Tag Archives: wedding photojournalism

Justin & Amelia’s Orange Park Wedding

Justin and Amelia had a wonderful wedding ceremony at New Grace Church in Fleming Island. The sanctuary was packed with friends and family. These are wonderful people and everyone wanted to be there to support their marriage. The service was beautiful, Amelia looked fantastic, they guys looked sharp. It was a great start to a…

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Bitter Sweet Goodbye (breaking the bonds of choice)

Back in November, I made a decision to move from shooting Nikon as my primary camera system to shooting with the Canon system. It was an idea that I had knocking around in the back of my head for a while. This was no small decision since I have been shooting Nikon since around 1984….

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New Sample Album

I designed a new sample album recently using pictures from Trevor & Lauren’s Atlantic Beach Wedding. FedEx delivered it earlier this week and I wanted to show it off. This is a really simple album. Black leather cover with lay flat flush mount pages. It’s 10″ x 10″. Simple, but elegant. Here’s some pictures of…

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My Favorite Assistant

I’d like to take a second to showcase the man behind the scenes of Thomas Lester Photography. My favorite assistant. This guy works 16 hour wedding days with me. He hauls my equipment around and acts as my “voice activated light stand” (i.e. he holds my lights). It would truly be difficult for me to…

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2010 Here I Come!

Happy New Year! I know everyone is doing a “New Years Resolution” post on their blogs. I guess this is going to be kind of like that. However, it’s going to be a simple post. I learned from Gary Fong that setting arbitrary goals in life, sets arbitrary limits on your success. So, this year…

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