I often think and feel that I'm not a good photographer (don't panic and quit my website) in that producing really nice images isn't skill, but after more than 20 years of being a photographer I still feel like I just get lucky all the time. Now most of it is skill - it's knowing to be in the right place at the right time and knowing what equipment needs to be used and what settings to enter (I still shoot entirely in manual mode) and what to say to the couple and how to get them to interact etc. But I've done so many weddings over so many years it all feels like it's coming from my subconscious, so when I take gorgeous images like the one above to me it feels like I just got lucky. But I seem to get lucky at every wedding. Perhaps the magic doesn't lie within me but it's in the couple. Sure this is a gorgeous sunset, and sure Manor by the Lake is a beautiful venue that is rife with photographic opportunities... but maybe I feel like it's luck because it's actually the couple that make these images special - and that's the one thing I can't control. I should have been a philosopher.
Location: Manor by the Lake.
Keywords: Photographer-directed image (128).