Chris Bickford Photography

Working with a good assistant and a radiant bride, the whole process takes on the character of a ballet. We move lightly, quickly, with smiles on our faces, light on our minds, and music in our hearts. We sprint, we squat, we stand on railings, whatever it takes to get the shot. I've been known to get belly-down in the sand, just to get the right angle. One minute you are a fashion photographer; next a photojournalist. A landscape and architectural photographer. You tell a story with details, panoramas, closeups, gestures, and split-second expressions.

I feel honored, privileged, blessed, to be the hand and the eye behind so many cherished memories on desktops, coffee tables, walls, and refrigerator doors. I've got some of my favorites from weddings past still up on my own fridge. They speak to me just as strongly as the work I've done on assignment photographing surfers and musicians, countrysides and cityscapes. In the end, the emotional value of great wedding work outweighs just about any other kind of photography there is.