I grew up in a house where the photo albums lived on the bottom shelf so children could reach them. I have looked at my parents' wedding album more times than I could count, and the pictures I return to are never the posed ones. They're my grandfather laughing, my mother's shoes kicked off under a table.

That's what I try to make for you. I studied painting, worked in a darkroom for four years, and picked up my first wedding by accident when a friend's photographer cancelled. Two hundred weddings later, I still think it's the best job there is.

I shoot with a small kit, mostly available light, and a second photographer for full days. I edit every frame myself, warmly and without trends, so the pictures will look right in a decade.

When I'm not photographing I'm in the garden, at the farmers' market, or trying to teach a very stubborn dog to sit.