Thank you for another wonderful year!!  2016 was amazing, all thanks to YOU!

This year I continued to photograph weddings, families, newborns, and cake smash sessions.  As I look back at the year, it was so hard to pick out my favorite moments of 2016, as this year was amazing all together.  I definitely still love photographing weddings, newborns, and families, and I definitely grew a new love for commercial work photographing jewelry for a local San Francisco Bay Area fine jewelry company, Atheria Jewelry!  I also continued photographing greeting cards for the company, iLootPaperie, a “punny” indie greeting card company located in Pasadena, California.  I did a bit of traveling this year, but mostly to Los Angeles and back to photograph families and their newborns, as well as iLootPaperie, and I hope to travel much further next year!  MNP was featured on several podcasts and publications such as Confessions of Successful Asian Women, Borrowed & Blue,  POPSUGAR, and in Nails Magazine (a project that Shear Fashion Salon and I have been working on for years!).  Last year, I also became a part of a collective studio named Studio 5 and we all shared a gorgeous studio, but at the beginning of this year we all decided to pursue different paths.  I hope this upcoming year I will re-open a new studio, mostly for photographing newborns!

I am so wholeheartedly happy to have met each and every one of you, and thankful because my business continues to grow because of YOU!  Thank you so much to everyone that I have met this past year, I appreciate all of you for your kindness, generosity, awesomeness, and believing in my vision to create memories for you!  I’m looking forward to many, many, many more years to come!

Here are my favorite and TOP TWENTY HIGHLIGHTS of 2016:

1.  San Francisco Bay Area, CA

2.  San Francisco, California

3.  San Mateo Bay Area, California (full blog post coming soon!)

4.  East Bay, California

5.  Marin, California

6. Rancho Palos Verdes, California (blog post coming soon!)

7.  Pasadena, California

8.  San Francisco, California

9.  San Francisco, California

10.  Mountain View Bay Area, California

11. Cupertino Bay Area, California

12.  Gilroy, California & Los Angeles, California – Shear Fashion Salon (blog post coming soon!)

13. Castro Valley Tri Valley, California

14.  San Francisco, California

16.  San Francisco, California

17.  Danville, California (so in love with that floral arch!!!  blog post coming soon!)

18. Bay Area, California

18.  Santa Cruz, California

19.  Bay Area, California

20.  Bay Area, California (blog post coming soon!)

Also, here are my top 9 top most liked photos from 2016 on my @michellenicolephoto Instagram!  #2016bestnine