to prepare for you my love

i rise in the early morning light with butterflies in my stomach, my heart swelling, my breath short.  a performance before me, the beginning but hardly the first chapter.  for we've been together for some days now my love.  the scent of your skin against mine, the taste of your kiss, the salty lips on mine, your heartbeat... i know thee well, yet today i prepare to meet you in front of an audience, the dearest of our hearts together with us.  i do.  until night falls and the sun rises and the world turns endlessly, i love you.  and i will take your hand in mine and place a golden ring on your finger and take you as my love until death do us part, until the sea takes us into her arms to the stars.  i am yours.

friday i'm in love

a groom's persepective one year after the wedding day:

Rebecca I hope this e-mail finds you well and enjoying our hot sunny summer so far.

I wanted to drop you a quick line to say thank you. It’s probably not often you receive an e-mail from a groom as most guys look at a wedding day as the “bride’s day” and we just sit back and do what we are told lol. I know that last year when Emily was putting together everything for the wedding the discussion on the photography was a big discussion, as a guy I was of the impression why can’t anyone just take the picture and save us the $ it was costing us. I will admit more than once I didn’t understand the cost concept and why it was such a big deal. Sorry for that in advance.

When I look back over the past year and have the opportunity to see the photos on our walls, in the books, etc, I can’t believe that you captured everything I imagined my beautiful wife to be, to see her facial expressions, her vision come to life, and most important my overall love for her.

I apologize for my initial thoughts on the cost of the photographs and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for giving both Emily and I a wedding to remember for the ages and the beginning of a life one couldn’t be happier about. You have done an amazing job and I look back a year ago as if it was just yesterday because of you and your phenomenal vision captured in photos.

If anyone ever tells you they are “concerned” with the cost of your photography tell them to contact me and I will let them know it was the cheapest part of the wedding when you consider what you do and what I get to look at daily because of you.

Thank you again. 

Quinn

( the archives: 1976 )

(my mum & dad)

(my mum & i in the driveway of grandma & grandpa wood's house)

(me in my crib... the resemblance with my own son is uncanny)

 

(me & my dad... yep, daddy's little girl for life)

what is a photograph?  

it's something you can feel.  deeply.  in the middle of your chest.

a photograph is a reminder.  a reminder of someone, of something, in the past...  almost guaranteed to have shifted or changed or departed.

it is an answer, an insight, a story.

i look at my parents, embracing, laughing from that honest, pure and real place inside themselves (you can almost hear it).   in the sunshine, in the country... with someone holding a camera.  a collaboration.  

who we don't see is part of this story.  the author.  the camera operator.  the friend.

as photographers we hold a key, we open a door, we invite.  

when you look back, all you see is the beauty.  how gorgeous you were, how young.  how happy and in love.

what a gift is the photograph.