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with just a touch of color

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Such a sweet photo from after the vows.

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Between now and the end of the month, you can save 20% off our wedding packages. Call Steve at 502.599.8483 today to set up your consultation!

Save anywhere from $350 to over $700 on your wedding photography! Available to brides and grooms within or beyond the Louisville, Kentucky and Southern Indiana metro area.

The melt-down has started, outdoors. It’s practically spring! Time to switch out of hibernation mode, schedule a consultation, and get together! See more photos, meet Steve, see if you click. He’s more than happy to answer all your questions, and if he’s not the one for you, we know lots of other photographers we can refer you to.

2008 was the busiest year we’ve ever had, and we hope to keep it going in 2009! Looking forward to meeting you.

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Sweet engagement photo!

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Love that light and shadow, and that red-RED-red bouquet.

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And a unique view of the river, a bridge, and downtown Louisville, from a hidden spot in nature.

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Such a fun couple.

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If a kiss makes you feel this good, you know it’s the real thing, baby.

Fun engagement session. Check out the whole set. They had great chemistry and were a pleasure to photograph.

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I could have danced all night!
I could have danced all night!
And still have begged for more.
I could have spread my wings
And done a thousand things I’ve never done before.
I’ll never know
What made it so exciting.
Why all at once my heart took flight.
I only know when he
Began to dance with me.
I could have danced, danced danced all night!

Call Stephen A. Harmon Photography, Louisville-area photojournalist at 502.599.8483. Ask about our February special, good now through March 15!

This Sunday will be our last wedding show of the year, and we’d love to meet you. 300 Spring in downtown Jeff is a great location for weddings and receptions, and Mary Beth Zoller knows how to take care of brides and grooms. She puts on a very elegant wedding show. Her location is close to downtown Louisville, and accessible to all Southern Indiana friends and family, as well, so plan on stopping by. We’ll be there with prints, albums, photos, etc., and we are running our last sale/special of the year, too–so you can’t miss. Hope to see you there!

Well, obviously there are different organizations, of varying size and import that can & do give awards for news, sports, feature photo, etc.

These are not to be confused with wedding photo contest awards and the like. It’s a different animal. Many wedding photographers pay fees to enter these contests, so they can build their credentials competing against other wedding photographers. We’ve done it, it’s nothing to be ashamed of. It’s just different.

Journalists have a code of ethics they have to adhere to–it’s not art for art’s sake when you shoot professionally for a daily paper. Does that make photojournalism superior to artful wedding photography?

For us, it comes down to a matter of what you like. We like to use a little bit of what we’ve learned through the years as journalists, artists, and people who just flat-out like good photos.

But for the record, because it should be said, Stephen has won his awards not from wedding contests, but from an impartial jury of journalists, who selected his work to be the best, among all the photographers from all these newspapers (and some that were not mentioned on that page). This is a remarkable achievement for any career professional, and if he’d done it once or twice–maybe it could be passed off as lucky, or the whims of judges. Steve won these awards twelve times in five years.

I am not just trying to brag on him–but it was brought to my attention today that “award-winning photography” has become a commonly-tossed around phrase. I’m not degrading other sources of awards, or other styles and organizations. I will say that photojournalists are extremely competitive, and it is a difficult field to break into. Of the 50+ graduating photojournalists from Steve’s class at Ball State, for instance, there were only two who got a job upon graduation.

“The competitiveness of photojournalism inspires you to do your best work. Any situation can lead to solid photography, but award-winning photography comes when you can capture the emotion and tell a story.” That’s Steve’s explanation.

As for me, I see Steve’s devotion to his work as secondary to his natural talent. I believe he won his awards as a working photojournalist–and continues to take superior photographs in all circumstances–because of that combination of talent, creativity, and competitiveness, all driving him to do his best. He doesn’t ever stop striving to do better work.

“You’re only as good as your last photograph,” he says. If anyone has earned the right to rest on his laurels, it is he. But that’s just not in his nature. Every shoot, whether it is commercial photography, your wedding, or a Friday night basketball game, is a new and welcome challenge to Steve. I think it shows–but it shows probably the best in his wedding and engagement photos.

Leslea