Our Philosophy

I recently tallied the time I’d been paid for my photography. Seems strange that I'm in my 30th year.  I can’t hold myself to a single photographic philosophy for all those years. I started a photojournalist because I wanted to document the human condition.  I became the photographer for Furman University because I believed in its students and enjoyed photographing that slice of life.

After 17 years at Furman it was again time to move forward. I’ll admit I embrace wedding photography mainly because of my wife’s sheer enjoyment of weddings and the relationships we’ve come to cherish by being a part of their day.  I’ve written here before that while I was at Furman I was constantly asked if I did weddings. I always, and still respond “my wife, Mona does the weddings. I just do the photography.”

So what is our philosophy? It’s basically four concepts. We photograph no more than one wedding a day. That’s simple. We increasingly want to approach this event as more than what occurs in a span of six or so hours. We can’t be clock-watchers or interrupt the flow of a wedding event because we need to be elsewhere. It’s simply not fair to the client.

My wife, Mona, is always present as a photo manager. Working closely with coordinators and the couple, she allows me the freedom to be mindful of the third concept, looking for the candid. It’s the less posed, less noticeable shots that often capture the day’s essence. These are the photos that tell or should we say, best document the day.

More than just the standard list of poses, important as they are, it’s the prospect of being photo historians capturing a traditional and yet unique event in the lives of two people that bring us back for more every time.