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While I was in Salt Lake City, I had the chance to meet the immensely talented Justin Hackworth, a wedding and portrait photographer based in Provo, Utah. Justin was also on my panel at the Altitude Design Summit (discussing photography on the web), and I cannot begin to tell you what a lovely person he is without embarrassing myself by gushing. In addition, it was just so interesting talking with him, particularly because we come to photography from different places: he's always been a professional photographer who recently started a blog; me, I used blogging to help improve my photography. In any event, we really clicked (ha! see what I did there?), so I was pretty thrilled when he suggested we take portraits of each other.
Right before our panel, I had the chance to meet his lovely wife of almost 10 years, Amy; after we were finished, I showed her a couple of the images from the display on the back of my camera that I had taken of him. "Those are great," she said. "I'm so happy to have them -- we have very few pictures of him, or of us, for that matter."
"You want to take some now?" I asked.
"Really?"
"Well, you're here, he's here, I have my camera, it seems silly not to, don't you think?"
"Wow ... sure! Thanks!"
And so we went back to the lobby, and I shot a few more.
What's amazing about the above images is that none of them were staged in any way -- they just sat down together, and we were all talking and I was just shooting, and these were the images that resulted. And it occurred to me that this is probably why Justin is so successful as a wedding photographer: because this is a man who clearly knows love.
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Happy Love Thursday everyone. Please feel free to leave your stories or links to your words and images of love in the comments below.
And may you know love today.
Song: It's love by Jill Scott
Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 12:00AM
Reader Comments (29)
Recently, my grandmother died. She had been married to my grandfather for more than 60 years, and they loved each other dearly. Of course, my grandfather misses her so much now. We all feared he wouldn't last a day without her but he's staying strong. At the end of last week, he, for the first time in his 94-year-old life, tried to peel potatoes. Didn't really work, he said, but I was so moved by that, I don't even really know why.
I've never posted before on your love thursdays but I thought this was a little story worth sharing. Have a lovely day.
That last photo just leaves me breathless. What a perfect set of photos. You're amazing, Karen.
What a beautiful collection of natural portraiture. Here's one of a brother and sister playing in the magic:
http://www.marciescudderphotography.com/index.php?showimage=1058
Those photos are lovely! What a sweet couple they are. Mine is a tiny little heart wall hanging giveaway!
http://planetmfiles.com/2010/01/28/crochet-hearts-giveaway/
When two people are so undeniably in love it really does take your breath away...and make your single heart ache a little :) Happy Love Thursday too Karen..can't wait for the book!!!
Those photos are all amazing, but I am so moved by the last one. The love is obvious it's breathtaking!
Happy Love Thursday!
http://cantgetthere.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/love-likes-to-hear-it/
This is so....I don't even have words. I'm planning on attending Blogher this year and I'm already anticipating meeting all these amazing women that I admire in the blog world. I'm hoping not to embarrass myself.
Happy Love Thursday!
http://www.elephantsoap.com/2010/01/28/love-thursday-8/
I'm glad you posted these! Justin is the reason I started to take photography seriously. He taught me the basics and is always willing to answer my silly questions! He has a great way about him that makes you feel at ease.
Karen,
You have such a gift and talent. I enjoy watching you explore your craft and appreciate your sharing!
My Love Thursday carries over from Wednesday, which, as the calendar goes, marked two years without my mother. She was a lovely woman, and, as I'm discovering, an awesome young lady.
http://www.inspiredworkofselfindulgence.blogspot.com/
Love? Every single day!
I wrote about a visit from my parents... we only get to see them once or twice a year, and they arrived yesterday after a ten hour drive. You can read more about it here:
http://thenanablogs.com/2010/01/27/love-thursday-mema-is-here-and-papa-too/
Lotsa love around here today! :-)