I'm Ferris and this is my manager piper.

I was a quite child, but the moment I picked up my first camera in junior year  from Mr. Aurebach, that all changed.  Suddenly I had a way of expressing the crazy worlds inside my head.

I was also not much of a talker (that would change, of course).  But I noticed whenever I took someone's portrait they opened up, just as I opened up taking their photo. 

Photography is a conversation.  It is you sharing with the photographer who you are, your story, your beliefs, and your hopes and dreams.  It is then my job as a photographer to learn who you are, as a single, as a soon-to-be wife, as a mother and father, as an adult and as that child still inside.  And as an intimate and unconscious conversation unfolds, it is all but necessary to join this conversation with you.  I open up to you and as a result you do the same.  

Photography is an agreement, it is an invisible element of interconnectivity, except is actually IS visible.  To be crafted into books for grandchildren to comb through on rainy days.  To be picked apart with incredible interest perhaps hundreds of years from now, where every facial expression is more valuable than gold. 

Although it sounds like a lot of pressure, it is not my job to dictate your story.  I could, though.  I could take only the "right" photos and mold and shape your life into the American dream.  But I don't.  I use my camera and I listen.  To what you have to say, your spouse, and of course, Uncle Bob who's had a couple too many.  

A wedding is a day where family gets together (hopefully sometime this century if your family is anything like mine)  There are so many stories to tell and my job is to catch them, probably because you are so embedded in the story, you won't be able to catch it.  So i catch it for you.  I listen for you.  And I conversate for you.  There is no worry about having "ordinary" wedding photos simply because you are not ordinary and that's just not possible.  

I'm laid back person, but as i work, I listen with great intention.  That is the photography i do, and i do so with great pleasure, humbleness, and a child-like joy.

And watch out for piper, she's one mean son of bitch, but she can do her job.  She can do her job.