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Why Your Wedding Photographs Will Be Remarkable I was attending the Broadmoor Bridal Show on Sunday and I was talking with a woman who recently got engaged. It was near the end of the show when she approached me and began asking me questions about wedding pictures. She had a friend with her who was helping her plan her destination wedding at the Broadmoor and had already made a lot of decisions. But she was still looking for a photographer for her wedding. A slide show of my wedding pictures from the past year was playing in the background, as they flashed she kept nudging her friend. Then she asked what it was that made our wedding pictures look so different. I jumped into an explanation about how "we capture the moment" and realized immediately how canned and cliche that explanation really is. It didn't do justice to the pictures on the screen. The images were mostly of people and they were feeling something. They were caught in a moment that happened to be out of this world! These are remarkable photographs, but NOT because I'm a remarkable photographer. But because the emotion in the pictures is remarkable:) The subjects in the photographs are literally having an Authentic Emotional Experience. By authentic, I mean truthful. You can't pose it, you can't orchestrate it and you can't recreate it. When it happens, it happens. We just take a picture of it. Sounds simple. But it's actually quite difficult and hard to do. Photographers all have a niche, wether its fashion or details or dramatic poses of the bride and groom and quite often all three. Our niche is moments. Ok, here's my second attempt at explanation. What we really do differently is to photograph YOUR emotional experience in a truthful and honest way.It's not every day that people wear their emotions on their sleeve. I mean really, who does this on a weekday at the office? On your wedding day though you DO do this and so does everyone else; your fiance, your best friend, your Mom AND your Dad, and your guests. Emotions are always on the surface and at any moment they show themselves. So that's what we do. We wait in the present moment, we watch and we photograph. It's these authentic emotional experiences that really matter. The truthful nature of your pictures causes you, your family, your friends and, yes, even strangers who don't know you to remark: "Wow! What a fabulous wedding picture!" That's as good as I can explain it and, hopefully, next time I won't respond with something as cliche as "We capture the moment." — Sean