Mel’s a personal trainer in Oakland. The day before our shoot she did 500 push ups.    

We created a library for Boston Trinity Academy to refresh the work we created two years ago. It was so cool to be back on this vibrant campus for a day. Images from our original library as well as some new ones can be seen on the gorgeous site designed by Alicia Pritt and the [...]

KC, Amy and I ran around the park to photograph killer new limited edition shirts for Title Nine. Order your own here.              

We’re having so much fun playing with this tiny camera! Here are a few favorites from our first week together.  

I love instagram so much! Find me there @leahfasten. I want to follow you too!                          

We traveled down to UC Santa Cruz to spend some time with PhD student Ted Goldstein,  a former VP at Apple. Goldstein is using bioinformatics, the application of computer algorithms to dissect biological processes, to improve people’s health.We spent about an hour together and managed to check out a few different locations during our time [...]

I am so lucky to be involved with Title Nine. What an amazing group of people! It felt so good to be out in the sunshine today next to the bay photographing some shorts, tanks etc for an upcoming catalog. Oh yeah. I live in California now…

Three camps have checked in about photography in the last month…. so I put together an edit of some favorite camp and camp-ish photos. Shoot me an email if you’d like a .pdf portfolio. Here are a few favorites from the edit.      

I’ve spent some time photographing young lovers in the park.  Here’s an edit so far. Happy Valentine’s Day!!                                  

This week I’m finally working through all the work we’ve shot in the Title Nine studio. It’s been so amazing to watch a space come alive. Here are a few favorites so far.  Check out Suzanne Bryan and Shelly Iwamasa’s amazing styling on these images.              

We spent two weeks on location in Virginia with Lewis Communications to tell the stories of 11 patients. It was so cool to get to know all the subjects and hear their stories. Photos of the production are here and here.    

Client: Smith College | Art Direction: Ronn Campisi Design | Assistant: Nicole Rejwan Serial Entrepreneur Sramana Mitra created the 1M/1M initiative to help a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars each in annual revenue and beyond by 2020. For the photo I wanted to find a location that conveyed the idea of nurturing and growth. [...]

…with Title Nine Spring 2012. Here’s Suzanne Bryan doing her thing.    

Our Christmas Day was spent running up and down Muir Beach. Happy New Year!

We’ve been working so hard to launch the new photo studio at Title Nine. I’m so excited to be involved… and who know I’d love shooting product as much as I do! Here’s a shoot we did on Monday that was included in a WOW email today. Such great fun!!!

  I’ve been shooting in California for over a year and I still get so giddy by the landscape here. We were scouting around Cisco for a CFO Magazine portrait. Off of one of the balconies we were on was this view.

ShakeItPhoto, the cute little app on my iphone is so awesome I can’t take it. Here are some more photos of flowers in Berkeley.

Ebbe Roe Yovino-Smith and I packed up a bunch of profoto 7b’s and headed down the Specialized Bike Testing Facility. We spent the morning of documenting the team there. This is the group that tests all the bikes and bike frames/ parts to make sure  the gear meeting Specialized’s standards. They were such a gracious [...]

Another round of production photos from our UVA shoot in Virginia with Lewis Communications. Our crew, the folks from Lewis and UVA spent 5 super booked and busy days together. We all worked and played and produced some incredible work.

We’ve been continuing on this month. The emails have been super fun and I just love the challenge of making new great images every day. We spent the morning in the park at Alamo Square.        

The light at sunset off the back of our deck is remarkable. For a long time I’ve escaped the Massachusetts winter for a week or two in February by coming to California. And now, as snow pounds our old neighborhood, I can sit out on my deck in my new neighborhood knowing that this is [...]

When Jes was in grad school she was our babysitter. Then she graduated and worked with troubled teens and at risk families. She would still babysit once a week to “keep her head on straight”. Then we moved. Two years later Jes emailed a week after Andy proposed and asked if I’d shoot her wedding. [...]