Sitting with my fellow photojournalism students at RIT in 1998, as we were moments away from graduating, we went around the room talking about what we wanted to do. I didn't know what I wanted to do but I KNEW what I didn't: weddings or mitzvahs. Milestone photography was staid, stiff, formal, and anything but spontaneous. I embarked on a career as a photojournalist working for such publications as the Washington Post and New York Times. Thrilled that my photos might make a difference in the world I kept away from weddings and mitzvahs.

"That is not what I do. I am a serious photojournalist. I want to make a difference in the world." In the middle of photographing a friend's wedding I realized that I simply needed to change my definition of the world. What greater impact could my photography have on the world, the world of a family, than providing them with timeless images telling the story of their lives? I couldn't think of any. Storytelling. Milestone photography is all about telling the story of a new family forming or growing. The pages of their story are filled with moments - large and small. These stories are best told when you are left to be yourself.

I am thrilled to hear from families I have worked with about the importance of their wedding photos. I am moved when they tell me that their photos captured the love they felt that day, and continue to feel to this day. I love that when a couple looks at their photos after thirty years have passed that they will become those young people they see there again, imagining the future they will build together for in a still image we never age. That is the world I try to change with every wedding I photograph and that is why I am honored to be able to help so many people with my art, my storytelling, my photography.

Sitting with my fellow photojournalism students at RIT in 1998, as we were moments away from graduating, we went around the room talking about what we wanted to do. I didn't know what I wanted to do but I KNEW what I didn't: weddings or mitzvahs. Milestone photography was staid, stiff, formal, and anything but spontaneous. I embarked on a career as a photojournalist working for such publications as the Washington Post and New York Times. Thrilled that my photos might make a difference in the world I kept away from weddings and mitzvahs.

"That is not what I do. I am a serious photojournalist. I want to make a difference in the world."

In the middle of photographing a friend's wedding I realized that I simply needed to change my definition of the world. What greater impact could my photography have on the world, the world of a family, than providing them with timeless images telling the story of their lives? I couldn't think of any. Storytelling. Milestone photography is all about telling the story of a new family forming or growing. The pages of their story are filled with moments - large and small. These stories are best told when you are left to be yourself.

I am thrilled to hear from families I have worked with about the importance of their wedding photos. I am moved when they tell me that their photos captured the love they felt that day, and continue to feel to this day. I love that when a couple looks at their photos after thirty years have passed that they will become those young people they see there again, imagining the future they will build together for in a still image we never age.

That is the world I try to change with every wedding I photograph and that is why I am honored to be able to help so many people with my art, my storytelling, my photography.

Sitting with my fellow photojournalism students at RIT in 1998, as we were moments away from graduating, we went around the room talking about what we wanted to do. I didn't know what I wanted to do but I KNEW what I didn't: weddings or mitzvahs. Milestone photography was staid, stiff, formal, and anything but spontaneous. I embarked on a career as a photojournalist working for such publications as the Washington Post and New York Times. Thrilled that my photos might make a difference in the world I kept away from weddings and mitzvahs.

"That is not what I do. I am a serious photojournalist. I want to make a difference in the world."

In the middle of photographing a friend's wedding I realized that I simply needed to change my definition of the world. What greater impact could my photography have on the world, the world of a family, than providing them with timeless images telling the story of their lives? I couldn't think of any. Storytelling. Milestone photography is all about telling the story of a new family forming or growing. The pages of their story are filled with moments - large and small. These stories are best told when you are left to be yourself.

I am thrilled to hear from families I have worked with about the importance of their wedding photos. I am moved when they tell me that their photos captured the love they felt that day, and continue to feel to this day. I love that when a couple looks at their photos after thirty years have passed that they will become those young people they see there again, imagining the future they will build together for in a still image we never age.

That is the world I try to change with every wedding I photograph and that is why I am honored to be able to help so many people with my art, my storytelling, my photography.