Bend Oregon Wedding Photography
Welcome to my Wedding Photography Website
If you’re looking for my landscape photography website or my portrait photography website, please click the link. I split everything into three separate websites in order to focus on the three disciplines of my photography work.
Way back in the day, before I studied photojournalism at San Francisco State, before I worked at the Telegraph Herald in Dubuque, Iowa, before I worked at the Bend Bulletin, and before I was a wedding and portrait photographer, I did thousands of pictures of my friends partying in San Francisco. Watching for emotion in pictures became the foundation for work as a newspaper photographer, then a wedding photographer, and finally a portrait photographer. Now I’m working on becoming a Pet Portrait photographer.
The work on this website is the result of those years of having fun with my friends and having fun with just being a photographer. Always searching for light, composition, and emotion.
Why I love wedding photography
About midway through my time working as a newspaper photographer I started shooting weddings here in Bend. Most photojournalists won't shoot weddings. I was warned away from them. Then one day a newspaper coworker had a friend who wanted pictures from their wedding and he asked if I would do them. The wedding was here in Bend and very low-key. While doing the pictures I realized it was much more fun being a wedding photographer than what my photojournalist friends had described. I loved seeing the couple being so happy to be married. I loved the positive energy. I loved how the couple really enjoyed their pictures. I loved seeing a set of pictures showing the beginning, middle and end of a really fun day. A short story of peoples lives showing what they are like now and saving it for the future.
Since that first humble wedding, I've studied the art of wedding photography and the work of the great photographers. I've learned how to use remote lighting and now apply it to almost every situation during the day. I've also learned how to shift straight photojournalism like what's found in newspapers to more of the fashion photojournalism found in wedding photography.
The wedding photography portfolios in this site shows this. Please contact me for more information. This is my Bend Wedding Photography website. Here is my Bend Portrait Photography website.