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As a teenager I acquired a Polaroid Swinger, a very small instant camera. This was a major technological leap over the Brownie and ever the geek, I was in love once again. As the years went by, I pursued a career in electronics and did one tour in the US Army as a satellite receiver technician. Joy and I met in high school and were married much too young. But the Lord blesses and the marriage has been a great one since 1970. Joy bought me my first 35 mm camera while we were newlyweds which sparked a whole new era in our lives. I began to really take photography seriously. As the hobby grew I needed some way to help pay for my increasingly expensive toys. Thus, the wedding photography business was born. Using a couple of medium format, twin-lens cameras we began our first (part-time) career in photography. We were on our way to a successful business when we decided to make a major life change. Along the way we felt it was God’s call in our lives to seek a full-time career in Christian work. With much prayer and consultation, we sold our house, quit our jobs and moved to Ft. Worth, Texas to attend seminary. I didn’t give up photography, but felt that the wedding business was too risky for a minister. Just one unhappy customer could not only damage the photo business, but do harm to his ministry. Therefore, photography became just a hobby once again. As the years passed we served in a couple of churches, then felt it was time to pursue foreign missions. The kids were grown so the timing was right to move to Germany where we served with the International Mission Board for about ten years. After a few years as a church planter, the missions organization offered me the position of media consultant. Among other things the job meant I could now use photography in a ministry capacity. After a few
years in that role, family issues became pressing. Joy’s mother, our only
living parent, needed someone to care for her back in the States. We felt
this it was in God’s plan for us to return to the States and begin a new
adventure in our lives. That’s were BlueMoon Studios comes in. With my
life-long passion for photography and real love of people, we felt it was
finally time to make photography a full-time occupation.
Weddings are supposed to be happy, fun days and we like to have fun. While we are serious about capturing the moments and essence of your wedding, you will find that we have a sense of humor and love people. Our style is a blend of photojournalism and traditional photography. That means we will stay out of the way as much as possible and record the moments of the day while occasionally taking the lead to gather and photograph groups of people and special moments. We understand the awesome responsibility you have given us to record your wedding day so that you, your children and generations to come can not just see a few images, but feel the emotion you feel on this day. It overwhelms us to know that images we record on your wedding day will be a part of your family's heritage for centuries. Thank you for placing so much trust in us, we
won't let you down. Thank you for considering Bluemoon Studios. We know how special this day is for you and want to do all within our power to make it the most wonderful day of your life. We feel it is an awesome responsibility to think that the photos we make on your wedding day will continue to be a part of you family's heritage for generations to come. In future years and generations the most important remembrance of your wedding will be the photographs. Therefore, the photographs we make are as important to us as they are to you. Realizing this we have attempted to anticipate and answer some very important questions. How much experience
do you have? What kind of
equipment to you use? I know you use
state-of-the-art digital equipment, but will I have real photographs?
What will you wear
to the wedding? Are you one of those
obnoxious photographers who is distracting during the wedding?
Do you allow other
people to take pictures while you are working? Can we have color
and black and white photographs? How many hours will
you be at the wedding?
From Highway 280 East, turn left on Hugh Daniel Drive. Proceed to Highway 41; turn right. Mt Laurel is 1.3 miles on the left. From Highway 280 West (from the direction of Childersburg) turn right on Highway 41 and continue 3 miles to Mt Laurel BlueMoon Studios is located on Olmsted Street, one block off Highway 41 in Mt Laurel. Turn in by the fire station, go to first stop sign and turn right.
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I
began my love affair with photography early in life. While a Cub Scout in
the 1950s my parents gave me a Brownie Hawkeye camera and I thought it was
the greatest gift, even though I couldn’t afford film and processing. Not
to mention the family lived too far out of town to make it practical to get
film developed.
Few
days in your life are as special as your wedding day and we at BlueMoon
Studios want to help make it as special as possible. 
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Photographers