What Clients Have to Say

Melissa Kraus, Palo Alto

“He is very professional but so casual in nature that he is able to take really unique photos. He can blend in with the family and capture the personality of the family without you noticing it.”

Monica Bannan, San Francisco

“I kind of expected all the pictures to look like the last session, but they were completely new and insightful in a way that you could tell years had passed… that we were all older and the children were growing.”

Lauren Lyon, San Francisco

“His long track record and deep level of experience really showed while he was taking the pictures and certainly in the result. These are family heirlooms we want to pass down to our children.”

Melissa Kraus

Melissa Kraus

Palo Alto, CA

“We really value our time with Joshua over the last twenty years.”

“He originally photographed our wedding and when we went on to have three kids and he photographed each of our kids and also did a series of family photography during that time. Most recently he photographed my family as our youngest went off to college, so he's really seen our family through many different phases.”

“There's a huge difference between your iPhone and a professional, and Joshua has a beautiful professional eye that no one can capture.”

“He gets to know the personality of every individual and the whole family as a unit as well and their specific dynamic which is really unique. He spends a lot of time with the family and as a result blend in and becomes just another person who is there, rather than a photographer.”

“Joshua is great with kids; he is funny and easy and flexible and makes them feel like they're at a comedy show more than getting their photographs taken. My kids don't necessarily love getting their photos taken as the victim of many years for me and my iPhone and he just has such fun with them that he makes it really easy.”

“Having just sent a kid to college I am reminded of how fast childhood actually goes and to now look back on the baby photos they're remarkable… it’s really special to capture that time in a person's life and that time in a family arch… Having photos that capture someone’s early life is remarkable, and I treasure each one… Not everybody lives at home anymore in my house and so I know that time moves on and so to have these family photos is really meaningful.”

“The archival quality of the photos is notable and really important to me because you can feel the difference, you can see the difference. My kids will treasure these photos in 30 years from now.”

“He is an utmost professional but so casual in nature that he is able to take really unique photos. He can blend in with the family and capture the personality of the family without you noticing it.”

Monica Bannan

Monica Bannan

San Francisco, CA

“What I really admire about Joshua is his philanthropic arm, and it's because of that philanthropic arm that I was exposed to his photography. He donates photography packages to nonprofits and schools. I'm the president of the board of directors for Dress for Success San Francisco, he donated to our holiday event, and I bought the package.”

Capturing natural moments and expression, especially in kids, is difficult and Joshua is able to so.

He also prints in black and white which is amazing. Not a lot of people do that… at the time he might have even been shooting film. He has a dark room and does the printing himself. Because both of us have developed prints ourselves we understand the labor of love involved.

“Joshua called us in to go through the proofs to ultimately decide which ones we want. My husband was a little skeptical, but then we sat down and ran through through the proofs. They were beautiful, stunning pictures. We liked so many of them!”

“They were really precious pictures, what he was able to draw out of our children are expressions that we see in our everyday life but are rarely captured in photos. It is truly freezing moments in time. They hang along our staircase and every day I walk by them and think, oh, they're so beautiful.”

“I feel like Joshua captures the whimsy and the closeness of our family and Joshua was able to capture the boys individual character, there's a twinkle in a mysteriousness in the older one's eyes and you can see my youngest is silly and outspoken.

He also captured this energy that you feel between the brothers. There's a seriousness and a bond between them that comes out through the pictures, which I love.”

“My parents went to the photo studios like JCPenney or Sears and my childhood photos are a bit more formal and posed. I wish that I had more photo journalistic pictures of my childhood.”

“I feel like I'm doing something to create legacy for the family that's beautiful.”

“I would recommend him because they're not just family photographs— they’re art— they're heirloom quality you could pass them down.”

Lauren Lyon

Lauren Lyon

San Francisco, CA

“What an artist he is. I knew how special of an opportunity this would be for our family and that we were willing to invest in it. He takes such beautiful pictures that really capture the essence of the children at that time in their lives.”

“To know that the photos are of a higher quality and are behind archival quality glass I felt comfortable and confident making the investment. His long track record and deep level of experience really showed while he was taking the pictures and certainly in the result. These are family heirlooms we want to pass down to our children.”

“We feel really warm and full of love when we see the photos on the wall… they show what a close and affectionate family we are.”