I guess you could say that I accidentally became a wedding photographer. In 1977 a couple of my friends were getting married and since I was a decent amateur photographer I volunteered to shoot heir weddings. Word spread and before long I was doing about 5-6 per year fro friends and relatives. Fast forward to 1993, I came to a crossroads in my career. I was getting rather tired of working the weddings instead of attending them and told my wife I was going to quit doing them. She told me to purse it more seriously instead of just passively. I mulled that thought over for a while and thought, “why not?”. I started investing in seminars, equipment and advertising and within a few years
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Inside the Image with Grant Oakes
Thank you to Grant Oakes of Grant Oakes Photography for letting us Inside the Image. “In April of this year I conducted a wedding workshop in the Bahamas and on the first day we were doing a fashion style session in and around the Atlantis Resort a few hours before the wedding. There was this amazing light coming down from an overhead skylight adjacent to the hallway by the aquarium and had smoke coming up from a faux well that created a very surreal look. I positioned the couple on the ledge around the well, got back as far as I could (wedged against a wall) and put the camera near the floor and took the image without looking through the view finder. The image