Also Serving: Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina
Bio: A graduate of Western Kentucky University's school of Photojournalism, David has worked for newspapers, and ad agencies. He has been awarded a gold ribbon from the WPJA and won several accolades for his work in the newspaper business. His editorial work can be seen in Atlanta Weddings and Atlanta Homes and Lifestyles magazines as well as commercial work in New York Times magazine, cottage living, Opera Home, Southern Living and major retailers around the country.
Bio: Documentary photographer, Manuel Llaneras, has over ten years experience as a Wedding Photojournalist. He's exhibited in galleries and museums, and is a recipient of an artist grant from GA Council for the Arts, and is a photo instructor as well. His work commonly appears in The Knot, Brides, and other magazines.
Bio: Cindy has worked in, studied and taught in the field of photojournalism for more than 25 years. She worked as an intern for the Associated Press, as a staff photojournalist for the Pensacola News-Journal and the St. Petersburg Times and as a picture editor for the Indianapolis Star. She also taught photojournalism at the University of Southern Mississippi, Florida Southern and St.-Mary-of the-Woods College. Through the years, Cindy has won awards from the Pictures of the Year International, the Associated Press, the Southern Short Course, the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar and the Women in Photojournalism Conference.
Bio: John Spink began shooting weddings in 1998. His experience as a photojournalist includes a world of subjects, including U.S. Presidents, Pope John Paul's U.S. pastoral visits, The Hyatt Regency disaster, Political Conventions, World Series, Superbowl, Olympics and a span of celebrities and major news events.
John's awards include AP, UPI, Cox News Service and the National Press Photographers Association. In 2006, John won Photo of the Year from the Georgia Associated Press and in 2007 first place for spot news from the Georgia Press Association. His knack to capture fast action and his creativity are the two pillars that stand out in his wedding photojournalism.
Bio: Mark is one of the owners and principal photographers of LaCour, a boutique photography firm built on the idea that people who value good photography have high expectations of how they
want their lives to be documented. Mark has fifteen years of photography experience working for newspapers and magazines as a documentary photographer. His work has been published in The New York
Times, Time magazine, and Sports Illustrated, among others. Mark's expertise is in documenting real moments and creating pictures that lay a foundation for your family legacy.
Bio: Ruth is a documentary wedding photographer and also does freelance lifestyle photography. Her photographic experiences have taken her around the world and across the United States. Ruth's unique style of story telling and lifestyle photography has evolved since being formally trained and mentored by several award winning photographers. Her portrait and lifestyle work for editorial and commercial clients has been published in the US and abroad. The clients that hire her tend to be adventurous, freespirited couples who aren't afraid to let the moment sweep them away. Ruth photographs 20 weddings a year and spends the time she's not traveling with her husband on their farm.
Favorite Destination Wedding Locations: United States
Bio: Dan started his photography career at the age of 8 encouraged by his mother's instructions on the workings of the Kodak Brownie II camera. He spent the whole afternoon lying on the grass in the late California summer sun taking pictures of his GI Joe figurines in full battle regalia. Little did he know his love of GI Joe was to be replaced with a love of photography. His formative years are now more affectionately referred to as the rangefinder, Polaroid and instamatic years. He majored in journalism in college, beginning his SLR years.
He now has over 20 years experience in newspapers. He swore he would never shoot weddings but finally caved under the pressure of friends and has now shot more than 323 weddings in the past 10 years. He has won numerous local, national and international awards. While lying in the grass at a recent wedding capturing the life-changing event before his eyes, he reminisced about an earlier time when he naively discovered his own lifetime passion. Nobody knows whatever happened to the GI Joe Brigade but Dan still has those original negatives and his mom just gave him that original Brownie II!
Also Serving: Hawaii, Georgia, Oklahoma and Kansas
Favorite Destination Wedding Location: Bahamas, Caribbean, Mexico, Costa Rica and the U.S.
Some of the best Georgia 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). WPJA photographers define Georgia artistic wedding photography!
If you choose one of our WPJA Georgia wedding photojournalists
as your wedding photographer, please let them know you found
them through the Wedding Photojournalist Association.
The WPJA at a glance: The Wedding Photojournalist Association
puts the best Georgia wedding photographers at your fingertips,
by granting membership only to the most talented professional
wedding photographers in the world--photographers who focus
solely
on using their documentary photography skills to capture the
moments of your wedding day.
Georgia, known for its geographic variety and
mild climate, is a pleasant location choice for many brides
and grooms. Georgia's
many transportation options will provide out of state wedding
guests and members of your wedding party with convenient travel
choices. Because the geography is beautiful and diverse in
Georgia, wedding photojournalists enjoy the many scenic backdrops
to compliment their wedding photojournalism. In Georgia, beach
weddings are common. Travel along the coastline and you will
see the beaches and barrier islands that provide breathtaking
backdrops for wedding photos. The fertile soil of Middle Georgia
has resulted in an abundance of beautiful countryside and rich
farmlands to serve as beautiful settings for your wedding.
With the mountains being a huge part of the geography in Georgia,
wedding photographers are often able to capture the beauty
of the Appalachians in their images. Georgia also enjoys the
variety of four seasons.
Thanks to the mild climate in Georgia, wedding locations usually
provide indoor and outdoor facilities to choose from. Wherever
you elect to have your Georgia wedding, the state provides
endless possibilities for great pictures.
Acworth
Adairsville
Adams
Adel
Albany
Alma
Alpharetta
Americus
Andersonville
Appling
Arabi
Ashburn
Athens
Atlanta
Augusta
Austell
Bainbridge
Barnesville
Baxley
Bishop
Blairsville
Blakely
Blue Ridge
Bogart
Braselton
Bremen
Brunswick
Buena Vista
Buford
Butler
Byron
Cairo
Calhoun
Camilla
Canon
Canton
Carrollton
Cartersville
Cedartown
Chamblee
Chatsworth
Chickamauga
Clarkesville
Claxton
Clayton
Cleveland
Cochran
College Park
Colquitt
Columbus
Comer
Commerce
Concord
Conley
Conyers
Cornelia
Crawfordville
Cumberland
Cumming
Cusseta
Dahlonega
Dallas
Dalton
Darien
Dawson
Dawsonville
Decatur
Demorest
Dillard
Donalsonville
Doralville
Doraville
Douglas
Douglasville
Dublin
Duluth
East Dublin
East Point
Eastman
Eatonton
Elberton
Ellijay
Evans
Fargo
Fayetteville
Fitzgerald
Flowery Branch
Folkston
Forest Park
Forsyth
Fort Oglethorpe
Fort Valley
Gainesville
Garden City
Grantville
Gray
Greensboro
Griffin
Hapeville
Hartwell
Hawkinsville
Hazlehurst
Helen
Hephzibah
Hiawassee
Hinesville
Hiram
Hogansville
Homer
Homerville
Jackson
Jasper
Jefferson
Jekyll Island
Jesup
Jonesboro
Juliette
Kennesaw
Kingsland
La Fayette
La Grange
Lake Lanier
Lake Park
Lawrenceville
Leesburg
Lenox
Lilburn
Lincolnton
Lithia Springs
Lithonia
Locust Grove
Loganville
Lookout Mountain
Louisville
Ludowici
Lumpkin
Lyons
Macon
Madison
Manchester
Marietta
Martin
McDonough
McRae
Metter
Midway
Milledgeville
Millen
Monroe
Montezuma
Monticello
Morganton
Morrow
Moultrie
Mount Airy
Mount Berry
Mountain City
Nahunta
Nashville
Newnan
Nicholls
Norcross
Oakwood
Ocilla
Omaha
Palmetto
Peachtree City
Perry
Pine Mountain
Plains
Pooler
Port Wentworth
Quitman
Rabun Gap
Reidsville
Richland
Richmond Hill
Rincon
Ringgold
Rising Fawn
Riverdale
Rockmart
Roswell
Royston
Rutledge
Sandersville
Sapelo Island
Sautee Nacoochee
Savannah
Smyrna
Snellville
Soperton
Springfield
St Marys
St Simons Island
Statesboro
Stockbridge
Stone Mountain
Summerville
Suwanee
Swainsboro
Sylvania
Sylvester
Tallapoosa
Tallulah Falls
Thomaston
Thomasville
Thomson
Toccoa
Townsend
Trenton
Tucker
Twin City
Tybee Island
Union City
Valdosta
Vidalia
Vienna
Villa Rica
Warm Springs
Warner Robins
Warrenton
Washington
Watkinsville
Waycross
Waynesboro
West Point
White
Williamson
Winder
Woodstock
Woolsey
Wrens
Wrightsville
Young Harris