Tuesday, February 13, 2007




This is my first attempt at creating a blog. I was encouraged to create my blog by a photographer that I greatly admire, Corey McNabb !

I have always loved photographing beautiful landscapes and wild life. Living nearly in the middle of the Great Smokey Mountains gives you plenty of opportunities to capture wonderful images.

I never imagined that my passion for nature photography would lead me to photographing weddings. Just like most photographers, I was asked by a friend to photograph her wedding. In this case, my wonderful wife was asking for one our friends. I told her that I didn't think I was capable. Keep in mind that photographing people on the move was far more dangerous than a tree in the forest.

After a couple of weeks of extreme pressure I gave in and agreed to photograph the wedding. I immediately bought every book, and magazine I could find on the subject of Wedding Photography. Then I surfed the world wide web for more information. After about a month of intense reading, I really began to feel that I had made a terrible decision in agreeing to photograph our friend’s wedding. A couple’s wedding is one of those milestones’in life they will always remember. I didn’t want our friend’s to have under go intense therapy after they seen the horrible wedding images that I had produced. I had convinced myself that I wasn’t capable of producing great wedding images.

My wife has always believed more in me and my abilities than I do. She skillfully managed to calm me down, and to reassure me that I could in fact, photograph this wedding and do a fantastic job of it.

The day finally came when our friends forever committed themselves to each other, and yours truly was there to photograph this grand occasion. Once I began to click off images of this beautiful moment, something magically took over in me. I felt such a peace within my inner self that is hard to explain. All I know is that wedding changed me and my ideas about wedding photography forever!


It was an excitement like I had never before felt behind the camera. My photographer friends described it best, “Danny, you found you’re passion!” They were right. I had truly found something that I was completely passionate about.

So the journey began! I’ve been studying all the great wedding photographers of today such as: Joe Buissink,Dennis Reggie,Mike Colon, and Corey McNabb to name a few. These modern day masters give me inspiration to continually improve and perfect my skills as a photographer of beautiful moments in life.

Well that’s it about it for now, I hope you will continue to check in from time to time and follow us through this wonderful journey of life!

Danny

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Danny and Janet,
Thank you both so much for the wonderful pictures and time you have spent with us.
I could not be more happy with the final products.
The pictures are great and you made me look fabulous.
Thank you thank you thank you!!
Everyone that has seen them likes them a lot!

I wanna do it again!

- Beth Owenby.