I’ve decided that to wrap up every month on the blog, I’m going to share with you my favorite photo from all month. It’ll be a photo I’ve taken in the last month and I’ll share a little bit about why I love it and why I think it’s my style.

After this shoot, I was talking to Jen (in the photo) and her husband Jason – you’ll recognize them from a post on the blog last week – about what I want my photography to be. Some people are all about the scenery and the artistic aspects of it, and others are about effects and post-processing. I appreciate all that, but to me it’s all about emotion.

I want to capture people who are in love, want to show them what real laughter looks like, faces scrunched up in glee. That’s one of the reasons why I adore photographing weddings so much – where can you find more emotion than that?

I love this one because it’s Jen and Ruthie – it’s a geniune moment between a girl and her dog, and it’s love and companionship and silliness and all of that. It’s what makes me love my job, and it’s what makes the world go around.

For you photography nerds out there, this shot was taken with my Canon 50D and my 50mm f/1.4 lens – taken at f/3.5, 1/200th of a second and ISO 100.