Brandon Makes is a very cool guy, I met him during a trip to Denver last year after being internet buddies for a sizable amount of time. We stayed in touch and I was pleasantly surprised (and honored) when he asked me to shoot his elopement him and his (then) fiancée were planning on doing in San Francisco.
Just to be clear: I had never shot a wedding before, I’d never really been to a real one either.
I was very much out of my comfort zone from the get go but this is the kinda shit I live for. There is a certain thrill to only having a vague idea of how todo something but having the people around you that trust you will do a good job. Thankfully I was happy with the results and more importantly so were the happy couple.
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Brandon and Julie choose a very foggy Mount Davidson for the ceremony.
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