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 4x3m (almost 14x10ft).

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.

This is a boudoir session I shot back back in the days when I was in Milan.
Chiara is a gorgeous sweet girl…

I know at least a couple of guys that would have loved to be in Filippo’s place :D

K.

My last 2 days have been quite busy and right now I’m so glad that it’s almost weekend and that this weekend I maybe get to relax a little bit.

What have I been up to?
Yesterday I had a shoot with a model, Kylie Ann, a 16-years old girl with a gorgeous smile, a natural beauty and a great talent. This is one of the 3 themes we worked on. I will share the rest as soon as Kylie picks her favorites for her portfolio.

Today I had a different session. Lynnette came to me a couple of weeks ago and hired me for some beauty portraits, closeups. Tamanna did a great job on her makeup and long (really long) hair. We finished the shoot by 4.30 this afternoon. And here are a couple of randomly-picked shots I just edited.

Isn’t she looking gorgeous? She was so concerned about these pictures because she had never had professional pictures taken before… and kept telling me she didn’t know what to do. :)

She eventually decided to do a boudoir session on the same day; which I cannot share.

K.

My new computer is up and running and I’m currently blogging from it (for this occasion I removed the dust from my degree in Computer Engineering and assembled a powerful machine that will save me a lot of time in post-production work). Now my hubby (who was the one that really did this job) is jealous and wants a computer just like mine. I’ll put it in his wishlist. Although, before I get to the point of having it totally ready there is a loooot to do.

To do list for today:
-Calibrate monitor
-Install all the fonts/scripts/other for Photoshop
-Install all software I may need to use
-Personalize desktop and shortcuts
-Copy all favorites and stuff from the other computer
-Have lunch (ok, this was not in the list, but I’ll go have lunch as soon as I blog this)
-some more stuff which I don’t remember; when I’m hungry my brain goes in stand-by

Another thing that is “up and running” today is the new Guest Bedroom. The home-delivery guys came earlier in the morning today; who follows me on twitter already knows I had a bad wake-up as I could neither sleep after they were gone, nor get up as my brain refused to select a state and deadlocked somewhere in the middle between the two. Not the best morning ever… but it’s getting better. Fortunaly I don’t have any photoshoots today.
I was left with boxes upstairs and I couldn’t wait to have the bedroom finished… I managed to assemble this Full Bed all by myself. I remember when we got our bedroom’s furniture a couple of months ago… that King Bed was a hell of a heavy weight. Lucky for me, this guest bed is not even half of it.

So here are some pics of the before (shot at 11:33AM) and after (12:00PM). I still have to hang the mirror on the wall, put some curtains on and add some art on the walls… but for now this is the best this room has seen since we got this house (it has been empty). And maybe this room is going to be the set for some photoshoots I have in mind ;) stay tuned for that.

I had to “sign” this pictures with the first font available… I don’t have my logo on this computer yet.

K.