Wedding Photography- I consider it an honor!

February 18, 2018

A love combination of two compatible beings...

Love is the greatest of all things and deserves to be captured candidly, with honesty and integrity.

You don’t hire a photographer to take pictures of your dress hanging up in a tree, back lit and shot at f/2 on a DSLR. You hire him because you believe in his vision.

The point remains: if you show what you want to shoot in your portfolio and people hire you based on that, then you don’t need to compromise.

The single most rewarding thing about photographing a wedding is when a client tells you they can relive the day through the images. If my photographs re-enforce what they felt and mirror everything they experienced on the day, then I know I have done my job.

In no other field of photography will you receive such personal feedback. A commercial client will never tell you they shed tears of joy when they watched the slideshow. Weddings offer any photographer the ability to make a tangible connection with other human beings and this is why I don’t want to photograph anything else.

Weddings bring out something in people that you never encounter in everyday life: a level of openness and vulnerability. Our relationships with our partners are kept to ourselves, only on this one day will you declare how you feel publicly. To allow yourself to be vulnerable is one of the bravest things I can imagine. Being so emotionally charged that you can’t help the way you behave and the way you feel.

There is a purity of emotion that is inaccessible at any other point in one’s life. This purity is what I love to capture.

Shooting products and still life will always be overseen by a shoot director. Their job is to maintain brand identity and communicate brand values through imagery. With weddings you’re able to sculpt your own identity and shoot exactly how you believe the day should be captured. Ultimately, you deliver a product to a commercial client. To a wedding client, you deliver so much more.

You make an emotional connection with wedding clients, to the extent where you feel like you’ve known them your whole life.

I’m a big old softy at heart; I find it easy to emotionally invest in other couples when I see the love they have for each other, because I recognize it. The love felt on the day isn’t just between the couple, but family and friends too.

The highest level of trust is placed in a photographer. I approach it is as if someone has entrusted me to capture their memories for them.

For this reason, I consider it an honor.

So you were in love?

October 29, 2017

So you were in love. It was the most perfect thing in the world, and then suddenly it wasn't. You never imagined it ending like that. You were left hurt, sad, disappointed and tempted to give up on love. But trust me; it's not the end of the world. I have seen people wonder the necessity behind loving another person after a heartbreak or two. The truth is that to experience joy, you have to feel pain. Love is temporary happiness and temporary pain. Nothing great comes without some effort. And to love can be the best effort you give to someone special, to love can be a defining point in your life where and when you discover the true essence of your being and perhaps your youth.

It was a learning experience. Probably the best one in your life. Every step in life, whether right or otherwise, teaches you a lot of things. Maybe, your experience with this guy/girl wasn't as wondrous as you'd have liked. But on the flip side, it taught you a lot of things, not just about love, but also about yourself. Now, you know what exactly is it that you don't want in your guy/girl.

Love isn't to be blamed. It was just that a bad, probably hurtful relationship.
You are not a pro at it! So what? There is no user manual to love or even romance for that matter. Go out again, with open eyes, and an open mind, and probably your true love is out there, waiting for you to make the first move.

Believe it or not, your past experience has made you stronger. So you are more likely to use your head as well as your heart.

But seriously, when it's the right person you fall in love with, you won't even need the above reasons to make peace with yourself. You'll just know.

So, don't hold back. Get ready for a future that is bright, hopeful and filled with love.
You can never know love or learn what it means until you have loved. To love is a search for what is right and what is compatible or adjustable to you.

With love, a lot of things are possible. Love changes people and make you change. Love has a way of making you see the world differently.

Love may not last forever. But the memories you will keep from it, may be treasures you hold forever.

Love as much as you can. Yes you may be less willing after a decent try or two. But in those edges will you find something smooth that you will keep and treasure for the rest of your life!

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Who are you in love with?

March 21, 2017

You truly fall in love with just 3 people in your life!

First, you fall in love with your best friend, ruining your friendship forever.

One of the most exciting, but frightening, barriers a friendship faces is when one person falls in love with their best friend. The feelings are so intense, and the fear of revealing them can be paralyzing.

Rejection is always a hard pill to swallow, but when it comes from those you care for its even harder to take. It hurts your ego. You start fighting with them everyday. And it's over. You can never be the same best friends again.

You never expected to fall in love with your best friend, but you're so glad you did.

This will teach you about the fine line between friendship and more.

Second, you fall in love with someone you believe to be perfect.

But again it fails. You realize that people could be cruel and break your heart. You realized that people could stop meaning the sweet things they said to you just yesterday. So when you go into it again, you’re going to keep in mind everything that you’ve learned.

You will learn that no one is perfect, and that you should never be treated as any less than you deserve.

Third, you fall in love with someone that is exactly like you.

The third time you fall in love with someone, you’re going to feel so relieved. When you get your heart broken for the second time, you can’t imagine loving someone else again or having someone else love you.

The third time you fall in love with someone, you’re going to compare it to your first and second love.

That’s okay.

That’s natural.

It’s going to feel scary at first. Falling in love is sort of like riding a bike though. You never really forget.

The third time will not be the first or the second time. The first time is an insane magical life gift that you can never reclaim. The second is a beautiful memory. But that’s okay. The third time is more real anyway. The third time can involve some amazing love.

This will teach you about who you are, and who you want to be.

And when you're through with all that, you learn that the people who care about you the most are the ones that you hurt, and the ones that hurt you are the ones that you needed the most.

Sometimes its just a convenient word to use. It's easier (for me) to describe what it isn't. Like all language it can be crafted, warped, bent or let go of as required.

You'd know love exists if you felt it, you wouldn't have to take my word for it. You'll know when you can sense it through your senses. After that there is no question if it's learned or not. It's got it's own agenda and does things to you that no one can teach you.

So, who are you in love with?

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