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Small Moments Matter

People sometime assume that because I’m a wedding photographer, I’d have a high expectation on how my own photographs with my husband looks. To some extent, that’s true. I wouldn’t want photos that are blurry or underexposed. I’d like to receive photos that are more or less the same quality as the ones I deliver to my clients.

We’ve had our photos done professionally throughout the years, maybe every 2-3 years or so (see here and here). My husband hates having his pictures taken that I need to give him space in between sessions just to make the experience more bearable for him. To be fair, he didn’t marry a photographer initially. I took serious interest in wedding photography after I received our wedding photos. But now he’s stuck with me so, he just needs to live with it.

I love all of our photos together. But if I have to pick just one to keep, say Skynet actually enslaved humanity and told us to choose just one photograph before it destroys everything else (hey, did you know a new Terminator movie is coming out?), it would be this one:

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Photo by Spark Photography

 

It’s a photo of us laughing right after we signed our marriage certificate. I don’t remember the entire details of why we were laughing. It’s not the most flattering image of us. It doesn’t look epic enough to win any award.

But that’s entirely us.

It was his humour that made him standout. I had never dated anyone else who made me laugh more than he did. That, and because he’s cute, smart, and the most hardworking person I know aside from my mother, I fell in love.

So even if this photo is not the best, it summarizes our story well. I’m glad our wedding photographer was able to catch this moment for us, however small it may have seemed.

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