FIRST OFF, if you are reading this on a phone, pin it for later and return back to it on a computer. Streams of tears, smile lines, and flow of movement are far more felt on a screen bigger than our phones. Thank you for taking the time to view these none the less.
I look forward to creating this journal all year long, there will be times during a wedding day where I will have captured a moment and know that it will end up here. The gems you see here are truly moments that have happened in between moments that are typically planned for a wedding day. Only seconds to capture these fleeting moments and emotions. The intimacy in the unexpected. These moments you see here weren’t curated, planned, or directed. They are spontaneous and effortless and I couldn’t have captured them without the people in them letting me in and revealing themselves to me.
You won’t see directed or curated portraits here, or too many set in a gorgeous landscape. If a few have slipped in here, it is simply because I have practiced something even deeper this past year; taking a step back and allowing you to be present in this moment and on this day. Quiet moments where I lied to you and told you I was changing my lens, so for even a moment you can relax yourself and be thankful you stepped away to have this time together unaware of the camera. Time together to actually spend time with your person, be present, and be aware of the incredible day you both are having together. So much of what I practiced this past year was giving the space and time for my couples to practice presence. It is something I continuously preach to my couples prior to the day and during when I see it needed, because it is truly something that has to be practiced; and I am there to help remind and give space for that. The photographs, those are a stunning documentation of you truly feeling present and enjoying yourself. But they are just that, the documentation. The living, the being, that is all you. I can only create the work I do when my couples let go of all expectations, let me in, and trust the process. And I am so elated to say that so many if not every single one met me there this past year. And in the end, it is all for them.
So much of a wedding day is planned and guided, that so many of the most magical photographs are the ones that weren’t put on a list or timeline. And these are the photographs I set out for at every wedding. Wide eyes and patient, I am searching for the moments that tell the entire story. The ones that show the personalities of the people you love in a single portrait. The ones that you are so intertwined that you forget I am even there. The ones that feel most like you, your people, and your relationship.
These are the photographs that are the reason why I am a wedding photographer. My beginning and continuous background in shooting street photography allows me to be enamored and fueled by documenting moments. The way I approach and document others’ stories and wedding days, lives and breathes through my street work. I shoot very similarly on a wedding day that I do out shooting street photography. Patient, eyes wide, and deeply aware of fleeting moments. This is the type of work I am most passionate about and what keeps me genuinely passionate about my couples and getting the absolute honor and privilege to telling their stories.
I do not take the privilege and honor of telling your story lightly.
