As we prepare to ring in a new year and a brand new crop of amazing wedding clients, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on the 2015 wedding season. It’s easy to mark my growth as an artist and a photojournalist by looking at some of my favorite images from this year below, but what is less apparent is my determination to get back to the roots that were responsible for LBP’s break-out success back in late 2009; meaningful relationships with the people I’m photographing.
I started this business because I loved weddings as much as I loved photography; I never spent an excessive amount of time dawdling in families, pets, newborns, or seniors because none of those would ever compare to the unpredictability and meaningfulness of wedding moments. To be entrusted with capturing these once-in-a-lifetime memories before they are lost in the barebones haze that I would use to describe my personal recollection of Sean and I’s wedding six years ago; there is no greater feeling of importance.
To this day we don’t have a side business like many other photographers; we JUST. DO. WEDDINGS. And we don’t have an associate to make extra money, because money isn’t the reason I got into this line of work and I don’t want to book weddings that neither Sean or I can be present for. What you get from LBP is a truly personal experience, and 2016 will see me hopefully not just continuing to improve on an artistic level, but really remembering that as well.
