Elizabeth and John's Garden Party Wedding in Decatur.
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Sharing a few favorites from an amazing garden party wedding that took place at the bride’s parents’ home.
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Excited to announce three new WPJA winners
/The Wedding Photojournalist Association was created for photographers like me who shoot weddings the way a photojournalist would shoot for a magazine story.
I’m always honored when one of the photos I have taken at a wedding is chosen for an award.
Here are three award-winners from the latest round of WPJA contest.
This is a photo of the bride’s Mom laughing at a comment made by the bride during the getting ready portion of the day.
Getting ready photos are often some of the best photos taken on a wedding day.
This photos taken at the same wedding at Rhodes Hall shows Mom, the bride, and aunt helping the daughter of the bride get into her bridesmaid’s dress. A friend looks on from the background.
The final winner for this quarter is from a wedding that was postponed twice, once due to Covid and the second time due to a tornado. Here the bride in the foreground and the groom in the background hug guests after the ceremony.
Rangefinder Eye-Catching Photo of the Week
/This morning, I was delighted to find an email from Jacqueline Tobin of Rangefinder magazine with a link to Nikki and Christian’s cake-cutting photograph on their website.
Each week Rangefinder editors publish a few “eye-catching portraits and photos of the week” that have caught their attention. Along with the photo, the magazine publishes the backstories about the way they were created.
You can find the backstory to this photo here.
True Love Contest WPJA Awards 2021
/When the folks at the Wedding Photojournalist Association noticed how much the wedding photography market was slowing due to COVID, they created the True Love Awards for photographs taken in years past. They write, “While we eagerly await the right conditions to reopen our regular wedding photography contests, we are committed to giving WPJA members something to tide them over, namely a new contest celebrating l’amour.”
Only photographs from the current year are eligible for the regular documentary and artistic categories. But, the number of photographs each photographer had to choose from for 2020 had dropped significantly, so it seemed natural to allow photographers to pour through photographs from previous years to submit to this newly formed contest.
The call for entries reads like this, “We want images illustrating true love and emotion that were shot from your heart. The outpouring of love that you captured can be between two people or even among a group of family and friends expressing their mutual affection, admiration, and devotion.”
It’s always good to be given a challenge that asks you to look back at your work.
Here are a couple of TLC winners from the True Love Contest in 2021.
Covid Wedding Delayed and Delayed
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Nikki and Christian planned a small ceremony and celebration for October 25, 2020. They chose Lillian Gardens in Newnan, Georgia for the event. Even though they were already officially married, the couple still wanted to celebrate with a few close friends and family.
From the beginning, the couple had planned for guest to be wearing masks and the chairs to be set 6 feet apart. And then, a week before the wedding Christian, who was stationed in Germany, tested positive for Covid.
The couple chose a new date for their wedding to take place at the same venue in Newnan, and contacted their guests to let them know the celebration had been postponed to April 17, 2021.
Just a little more than three weeks before the new wedding date, an EF-4 tornado hit Lillian Gardens, the venue where their celebration was to take place.
Once again the couple had to regroup.
The big scramble the second time around was to find a venue available on April 17 or 18th. Finding a venue available on Saturday, April 17th proved impossible, but they were able to find an awesome venue for Sunday, the 18th.
Four hours away from the tornado-damaged Lillian Gardens, The Kehoe House and the 1790 Inn and Restaurant, in Savannah, Georgia, turned out to be perfect for their small garden wedding and quaint reception.
A Covid First: Wedding Portraits After the Wedding
/Laura and Uri came with their wedding party to Tallulah Gorge for wedding portraits.
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A Few things I Love About the WPJA Wed Elope Awards
/They’ve given me a reason to look at weddings I photographed years ago.
They play to my strengths as storyteller.
They make me think about my use of the Life formula for photo stories when I look at coverage of prior weddings.
Which makes me think about how I will tell the whole story of the next wedding I photograph.
And how I can vary my subject to camera distance and use of wide and telephoto lenses.
Here are a few photos from my last Wed Elope award winning wedding.. I photographed Evan and Kati’s wedding in 2013.. The wedding took place at the Cultural Center in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
Best of 2020: Part 3
/2020, for all it’s difficulties, was a good year for me, as far a photo contests go. I won 17 from the Wedding Photojournalist Association for photographs I took that year.
Here are a few of my favorites that did not win awards, because we all know, awards are only worth so much.
