Journal

Behind the Scenes

Field notes on light, timing and the quiet moments that make a wedding day — written between shoots.

Behind the Scenes

Behind an Intimate Bosphorus Wedding

Some of the best weddings happen with twelve guests and a folding table. This one was planned in six weeks, on a terrace overlooking the water, with a ceremony that lasted eleven minutes and a dinner that lasted five hours. Small weddings leave more room to notice things — the light on the water, the […]

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Behind the Scenes

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 […]

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