“We love them all! So much emotion looking through them. Thank you so much! So many unbelievable moments captured with my parents and sister and grandma. The black and white reception ones feel so timeless. There are wedding photos that have a more aesthetically stunning setting, but the couple is posing. What I love about ours is that you captured all of the emotion that was actually happening where it was happening.”
- Hannah + Dustin
The process is just as pretty to photograph as the final product.
Here is the process of the bride making her bouquet.
I’ve started a series called, “Why I Love This Photo.” This photo below is featured.
There is nothing I love more than something being left to the imagination. There is nothing I love more than rules being broken. Something I admire greatly in a photograph are subjects that take on shapes and become devoid of the subject itself. You’re left with a mood, a slight unease, turning thoughts, and your own imagination at work.
That is why this photograph I took of the bride curling her hair was predominantly in my memory at the end of the wedding day. I used manual focus for parts of the day which allowed for more experimenting.
Something I've been told continually when meeting with people is that they like to have the abstract element in their wedding photos. That way they can hang it on their wall without it being so obvious of what it is.
Photographed with Leica M6 and Kodak Gold 200.
I always love a family heirloom-type portrait in front of the couple's house.
Reminds me of all those photos in our albums of my parents in front of their home. Photographed with Leica M6 and Kodak Gold 200. This is a good example of the ghostly effect the lens on my Leica produces. You can see it especially in the bottom of the frame.
I didn’t shoot any test shots when I loaded in a new roll of film. Once it was loaded, I used the test shots on Hannah, and hoped this would happen for the first of the roll.
Photographed with Leica M6 and Kodak TMAX 400.
I wish I could always photograph the aftermath of a wedding because it leaves so much for the imagination. I’ve written more about this in my blog post, “A Beautiful Disaster.”
