I love photographing weddings! It's the only special occasion where as a photographer I get to capture one-of-a-kind candid memories and create artful photography worth framing.

I became fascinated with photography at an early age, thanks to my godmother who lent me her film camera. It wasn't the camera that that got my attention, but the art I could create with it. Plus, I knew nothing about photography and loved the way it felt knowing how a simple tool like this camera could help me create images that I wanted to share with the world around me. If only I still had that camera, a Nikon F1 circa 1974.

After high school I received a scholarship to attend Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Instead of following my passion for photography, I ended up taking film so I could one day make movies in Hollywood. Just before graduating I was picked up by a production company centered on doing high-end tv commercials after I received a couple of accolades in film productions I did while at school. Unfortunately, all this was at the heels of 911 and my career took a sharp turn sideways into marketing when the market changed everyone's career. So I decided to start my own studio with my brother and who wanted to use his degree. As it turned out, I ventured into publishing and printed a local community magazine for the next couple of years. In an unexpected twist of fate lead me to start photographing the cover for the magazine and realized how much I liked doing the portraits. This was my second game changer!

Now eighteen years later, I am a full-time wedding photographer with tons of creative experience in my rear-view mirror. So I've been shooting