Quick question: Attract or Fall in love?
Answers will be graded!
Seriously though, leave your approach – or comment if you’ve got a jucy story about ‘attracting’ just the right guy; or falling for a crazy girl.
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 to work for clients who understand individual expression, and to work so hard to really capture it for them.
There’s a lot of competition in the ‘wedding photography’ market these days, but as I’ve been observing weddings since 2003 – these nuances are easily noticed to my experienced eye. Â The WPJA gave me a top 5 in the nation ranking in 2004, and aging has only made me more sensitive to these moments – aware and able to capture them.
What does a relationship look like?
It’s a theme we have rolling here, it’s an answer to ‘what is a photojournalist’, ‘what is a visual storyteller’?
In today’s installment it’s also an answer to ‘How do I get good photojournalistic pictures?’ and how we as intense artists like to burrow into your life to tell these stories….let me illustrate so you can help me find these stories and threads to make your pictures come alive with your own family’s stories. You see I wouldn’t have known to look out for this, had I not ridden to the ceremony with the bride and her father in the classic Rols Royce limo:
In Courtney’s father’s hands is a plastic sandwich baggie of candy:
They are laughing sharing memories of how he would bring candy in his jacket pocket to keep his children occupied during church services.  Courtney’s not to old to demand a few sweets!
Liesl and I are proud to present…
Who is Make Love Real? from Neil Cowley on Vimeo.
…the first section of four short films about our business. Â We’re totally excited to share these with you over the next couple months as we book new weddings, meet new people and get used to our new home in Charlotte – anyone in the world can meet with us through our site. Â A BIG thanks to Andrew Marzano the producer of our series.
I have to dedicate this first video to Liesl, the love of my life – who’s inspired me to such great heights of experience, and such great depths of understanding.
With this post, I’m initiating a new category in the site called ‘Love Note’ where anyone can send in a love note that will be published as a public proclimation for the 5-10,000 people who visit this site every month. Â We’re open to any kind of media, and will help you host and present it. Â I hope to see us develop this into a little bit of a friendly competion – since my love note to Liesl started with a big production budget – I’m winning!
But like the old horse says, “when you are real, you can’t be ugly” – so don’t be intimidated, start sending it in!!
