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With all the technology on hand shouldn’t wedding planning be easier? Why must brides possess a love/hate relationship with this exasperating activity. After all, this is what brides have looked forward to their whole life. We all know about the sits like Pinterest, Wedding Wire, and The Knot that aid in such planning. We also know that we can access all of these useful sites from our mobile smartphones at anytime and anywhere. The mobile smartphone has become the planning center…

As a wedding photographer, I love looking at other peoples work. It inspires me to stay up to date on different styles and trends that brides are loving. There has been one that I have seen over and over again and that is the warm vintage fade look. You have seem them before. It has the vintage color feel with a slight haze on the photograph. Not only have I seen photographers use this style of editing a lot, I have seen brides comment on these pictures saying that they really love this…

When I am meeting with a bride, I get asked all sorts of questions. But a common one I tend to hear the most is, “What style of photography would you say you do?” My response is simply “Modern/Photo Journalistic.” Some of you knows exactly what that means, but some of you are still curious. Yes you understand modern photography, but where does photo journalism come into play? You also might be thinking, that sounds like what a news photographer does. Let me ask you this, what is the soul…

Weddings have many traditions. Whether its cakes, dress, or something old, borrowed, and blue, we always find our selves struggling to keep up with the new trends. Wedding videography is by no means something. People have been having their weddings video taped for many years. So what exactly is changing about it?

Wedding video used to consist (and in some cases still does) of maybe one or two cameras just recording the ceremony and slapping it together on a DVD and presenting it to…