Ryan and I met in Santa Barbara, in college, while both pursuing our bachelor degrees in photography. After three years in the same school together (Ryan’s last class, in fact, before graduating) we finally ended up paired up into a group to work together in a scientific photography class. We immediately found that we had more in common than a love for photography. We had similar taste in music, movies, and art. He got my sense of humor and I got his. We had the same morals and beliefs. We both had plans to move to Los Angeles after graduation. We completely hit it off. I remember thinking that I’d found MY missing piece. We had our first date on Friday, June 13th (Friday the 13th), 2004 and we’ve been together ever since. He’s my best friend and the love of my life! We photographed our first wedding together in 2008 and quickly found that we both absolutely love photographing couples, as a couple. There’s something really awesome about photographing a couple in love with the person you love.
Our Philosophy
We are a straight couple with an undeniable passion for photographing gay and lesbian couples, families with same sex parents, and families with gay children. When it comes to gay and lesbian couples, couples with a transgender partner and families with same sex parents, and gay children, it is a subject that is near and dear to us and it is something we whole heartedly advocate. In all honesty we don’t care if people are gay, straight, transgender, or bisexual. We care about people, and we care about people being true about themselves. We believe that people should be open and confident with their sexuality, and to hell with those who disagree! We care about love and we care about acceptance, and understanding. Sexuality is just one element of a person’s being, but love has many elements. Love is about caring and acceptance. Love is about compromise, loyalty, family, and about sexuality. My sister happens to be a lesbian. My best friend is gay. My other best friend happens to be straight, and Ryan and I have many other friends who all happen to be either gay, straight, or bisexual. The only difference is that some of them don’t have as many rights as the others. They all have the ability to love another with all their heart and soul and to be really awesome people. So, yes, we photograph gay people, but most of all, we photograph people that love each other! We started a same sex photography blog so that we could show the world that love looks awesome regardless of sexual orientation. But just as we wanted to show this, we decided we also don’t want to separate our photos based on this. So welcome to our blog with no separation!!! In our eyes, all love is truly equal!
Our Style
We are a Journalistic Lifestyle Photo Team. Our photographic style combines the aesthetics of photo journalism, creative fine art, and lifestyle photography. We love the candid, emotional and objective nature of photojournalism, the creative uniqueness and beauty of fine art, and the story and reflection of lifestyle photography. Our personal working style is relaxed, free flowing, genuine, fun, and intimate. We take great pride and responsibility in knowing our subjects before a photo is ever taken. We treat every session as if we are photographing our closest friends. Often times, our subjects become our closest friends! We love to watch people who are in love, react to, play off of and move each other. It’s not about perfect posing, the prettiest backdrop or perfect styling. It’s about those little moments when people are tuned in to, in awe of, and connected to each other. Those moments are what inspire us and make us continue to do and love what we do!
