A Day in the Life of a Wedding Photographer

6:30am: coffee, gear check, second look at the shot list nobody sticks to. 8:00am: getting-ready light, always better than anyone expects. Noon: the ceremony, forty minutes of trying to be invisible.

The day does not end when the reception does — it ends somewhere near midnight, culling a memory card by the glow of a laptop, still thinking about the one frame that almost got missed.