We offer two different style of albums for your choice.  Our Softbound Books are more of your casual type of album where as the sexy SoHo Book is our fine art album.  They both are handmade with excellent craftsmanship and come with a lifetime guarantee.

SOFTBOUND BOOKS

Softbound albums are made with tear proof and water proof pages mounted onto board. The soft cover is a scratch resistant laminated metallic print mounted onto a thin board and wrapped around the album.

We offer two sizes for this album a 12×8 and a 15×10.

A hard cover option is also available.

SOHO BOOK

A contemporary coffee table album designed for showcasing full panoramic prints. Unique and unrivaled in presentation, the award winning SOHOBook is available in a selection of silks and leathers of your choice.

We offer this album in three different sizes:        9×9              13×10              12×12

The photos of course do not do these sexy books any justice.  For any of our past clients who would like to check out these albums,  please feel free to email us and would love to set up some time to show you these awesome books.

For more information on Encarnacion Photography’s Signature Books feel free to email us at hello@encarnacionphotography.com

Linda and Joe’s wedding was our last wedding of 2009, and seriously what a way to set off 2009.  These people know how to get down and party.  Here’s some of my favorites.  The portrait session at Alviso was AMAZING…whoever said dark clouds don’t make for gorgeous portraits.  Enjoy to see more check out their slideshow!!

Some of Linda + Joe’s Vendors:

Make-Up & Hair: Ann Ho

Flowers: Nicole Ha

Venue:  Hyatt Santa Clara

What inspires me?

Well, I have always been into the arts as far as I can remember.  I remember drawing and coloring a lot when I was a little kid, like when I was visiting the Philippines, impressing my aunts and uncles with images of detailed 747 planes, so I guess you could say my appreciation for art started around then.  In high school, I had the chance to mess around with a couple of film cameras, but was never able to take the full advantage of them because I was too busy “goofing around”, although I did get the chance to be senior editor for the Oak Grove High School video yearbook.  My final two years there, I guess doing the whole video editing got my creative mojo going again.  The whole process was amazing.  All the hard work filming and then the endless days spent editing only to present a final product to my [peers that they could love every time they watched  was a proud accomplishment.

It wasn’t until I met my wife when I got back into shooting photography.  She is truly one of the biggest inspirations for me to get into photography.  I remember being impressed with her black and white prints that she took back in high school.  She was the one who got the chance to mess around with film and the whole dark room processing.   I still remember being captivated by that true “silver print” she used to talk about when she was trying to explain to me the technical aspects of apertures, shutter speeds, and dark room processing; all over this one print she had of the lily she photographed in her mom’s yard.  Then we had our first daughter, my second biggest inspiration.  The flood gates to photography opened up and never stopped.  I snapped photos left and right with our old Nikon F65.   There was something so gratifying about capturing those moments as she grew up and then being able to look back at them to remember those days.  I can still look at the the photos and hear her giggles and cries as an infant.  I loved them, and I loved being able to share them with friends, family, or whomever and let them see how proud I was to be a dad.

To think that a single photograph would allow someone to see such happiness and feel such emotion.  I figured if I could do that I could help other people relive moments.  But there was that 9 to 5, the 9 to 5 pretty much clogged up the flood gates.  Then came the day I put in my two weeks without even consulting with the “high command” , my wife.  HELL YES!!!  I was scared, but I was confident.  Confident in knowing that my passion, even though waiting to be released like a vicious tiger, would take myself, wife, and my family to better places.

My third largest inspiration, the other photographers on the face of the planet; past and present.  I love being able to look through prints, books, magazines, and browse the intarwebs only to be captivated  and inspired by YOUR images.  Then there was our wedding photographers.  I was picky when it came to choosing a photographer.  For once in my married relationship I had the “final say”.  But hot damn did I make a good choice.  After lookng through so many, there was the one that I said, “Him, let’s do it!”  The choice pretty much got us to where we are today.  The sensational husband and wife team allowed my wife and I to dream big.  The big day came and our experience with them pushed us to new levels.  THe next day we watched our wedding slideshow online and it was awesome.  It felt like I was on the receiving end of Oak Grove video yearbook EPICNESS.

At the time I was too much of a wussy to get into wedding photography because I’m a big baby.  But knowing that I could help capture those same moments through my eyes, I took the plunge, even though I can’t tread water (seriously, I don’t know how to swim).  I second shot my first wedding for my wedding photographer.  That day pretty much set the tone for where my career was going to go.  It was fast paced, chaotic at times, and I loved every minute of it.  I was so energized at the end of the night.

Which leads me to my last inspiration; you and your day, your family, your lifestyle.  I look forward to stirring up the emotions of happiness, years down the line.  I want you to hear laughter in your photographs, I want you to remember how the sun felt on your face that day.  Okay kinda corny, and no I don’t get emotional looking through father-daughter dances just because I have a daughter of my own.

….LYING, I DO!!!

I shot this wedding back in April and I haven’t had the chance to blog about it yet because I really wanted to put it on our new blog when it had launched, and of course with things getting all busy and revved up in full speed during last year’s wedding season it got left behind.  So with 2010 in full swing we wanted to post this wedding as we really got to know this couple throughout their wedding journey.  The best thing about this wedding is that we know what a lot of brides go through in regards to planning their wedding:  the stress, the pressure, the details, and the family.  A lot of times that can drive someone bananas.

When Stephanie and Sal first hired us their plans were to get married at The Pacific Athletic Club in Redwood Shores and literally a month and a half before their wedding date, they decided to scrap the big plans for good ol’ SF City Hall.  Here are some of my favorites from that day back in April, to see more of their wedding check out the slideshow here.

Below are the brides thoughts about why she felt the need to switch her plans.

“As I began to hammer out the small details like the cake, the flowers, the food, the favors….I began to realize that this is not how I imagined my event being.  Once upon a time I think that I wanted to have a big fancy ceremony and reception with tons of people and a big wedding cake.  I reflected back on the short questionaire that I filled out with Sal for our wedding planner.  We answered a question about what we imagined our event being like on our big day.  We had come up with the idea that we just wanted our event to really reflect who we are as individuals and as a couple and most importantly we wanted the people that were closest to us to enjoy themselves and have a great time.

Our wedding day began to morph into this event that was nothing like us at all.  It was themed, was color coordinated, had a lighting scheme, and decorated chairs and printed programs.  Sal pretty much left everything up to me, which is the way most brides want it.  However, I found that I just didn’t care enough about any of these things to want to get excited about them and to feel good about spending so much money on them.  These are all things that can shape the whole atmosphere of an event, which is great but for me my wedding was about taking the next step with Sal who I’ve been with for 8 years.  We’ve already shared so many things together including having a child, so all of these things just seemed trivial in comparision.

So I procrastinated and ended up really stressed to the point of having contant anxiety over what I really wanted.  My best friend and maid of honor was the best through this whole process and she was the one who finally came out and said “If this isn’t what you want make the decision now or you’ll regret it for the rest of your life.”.  I realized she was right and although it was extremely scary to approach my mother and wedding planner about making dramatic changes at the last minute, they were actually quite understanding about it.

So after scrapping all of my original plans we had to start from square one.  My wedding planner Sanford, who is also a former co-worker and a friend of the family, was great.  He came up with a bunch of potential places based on my edited guest list and within weeks we ended up going with the Carnelian Room in San Francisco.  Carnelian Room was great and was really the best place to accomodate our intimate sit down dinner while offering top notch service and incredible views of San Francisco. Since our reception would now take place in the city, everything kind of fell into place from there.

In the end I was able to share my wedding celebration with my closest friends and family.  With the exception of the occasional issue here and there, my wedding was perfect and everyone who attended had a blast.”

-Stephanie