Ok, Image of the Week is back, baby! I’ve been deep in album production for clients from the past two years and was reminded of this image, one of my favorites from last year. I work for you, my client. To not just fulfill your expectations and satisfy preconceived ideas about your wedding photography and what you expect to see but I also work for me, always working for something more. Getting beyond the known or expected is one of the truly satisfying parts of being a professional artist. If you’re a wedding photographer in Philly, even for just a minute, you’ll likely take the classic picture of a couple on Broad Street in from of City Hall. It can be a fun and Phillycentric way to celebrate your wedding. Passing motorists honk, this past Sat. a pedestrian, looking like he just left the gym, had to snap the couple with his iPhone. On this particular June evening, it was raining softly. Just enough to get the streets a bit wet but not enough to ruin the evening. So Kathy, John and I ran out to get our requisite images of them on the median. Then while running back in as the rain picked up, I kept shooting, as one must always do, and grabbed this impressionistic take on the scene. It’s one of the wondrous surprises that gets discovered after the shoot, sitting at the editing station. I love the blur, the colors, the contrast of Kathy’s dress against the street, the oncoming bus. If you love it too, let me know. Call me and I’ll break the mold for your wedding!
image of the week | breaking tradition on broad street
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MELANIE + CHRIS | PHILADELPHIA WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY – Glasbern inn
Melanie and Chris had a laid back afternoon at the lovely Glasbern Inn up in Fogelsville. The Inn is a quaint venue, they’re an all organic farm as well as being host to the best light in a bridal suite anywhere in the U.S. The light in their Garden Cottage is amazing, I’ve been here for three weddings and had the pleasure of working in the Garden Cottage twice and if I could I’d only ever work with this kind of light which can be seen in pictures three and four below. Melanie and Chris did away with many of the wedding traditions we’re used to seeing – no cake cutting, no first dance. Like I tell all who ask, a wedding should really reflect you and your personality so that your guests walk away feeling like they were at an event that really spoke to you as a couple. This event was more like a backyard picnic in all the ways that we all love them. It was comfortable, relaxed, friendly and warm, just like spending time with old friends and family.
Melanie and Chris are still on their honeymoon in Italy through this weekend so I hope they are stuffed full of pasta and Barolo by now!
FULL SLIDESHOW HERE
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Blog Feature | PHOTOGRAPHUY.COM
I’m happy to share that another of my images has been featured on the wedding photography blog, PHOTOGRAPHUY. The site is a wedding photographer curated website. The site gives a photographer’s take on other photographer’s work. The picture that Karen Evans chose was taken in the Fall of 2008. It’s interesting to see what others will respond to in my work. I’m always flattered and a bit surprised. It’s good to be surprised when people chose images of yours that you may have overlooked or not thought was that special. Heather is such a distinctive woman that other clients of mine who’ve seen the pictures, commented how they’d see her and sometimes her and Ben around their neighborhood of Old City when they lived here in Philly. I’m looking forward to photographing Heather’s sister’s wedding next Feb. in New York City. 
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JESSE + CHRIS | WATERWORKS
Cool Cool Cool. That’s about how I’d sum up these two Center City Cats. Jesse and Chris had a small backyard wedding a year or so ago at Jesse’s parent’s house in the DC area. I wasn’t a part of that celebration but when they wanted to mark their marriage with a celebration here in Philly, I got the chance to join them and their family and the always refined Waterworks. Even though it was just a group of family and friends for brunch on a Sunday afternoon, they still wanted to mark the day with a set of killer pictures capturing all the fun. Jesse did all the details herself and with some help from her sister.
“aah!! These look great!!!”
– JESSE
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KIM + LARRY | REDUX PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER WEDDINGS
Kim and Larry grace the pages of the Philadelphia Inquirer today. Theirs is a great story, nothing too sappy or fussy, just good old romance.
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Inspiration shoot
I know, no moments or funky lighting or layered compositions. New projects, new challenges is what it’s all about. I love having new ideas to wrap my head, and camera around. I love getting into a detail shoot like this, it’s so different from the rest of my work that it’s a nice break and forces me to think differently and use different tools, or the same tools in a different way.
I worked with my pal and planner/designer of awesomeness, Beka from Innove to create this cool fun series for her series of Dish lunches. Beka gets together with some other women in business to network, eat, share ideas and inspiration. We worked with Table Art for these killer all green arrangements. And to just top it all off, the trend setting blog Style Me Pretty featured the whole shoot the other day. And the shoot was held at Terrain at Styler’s. Here’s a few of my faves from the shoot.
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Getting Ready ain’t just about the makeup | NYC Wedding Prep
I’m going to be direct and to the point. Pictures during the Getting Ready portion of the day are not just about hair and makeup. It’s about the anticipation, the build-up and excitement of the day. I love the unguarded moment, it will never get old nor will I ever tire of seeing these pictures years later.
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When it’s not about the Bride
One of the best ways to judge a person’s character is to look around and see how others feel about them. Kali surrounded herself at the Bellevue Park Hyatt in downtown Philly with many friends and family as she got ready for her wedding to Vince in 2008. Kali and Vince are a comfortable couple to be around and it showed in the reaction of their friends to their wedding day. I really dig this picture because of all the difference faces telling the same story as they react to Kali in her dress. Each bridesmaid is looking at a different part of Kali and their reactions are just as varied. It’s a subtle image and doesn’t smack you over the head but rather it lingers and builds with significance the longer you spend time with it. So sit back and enjoy!
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Torn between two photographers
So I heard from a recent potential client that she didn’t hire me, but went with another photographer. Wah. 
The final decision was given over to pure chance. “It’s sad to say, but I had to break out my lucky coin to make the final decision. Choosing a photographer was really tough.”
I can understand. There’s plenty of good photographer’s out there and when you find one, two or three that you like equally, whether for the same or different reasons, making a decision can seem overwhelming if not downright impossible. Instead of leaving the choice up to the randomness of a coin toss, try something more creative and engaging. Make us work for you! One idea could be to put the situation on the table in front of your final two photographers. Offer them a challenge. Say something like, “I’ve narrowed my choices down to two photographers and price is not an issue at this point. So put together a portfolio or presentation to convince me to hire you.” Give a time frame and see what happens. You never know what you may get out of the experience, you always learn something when you test someone’s creativity and challenge business as usual.
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Best of Wedding Photography
We’re THRILLED that we can finally announce that we’ve been selected to an exciting new group called Best of Wedding Photography. To be chosen for this group we were vetted by several of the world’s most accomplished wedding photographers as doing the most interesting/creative/exciting/emotional/etc. work in the industry. We are one of only two (now three) Philadelphia area studios on the list of 100 or so very accomplished wedding photographers worldwide. We’re looking forward to being a part of what looks to be a group that will set a new standard of excellence in the wedding industry in connecting discriminating brides and grooms with photographers of the highest quality. Check out our profile page.
A few years ago, when I was still an unmarried newspaper photographer and didn’t much think about weddings or wedding photography, a group called Wedding Photojournalist Association (WPJA) started out as a way to help brides find photographers all over the world who were doing work in the spirit of photojournalism or documentary photography. At the time the group was started, photojournalism was peaking as the new rage in wedding photography. Mainstream couples had firmly embraced the idea of spontaneous, honest, emotion filled pictures of their wedding day. Like any trend, some loved and embraced it and others weren’t sure what to make of it. Things of settled out a bit, wedding photojournalists aren’t the industry upstarts any more and trend setters are looking to come up with the new “thing.” One thing that I really like about BOWP, is that it’s just simply about good photography regardless of the labels. It’s fun to be a part of a group that’s got so many influences and backgrounds all lumped together.
- Nick
Way to go, Scott!
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dig it.