I love my 85mm

Such a fun lens

I have a family shoot tommorow...

I just may bring bubbles

Happy weekend

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   First of all I want to thank the eight couples who have responded to my "Your Love" project and can't wait to meet you all over the next couple of months. I feel truly honored that you would allow me to learn more about you and capture moments and memories that hopefully you will value over the years to come. Your enthusiasm has truly been a blessing to me.

I never imagined that people would be willing to travel so far to be a part of this project.

Thank you

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   I pretty much bring my camera with me everywhere I go these days. If you don't get chased out of pier one you can find some really interesting compositions just hanging around for the eyes to go exploring in. 

wonderful shapes.....

wonderful colors.....

provoke wonderful feelings.....

Daniel

Lately I have noticed that the photographers that once inspired me don't have the same effect as they once did. Early on in my days of turning photography into more then just a hobby I was fascinated with the artistic direction that photoshop and a variety of other programs allowed for. I vowed to turn myself into a seasoned photoshop ninja...... You really can create whatever mood you fancy with a little proprietary know how and I found myself caught in that trap of caring more about Art then I did the people I was hired to photograph. Over the last week or so I have gone back to some of those websites I once visited and noticed that they

seem cold.

void of emotion

Sure they are artistic and colorful and belong possibly on the cover of a magazine but if I happened to be a part of the couple pictured in the photographs I would feel as if the photographer didn't capture me or us or what we are.

Most of the wedding photographs I see anymore all look the same.

Same pose

Same smile

Same out of the box emotions

There are a few photographers who have discovered ways to avoid a pose

It almost seems as if the photographs are so real that you can feel the emotion being exchanged by the two people dedicating their life to each other.

The journey I am on is one of dicovering the love that two people have

I want to feel what they are feeling

How else would I know what it is that I need to capture?

Janet also has weapons of mass destruction under the stairs of our porch

Happy birth of a nation day.

From Mr and Mrs Darkershadesofbrown

It's kinda like a card