand still and smile to total strangers with huge cameras following them everywhere).

K.

I think he tried but couldn’t get any more comfortable…

His nose still shows signs of the catfight (?) he had 2 weeks ago.

K.

Today I feel like:

Busy days are coming ahead.

First, today my friend Coronita Cerveza (it’s just a nickname) is coming to San Francisco after her visit to Minneapolis, MN. Hoping to see her tonight after their visit to Alcatraz.

So, while waiting for them in the city we’ll be at the Bay Area Happy Hour organized by Becker and will hopefully meet some interesting people to hang out with. Anyone reading if interested check out the details on the [b] school blog and please join.

On Friday I was planning to join Coronita and her friends on their “trip” around San Francisco in the cable cars. I haven’t had time to do it since I moved here and if I don’t do it now I never will. I lived in Rome for more than 3 years and I never visited the Coloseum because I always thought that I was just there, I could go anytime. And if some friends hadn’t dragged me into Vatican City I wouldn’t have seen that either. Oh, well, I was not a photographer at the times, just a Computer Engineering student working part-time to cover expenses. Anyways… So, I’m going to spend the day with them around San Francisco. I love this city. I’ll then have to abandon them around 5PM though, take the BART and head back to my place for a shooting at 6.

On Saturday, in the morning, I’m headed up north in Marin County for a baby photography session with Isabelle and Sophia (1-year old twins), I’m so exited, never had a session with twins before. After the session we’re joining Coronita again and go eat some place nice (any suggestions? she doesn’t like seafood, only meat… please advise).

On Sunday Markino’s mom arrives at SFO from Italy… and we are all hoping she smuggles some good italian food in!!! :D :D

Ok, that’s all…

Leave some love people!!

Klo

Yep, I got my first billboard. A campaign running nationally all over France started on Monday June 23rd. Not only my picture, but my face is on it… although I wasn’t counting on that, I am not looking to become a model, it’s just that I enjoy selfportraits… (apparently others enjoy my selfportraits too :P). Over a 150 billboards like the one below will be seen around the country; in 4×3m (almost 14×10ft).

Plus, Ema and I got a new tearsheet (the first one for her… she’s just started out):

To see some more of my published work, please go to tearsheets.

It’s interesting how both these last inqueries came through Flickr.

Leave some love for us… :)

K.

So we arrived in Carmel in the late afternoon (see Part I) and were just a tad hungry. Since we were by-the-sea what’s better for lunch than seafood? So we searched for places to eat and found one pretty interesting looking… the only problem: they were already closed for lunch and were reaopening for dinner at 5.30PM (I really don’t understand who has dinner at 5.30 in the afternoon… but whatever…). We had a little tour around the place and got back when the restaurant opened, to finally have our LUNCH. Yes, at 6PM.

While waiting for the food to come:

I love tiny details like fresh flowers… and I love bread:

The list of wines was incredibile, we didn’t know what to get… but finally I decided for a local (Napa Valley) Sauvignon Blanc. Great tasting.
There were only 2 things I didn’t understand:
1. why do they always suppose it’s the guy that tastes the wine? can’t women know about the wine too?
2. white wine needs to stay cool but I didn’t see any basket of ice around the place. after a certain point I couldn’t drink my wine anymore, too sour beacuse of the temperature. good we only got the half bottle as we were to drive back home

Well, there might be a 3rd thing I didn’t get, which is: all around us people got RED wine with fish (is known that red wine kills the taste of fish, covers it completely). Anyways.

If you ever go to this place or any other that has it, get a good glass of Napa Frog’s Leap:

Here comes the food. My Lobster Spring Roll (served with an interesting apricot cream) was delicious:

Markino got himself an Endive Salad:
Menu said it was made with Gorgonzola cheese, only it was a simple blue cheese (good but not Gorgonzola). I assume this plate had like 2000 calories, I tasted the pecans and there was a lot of butter around them… but we’re not on diet right now :D

Unfortunately, when we got the rest of the food (Gulf Prawns risotto with artichoke and red bell pepper; and the pasta special), I forgot to take the pictures. Guess I was really hungry!!!

We called it a “day” with a couple of Creme Bruleè:

Anton & Michel <— visit the website for more info on this restaurant.

We can’t wait to get back and taste some more delicious food!

K.

Yesterday was a really hot day here in the Bay Area, so me and my husband decided to drive to Carmel. Lucky for us the weather was getting cooler as we drove south (at a certain point, I think somewhere near Gilroy it even started raining).

Here are some pictures from the day…

Still driving, shot from the car window (at 70mph :P)

Look at the sky:

My precious better half didn’t wanna come anywhere near the sand…

But when I INSIST, I can be very convincing!!

Looks like EVERYBODY has a dog in Carmel…

Crazy couple inside the freezing cold waters :O

And… this is me…

I’m the worst model ever. I can’t stand people taking pictures of me. Maybe that’s why I chose to stay behind the camera :)

As I was saying, there were A LOT of dogs around… some of them came pretty close, but this one managed to leave humid proof of presence on Markino’s T-shirt.

We had a look at the shops too. Here’s some window glamour/retro flare.

And an car-antenna buddy :P

I’d love to shoot a wedding in this small but colorful place.
Delicious shots coming soon… on part II.

K.

It’s 3 years today since me and my sweetheart shared our first kiss…

Happy anniversary!

(picture taken by a friend)

K.