Visit any photographers bio page and nine times out of ten it will read something like this, “From the time I could pick up a camera I was hooked…”, or “From the young age of 7 I knew it was my dream to be a photographer when I grew up…”
Well….not me.
In fact it was only a few years ago that a friend shoved an SLR camera into my hands wanting me to snap a picture at a party and lets just say I tried to push it back like it was fire burning my hands!
But don’t fret, as I hope you’ll see, (if you have made it this far on my website) that clearly something changed! (And I promise, I do know how to use my camera)
But if, for the sake of bio’s, we are looking all the way back to childhood and what my ‘lifelong dreams’were…while I had no idea it would land specifically on photography, I DID always know I was going to be an artist.
Whether it was doodling in my notebook when I should have been paying attention to a math formula, or choosing to study apparel design in college when my parents would have preferred something more, um, ‘scholarly’ perhaps…I have always gravitated to all things right brain and creative, if for no other reason than it seems God forgot about my left brain altogether.
So why wedding photography? Well I’ll tell you… it’s because of the Happily Ever After. Yes, that silly notion from fairy tales. That little idea in just about every girls head from here to the moon. The idea that we will meet our prince and be whisked off in to the land of romance, beautiful music, smiling children and talking animals. Ok maybe not the talking animal part…..but here’s the thing: I don’t think it’s silly.
And I am willing to bet that if you are here on my website today looking at photos of engaged and married couples… that you just might be planning and dreaming about your own Happily Ever After.
And that is what I am here for… your Happily Ever After. To help dream about it, to help capture it, and to help remember it.
