My Story

I am a National wedding photographer based in sunny San Diego!  My beautiful, spunky, and insanely intelligent wife Julie,  Rezzy the cattle dog, and Frodo the cat keep my life colorfully focused, organized and always entertained.  My home away from home is the charming midwest city of Indianapolis, Indiana! Over the past 11 years in business, I have documented over 350 weddings from east to west. I have traveled and photographed weddings and engagement shoots in Mexico, Belize, California, Indiana, Ohio, Vermont, Utah, Minneapolis, Wisconsin, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Alabama.  I still get nervous before every wedding I photograph. If I didn’t have nervous tension, I probably would have lost the drive and passion for what I love doing the most. The reason for my love of wedding photography is simple: I love spending the day with brides and grooms creating wedding day memories that will last a lifetime.  I hunt for moments that cannot be recreated or relived. I love capturing the raw emotion of a wedding day. I want to be the best not only for myself but especially for my clients. If I didn’t wake up every morning with excitement about photography  I would simply hang my camera up and find another career.

After spending years in the corporate world and never truly feeling content, I found my passion, talent, and drive in photography. My ultimate goal was to get on the fashion side of photography since I spent several years as a model in front of the camera in Indianapolis and southern California. Here are a few interesting facts about me: I am completely self-taught in photography; I hold a liberal arts degree in Sociology; I lived in Prague and Budapest 5 years out of my life; and played college basketball for Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana.   I continue to travel the world and take pictures in my free time.  Oh, and I seriously love donuts!

I have been a visual storyteller for 15 years, photographing hundreds of weddings, people, and events all over the world. When it comes to wedding photography, my goal is to connect with my clients on a level that allows them to be comfortable, authentic, and feel special in front of the camera. Wedding days can be stressful, and the last thing a bride and groom want is to hire a photographer that gives no direction or guidance, uses unflattering poses, lousy lighting, awkward camera angles, and has no presence or likability. Let’s face it, unless you’re a professional model, being in front of the camera can feel outright terrifying! You have no idea what to do with your hands, how to touch your partner during an engagement shoot, where to shift your weight, how to stand, where to look or walk, and how to smile without looking nervous or feeling silly. As a skilled and professional photographer, with over a decade of experience, not only is it my responsibility to bring all the necessary equipment to make a shoot and wedding day successful, it is also my responsibility to be the director.

It feels good to wake up every morning and love what I do! I wish that everyone could find his or her passion and follow it with as much reward as I have.  Now in my 14th year of wedding and lifestyle photography, I continue to learn, I continue to grow, I continue to fuel my passion, and I continue to capture real people and real emotion. I am Peter Jonathan Images.