moments in review

2023 // Moments in Review

What an incredible privilege it is to get an all encompassing pass; to get real close, to be in every aspect of the day; from the anticipation in the room hiding away, to the very last song. The ability to roam the aisle during the ceremony, witness it from every angle. The dream and strive that is to photograph in so many different ways within one wedding day; photographing the home that you have chosen for your wedding day, something as simple as the weather that too, is a guest on your wedding day. Photographing the scenery in which your wedding resides.

Photographing the many people in a documentary mold; them mid laugh, mid hugging embrace, mid swoon that is all over the entire face. Searching for moments where these people are at their most relaxed, most themselves, I strive to search for it until I capture it. Documenting to induce nostalgia and memorialize you and your people, photos of such that will only be more and more loved as you grow older.

I am filled with joy and humbleness to get to put this journal post together year after year. I look forward to it all year. I truly enjoy going through each gallery all over again and finding moments that to me, that are not deemed as grand or special or ones that you would hang on your walls, but ones that truly bring the entire collection of photographs together.

These photographs are all what make up a gallery, if not is the gallery in my opinion. The aspects of life that last, the human nature of those we love that won’t always be. The fleeting moments of the in between grand moments. Moments of long awaited affection, joy radiating, and the quiet moments too. These are the types of photographs I endlessly search for on wedding days, ones that often are overlooked, and only grow more meaning with time. Ones that need to be looked at a little longer and noticing new things each time. Ones that I need to be so present for, with wide eyes, finger on the shutter, ready to press before the moment is gone. Ones that I treat as if they were my own.

Thank you to all of those who trusted me and gave me this gift of documenting, I do not take this privilege lightly.

Enjoy, - nataly.

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We had been planning this session for them to have for a sweet Nowruz 🌱card but rain, stomach bugs, and other schedule conflicts kept getting in the way so a ‘maybe next year’ was thrown in there somewhere; but getting to watch this lil
A handful of very very soft moments with ca surrounded. #film
A handful of moments both in stillness and tender vibrancy. I am constantly in awe of how important photographs are, how much it has the ability to transport us, as if our body is right there again. I sat in their seats, documented from their point o
Details from a rainy wedding weekend that felt warm the entire time. Spending two full days is a gift for me & the ability to document this home away from home for you. #film
A really perfect garden party wedding 🥹 #film
Don’t be fooled by this absolute class and alluring romanticism and style. These two goofs who were laughing and crying the entire day were the definition of sentimental and humbleness. Made everyone in their presence feel like they were the mo
A handful of favorites from this wedding on the coast.
I’ll never forget what N told me she wanted out of their wedding photographs in her initial email. She wanted photographs capturing the burst of life she knew that both their big families would bring. Whether I was there to run after it to capt