About Christine

For the past week I've been working on updating my website - changing photographs, updating pricing and text pages. Working on my bio was on my list, but I had been dreading it. I honestly had no idea what to say, but I wasn't happy with what was there either.

At this same time I was finishing up a book by photographer and author, Dane Sanders. It was a book for photographers on how to build your business authentically. Something finally clicked, and at the same time unearthed a freedom to be myself.

It's a great feeling.

Out of the realizations I made from the book's homework (yes, it had homework) I began to finally see how I have been uniquely gifted for this career. All this time I feel like I have been hiding behind the fact that I didn't know what made me uniquely suited to be a wedding photographer. Newly aware and prepared with the truth about me, in one sitting I wrote my new bio, posted below in italics.

Check it out. Let me know what you think. Leave a comment to this post by clicking the "comment" link below. I know on this new journey to being real I will need refining and guidance. I look forward to your added insights as I embark on this new adventure.

May you have a blessed day and continue on your own journey to being authentically you.



I'm pulling out all the stops. I'm living life - today - while actively seeking my purpose here on earth.

"What in the world does that have to do with being a wedding photographer?" you may be thinking. I'm glad you asked, because as it turns out it has a lot do with being a wedding photographer.

Recently, largely to the credit of my loving husband, I discovered I possess the following strengths: achievement, responsibility, learning, research and connecting. Earlier in life I learned that not only am I gifted at analysis, as well as suited for a career in photography, but that truth and honesty are deeply rooted in my being. This blend of characteristics, traits and strengths profoundly affect the photography I create.

I see people beyond their physicalities - I visualize and capture emotion and the beauty in people, in particular at weddings. The emotional nature of these life-changing events creates some of the most fantastic range of emotions a person can experience. My intimate awareness of environment and surroundings allows me to display honestly, with love, the reality of a moment.

Much of what you've read above was unearthed in me while I briefly studied for a MA program in theology and psychology before I married in 2005. A kind professor pointed out that I had a strong desire to portray truth - which she deduced was likely for influencing my gravity to studying Journalism, which is ultimately the study of storytelling, in my undergraduate studies. The camera in my hands finally made sense.

Passionate for art, I found purpose for it beyond pure aesthetic reasoning. I could tell a story with my photography or words. As I pursued photography, I began to favor it due to its inherit unbaised nature of representation of a moment, a story unfolding.

I love working with our couples every year. I see some of the most intimate moments of their wedding day; and I hope with each couple, each wedding, as they look through the photographs of their day that they sense the respect I had for them, their families and friends, and that they see the unbiased beauty of their love.



Blessings,
Christine Lee Smith