Mary Morris Photography

Capturing your life....

Seth Morris Photography is now Mary Morris Photography! After 21 years of shooting weddings together, we are pivoting to shooting differently. Mary is focusing on portraits and Seth is going be doing some corporate photography, potentially. For now, Mary is going to be the face and heart of the business. But we all know, I’ve been running the show for a long time. I am here to capture your family and your life as it is. At the end of the day, we look back at pictures and remember how we loved and how we felt loved. I want to take the photos that remind you of what life feels like right now.

My goal is to see people. I encourage our clients to talk, laugh, tickle, giggle, shout inappropriate things all to get genuine emotion and smiles from them. I want everyone to look back at the picture and remember this time in your life.

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I guess if I had to sum up what I want you to know about me it would be this:

I care about you & your memories

I care about your life, your relationship, your family, capturing how life is right now. Maybe not perfectly posed, but genuine emotion and fun and happy tears and laughing and your kids making this hilarious cheese face. We care about your life and we want you to be able to look back at these pictures and go back to these moments because we know you will cherish that in 15 years.

BUT also, I want to make getting your picture taken NOT SUCK.

Seriously. I hate being in photos and in every family/couple/wedding party there seems to be at least one person who would rather being getting their teeth cleaned than be at this photoshoot. As you look through the pictures, I hope you see the people having fun and smiling and laughing. I don’t instruct them to fake laugh. In fact, it’s my goal in life to never direct anyone to do that. I create space for people to interact and the nature of their relationship will automatically come through in the interaction. If you are goofy, you will be goofy. If you are snuggly, you will snuggle. If you are hilarious, you will be laughing. I do give you direction such as where to stand and where to put your hands and where to look but we also give you space to just be and the results usually speak for themselves. I make it fun. So many people say, “oh that wasn’t that bad. That was kinda fun.” Yup. Kinda fun. I really try to keep things low key, move efficiently through photos so it doesn’t take so long, and keep everyone laughing.

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I have a photojournalistic style with a classic edit for my photos because we remember all too well the grunge rage of 2006 when we edited beautiful photos to look rusty. WHAT WERE WE ALL THINKING?!?!? So I have tried to stick to a classic edit and black and white to keep things looking how they looked in real life! I focus on the moments and the interactions with your spouse, your family, your friends and aim to capture who you are in this moment and how your life looks!