I was born in Sydney, Australia in 1983, in the year of the pig. I got my first camera when I was 8. That camera was all-plastic and “focus-free.” It was really great.
Decades later, I’ve been published in Esquire, Food & Wine, Forbes, Front Desk, Michigan Avenue magazines and several books, and I have photographed musicians and mixologists, archbishops and farmers, but my favorite subject is photographing people in love.
After all this time, I’ve come to realize something — the best photographs reveal people’s true selves; and so, the best photographer isn’t the one with the best camera, or the most perfect lighting setup, although those things are important too — the best photographer is the one that can get his or her subject to express themselves naturally.
So that is what I try to do.
Large format photography is a much slower and more methodical process than the digital cameras I usually use, though it’s extremely satisfying – especially when you’ve had a hand in tuning up and assembling the camera yourself. It’s so pre-electronic age and mechanical, yet at the same time, so infused with soul. The resulting photographs feel hard-earned, and there is an ineffable character about them that is so, so gratifying. 
Strangely enough, the skills I’ve acquired in taking photos of people over the years have helped me very much in photographing feral cats and dogs; they are extremely aware animals, and it takes some doing to get up close to them and photograph them without making them skittish. Perhaps you can tell already – I’m rather one-dimensional in this way – all of my life revolves around photography! You can see more of my non-wedding work here: 
Outside of weddings, I make lots of photos of my family, and love to travel whenever possible. Between skiing the Andes Mountains in Chile, to eating fried scorpions on the streets of Thailand, if there’s something new to be experienced, I want to try it!
My roots are in mid-Wisconsin, and my home has been Chicago since 2011, where I’ve lived primarily in Logan Square & Humboldt Park for the past half dozen years or so.