overdue.slideshow

i know, i know…this is long overdue, but a few weeks ago i wrote about my friend from childhood named Laura and her engagement to a wonderful man (who is just younger than me to seem like a boy still)…but that’s cool, Laura….you GO girl…

I told a story about how Laura went home from a slumber party b/c i scared her when we were little, but that is only one of hundreds of memories i have of Laura.

I think of Laura as STRONg…..sometimes things in life don’t go as planned, and we persevere…and Laura is a testament to that. She is a fighter…literally, a TouGh person….i can’t recall a physical fight she may have ever been in, but i can tell you that had i been in one when we were growing up, i wouldn’t have wanted it to be with her. Does that make sense?…she scares me a little…in a good way….she doesn’t put up with anyone’s sh*&….

Her images with her fiance, Jake, are great….and i don’t mean that to sound like i did a good job photographing her, i mean that in that WHO THEY ARE really shows through the lens. You photograph people and you pose them, move them into a flattering light or whatever, but only in TRUE people and TRUE moments does who a person TRULY is at heart who through all of that.

Their love is something to be treasured…and you see it. 

I was asked last year to write something for mine and Clint’s best friend, Jessica’s, wedding….it was an honor to be asked to read in a wedding, but to be asked to WRITE something was scary…but when i found the words and it REALLY told who they were…they were so perfect, i almost didn’t believe that i had written them. These words that follow must ring true for all “meant to be couples” because they were my favorite in what i wrote and they are also true for Laura and Jake.

“What he keeps safe, she keeps possible.”

He is her strength, her safety, her rock…she is his laughter, his soul, his light….

and i think these images show that.

i hope you enjoy watching this slideshow…there are a few glitches (repeat images at the end and a few areas where it skips black) but i think that being a photographer (and not just someone with a camera) is really being able to tell a story…with characters and not needing the words to describe who they are.

Laura, Jake and Davina….ps…i recommend clicking on the slideshow so that it takes you to YOUTUBE and then going FUll Screen…