What would you do if you knew your time on this earth was limited? Not in a general, “we’re all going to die” way, but in a very immediate and concrete “I have a few months to live” way? Confronted with your own, impending and non-negotiable mortality, what would you do? Would you break down [...]
As photographers we meet lots of people with different personalities and different expectations about their own wedding. Some are calm and quiet, others are crazy party people, some want elegant and elaborate settings, others want to be close to nature, some people feel a very strong connection to their spiritual counselor, others are pragmatic agnostics [...]
Între 3 și 5 secunde. Cam atât va petrece un judecător dintr-un concurs analizând fiecare fotografie. Acesta este tot timpul pe care îl ai la dispoziție pentru ca imaginea ta să iasă în evidență dintr-un calup de sute sau mii de imagini, multe similare. În perioada ianuarie – iunie 2019 am jurizat mii de fotografii [...]
“I want something different”, Maria Beatriz said when we first spoke. “I like emotion and spontaneity, but most wedding photographers are looking for the “normal” shot and I like the non-obvious, but obviously pretty”. And so our Brazilian adventure began. I am still in owe of the leap of faith Maria Beatriz took, bringing her [...]
This article is about the Foundation Workshops. It describes what Foundation is and how it works and focuses on my experience and what I learned from this workshop. If you want to know more about what happens at Foundation, how it impacts the participants and whether this is the right choice for you, please read […]
I was a judge on Fearless Collection 47 and I have opinions. Judging a collection of more than 10,000 of the best Fearless wedding photos in the world definitely gave me a lot to think about. It’s a humbling experience and, I have to admit, some of the images I’ve seen made me a bit […]
In photography, one of our goals is to eliminate clutter and go for the simplest version of the truth. For a long time, we couldn’t figure out quite what it was we liked so much about Luciana and Andrei’s wedding. Then it finally hit us: they were doing the same thing. At their wedding, we only [...]
Burgers and comfortable shoes. We discovered that all our favourite weddings have this in common. We’re professionals and we don’t have favourites. But really…we do. And we thought about what all of these great weddings have in common, so we could find more of them, and we pored over our spreadsheets and this is what [...]
Do you know that intense and exhilarating feeling that the whole world is at your feet? It’s a feeling that many don’t get to experience often as “responsible” adults, but for me, this was the overwhelming feeling when I photographed this amazing wedding in Spain. Granted, part of it had to do with how the [...]
Most of the time, being a wedding photographer is a job like any other – you show up, you do the work, you spend an often inappropriately large amount of time culling and editing images, you pay your taxes and you plan your vacations around the wedding season. Every now and then, however, magical things [...]
Un cuvânt îmi vine în minte când mă gândesc la Connie: sprezzatura – eleganță și naturalețe care pare fără efort, o anumită nonșalanță studiată, arta de a părea stilat fără ostentație și pretențiozitate, lipsa artificiilor mai degrabă decât afișarea lor. Știam că înainte de cununia civilă Connie a fost foarte emoționată (pentru că mi-a spus) [...]
How would you feel if a couple of wedding photographers asked you to photograph their own wedding? Would you be excited? Anxious? Would you jump head first at the opportunity because people who have been to dozens of weddings surely know how to organise a great one, or would you be stressed, thinking that your [...]
Destination weddings are hard to pull off. They take more time to organise, they require logistical planning that you don’t normally find with typical weddings (group transportation, catering, guest hotel rooms, etc.), they’re more expensive and you’re asking your guests to give up multiple days to join you. When done right, though, they’re amazing. The [...]
Earlier this year, at the Fearless conference in Budapest, something almost magical happened for me. Surrounded by photographers all over the world, recognising many familiar faces and feeling part of that community, taking pictures became fun again. I thought in March that, if I could bring that feeling to all the weddings I photograph, amazing [...]
So here's an interesting question - how much are you willing to do for the person you love? No need to answer that, but give it some thought. Michael, as it turns out, is the kind of person willing to go to the end of the world and back for Simona (the end of the [...]
-16C. That's 3.2F, freezing cold regardless of whether or not you believe metric to be the best measurement system. Not a good way to start my visit to the US and not a good sign for Lauren and Scott's wedding. Fortunately it got a bit warmer on their wedding day, but it was still cold enough [...]
Organising a destination wedding is by no means easy, but when you’re willing to get away from the daily grind for a few days, when you have a group of close friends willing to travel hundreds of kilometers to join you for the wedding, when you have a team helping you with the planning and [...]
Earlier in July I photographed the wedding of Ana Beatriz and Karim in Mykonos. It was one of the biggest weddings I documented to date and definitely an intense, exhausting and gorgeous week-end. I'm very excited that the Vogue coverage of the wedding featured photos by myself and the team. The link to the article (photos and a [...]
As a wedding photographer, I try not to have favourites. Weddings come in all shapes and sizes, and while, to an extent, they follow a similar pattern, there are always things that make them unique – the stories of the couple, the family dynamic, the mood at various points of the day, little moments that [...]
I’m very excited because this was definitely not a typical wedding and I don’t often get the opportunity to share weddings like this. The wedding took place earlier this year in Northern France – a gorgeous multi-day wedding, with an insane 1001 Nights-themed costume party on the first day and a lovely ceremony in a [...]
They say that watching a movie without sound is a great experience for a photographer, because it forces you to focus on the visual. Our Turkish language skills are limited at best :), so we found ourselves testing this theory at Zeynep and Onur’s wedding. Once you’ve shot enough weddings, you begin to trust your […]
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