I’m a wedding photographer. With a non-typical wedding photographer’s background.
Let’s travel back some years.
After finishing my military services in the early 2000′s, I had no clue what to do with my life. A proper education was the easy choice, so I decided to give business school a shot. At least it’d give me a few more years to figure out what I wanted, as well as a good degree.
University was four great years, but I figured out that economics wasn’t what I wanted to do for a living. I finished and got my degree though.
Next up: a real job.
And I did find a job. A quite nice one too where I was paid to be creative. Designing, layouting, writing. Not what I went to school for, but I liked it.
I spent two years at that job. And I learned lots. But most importantly, this was where my interest for photography grew. Over time, I became the in-house photographer and it didn’t take me long to realize that this was what I wanted to do. Full time.
I have always created stuff, but I was never really good at drawing or painting and writing really didn’t do it for me. The camera was ‘it’ though.
So I started building my own arsenal of camera gear. Read lots of books and got a proper photography education. And most of all, I shot thousands and thousands of photos.
And quite soon I realized wedding photography was what I liked the most. For a few reasons:
The creative part – there’s so much going on throughout a wedding day. From early morning to late night. It’s the perfect place for creative photography.
The storytelling – a wedding day usually starts early morning and ends late night. And there’s usually a pretty interesting story to be told.
The challenge – the wedding day only happens once. There’s no place for mistakes. That keeps me on my toes.
The smiles - I’m yet to see a wedding day that isn’t all smiles, laughter and happy tears. It’s a pretty great environment to work in.
Those are some of the reasons why I like wedding photography.
Right now I live in Vancouver, BC, Canada, working together with Cole Roberts (whom I met at business school in Swenden – yes, we both have strange backgrounds) at Nordica Photography. What the future holds, I have no idea.