Forrest and I met Bethany and Nate while attending college at LeTourneau University. Nate, Forrest and I were all in the aviation program there, and when it came time for Bethany and Nate to finally get married, we jumped at the opportunity to photograph it. Simple yet elegant Bethany and Nate had one of the coolest weddings I have ever been to, more than anything it was evident how much they loved each other, and how much every guest at their wedding loved each of them. A special thanks to Angela Duncan for coming out to help us.

Ally is a life long friend of mine, and it was a privilege to photograph her wedding. Mike and Ally got married at the Visalia Country Club which is always an easy and beautiful venue to work at. My favorite part was the group shots which were done at a very cool location out in the middle of no where called Good Goods. Thanks guys!

Thanks to a referral from my little bro, I booked a wedding in Malibu CA. Chris and Bryn were ton of fun to shoot, I cant get enough of the light you get at sunset on the beach, I thoroughly envy photographers that get to work with it every day.

Ben is one fantastic person, one of my best buddies from college. He came to me with this persona he created for himself, “Juice Jr”, and wanted some head shots. This is what we came up with.

I loooove doing senior portraits, especially when the girl has all kinds of personality and the light plays nice. We dusted off the ole trampoline for this set but my buddy Ben aka Juice Jr. who tagged along for this shoot got more use out of it then she did, check him out here. Judging by the last shot in this set, she either hates reflectors or ridiculous mustaches, because everybody likes Ben.

Greg was my room mate back in college, and I was very happy to be able to photograph his wedding. Although I am am a little sad that Amanda stole him from me. The wedding was a beautiful wedding at the Summit II in Longview Texas. Greg and Amanda had some of the most unique wedding favors that I have ever seen, for each one of their guests they made a donation in each of their names to the Susan G. Koman Breast Cancer Foundation and to the One campaign, two charities that both Greg and Amanda care a lot about.

Welcome to the first official wedding shot under the name Third Element Studios! Welcome aboard Zach!

The Rinehart Sister’s got married on a freezing cold Iowa winter day. Josh Lowe was one of my best buds from college and I was really excited to get the chance to fly out and shoot his wedding. It turned out that the sisters got engaged at nearly the same time so they decided to have their weddings together. Basically the first set got married, the bridesmaids (all 8 sisters… wow) stayed put, up walked the next set of groomsmen and the second couple and they got married! Pretty cool. Made for one massive wedding party.

This was also the first wedding shot on my brand spankin’ new Nikon D3! Its kind of disturbing how much i like this camera…