The thing you need to know about Helen and Kevin is that they had the single most creative seating chart I’ve encountered. Instead of your usual tables listed out with names, they hung up a printed polaroid photo of themselves with every single guest at the wedding — their assigned table number written on the bottom of the photo. Collected over decades: photos from trips, family vacations, baseball games, selfies at the bar. Photos from their childhoods, from college, from weeks before the wedding.

At the close of every year I sit down and review my body of work — the wedding photographs created in the calendar year — to reconnect with why I photograph weddings the way I do. And as I review my 2025 corpus, what stays with me are the moments no one realized were happening […]

I built my Seattle Wedding Photography business on the Fujifilm X System. I felt, and still feel, that Fuji’s X series of cameras provides a fantastic balance of performance and price. The current generation of bodies have caught up to the competition when it comes to autofocus performance1 , and the price point for Fuji’s […]

A few years ago when I was just starting out I photographed a wedding where the bride and groom opted for a “walking up the aisle” first look, having been separate the entire morning. I was standing in the aisle with an 85mm lens locked onto the groom to catch his reaction. Right as the bride rounded the corner and he saw her for the first time, the groom’s mother stood up directly into my eye-line blocking the shot.