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Charley and McLane

Bryan — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:17:59 +0000

Spokane, Washington at Arbor Gate. I highly, highly, highly support the kind of dancing that makes your booty go smack. It makes it pretty damn fun to be there, too. A+ to you, Charley and McLane.

I shoot for some of the most intense couples in all of Washington State.

Bryan — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:58:55 +0000

More high intensity pics later.

Lindsey and Stephen

Bryan — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 05:18:25 +0000

Eugene, Oregon. A lot of tunes at this wedding. Lindsey’s a professional organist and Steve’s a professor of music. For the ceremony there was organ music, a brass ensemble, and a choir. About an hours worth of musicians’ music. Plus Steve’s performance of a song he wrote for Lindsey: it was like Josh Groban got off the drugs and took a poetry writing class. So I sat in the back row as the little church lady told me to, pointed my telephoto toward the front, rested my elbow on my knee, and listened.

Shanti and Heath

Bryan — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:31:41 +0000

Outside of Kettle Falls, Washington, at Shanti’s folks’ peach orchard. Three years ago Shanti and Heath eloped at the Santa Fe courthouse. So the wedding photographed here, or celebration I should say, wasn’t so much about Shanti and Heath as it was about their family and friends; a chance to party together.

On the outskirts of a tiny town, the vibe was communal like a barn raising: table butter hand churned by a friend, hundreds of paper cranes folded, a local brew served in mason jars with name tags. I marveled at the details, not because they were ornate but because they were pitch-perfect. Like the basket of work gloves sitting on the porch, which Shanti admitted were just work gloves that always sat on the porch. That was the thing: the celebration didn’t feel like a show. It just felt like Shanti and Heath, family, and friends.

Chelsea and Will, the engagement pics

Bryan — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 09:47:26 +0000

Operating on a hot tip that we’d run into some primo photo opportunities, I told Chelsea and Will that we should head to the Little Spokane River nature area. It was late evening when we got out of our cars. A couple mosquitos landed, but we slapped em and started walking down the trail. Three minutes later there was a mosquito on every freckle. We did that thing where you pretend that you’re frantically and endlessly applying soap to every area of exposed skin. I promised that around every bend we’d finally hit sun. Meanwhile, the river and trail were beautiful, but there was a buzz—a constant, tormenting, Edgar-Allen-Poe-like reminder that we were never alone, that we never numbered fewer than a hundred. Fifteen minutes in, we turned back.

These pics? These pics we took in a field along the road. Then we all sported calamine lotion for a few days.

Erika and Phil

Bryan — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 05:25:56 +0000

Richland, Washington. I don’t know how it is that I only photograph warm, generous people. You would think that mean, bitter people would want good photos, too.

Danielle and Nathan

Bryan — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:56:22 +0000

Spokane, Washington. Danielle and Nathan live in Spokane, not where I live. So nine months ago when they wanted to talk wedding photography, I suggested that we video chat. This was way back before FaceTime™ had swept the nation; strangers then weren’t used to making eye contact via that great commingler, the Internet. But we arranged it anyway. I set up a laptop on my kitchen table and hung a photo behind me because bare walls can seem creepy. And the whole thing went flawlessly. I hope this doesn’t sound trite, but I love making new friends every weekend.

Last dance of the night

Bryan — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:25:41 +0000

Charley and McLane in Spokane, Washington. I think this pic is pretty neato. More coming later.

Alyssa and Randall

Bryan — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:02:04 +0000

Boise, Idaho. In about the tenth email she sent me before we even signed a contract, Alyssa started referring to herself as “the persistent bride from Idaho.” I replied with a bunch of “:)”s, and thought to myself, “holy crap, she is persistent.” Turns out the same could be said for the entire wedding party. I watched in awe as every last one of them, completely and irrefutably sober, filled the dance floor, getting jiggy with Jay-Z song after Jay-Z song. I’ve never seen anything like it.

Thank god for your persistence, Alyssa and Randall. Your portraits are some of my personal faves. I’m so glad I got to shoot with you and your crew.

Hillary and Brett

Bryan — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 07:15:07 +0000

At the memorable Cameo Heights Mansion, you know, between Tri Cities and Walla Walla. Hillary’s and Brett’s vision for the day: about a dozen guests, no fuss, an intimate ceremony and dinner party, and a hell of a lot of wine. Let me tell you how relaxed it was: Driving back from some portraits in Walla Walla, Brett says to Hillary, “You wanna get married at 4:00?” “I’m thirsty. Let’s do it at 5:00,” Hillary says. Awesome.