planning a destination Wedding?

If you are, then you need a photographer that specializes in Destination wedding photography. Its not unusual these days for couples to shop on an international basis when looking for a good wedding photographer. In the US or Europe where there are lots of photographers to choose from, the shopping will be easy. However, many of the most exciting and beautiful destinations around the world are in third world countries where there is little chance of finding a good wedding photographer in the vicinity.

 International destination wedding photographer
destination wedding photographer

Fortunately, international travel has become very affordable these days. For the price of a plane ticket and a little extra for travel days, you can get the same quality photographic service on a beach in the Caribbean as you would get in a major city here in the US. If a destination wedding is for you, I hope you will consider me as your photographer. I love to travel and I've got the experience to know how to get myself and my gear safely into third world areas that aren't always friendly to fragile electronic equipment.

In 2006 I successfully photographed 23 destination weddings outside the US.

Currently the total number is at about 50.

I've had to learn how to deal with all the normal travel challenges like passports, currency exchange, language barriers, rental cars, and exotic diseases that all third world inhabitants must survive.

But with digital photography comes a host of new problems like transporting cameras and a laptop computer through through the maze of customs desks and airport inspections, and then camouflaging that same gear so that it isn't so obvious that I'm carrying anything valuable, and then I also have to deal with keeping rain, high humidity and salt water filled breezes out of the gear.

 destination wedding photograph

I have photographed literally hundreds of weddings in the US and roughly 50 destination weddings outside the US. This travel experience is priceless, and it can easily be the difference between a photographer that shows up on time, and one that doesn't make it there at all.

Check this out before you go - Travel Vaccinations

 

Are you considering the Hotel Photographer?

Don't do it!

Compare my slideshows (in the links above) with what you see offered by the average
hotel photographer and I'm sure you will agree that the difference is vast.

The question you'll be asking yourself is.... is the price differenceworth it?

Consider this, every destination wedding takes at LEAST 4 days of my life to get there, shoot the wedding and get back home. Add to that a half day to make all the travel arrangements, plus 2.5 days of color correction and other office work necessary to complete the job and get the images into your hands.

That adds up to a minimum of 7 days work on each destination wedding.

If I were to stay home and shoot local weddings, I could easily do two of them in that same amount of time. That's why there are not many wedding photographers who shoot destination weddings on a regular basis. You may find some that do it occasionally just for recreational purposes, but most will soon realize that they can't charge less than about $4000 if they want to make a living at it.

 

 

I am currently writing on the second edition of my book "Digital Wedding Photography."

The first version has now sold just over 50,000 copies - WOW! I can't get my mind around the fact that I'm having that big of an impact on the next generation of wedding photographers.

Newest Slideshows...

Negril, Jamaica 5-12-09    Port Lucaya, Bahamas 7-11-09     Amalfi, Italy 9-9-09

I have recently been invited to be a on the review board for this new group.

Best of Wedding Photography will be the most selective group of wedding photographers in the world. There are many great wedding photography sites and associations. What sets Best of Wedding Photography apart from the rest is our unique, peer-reviewed, invitation-only membership system. Each quarter, our editorial staff submits a list of outstanding photographers to a Review Board. This panel includes some of the best and best-known photographers in the world:

David Beckstead. Glen Johnson. Anna Kuperberg. Crash Taylor. David Ziser.

Every invitation we issue represents a consensus that a given photographer ranks among the absolute best wedding photographers in the world.

I've being invited in on the ground floor of this organization is an incredible honor and I have thoroughly enjoyed having the ability to add in my thoughts and ideas about how to make this organization represent the cream of the crop in the wedding photography world.

I've uploaded a selection of slideshows to my YouTube Channel.
If you get a chance to look at them, please take a moment to rate the videos.

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