Twice a bride, forever and always a photographer.
It’s kinda funny when people learn I’m a photographer. It’s always, “oh what kinda photography do you do?”.
Although our brand is very recent, I’ve been perfecting the craft of composition since 2009 from the grand age of 16. Picture this, it was the age of duck face, and finding the right angles to take your headshot from on the front facing camera of your flip phone. A teenage girl that coded her myspace profile and song to boot to match her new profile picture.
Since then we grew from a camera phones and point and shoot. Moved on from a crop sensor dslr and now illustrating life on our first big girl mirrorless full frame dslr.
Now thanks to the Freelance opportunities, networking, and experiences we took the jump of growing into our own brand.
But what kind of photographer am I?
I don’t think I’ll ever really know.
I started the journey learning portrait, navigating into events and weddings, Now we are on our way to conquer studio and controlling our own light.
Truthfully, If I need to put a label on my photography I think my photography is preservation photography, capturing the moment for what it is or was and/or Illustration Photography, telling the already Present story with the lenses being my brush and light and color being my paints.
Doing my art inspired by the story already told to me. Placing it in pictures for those to experience the flavor of the moment not designed in the mind to keep for only one soul to know.
The Image of beauty but trapped in something less tangible.
I was always told “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” In which I disagree with my full heart. With certain settings, mindset and a little bit of determination isn’t beauty in the hands of the sculptor? Eyes are mere windows, hands are really where it forms. Hands are the guide, in which a forms mold. Between moving around focus f-stops and iso the majority of the work goes to the hands. Maybe my specialty i could just call story sculpting photography and start a new term. I enjoy to many artistic styles to say I specialize in just one.
Im diverse and intricate.
Gentle and Eager with the experience of being twice the bride, but forever and always the photographer.
Portrait by Paulette Michelle Photography
Your story about being a bride twice and still loving the camera hit me right in the feels. I remember my own wedding in 2018—my husband and I were both photographers, and we spent the whole day swapping lenses instead of posing. The ceremony felt like a living photo album, each glance and smile captured in real time. A few years later, when my sister got married, I was asked to be her photographer, and I found myself reliving those same moments, but this time through a different lens, literally and emotionally. It reminded me how photography can be both a profession and a love language, binding us to the people we care about. I’ve since started keeping a small…
Reading your story about being a bride twice and still chasing the perfect shot reminded me of my own double‑wedding weekend a few years back. My sister and I got married within weeks of each other, and I was the designated photographer for both ceremonies. The first day I felt like a nervous rookie, fumbling with lighting and trying not to miss the vows. By the second wedding, I’d learned to anticipate the little moments—the nervous hand squeeze, the tear that slides down a cheek, the laughter that erupts when the best man tells a story. https://haikudeck.com/presentations/F7ILWn3gbF Those candid flashes are what I still cherish more than any posed portrait. It’s funny how being on both sides of the aisle…
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