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
