What better way to enjoy good food and wine is to have them with great friends. An invitation to fine dining with Carol + Chris and Terel + Stacia is met by a surprisingly gorgeous home, a warm family and friends, Stroy + Laura and Danean + Brad.
How much fun can a few hours be? Watch and find out!
We are very blessed to be one of Yelp’s highest ranked photographer in the bay area. Yup, with approx. 50 FIVE STARS reviews, we feel loved. However, today came an email stating that we now have a negative FAT ONE STAR review in Yelp! A one-star what?!!
We’re breaking the mold ! Making history and causing chaos in the industry. People officially now hate us on Yelp! 
- Michael Soo
Sad Photographer of the Year
18 year old Reilly is leaving Atherton, California for college in Texas. Everyone is excited for him, but at the same time, sad. As fine art photographers and cinematographers, our imagery and video/cinema speaks about the family we photograph. Even more so when each family members have so much love and fun with each other.
We almost felt like close relatives, being there, absorbing the love and resonating and reflecting the TLC back into our photographs and cinema. This was photographed in the backyard of their home during our family portraiture session in Atherton, CA (next to Menlo Park and Palo Alto). Enjoy Texas, Reilly!
(Notice Georgia whispering “I love you” to Reilly when she was leaning on his shoulder? )
Who would have thought, that product photography for actuators, servos and motion control products can be an eye opener. We have photographed the cover pages of Animatics for the past few years now. These are what their servos, motor controller amplifiers and SmartMotorâ„¢ look like (actual cover photograph for their main brochure),
However, never in my wildest dreams do I realize that these products that I photographed are one and the same mechanisms that power this crazy amazing kinetic sculpture! Check out this stunning video!!!
Behind the scenes in the NFL Tampa Bay Buccaneers photoshoot by Soo Photography.
I’ve known Ben and Christine for a year now. What started out as a client/photographer relationship has bloomed into a wonderful friendship. They are a great couple and as I got to know them better, I saw the beauty in their personalities and everything around them. Their wedding was a clear reflection of that natural beauty.
Both Christine and Ben enjoy hiking, cycling, rockclimbing, and any activities related to nature, it seemed. It explains their love for Yosemite National Park, a place that also happens to be home to many beautiful dogwood trees – Christine’s favorite flowers. This is where they chose to celebrate one of the most important days of their lives together – their wedding day.
The Ahwahnee Hotel was their selected wedding venue and so my assistants and I were given wonderful accommodations there as well. This is the best resort in Yosemite, where anybody who is anybody, basically all the celebrities, get to stay. Whoohoo for us! I may not be a celebrity but it sure was a pleasure to stay here and feel like one, and get to spend time with the bride and groom too.  It was the perfect rustic setting for a Yosemite wedding and the location, with so many interesting picturesque backdrops, was a photographer’s dream come true.
On the morning of, we sat down for a quick breakfast where I managed to capture a reflection of Christine’s favorite dogwood flowers in her cup of coffee. The couple loved the picture and this image quickly became one of their favorite pictures as well as mine. I followed along as Christine and Ben went on their scenic morning stroll. The misty fog provided a nostalgic, romantic portrait on the bridge by Yosemite Falls. In another photo, we captured the waterfalls gushing behind as well.
As the bride prepped for the wedding, I ran around busy, snapping shots of her wedding details. Her M by Marinelli shoes, which she bought from FootCandy in Santana Row, had sparkly silver straps and encrusted jewel ornaments. It was definitely pretty eye candy for the feet. We did a photoshoot of them against a soft yellow silk cloth, where the handmade paper leaves (their wedding favor tags) were strewn about as if they had gracefully drifted off the trees. The round jewels on her shoes reminded me of her brilliant 6-carat engagement ring. The ring itself was impressive and looked even more so when stacked on top of the other rings that they were using for their wedding ceremony. The stack included two other especially meaningful rings – one for their daughter, Olivia, and one for their son, Nicholas.
Ben and Christine’s wedding was decorated with white flowers and some pops of yellow. They included round-petaled white orchids, large white lilies with yellow centers, some smaller butterfly-like varieties of yellow orchids, and more. The bride’s bouquet was also white with tinges of yellow centers and included a few feathers for flair. These flowers and the white and yellow color combinations created an effect reminiscent of dogwoods. They were the lovely designs of Karen Baba of www.plandecor.com.Â
What defines the bride the most is probably her wedding dress. Christine wore the much coveted Melissa Sweet Saffron dress and the matching veil, a look that has caught the eyes of many ladies browsing the Priscilla of Boston website or Gabrielle’s Bridal Atelier in Campbell. The Saffron dress is pretty to many because of its beautiful, soft silk organza fabric and its detailed embroidered flower appliques that are touched with Swarovski crystals, but the dress appealed to Christine in even more ways. The sweet, little embroidered flowers reminded her of dogwoods and the whole dress itself had the rustic feel of Yosemite. Even the veil was decorated with a border of dogwood-like flowers. It’s a girl’s dream to be enveloped and surrounded by her favorite flowers on her most special day. Christine had that, but even better, both she and Ben were surrounded by nature, all that they loved and all those who loved them, in the middle of one of the most beautiful national parks, Yosemite.
A chance introduction by friends brought Laura and Stroy together. Stroy knew from the first day that he wanted to marry Laura. She thought it was weird and a red flag! But by the second or third day, she knew she had to have him too.
Laura, I knew I had to have Stroy too, but for a different reason. 
After photographing his beautiful work for his construction website, I knew I wanted to hire Stroy to build the addition to my home/studio because of his attention to detail.
It was a compliment likewise when the couple only considered my team for their wedding photography and cinematography needs, especially knowing what a perfectionist Stroy is. We enjoyed spending the day shooting their wedding in Nicholson Vineyards in the Santa Cruz Mountains of Aptos, California. It was a beautiful Saturday spent under blue skies, surrounded by sunflowers, with a wonderful couple in love.
Thanks for having us be a part of your day, Laura and Stroy!
How much fun can a couple have in an engagement session? With non-stop laughs, giggles & stylish charm, Melissa and Ricardo show us how much fun and passion can be had in an engagement session with Capture The Love.
Experience what it feels like to fall in love, again.
The past two months has been nothing but a truly humbling experience for us. We have been blogged, reviewed, voted and published. Here are some of our recent delightful encounters that made us blush to no end…
• As of today, we’ve been voted to TOP THREE of the BEST Wedding Photographer in the entire San Francisco Bay Area by San Francisco Chronicle. Help us Capture The Love become #1 !!!
• Queensberry saw our work and they love what they saw!
• Profoto, a high end international professional lighting company interviewed and blogged about us
• James Robinson, a fellow photographer found us via the Profoto Blog and went ahead to interview us
• Our work was published by both Gizmodo AND Engadget at the same time!
• We got into the front cover and numerous pages of the highly successful Nesting Newbies magazine!
• We’ve taught in several highly successful workshops in Santana Row and were requested by Smugmug to be the South Bay’s Smug Leader, proceed to give talks and organize activities for hundreds of local photographers!
We feel really blessed and we’re definitely counting our blessings and appreciate all the support and love we have gotten over the years from everyone!
What turns a landscape/fashion/wedding photographer on? An engagement session in Yosemite National Park, California of course!!! I was like a kid in Disneyland, frolicking from one spot to another, having a field day!!!
This was for Christine & Ben’s Engagement shoot. They are expert photographers themselves, in their very rights. Their home is sprinkled with amazing landscape imagery from wall to wall. Absolutely stunning work! Ben showed me his Phase One P45 digital back and a Mamiya 645AFD. For those who doesn’t know what I’m blabbering about, these are Ferraris of cameras. Yes, if you were to sell the above two equipment, you can easily buy TWO Toyota Prius. Although with the current recall situation, I would avoid Toyota for now.
Being a photographer, Ben’s awesome, he’d spot interesting camera angles to be photographed. I was impressed and told him that he should quit his job in Google to come be my photography assistant. For some unknown reason, he just ignored me. 
Their wedding is set for May 2010 at The Ahwahnee Hotel, in Yosemite Valley. Being in Yosemite is fun enough but in The Ahwahnee Hotel? Oh my God! There is just no comparison when it comes to the Ahwahnee. With the distinction as a Four-Diamond hotel and designated as a National Historic Landmark, Queen Elizabeth II stayed in the Ahwahnee when she visited Yosemite. So did a host of celebrities and royalties; Mel Gibson (while filming Maverick), John F Kennedy, Herbert Hoover, Eleanor Rosevelt, just to name a few.
The temperature was 36 degrees Farenheit and Christine wore nothing more than a bareback dress. She is such a trooper. I do also have to say that she is possibly one of the most delightful person to be around. I’m not exaggerating when I claim that everything appears so much more joyous and lively when she walks into the room.
The amazing engagement shoot is featured in the below cinema. I choose Feb 14 to blog about this, not just because it’s Valentine’s day, but rather, they are on my mind and their Guest Album and Engagement Album JUST arrived. More on those in my next blog!
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