I love people & I love their stories!

My first job as a professional photographer, was as an Artist. I loved communicating my thoughts & idea, visually with people. It was exciting & satisfying to walk into a gallery opening to receive praise and see people looking at my work on the wall & discussing it. “What does it say?” “What does it mean?” “How does it make you feel?” When I began as a professional wedding photographer in 1996 (12 years ago), it was for a pay check, Like so many other fine art photographers do when faced with making a living. But as time progressed & I saw how much real life impact my images were having in peoples lives, my out look changed. Like a switch was thrown & now everything shone with a different light. My job stopped being a job, it became a passion, a lifestyle. If you have ever been in a similar situation where work & passion meet than you know that you can’t help to start sharing parts of who you are with what you do. All the great things that my art was an outlet for, fused with my wedding photography and each and every wedding feels fresh and new with it’s own artistic voice. I not only get to tell my story but more importantly I get to tell yours as well. That relationship, that coming together is why I love my job so much. It ceased to be about documenting an event and it becomes about the in between moments and how they relate to each other. Not just what you see on the surface, but what you feel underneath it. “What does it say?” “What does it mean?” “How does it make you feel?” And the best part is that these stories, these pictures that you look at and the albums you hold in your hands, live on, get passed down & shared over the years. If done right it can matter.

- Michael