i cannot believe that everything i wrote the other day that was so perfect is completely gone.
i know one thing i had mentioned was that i believed that what i do artistically with my wedding and portrait work will translate beautifully into other areas that i feel deeply passionate about, but never considered before, that is until I got an opportunity to try something new…
Two years ago, a photographer friend needed someone to stand in for him to photograph a conference down in Louisville, Kentucky. All I knew was that it was BIG, and it was for educators. By the end of the first day (of 4 total) I was hooked on what I was doing. My job was to take photos of the traditional conference variety— you know, the details, the Keynotes, the candids, the vendors, etc. But I don’t show up anywhere with my camera and only do the traditional variety, especially when I believe in the message, materials, and values of the organizations. I can’t tell you how often my mind, heart + wallet are influenced by imagery. I have this bumper sticker I keep in a very centralized place in our house so it can always be seen, and it reads “SEEING IS BELIEVING, BUT FEELING IS PROOF,” and I believe that beyond the skill of photography itself, what I bring to a table who seeks bold + emotional imagery is that my photographs bring both— the seeing, and the feeling.
Much of my year is eaten up by weddings and family photography— my truest passion work in this medium. But I’d like to take the other quieter parts of my year and fill them up with passion projects that give me hope. I want to photograph the ceiling shatterers, the bridge builders, the innovators, the people who want to change the schools and help the kids. I need to be making work for
