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Ray and Kelly In the Creek

Joseph Cotten — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:22:18 +0000

This was another great candid moment. When doing portraits, I always try to capture the unplanned moments that show people as they truly are—no pretense, no fake posed smile—just human. Ray ended up having me create a large hardcover photo book commemorating my photo session with them, and gave it to Kelly as an anniversary gift.

Ray and Kelly At the Stone Bridge

Joseph Cotten — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:17:27 +0000

This is one of my favorites from my session with Ray and Kelly McKinnon. They hired me to do portraits of them after their wedding, as they didn’t have time to hire a wedding photographer for the day of the ceremony. This shot was taken at the Bicentennial Gardens in Greensboro, NC on a great little stone bridge overlooking a brook. I like the moment that’s captured here of them just being themselves with each other and laughing.

Tania & Nathan

Joseph Cotten — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:52:40 +0000

A good friend of ours, with her son Nathan. My wife and I are Nathan’s godparents, so we see a lot of the little guy. He’s now grown into full-blown boyhood, whereas this picture was taken when he was just a toddler. This was a great moment that I caught partly because of luck and partly because of persistence. So often in photography, it takes dozens of unusable shots to get that one special moment captured, and such was the case on the day this was taken.