Formal training at Bowdoin College and Brown University. Brian's development began while working with National Geographic photographer...len Rowell in western Tibet, Nepal and India. The techniques developed were simple: be consistently respectful, unobtrusive and friendly. Brian quietly charmed his way in and out of Chinese jails, through rioting civil servants in Kathmandu and was welcomed to photograph more prohibited elements of real daily life then most ever get access to. Brian learned there that a quick smile, a respectful nod and an unobtrusive approach can create incredible photographic opportunities.
Brian continued to take on various editorial assignments throughout Asia, Central America, Canada and The United States. He has covered everything from sea turtle rescue efforts in Costa Rica to documenting the impacts of logging in British Columbia. His work appears in a variety of publications including books by Random House, as well as regional and national magazines.
But how and why weddings? At Brian's own Hawaiian beachside wedding, he was amazed by how obtrusive his otherwise incredibly talented photographer was and thought that there had to be a better way. It's his incredible creativity, quick sense of quiet humor and commitment to capturing the real essence of a wedding that make his photographs unique and cherished. With studios in San Francisco and Maine, Brian teaches photography workshops throughout the United States and supports destination weddings worldwide.Read More
I received a Bachelors of Fine Art with a photography concentration from UMass/Amherst. As an undergraduate I completed an internship...th Salt magazine in Portland, Maine. I photographed one story on sea urchin divers and another on female rock and rollers. Those experiences ignited a passion for photojournalism. I have shot for various daily and weekly newspapers in New England, and continue as a stringer with the Associated Press. During the winter, I operate a portrait and race photography business located at a local ski resort. I am an avid skier and organic gardener.Read More
Nadra specializes in bringing a fine art documentary approach to her wedding and portrait photography. She received her bachelor's...gree in studio art from Humboldt State University, in Arcata California. While there, she focused on developing her artistic skills and a life long love of photography. She has over 10 years of experience in the wedding industry and has photographed all over Maine, New England and California. With Nadra's experience and fine art background she is able to provide all of her clients with beautifully executed artful images. Nadra has been recognized in leading bridal publications and has won numerous awards for her work.Read More
Beth Fitzgerald, owner and photographer of Blush, has run a successful, award-winning wedding, portrait and commercial photography...siness for 9 years. Her work in photojournalism has been featured in The Washington Post and has been seen in The Los Angeles Times, The Seattle Times, The Oregonian, The AZ Republic, The Tribune (Phoenix) and has been used by the AP news service. Her news, portrait, feature, sports, fashion and illustrative photographs have received numerous awards from the National Press Photographers Association, the Arizona Press Club, and the Associated Press Managing Editors Awards. Her degree in photojournalism is from Arizona State.Read More
I was eleven when I began documenting anything and everything within an eleven year old's world in upstate New York. Having received...degree in Professional Photography I began building a career in what I have always loved most: freezing a moment in time that will provoke emotion now and in the future.
I have won photojournalistic awards through the Maine Press Association and various wedding photographers associations. I work out of my home studio as a freelance photojournalist which includes wedding photojournalism. I have been published in a number of magazines and newspapers most recently SEVENTEEN Magazine. I have contributed to the Associated Press.
I have a wonderful husband who, being in the high tech industry, began his wedding assistance by securing all images shot during each wedding. After training he now works as a documenting assistant covering the groom before the ceremony and alternate shots throughout the entire wedding day.
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Jennifer Stone has a Bachelors Degree in Fine Art and ever since her dad put her in charge of the family vacation photos at the age... 10 she's had a camera in her hand. Before falling in love with wedding photography Jennifer photographed landscape and travel images and has had several gallery shows and images published. Jennifer shares her adventurous spirit with her husband and they travel extensively throughout the year. Jennifer typically photographs 25-30 weddings a year in a documentary style focusing on capturing the moments and emotions that tell the story of your wedding day. Jennifer is based in Bangor, Maine and loves to travel to photograph weddings. Read More
Jason has a master's degree in journalism from the University of Colorado at Boulder. His background in photojournalism has given him...verse experiences, shooting everything from professional sports to executive portraits. Working as a freelance photographer and photojournalist, Jason's images have been featured in national and international publications, books, annual reports and ad campaigns.Read More
Published in national magazines such as Oprah, National Geographic Traveler, People, Yankee, New England Travel & Life, Coastal Living...aine Boats, Homes & Harbors, and Down East, and with work appearing on the cover of books, in the America 24-7 series, and even on a jigsaw puzzle, calendars and cocktail napkins, Michele is an award-winning photojournalist. She trained the old-fashioned way, with ten years at daily newspapers in Maine, Mississippi, and Alabama. As a newspaper photographer, Michele photographed everything from presidents to prize livestock and earned awards from the Associated Press, state news associations and the National News Photographers Association.
An avid hobby photographer in college, Michele nevertheless trained as a lawyer. However, she got the nerve to leave law practice for professional photography when a picture she took of a fellow lawyer coaching little leaguers snagged the grand prize in a national contest sponsored by Nikon. In Maine since 1995, Michele works all over the state on assignment for a variety of corporate clients, magazines, colleges, and Maine businesses. She accepts a limited number of weddings each year, shooting primarily between Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Bar Harbor, Maine, but is available for travel.Read More
Samantha Warren is an award-winning photojournalist who operates Samantha Warren Weddings out of a colorful cape in Portland where...e lives with her husband and their two beloved pointers, Alder and Nikon. It was through her work as a writer and later as an editor at several western Maine newspapers that Sam's passion for photojournalism was founded.
Her editorial images have appeared in newspapers including the Washington Post and here in Maine at the Lewiston Sun Journal, the Morning Sentinel and Mainebiz. Her wedding work has been featured in Real Maine Weddings magazine and DownEast Magazine's Vows and is appreciated on walls, bedsides and coffeetables all around the country.
Sam has won several awards from the WPJA, including third place in the ceremony category of the first-ever WPJA/Bride's Magazine contest and seventh place in the creative portraits category of a WPJA quarterly contest in 2007. She continues to train her photographic eye by participating in workshops and other professional development opportunities. Sam is passionate about storytelling, making people laugh/think/feel/grow, New England, weddings, winter, artisan cheese, pointing dogs, Kyle and their adventures together.Read More
Carl Walsh has been a professional photographer since 1984. His work is driven by a strong desire to experience and document life through...teraction with others. Over the years it has brought him in contact with people from a wide socioeconomic range, from indigenous tribes in remote parts of Madagascar, to popes and presidents. His clients include Audubon, Business Week, Down East, National Geographic Traveler, People, Smithsonian, Time, U.S. News & World Report and Yankee magazine, among others.
Carl has received numerous awards for his photojournalism, including multiple honors in the prestigious international Pictures of the Year competition and is a three time New England Press Photographer of the Year of the National Press Photographer's Association. He is also an award winning member of the Wedding Photojournalists Association.Read More
Deb Cram is an award winning photojournalist based in the NH/Southern Maine area. She has worked professionally as a photojournalist... New Hampshire for over 20 years and is well known in the community. As Director of Photo & Multimedia at Seacoast Media Group (Portsmouth Herald), she is able to balance management and shooting responsibilities.
Deb's awards include, Photographer of the Year-New England Press Association 1996; Photographer of the Year-New Hampshire Press Association 1996, 1997, 2001; Photographer of the Year-Spotlight Magazine 1997,1998,2000; Winner of the Gordon Parks Photography Competition 1996, 2005 and Short film accepted for screening at NH Film Festival, 2008.
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Kim Chapman is an award winning wedding photojournalist whose work has been seen in various exhibits and numerous publications including...feature in a national wedding magazine. Kim has over 11 years professional experience and five years as a wedding photojournalist. She continues to stay current by continuing her education through Nikon, Adobe and other various workshops/seminars and shows. One of Kim's recent personal major accomplishments is being accepted to WPJA and being hired to do destination weddings!Read More
Roxanne owns and operates Roxanne Ashey Photography located in MidCoast Maine. She has been shooting weddings for 15 years. What she...ves about weddings is the uniqueness of each one from the last, and being able to capture each one in it's own special way. She photographs between 20-30 weddings each year. When not shooting weddings she is still maintaining relationships with previous brides and grooms by documenting the progression of their lives through maternity, birth, newborn, and family photos. She recently married her own soul mate and knows how important documenting that day is. Read More
Stacey Kane never set out to be a photographer.
Her success in the world of photography did not come about by way of textbooks... workshops. Instead it came from instinct....from her unique way of anticipating and seeing not only the obvious events happening around her, but also the personalities and emotions driving those moments.
Stacey believes that the most important times are those found in the moments unrehearsed. She takes an editorial approach to photographing weddings, believing that the images that capture the expressions and moments naturally will be the ones most cherished in the future. She will not force you into an awkward pose or interrupt a private moment in order to stage a photo. (Stacey will NEVER ask you to stop and smile at her in the middle of your first dance!)
It's her natural ability to put those around her at ease and to anticipate "real" moments that makes her the choice of brides and grooms from every corner of the world. Couples planning an intimate event in the backyard of a childhood home to those planning an exquisite extravaganza; brides and grooms planning a celebratory weekend event in a tropical destination and celebrity couples planning a private ceremony and party out of the spotlight...... all choose Stacey for her expertise, her artistic vision and her warm personality and sense of humor.
An award winning photographer, Stacey has been published in numerous magazines including InStyle Weddings, Martha Stewart Weddings, People, Grace Ormonde, Elegant Bride, Destination Weddings & Honeymoons, The Knot (national), The Knot (Boston) and other publications.
Stacey is a proud hockey/soccer/football Mom (yep...all 3!!) and resides in Maine with her husband, a daughter, two sons and a chocolate lab.Read More
Gregory Rice has been a professional photographer since 1992. He studied photojournalism and received his degree from Ohio University...reg then moved on to staff positions at newspapers in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Maine. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Columbus Dispatch, Downeast Magazine, Ohio Magazine, Outside Magazine and various trade journals. During this time in his career Gregory’s work was honored by many organizations including the National Press Photographers Association, the Maine Press Association and the New England News Executives Association.Read More
Kate Philbrick has been a professional photographer since 1992. She currently lives in Gorham, Maine and is Director of the Photography...ogram at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine. Her photographs have been published in Yankee Magazine, Ready Made Magazine, the award winning documentary film 'Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace' and in the television program 'Real Simple', May 2007.Read More
Thea Dodds is a photojournalist turned full-time wedding photographer. She has worked for newspapers, ad agencies, independent film...oductions and brides to be since 2001.Read More
Douglas Despres first emerged nine years ago as the staff photographer for The University of South Florida’s award-winning daily paper...he Oracle. What sets Doug apart is his quirky, humorous approach to photography, and to life. He holds a Bachelor of Studio Arts Degree from USF, is an international award winning member of the renowned Wedding Photojournalist Association (WPJA), and serves as a special correspondent to The Cambrian newspaper.
Exhibitions of Doug’s photographs include Amnesty International’s 'Wake Up World!', 'The National Summit on Cuba' featuring Mikhail Gorbachev, and 'One Community, One Book' featuring Pulitzer prize winning playwright Nilo Cruz.
The bright take off into wedding photojournalism began eight years ago. Doug’s photographs are perhaps best known for their stark, black and white, snapshot aesthetic, and his fine-tuned sentiment for light. Doug presses forward into the field with a certain joie de vivre, and seeks out peoples who make the ground of reality a wavering mirage.Read More
Nora spent her young years in the Midwest and then moved with her family to Southeast Asia and spent few years in Thailand and Taiwan...he has visited many countries, including New Zealand, Australia, France, England, Japan, Canada and Mexico. As a result, she loves traveling and jumps at every opportunity!
Traveling to many beautiful places piqued her interest in photography which she pursued as a hobby since her teens. Even in college, while she majored in economics, she took classes on the side that indulged her creative side.
After moving to Los Angeles and assisting a well known photographer at a few weddings, she discovered her love of photographing weddings. Nora incorporates “flow posing” to get the most natural poses and expressions possible. She prefers natural lighting as opposed to heavy flash use.
Nora has photographed weddings at many beautiful locations including country clubs and wineries in Santa Barbara, beaches in Malibu, Disneyland, and downtown Chicago. When she’s not photographing weddings, she enjoys snowboarding, scuba diving, reading, watching comedies, and playing with her cat and dog.Read More
I have had a passion for photography ever since I was young. Many years ago, I was asked to photograph a family member's wedding. When...ople saw the images, they were amazed. I was then asked to shoot for a friend, and the requests began to grow. So I left my formal education and job as a scientist to pursue this avenue.
Applying my professional background as a scientist, I believe has been a big advantage as a photographer. I look at my environment, people, and the world much more critically. I have learned in my science training to think several steps ahead and that has been a great asset as a wedding photographer, being able to anticipate.
Having spent time photographing in places as far away as the People's Republic of China, the passion has grown deeper and deeper. I formally started my photography business in 2006 and haven't looked back. Read More
Connie Miller is both a gifted artist and a reliable professional who loves her work. Formally trained at Wheaton College in fine art...otography, Connie possesses a unique sensibility that allows her to consistently endow her images with compositional strength, emotional insight, and an understated elegance. Her work has appeared in publications such as O magazine, Brides Boston, and Labella Bride. Currently residing in Newton, Massachusetts, Connie photographs weddings throughout New England, but greatly enjoys documenting events in Tennessee as well, as Knoxville was her childhood home.Read More
Brian Post started his photography career documenting weather, adventure sports, and landscapes in the White Mountains of New Hampshire...is work has been featured in publications ranging from the New York Times to Climbing magazine and in local galleries. Brian has photographed dozens of weddings throughout the Northeast in the past several years.Read More
Justin decided to apply his passion of photography to weddings after realizing he had the ability to create images that will impact...s clients today and for generations to come. He has been a photographer since he was young and decided that pairing that with his business and hospitality degree in the wedding industry would be capitalizing on many of his strongest talents. His clientele exhibits a need for image capture that goes beyond the classic and extends to fresh perspectives and alternate angles. Only accepting a limited number of weddings per year allows his studio to provide individualized service and prompt delivery of elegant products.Read More
Anne Skidmore is known for her creative eye and drive. She provides an end product that is fresh, unique, and professional. After...ceiving a degree in Photography from the University Of New Hampshire, Anne followed her passion for the outdoors to North Conway, New Hampshire, where she now operates her business. Anne Skidmore Photography freelances to the outdoor sports industry in addition to weddings. Anne is easy to work with; her friendly persona is clear from the first time you get in touch. She will capture your day in an unobtrusive manner, and will produce images that will have you looking at them over, and over again.Read More
As a typical artist, there is plenty of second (and third and fourth) guessing about my work and being accepted into the WPJA was validation! I was so proud of myself and so honored to be involved with such an organization! The inquiries increased, as did my own ownership of my work. I was able to grow my business, raise my prices and take myself and my photography more seriously.
I could literally spend days (and have) pouring over the work of just the WPJA members from Maine. I am so humbled when I see their work and as a young photographer, their work is incredibly inspiring and informative. Living in a rural state and working the same dates as other photographers means we don't often get a chance to connect but through the WPJA and the forum, I have found e-mentors. I was also excited to have other like-minded professionals who I could refer people to.
I know some people don't find the value that I do in the WPJA and that is totally within their rights. That said, there are still many photographers, brides and artists who hold the WPJA in the highest esteem. I am one of them and I thank you for that opportunity. I finally feel like one of the cool kids.
Just wanted to take a second to thank you again for everything you do with WPJA. I'm honored to be part of such an incredible group. Like most, I always ask brides how they found me. I'm particularly interested in knowing this information since I not only haven't advertised my wedding photography in any significant capacity....I have an unlisted phone number to boot! In fact, it wasn't until about a month ago that I finally ordered business cards! So, it shouldn't come as any big surprise to know that a VERY large percentage of my business comes from WPJA. Even better, it doesn't just come from WPJA directly...it also comes from referrals of the other members of WPJA. I know that most of the members in my region, including myself, refer couples to the WPJA site when a wedding date is already booked for them. I believe that WPJA is successful for so many of us because it is a form of the best type of marketing....word of mouth.
Honestly, I could go on and on about the many positive attributes of WPJA from a photographer's perspective. Praise runs very high for your organization from my clients as well.
I want to thank you again for all that you do. I am more than proud to be a member of WPJA. I truly appreciate (as do the other photographers I've spoken with) that you uphold a higher standard for membership. Knowing the quality of photographers that are members of WPJA makes it very easy to refer brides to. I know David, Michele, Melissa and Jamie and they are wonderful photographers and great people. I'm thrilled to be in such good company!
It was nice to hear from you. Please let me know next time you make it to Maine. Maybe we could all try to get together.
Thanks again,
... Also, again wanted to say thanks for all your fine work in launching and promoting the wpja. We now use it as our referral site. If we are busy for a date we send the client to the wpja and say those are the photographers we would recommend. Hope to meet you some day.
Warm Regards,
I wanted you to know that I just returned from the most beautiful place in the world...Punta Cana, Dominican Republic! Thanks to WPJA, I was fortunate enough to be hired for this
beautiful destination wedding. It was such a dream come true for me! I never would have landed this if it wasn't for WPJA. I look forward to my upcoming destination wedding in St.
Thomas as well. Dreamy! Thank you so much for giving me these amazing opportunities!
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Known for its scenery, Maine offers the entire spectrum of outdoor beauty to make your wedding celebration and wedding photographs both elegantly beautiful and unforgettable. The nearly 3500 miles of Atlantic coastline gives the eastern portion of Maine the most breathtaking locations to have idea wedding photographs taken. With crashing waves and towering lighthouses, your wedding photographer will be honored to place you into a majesty scene of nature’s brilliance. Maine is certainly known for its one of a kind seafood assortment from lobster to clams that will make your wedding experience unique and pleasurable. The classic architecture and stylish bed and breakfasts allow towns like Ogunquit and Kennebunkport to be dream wedding locations. The mountainous regions of Maine are accented by the Appalachian Mountains, which begin in Canada and Maine and stretch themselves to the southern most states in America. The rugged terrain makes for scenic drives and adventurous hikes that will leave you with a vast array of activities for your wedding group. Ninety percent of Maine’s land contains forestry, which will present infinite options of panoramic views of towering trees and endless greenery to make your wedding photographs stand out with magnificence. Fall foliage in Maine will grant you with timely opportunities for your wedding photojournalist to shot wedding photographs that will contain a stunning assortment of tones and colors. With such a variety to choose from, Maine offers a mosaic of activities and scenery that will make your wedding destination picturesque and memorable.
Some of the best Maine fine art wedding photographers are now just a click away through the Artistic Guild of the WPJA! The AG takes the world-renowned artistic approach of WPJA wedding photojournalists to yet another level through post-production processing (usually Photoshop). AGWPJA photographers define Maine artistic wedding photography!
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