We wedding photographers are a weird breed. So many of us look for inspiration from other wedding photographers and the genre can get very stale, quickly. The great thing is that regular old people (you know, like brides and grooms) don’t notice because they only get married once! It’s also one of the reasons I don’t focus on anything too “trendy” at a wedding or engagement session. We play and I try new things but mostly I want my couples to be able to display their wedding photos right next to their mothers’ and their grandmothers’. I want their wedding photos to look appropriate at their 50th wedding anniversary.
2011 was kind of a nutty year for wedding weather! First we rocked the Saturday hurricane and then it for-real snowed in October (basically unheard of, for all you non-locals). The ingenious Cassidy DuHon had me out to second-shoot Molly and Brian’s relaxed but snowy wedding at the National Press Club. Lucky for us, she loves snow and we all ran outside for just a minute while the white stuff fell all around. Rad.
It’s that time of year when photographers fluff up their blogs with “best of” posts and I’m not above that either! It’s been a wild and crazy year and as I’ve mentioned, I’m grateful for my fabulous clients who trust me to give them the images they hope for and to stay out of the way (with camera at the ready) when they’re trying to have a moment on their wedding day. I’m grateful to wedding photography community at large, which continues to impress me with its friendliness and lack of paranoia about competition, and to all the amazing photographers who have given me so many opportunities to learn and grow. And jeesh I could go on and on and on. It’s been a really, really good year.