Happy gorgeous Monday morning!! I hope all had a great mother’s day! Lez, the kids and I celebrated two special occasions yesterday, one being mothers day and the other being our 12-year anniversary. I thought Id share a little of our special day 12 years ago, sorry about the poor scan but you have to remember that we got married before digital photography was big. I get asked all the time who shot our wedding, we were so fortunate to have my best friend’s father capture our special day for us. So thank you Mr. C! I really have to give this woman credit not just for being an amazing mother, daughter; friend and wife but I can’t get over her selflessness. I’m truly blessed to have a woman that supports me in every way. Love you Lez.

Happy Monday! I have to admit I’m so fortunate to be attracting such amazing couples or is it that they just have good taste for photography! *LOL*. As I love sitting down getting to know my couples most of the time they want to get to know me too and the question that comes up most often is how long have you been doing this for? For me though it wasn’t really a question on how long but more when. What I mean is when did I realize that this hobby called photography became more than just a passion that maybe I could have a career in it. It was this photo of the kids that made me want to capture these intimate moments that will forever be cherished. Its sad to think if I wasn’t there with my camera this moment would not exist; sure it happened but would we have remembered it? That’s exactly why I love weddings, it’s for the moments! I’m honored to be the one to historically document my couple’s first steps of their family. I want to believe that every year that passes these photos become more treasured and I want people that weren’t at the event to look at these captured moments and say “I can tell you have a great time!”

The following photo was taken with F-word….film. I still have my Minolta xe-5 with the 50mm 1.7 Roccor lens, this image is tad soft but it was a manual focus camera. A side note I remember when digital was relatively new and the argument was that the quality was nowhere near 35mm film. Today the same argument stands with 2-1/4 medium format film; I wonder what we’ll be saying in a few years?

The good news is my wedding season has officially kicked off and it’s going to be another great year. The bad news is I don’t know if I’m going to be able to blog every day but I’ll try *wink*. I love capturing moments with my camera but I get asked all the time do I have any photos of myself? Not really, Lez being the thoughtful woman she is took it upon herself to take some sexy working photos of me *LOL*. Thanks babe!
p.s. you weren’t the only one taking photos of each other! *wink*

I don’t know if life gets any better. I had the honor of documenting Sarah and Brad’s wedding this past Saturday, make sure you come back for a sneak peak! I got back from the wedding to be surprised by all my family for my birthday, how amazing! For the first time one of my couple’s asked me to join them on their honeymoon, it gets even better! I arrived in Aruba on my birthday with my favorite girl and I got to watch my first sunset into the ocean. I just checked my email, OMG I got 82 facebook messages from all my friends. I feel so blessed to be loved by so many people. Please come back tomorrow for some more pics! LOVE YOU ALL!