Elisa B. Photography | Wedding and Portrait Photography
- Name: Elisa Bricker / Elisa B. Photography
- Located in: Charlottesville, Virginia
- Started in: 2008
- Status: Full Time Professional
- Types of Photography: Wedding and Portrait
- Primary Camera / Favorite Lens: I love my Nikon D700s. I shoot with them all the time and they have some wonderful features. My favorite lens is the 24mm 1.4. It's a beautiful lens, gets big groups well in small spaces, let's me float around on a crowded dance floor and has a great effect with detail shots as well.
- Interesting Personal Fact: I grew up in a large family, taking portraits of my siblings and learned on film cameras from my father, who studied photography in college. I'm the oldest of ten children, so I had lots of faces to practice on!
Find out more
Main Site: www.elisabphotography.com
Blog: www.elisabphotographyblog.com
Twitter: @elisabphoto
Facebook Fan Page: http://www.facebook.com/elisabphoto
I am an artist, a wife, and a consummate romantic. I have a minimally processed photographic style with modern touches. My mother always said that makeup should make us look like our best selves – not like we’re wearing makeup. I feel the same way about the post production of my work. I’m reflecting the beauty of who people are – their best selves – and not making them look like something they’re not. Good post production is subtle.
I began my love of photography with a strong desire to create beauty in high school. I found other loves that I studied in college, but found myself right back where I belonged after graduating. I’m blessed to have a family that I love to spend time with and a growing business that desires my time as well. My biggest challenge is finding the work/life balance – something that I suspect will be a constant. J
I shoot all of my weddings with my husband, Edward, who is my partner in the business. I’m blessed to be able to work with him, and our clients benefit from his great eye and grounded personality. We love working together.
I'm a member of the Professional Photographers of America and Wedding Professional Photographers International.
Chuck Liu | Wedding Photography
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- Name: Chuck Liu Photography
- Located in: Chicago, IL (or wherever I happen to be)
- Started in: 01/2009
- Status: Part Time
- Types of Photography: Mostly Wedding and Engagement, occasionally portrait and families
- Primary Camera / Favorite Lens: Canon 5d Mark II, 50mm 1.2
- Interesting Personal Fact: I used to be a geek and have one of the largest Transformer collections in the world.
Find out more
Main Site: www.chuckliuphotography.com
Blog: http://www.facebook.com
Short Bio
Photography has been a beautiful journey for me. When I started booking weddings, it was because I needed something to support this expensive habit of buying cameras and lenses. But the more I did it, the more I enjoyed being there in the moment, seeing things in a way that no one else would. No wedding is the same, and each is an opportunity to push myself artistically. Also, I try to keep commercialization from creeping into my work. I believe that real art involves people and relationships, as well as a lot of time, heart, and hard work. It's a process of giving freely and receiving with open hands. It's always my hope that my images reflect those values.
Photography by Megan Brown
- Name/ Business Name: Megan Brown/ Photography by Megan Brown
- Located in: Provo, Utah
- Started in: 2001 just as a hobbyist then became more serious the beginning of 2008
- Status: Part time
- Types of Photography: maternity, newborn, children, family, weddings, portraits
- Primary Camera / Favorite Lens: Canon 5d mark ii 24-70L 2.8 and 50mm 1.4
- Interesting Personal Fact: I went to Long Island New York to be a nanny when I was twenty years old and had a wonderful experience. Also, I married into a bowling family. My husband, along with all of his immediate family, bowls and so now I have become a bowler too. My average isn't that great, but I try
I'm very competitive. As I was getting pretty serious into photography, I became pregnant with my fifth child. It became a high-risk pregnancy and I was ordered to be on bed-rest for ten weeks. Photography had to be put on hold. My baby came three months early and I was able to document his journey with my love for photography. He's now out of the hospital and doing really well. I'm now getting back into it and LOVING it!
Find out more
- Main Site: www.photographybymeganbrown.com
- Blog: www.photographybymeganbrowntheblog.blogspot.com
- Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/_meganb_/
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/#!/Photographybymeganbrown
I grew up one of three girls, I was the middle. I became very independent, strong minded, strong willed and responsible at a very young age. I was always concerned about others and dreaded the thought of anyone being mad at me. I honored and respected my parents. I had dreams to be someone...someone successful. I wasn't sure how I would acheive that. I spent time going to college,
working, then trying to find myself while being a nanny across the country. After returning to where I called home, two weeks later I met my sweet husband. We were inseparable, in a whirlwhind romance, constantly joined at the hip. Eight months later we were married. Six months after that, we were expecting our first little baby. After becoming a mommy, it became one of the biggest parts of defining my success. Longing for the baby pictures that were never taken of me, I started to become obsessive with recording my own babies life. There grew my love for photograhy and one other way of defining my own success. Along the years, more children blessed and enriched my life. And each of them helped to nourish, cultivate, and strengthen my desire to learn photography. I was always told I had an eye when others saw my work. It encouraged me and I eventually took the plunge and bought my first Digital SLR camera in 2008. Many friends and family helped me practice by being my subjects. And many other photographers inspired me all the while deepening my strong urge to pursue this passion. While at first my love for photography was self-serving, I really saw the happiness I brought to others when taking pictures for them. They say you find pure joy in serving others, that you lose yourself in service and your problems become the least of your worries. My way to serve others is to help them keep the memories they hold dear to their hearts. I'm lucky to have found something that is my passion in which not only benefits me, but all those around me as well.
Shannon Kelley Photography
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- Name / Business Name: Shannon Kelley Photography
- Located in: Knoxville, TN
- Started in: 2007
- Status: Full Time
- Types of Photography: Weddings/Engagements...with a artsy twist:)
- Primary Camera / Favorite Lens: Canon 5d, 17-40 L
- Interesting Personal Fact: I'm a former missionary kid, I've been to over 20 countries (most of them third world) and want to one day be a full time missionary, I love cheese, I love summer and driving with the windows rolled down, we cloth diapered our little girl, I heart Asiago cheese bagels from Panera, I have a studio that is a community studio geared to help other photographers, my favorite place on this earth is Tonga, I need some beach time, I picture the world through a lens and am a believer that all things are beautiful, I love light and sun and how it hits this earth. I'm Shannon:)
Main Site: www.shannonkelleyphotography.com
Blog: www.shannonkelleyphotography.com/blog
Twitter: www.twitter.com/alohashannon
(Others): www.facebook.com/shannonkelleyphotography
Short Bio: When I was younger my parents were missionaries. We often lived in one room and had about 1 suitcase to our name. We never bought much from the countries we lived in because of space, instead we took pictures and scrapbooked. Memories will be out souvenirs is what we lived by. That is how my love of photography began. I saw the world through a lens and fell
in love with the world and capturing the beauty of it.
Even now, when I'm shooting weddings I live by that love. The love to capture something unique and to show others how it was not only beautiful but full of emotion. To me, photography is more than a job or a passion, its a necessity. To capture memories that we look back on forever. It's our heritage and legacy we leave.
Brishen Lee Photography | Wedding Photography
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- Name: Brishen Lee
- Located in: St. Louis, Missouri
- Started in: 2004 at Webster University, Professionally in 2006
- Status: Full Time
- Types of Photography: Wedding Photography, Engagement Photography, Travel Photography, families, high school seniors, models, dance
- Primary Camera / Favorite Lens: Canon
- Interesting Personal Fact: She loves her Pekingese dog.
Find out more
Main Site: www.brishenleephotography.com
Blog: www.brishenlee.blogspot.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Brishen-Lee-Photography
Short Bio: "I am a portrait photographer specializing in weddings, families, high school seniors, models, dance, and any other challenges."
Brishen recently teamed up with Jeff from Denash Photography to take wedding photography and portraits to new heights. Creating unique images through a blending of styles and techniques, Brishen and Jeff are on the fast-track to becoming internationally acclaimed photographer and educators in the wedding and portrait industry. They always take a fun yet relaxed approach to their weddings and urban senior sessions.
There’s nothing more important than capturing your wedding day. From our first meeting to the delivery of your album, our goal is simple: to provide you with the best experience ever.”
Brishen loves to travel around the world and have a good Shiraz drink. Her favorite food is Thai food and she can’t wait to go to Asian someday!
Miller + Miller Photography | Chicago Wedding Photographers
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- Name / Business Name: Miller + Miller Wedding Photography
- Located in: Chicago Burbs
- Started in: 2002
- Status: Full Time Photographers
- Types of Photography: Wedding + Engagements
- Primary Camera / Favorite Lens: We're all Canon!
- Interesting Personal Fact: When we're not shooting photos, you can usually find us on the water boating.
Find out more about Miller + Miller at:
- Wedding Blog: http://www.chicagoillinoisweddingphotography.com
- Twitter:@Miller_Miller
- Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&gid=72136211356
Short Bio: Miller + Miller is a husband + wife, Chicago wedding photography team of Ryan and Sarah Miller. We enjoy working closely together, and with each of our couples, providing combined styles of Traditional Elegance + Class, Modern Photojournalism and High Fashion Photography for our engagement and wedding day photography clients. We typically incorporate architecture and the environment into our shoots to provide a “sense of place” and depth of field within the composition of our photos. We also enjoy adding stylish, modern aspects with our influences coming from unique shooting locations, creative lighting, color and aspects of fashion advertising. We're based in Chicago, but love to travel and are available for Worldwide destination weddings, portraiture, resort and architectural photography, travel and landscape photography, and more.
Steph Jorgensen (Portraiture)

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- Located in: West Jordan, Utah
- Started in: 2008
- Types of Photography: Portraiture, Children, weddings
- Primary Camera: Nikon D300
- Interesting Personal Fact: Her best friend is Suzanne Plant of LookieLoo Photography also featured in this blog.
Find Out More:
- Main Site: http://www.flashjorgensen.com/
- Blog: http://www.nubiephotos.blogspot.com/
- SmugMug: http://flashjorgensen.smugmug.com/
Her Auto Biography:
S-tay at home mom of three.
T-ells stories like her dad (long and detailed).
E-njoys mashed potatoes like no other!
P-hotography of course!
H-as incredible friends.
A-sks for extra tomatoes on everything!
N-ever been to Hawaii, but we're going in May! (A little outdated ![]()
I-s a former gymnast and LOVES the sport of gymnastics.
E-njoys blogging and keeping up with friends.
Most Recently Steph has started the 365 challenge, where she'll be taking pictures and posting them every day.
See her blog for that project



Notes from another photographer:

Heidi Walker (Portraiture)

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Name / Business Name: Heidi Walker / Heidi J Photography
Located in: Salt Lake County, Utah
Types of Photography: Families - Children, newborns other portraiture and Weddings.
Primary Camera / Favorite Lens: D700 / 24-70 2.8
Find out more
Main Site: http://www.heidijphotography.com
Blog: http://www.heidijphotography.com/blog/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/heidiwalker21
Others: Facebook Fan Page




Word from another photographer.
I know Heidi because she interned with me (Scott Jarvie)
I've seen her grow leaps and bounds with her photography in the last few months.
Her blog posts are insightful and talk alot about the interactions with the families and other subjects she works with.
I think she excels at setting up shoots with little newborns, something I've never even attempted.
She's recently learning the ropes in Wedding Photography and assisting many photographers in Utah.
-Scott

























































