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What is a moment? What is artistic photography? So many brides come to me and their first question is how many hours, when I ask myself how many moments?  Brides ask how many pictures, and I ask myself how many of my pictures, can change your expectations of pictures, teach you about the wondrous human [...]

A tender, encouraging kiss from the bride’s father – moments before she walks down the isle – is not something you can buy, but it’s something I deliver for my clients. I can’t sell you this picture – because it’s one of a kind. But, you can be sure that I will be looking out for these moments you can’t buy as I shoot your wedding photography. I try my best to tenderly observe all these moments that are yours, to make them immortal in the images. When my clients ask “What is a wedding photojournalist?” my best answer is that they are interested in “One Moment” and it shows in all the pictures.

Today I bring up the lead image for NeilCowley.com in the One Moment theme In this theme we bring up a single image, and discuss it… would having this image from your wedding be enough? As an accomplished photographer of 10 years, the basic observation is not enough – as I seek to shoot images [...]

Today’s small dream, was ignited by a child who didn’t want to be photographed “no flash photography allowed” she spouted over and over again looking at me out of the corner of her eye each time hoping running away to be chased covering her face for the excitement of being exposed who knows how needy [...]

One moment in a relationship…. Carefully captured. We ask ourselves as visual storytellers, ‘what is the story’?  here it is, in a single moment – captured perfectly as Mindy walks down the isle and John sticks out his  tongue  at her. I revel in the moment, and capturing this gives me great pleasure – both [...]

Let your clock die, Reclaim Your Time is an article I read the day I made this: PSSST – You’ll want headphones to savor this 4min experience. The slideshow track is by John Martyn – Small Hours from the album Sweet Little Mysteries: The Island Anthology Many of the slides on this slideshow are longer [...]

The WPJA awarded my photo from New Zealand 4th place in it’s quarterly awards: However the judges comments went like this: But I have to comment on this category in general. There were so many pictures of people walking away from the photographers that it puzzled me. I saw so many pictures with stunning light [...]

how do the details that we shoot add up? how sensitive are we while we are shooting? My wife was picking up on the eyes that Christine was giving her man during cocktails. If you care for someone, you know their moods during a party, you keep your eye on them, maybe you give them [...]