Cory Parris
Sunday, December 23rd, 2007
Hey, thanks for taking the time to read about me! I have to say I’m a pretty lucky guy. I have a great wife, wonderful children and a dream job.
I’ll skip over the first couple because you didn’t sign on to to read a love poem to my wife or have me bore you with stories of how brilliant my children are. That leaves my other passion, photography.
Wedding photography is everything I always wanted in a career. In addtion to the day-to-day challenges of running a business, I also get the incredible creative challenge of making beautiful images of a wedding while always keeping things fresh, innovative and unique.
The most common question I get from people is why I want to photograph weddings. To start with I truly do love the romance, passion and bubbling excitement of a wedding and every wedding is like a reaffirmation and celebration of how I feel about my own wife, Leslie. It is also, as far as I’m concerned, one of the ultimate challenges in photography. At each wedding, I am the landscape, architectural, still life, portrait and, most importantly, documentary photographer. Each of these types of photography is a specialty and I have to do them all and do them all well. Oh, and there is a time limit. Just talking about it, I am getting excited to photograph the next one!
Okay, about me. I am in my mid-thirties, very happily married and the father of three living in the Seattle area. I love books and photography. I majored in journalism and photojournalism. I shot my first wedding when I was 18 and still in high school. I believe there is nothing more beautiful than the way a couple that is in love looks at each other.
In my not very humble opinion, you should be able to see and feel the emotions and events of a wedding day when you view couple’s wedding album almost as if you were there. It should be as engrossing and compelling as watching a movie or reading a good book. There should be no feeling of when Uncle Joe pulls out the ancient slide projector for a dissertation on his travels to the grand canyon!
My philosophy of wedding photography is pretty simple. It is based on the idea that the reality of a wedding is beautiful and that there is a unique story to every wedding.
The passion that a couple shares, the way they only look at each other, their crazy family members, dear friends, their sense of humor, their nerves, love, laughter, tears and joy. Every couple has their own personality both individually and as a couple.
What I do is to create this combination of images that tell the story of who, what, where, when, how and why in a beautiful and emotional way. I call it “Creating Emotional Photostories.”
Thanks for reading my ramblings! I look forward to hearing from you soon!
For more information about Cory and to see more of his work, please visit his website at www.coryparris.com.