Captured By the Light: The Essential Guide to Creating Extraordinary Wedding Photography

Foreword & Acknowledgements

Every photographer has his own unique story as to how he became involved in one of life’s most interesting and exciting professions. My interest in photography hit me in 1960, when I was 12 years old. I was rummaging through the basement of our home and stumbled on some old photo processing trays, a contact printing frame, a ruby red safelight bulb, and a few books on processing your own film that my dad had used as a hobbyist. These small books were not the latest, greatest editions—I remember that they were published in the early to mid-1940s. Nevertheless, that early discovery was my entry into photography.

But that is only part of the story. Coincidentally with my discovery of my father’s rudimentary photo ...