Bio: A creative soul since birth, Tara began her artistic career as a professional ballerina at age 14 before branching into acting, singing, writing, and photography. As someone whose professional photos from her own wedding fell exceedingly short of her expectations, Tara is thrilled to have the opportunity to provide other couples with the kind of personalized, artistic images that she had wanted for herself. Tara is an award-winning member of the WPJA, and her work has been printed in regional and national publications.
Bio: Chris Humphrey is a genuine Wedding Photojournalist. With over seven years of professional wedding experience, Chris delivers authentic documentary photography with an uncanny ability to capture the details, the emotion and most memorable moments of your wedding day. Having been featured in both regional and national publications, Chris is fast becoming one of the most sought-after photographers in the Midwest.
Bio: While still in middle school, I began taking pictures of my friends and putting together albums. After I learned black and white printing in high school yearbook, my course was set.
For more than twenty years now, I have been photographing people. From the high school years of yearbook and the Johnston County newspaper in Tishomingo, Oklahoma, to my college days at the
University of Oklahoma student paper and then as a staff photographer for The Aspen Times in Colorado, I have been in love with photojournalism and particularly shooting weddings.
Bio: As a young person, art was always a means of happiness for the self-taught photojournalist Mary Morrow. She would enroll herself in the available art classes every semester in school. What started out as a love for painting, slowly transformed into a love for photography. What used to require a paint brush & some sort of surface to paint on, turned more into a desire to capture with film, the things she had once longed to paint. Friends & family knew that as long as Mary was invited, there would be a camera in the room!
This love turned into a passion as she married her High School sweetheart, Matt. Together, they founded ToMorrow's Memories Photography. Mary shoots between 12-16 weddings per year in order to give her clients the one on one time & attention that she feels each bride & groom deserves. Mary & Matt reside in Central Oklahoma along with their 3 kiddos & miniature yorkie.
Favorite Destination Wedding Locations: Mexico, United States, Bermuda, Bahamas, Caribbean and Europe
Bio: Ozarks local and award winning photojournalist, Jeremy Lawson is the founding member of Big Smile Photography and the most sought after wedding photographer in his region. Jeremy Currently resides in Ozark Missouri with his wife Lindsey his son Liam and their dog Charlie Brown.
Bio: International award winning wedding photojournalist, JH Schroeder's work is featured in Grace Ormonde's Wedding Style Magazine, and People Magazine. Janet also travels regularly, offering contemporary and stylish wedding photography.
Also Serving: Nebraska, Arkansas, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Alaska, Idaho
Bio:Becca Young Williams is a wedding and freelance newspaper and magazine photojournalist who has completed photographic projects on six continents. She received her Master's degree in Journalism from the renowned University of Missouri School of Journalism and is a frequent contributor to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She also exhibits her work in galleries.
Also Serving: Hawaii, Georgia, Oklahoma and Kansas
Favorite Destination Wedding Location: Bahamas, Caribbean, Mexico, Costa Rica and the U.S.
The Artistic Guild of the WPJA puts some of the best fine art wedding photographers at your fingertips! 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 artistic wedding photography!
BRIDES MAGAZINE & the Wedding Photojournalist Association proudly present a Wedding Photojournalism Contest.
The WPJA/BRIDES Wedding Photojournalism Contest spotlights the finest images from the best wedding photojournalists on the pages of one of the most world-renowned wedding publications and the web sites of the WPJA and BRIDES.
For most brides and grooms, wedding photojournalism is no longer a trendy alternative to traditional wedding day photo-coverage; rather, it is mainstream wedding photography. The WPJA has been leading the way in promoting and rewarding photographers who excel in capturing the un-styled and un-scripted moments of the wedding day. More and more couples are seeking out the top wedding photojournalists in the world through the WPJA web site.
May 16th, 17th & 18th, 2008: Sponsored by the WPJA, the three-day VII Seminar in New York City will be held at the Klitgord Auditorium of the NYC Technical College. VII will put on
presentations by each of their 11 photographers, a few of their new Network photographers, sponsors and special guests. They are organizing a panel discussion on "Photojournalism within the context of
Contemporary Photography". They will also be hosting exclusive VII Seminar evening events in the new VII DUMBO space on 28 Jay Street.
If you choose one of our WPJA Oklahoma 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 Oklahoma 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.
At one time the land of cowboys and Indians, Oklahoma is rich in Indian heritage and Oklahoman culture. A part of the American heartland and known as the “Sooner State”, Oklahoma’s landscape varies with mountains, plains, parks and forests which lends to a mass of selections for wedding locations that will provide a memorable backdrop for your wedding pictures. Outdoor activities for you and your wedding party are numerous in the mountains that extend to the southwest, especially at Fort Cobb Lake State Park. As one of the six states on the Frontier Strip, Oklahoma neighbors Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Arkansas and Texas. Oklahoma is a state with plenty of opportunities for outdoor weddings, especially at the Myriad Botanical Gardens and Crystal Bridge Tropical Conservatory in Oklahoma City and the Sequoyah Bay State Park. There you will find stunning wedding photography opportunities that your wedding photojournalist will be pleased to shoot. The major rivers of Oklahoma that could create wedding photography prospects are the Arkansas River, Canadian River and the Red River. Lakeside wedding are also an option with Oklahoma’s major lakes: Eufaula Lake, Lake Hudson, Gibson Lake, Lake O' the Cherokees, Lake Texoma, Oologah Lake and Keystone Lake.
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