Happy 7 Year Anniversary -Jessie, Darren + Ingalls Photography!

Today, 7 years ago, Jessie and Darren got married! It was an outdoor garden wedding not unlike many others, except for one thing; it was the wedding that started my photography career.

This journey of life is a wonderfully chaotic swirl of happenstance, coincidence, and the divine. Most days we do our best to survive and to find fleeting pleasures in our activities and relationships. Every so often there are those moments, hidden in the midst of the mundane, that confirm there is something eternal written in our hearts.

7 Years ago I photographed Jessie and Darren’s wedding, going about life as usual, happy to help out some lovely friends… Well before the ceremony was underway I started to realize I was having one of those moments. Rush of adrenaline. Deep Breath. Thankful prayer. And then I hear it. A small whisper in my heart that I can only believe was God’s voice, "I want you to do this."

Short story goes: 7 years later Jessie and Darren are still married, a little older, a lot wiser, still-in-love and proud parents! Rueben was born into their world about 5 months ago. My lovely wife photographed him the day after his birth. To tie everything together I felt like a 7-year-celebratory-family-photo-shoot was in order. So early this morning we hiked a small hill on the outskirts of San Luis Obispo. I wanted to thank them for choosing me, long before I was Cameron Ingalls, Inc. Long before I was anybody in this crazy world of wedding photography. I also wanted to finally shoot them with something better than my film Canon Rebel; complete with stock lens and pop-up flash. {Long, long, very long story}

Happy anniversary my friends! Thanks for loving me and believing in me all of these years. Thanks for trusting me to photograph your love story again and again. Anna and I are both proud and excited to share the rest of life’s journey as your American family and friends.