Enjoy another beautiful wedding… Becca and John decided to get married in one of my all time favorite venues: the San Francisco City Hall.
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We received this wonderful note recently:
“Dear IQ Photo…
I have just watched your presentation for Bryce and Rita for the umpteenth time. My wife and I have been honored to be at five weddings this summer. We have been privileged to see similar presentations from all of them. I need you to know just how (a trite and overwork adjective follows) AWESOME your work is! It captured the spirit of the wedding better than I thought possible and I am transported back to the event every time I see it. I am so impressed with your work. I want to offer my congratulations for work well done and send you a great big THANK YOU!
Best regards,
//Michael//”
We receive lot of positive feedback but it comes mostly from the brides, grooms, very close friends and family. The person who wrote this, was just a one of the wedding guests. Isn’t it sweet?! (Thank you Michael.)
So Masha and I decided to watch it again and, YES, we teared up a little ourselves. It seems a little odd since it’s our own work and only a few weeks have passed since the wedding.
My brother Alex, who was the videographer at this wedding, has recently posted a video of the wedding and I wanted to take an opportunity to present both versions of the same wedding. Isn’t it interesting to see how the same event can look through different media?
I could say so much about Rita and Bryce’s beautiful wedding but I’ll just keep it simple: I didn’t really feel like a photographer there, but rather a friend who happened to have a camera. I hope this wonderful feeling is reflected in my work.
and my brother’s video:
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Really nice, love it and the rest of your work is amazing too, very inspiring
Inspiring! Your work is inspiring – I can’t believe one simple picture can send so many messages.
No wonder you cried while watching this. It brought tears in my eyes too. And I am not even a friend.
Palace hotel is such a grand venue! Wow. I especially like the Ceremony area. So bright!
OMG, so emotional. Love it!
Me and my partner has been living together for 5 years and we are planning to settle down soon. I found your blog because I was looking for weddings and wedding photography. It’s been such a delight in watching your videos. Thanks for sharing them.
Really awesome, congratulations for your work.
Amazing work! So emotional! Great job!
What a lovely idea.
I wish I had a video made of my wedding photos now!
Would you do this kind of thing with, let’s say, my old wedding snaps? I’m not too good with making videos and the like.
It would be nice to bring my old pictures back to life 
Love your work! It’s clear you possess true passion for your work. When this happens, it doesn’t even feel like work but rather feels like play. We should all strive to pursue our passions on a daily basis like you do.
This so great. You have amazing talent.
Fantastic images… Well done!
great calors and tone!!, natural
Wallace and Yun Yun chose beautiful Victoria, British Columbia for their wedding. My brother Alex, who was the videographer for the wedding, and I had met Wallace and Yun Yun through Preeya and Pramod whose wedding I photographed in June.
Hatley Castle was the setting that Wallace and Yun Yun selected to celebrate their wedding. Known for its part of the X-Men movie, Hatley Castle is currently a university and was formerly a naval military academy. It was the perfect medieval setting. Small and with such a magical sense of another time it gave me some really great backgrounds to use with this charming couple.
Even though we were on a tight wedding-day schedule, we had a chance to shoot some portraits in Victoria’s Chinatown. It’s the oldest Chinatown in Canada and very different looking than San Francisco’s Chinatown–because it doesn’t dress up for visitors. It has what’s said to be the narrowest street on earth, Fan Alley, really just wide enough for one person to get through.
Enjoy the photos. And I am back to editing. Only twelve weddings to go… What a crazy year!
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Great stuff Joseph. Really love the magical shot of the bride’s feet in her shoes and all the great getting ready shots.
Great Job! As usual… So excited to have you as our photographer next year!
I’ve been to that castle but never new you can get married there. So many beautiful shots! Incredible!
Dear Joseph,
I am checking your work from time to time for the last three months and amazed each time I see a wedding from you.
It seems you always have plenty of fresh ideas! Looking forward to see more!
The motion shot with the car is incredible, great job on the wedding!
Another great wedding from Joseph!
I LOOOOOVE the car shot where the veils is flying away! Amazing!
This was the best wedding photo documentaries I have ever seen. Every photo express the feeling on how couples share their happiness to us after getting married.
What a lovely wedding. So many creative compositions!
Wow! That Fiat 500 car shot is AMAZING!! Beautiful pictures!!
Now that was spectacular! Excellently done! Thanks for sharing.
Incredible pictures and great enhancements. I have 2 friends who do photography and I am surely going to show them these wedding pictures.
You are lucky to travel to so many places! No wonder why! See you soon.
Sensational wedding story! Excellent phototography!
These are amazing I love the purple theme! My favorite is the first picture the wide angle is really nice.
Lovely photos and lovely couples. You did a great job Joseph. You’re such a professional photographer.
HI there
I literally just stumbled across your website and W-O-W what great photographs!!!
As a photographer I think it’s always nice to give a bit of nice feedback, so rather than keeping the thoughts to myself, I thought I would drop you a line to say, keep up the good work.
Awesome shots my friend.
Take care
Jay
Beautiful special effects that create a timeless photo album feel. Thanks for the inspiration (and I’m jealous of the fiat 500 wedding gift – I wish I’d gotten one for my wedding!)
Beautiful effects that create a timeless wedding album feel – good job. And I’m jealous for the fiat 500 – I wish I’d gotten one for my wedding! Thanks for the inspiration. Ansley
Amazing photography! Wish we could have someone like you taking pictures at the wedding we hold in our hotel. I absolutely love the fact that everyone seems so natural – usually people pose when their pictures are taken, especially at weddings and you can spot that in pictures. I do not know how you did it but you captured every inch of emotion! >:D<
Amazing photos! I like the one with the window reflection.
“Due to a strike, taxi service is not available!” – This was first thing I heard when I arrived at Athens airport. Lucky for me I didn’t have to leave the airport. My destination was beautiful Santorini island which is located in the middle of the Aegean Sea. Here is a link to see the island on the map.
Sophie and Hans celebrated their intimate wedding with just a few close friends and family in attendance.
The wedding itself took less than two hours so most of the photos are portraits of Sophie and Hans in the beautiful environs of Santorini’s white-washed buildings surrounded by blue seas and even bluer skies. Enjoy.
One thing for sure, Santorini is absolutely the best place for an intimate wedding if you don’t mind spending 50 to 60 hours on the plane and at airports. I’m not complaining at all, though. The charm and uniqueness of Santorini makes it all worthwhile. I’d do it again in a minute!
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Very romantic,gorgeous pictures,especially when the couple is under water,so creative
just another lovely series !
thumbs up !
Beautiful photos, Joseph. Only wish the videographer wasn’t in the ceremony shots, but what are you going to do? I too, really loved the underwater shot. How cool that the couple was agreeable to do it. What an incredible opportunity for you. Nice job!
WOW!!! Joseph these shots are AMAZING!
Oh la la! I just want to tell you that you really chose the right setting for your wedding and the photographer captured the nice places. I’ve been there in Greece. That is in Santorini right?All I can say is “WOW!!!”
Beautiful! A third vote for the Under Water Shot! Loved it.
Amazing photos! I particularly like the photo of the bride on the road. Looks like a scene from a movie! Stunning!
These photos are amazing. My favorite is the underwater one, I wish I’ll have such a wedding and such a photographer one day.
These photos are breathtaking. My favorite is the underwater one, I wish I’ll have such a wedding and such a photographer one day.
How do you do that? Whats the secret? I am amateur photographer and spend a week in Santorini but haven’t seen half of those angles.
wow! what a location for a wedding and what a great set of images you got! really stunning stuff! regards, Roberto.
Wow how did you get a bride and groom to pose under water for you?
Joseph, I can’t believe Santorini looks that beautiful! Seems it was a very simple event you turned into magical affair.
What cam and lenses you guys are using? Really love this shots.
Wow, this has got to be one of the strongest sets of images from a wedding in Greece I’ve seen. Wonderful imagery, Joseph. You’ve really captured a great sense of place.
Oh wow! This has got to be some of the best wedding photography I have ever seen! Of course, the fact that it’s set in such a gorgey place helps! Great work!
Hands down best destination wedding photos I ever seen.
Joseph, you outdid yourself! AGAIN!
That shot of the rings is just too perfect. I love it. I’m also really loving that shot of the couple on the couch overlooking the ocean. Amazing work as always.
Wow. Those are incredible photos.
Amazing destination wedding! You truly captured Santorini the way it was meant to be.
OMG! This is priceless collection. The couple is very lucky to have it. My photographer gave me a bunch of boring portraits.
The wedding was absolutely beautiful. Every shot is worth to see..
This wedding should be a photography guide for Santorini couples!
Wow, these images are simply stunning. They belong in a wedding magazine!
I am so inspired by your work!
Perfect place for an intimate wedding. Will keep in mind. Cool photos by the way.
I love these romantic collection, especially I like the picture the water kiss:)
Totally in love with your work!
wow gorgeous pictures
Absolutely stunning photos! Love them.
WOW Stunning work. SO creative!
Awesome location. I want a wedding there. Great photos. How do you find your destination weddings?
Your photos are remarkable. I’m sure you had a fun time on this trip with the bride and groom, as Santorini is amazing.
Awesome, beautiful, romantic, gorgeous photos. Sunset in santorini is miracle!!!
Congratulations to Sophie and Hans! Wonderful photos…they are all lovely!
There’s nothing like Santorini for wedding location! Brilliant photographs!
Really amazing photos. Love the intensity that you captured
Really amazing photos. Excellent capture
Very romanitic, the couple is very nice, the place is great, the wedding gorgeous and the photoes awesome. I am so happy I have discovered this blog, as I never had such brilliant fillings about weddings before this blog.
Absolutely beautiful wedding. I love the sense of comfort from the small wedding, my favorite is the cheers shot when everyone is silhouetted in the sunset!
A-m-a-z-i-n-g wedding and pictures! If I were to marry again, I’d go to Santorini.
The best sunset ever!!! And your shots were simply the best!!!!
Congratularions!!!!
Have I said that I love destination weddings? Well, I’ve been busy with my growing family and for a little while so I couldn’t accept destination assignments. Maui was the perfect place to step back into the world of killer destination weddings. It’s a little Paradise! Aloha and E komo mai! Welcome!
I stepped off the plane in Maui and it hit me full-on. The sweet scent of Hawaiian air, birds chirping, mynahs squawking, tropical green lushness, huge really blue skies, madness! I picked up my luggage and got my rental car. I was like a robot doing exactly the wrong things. My brain was screaming, Dude, we’re here. This is no reason for work. We need to go to the beach!
Preeya and Pramod’s beautiful, four-day extravaganza of a monster party and wedding was simply out of this world. A mountain of Planning went into making their traditional Indian wedding on Maui a perfect delight. The logistics blew my mind. Two hundred guests, a make-up artist, several Henna artists (the best I’ve ever seen – you can see them working on anyone who wanted it in the photo on the lawn with the white lounges), a Photographers (me and Eliot), and a videography team flown in. It was also a moving celebration—I mean, sure, plenty of people were emotionally moved and cried – but moving, as in Parties, entertainment by the guests at the Grand Wailea Resort, out to sea on a cruise with everyone dressed in white, and with food that rocked, and back on land again, the wedding itself at the astonishingly over-the-top Four Seasons Resort.
Preeya wore four totally gorgeous outfits for the formal occasions, and I can’t count how many glam dresses for the less formal parties, entertainment, and dinners. I got to do a Portrait of her in all four sumptuous gowns. She was such a Pleasure to work with and she was a most entertaining and beautiful subject.
The weather couldn’t have been more Perfect and the festivities were facing due west! This time the wedding was on the right side of the island! I had the chance to see and shoot some gasp-a-licious sunsets. See if you agree.
Again I had a really wonderful couple to work with. Preeya and Pramod and I talked about what they wanted and then they let me loose to shoot to my heart’s content. I barely felt my feet on the ground for four days. It was all so immense — the setting, the festivities, the colors, the hugeness of it. Acres of good feelings all around, a feeling of intimacy with lots of conversation with friends and the family. It was all perfection and totally off the charts. I loved every minute of it.
I know I’ve gotta go back to Maui and next time I’ll bring my lovely wife.
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beautiful wedding!
JOSEPH thank you for sharing our special day with us. You were amazing to work with and I can’t wait to see all the rest of the pics
SO awesome. You have amazing job Joseph. Seems you love what you do.
Wow that look like one fun day. Awesome colors and a really stunning variety of shots. Inspirational.
Joseph, each wedding is better then the other! I am sooooo look forward to ours!
These pictures are amazing. Nice colored pictures with mix of black and white makes the album spectacular.
Incredible Photo Reportage!!!
Great shots. Love the henna tattoo’s. Fabulous location. Great colors.
That shot of the couple in the surf is just awesome. I never would have thought of that and I absolutely love it. What a fun couple.
Seeing from those awesome pictures that was quite long wedding day. Those indian colors and decorations are just amazing.
Love the location!!!So soft and romantic! Lovely Work!
Joseph, your night work is inspiring!
These pictures are so rich ,so colourful,so diverse! Fantastic Work!!!
Exciting photograghs i’m really very impressed. and i loved it a lot
Excellent portfolio….really inspiring to create the same thing.
Love & Respect,
Taufik
Wow, some amazing images here. Hard to pick out a favorite, but certainly the one with the wave coming over the couple is unusual and that makes it fun… but there’s clearly a lot of technical skill on display here as well.
What a beautiful insight to your day!LOVE this project!
These photos are amazing! It as so good to meet you all.
Mahalo,
Catana
And, It was an epic experience to do henna for you all:)
Some beautiful pictures !
Amazingly beautiful photos. This wedding looks like a fairy tale. Much happiness to you always.
One word: PERFECT!
This is the best Indian wedding I ever seen!
What a fabulous celebration! You captured it PERFECTLY!
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These pictures look amazing! Looks like it was a lot of fun!
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Brilliant work as usual Joseph. Love the light and creative composition. 5 stars. Again.
I want to be just like you. One day, one day….
It was nice meeting you yesterday. So excited to have you next year as my photographer! I know I will love the photos! It was easy decision to have you.
Those HDR photos are WOW! Great work as usual. I wish I had you at my wedding. But I am pretty sure I couldn’t afford you.
Wow I love your work!
Joseph, you rock! You are my favorite photographer ever! I’ve learned so much just by looking at your art.
Wow! This is indeed a most beautiful wedding I ever seen!
WOW! you have some amazing photography skills!!!! Do you do private shoots??
Seeing such artistic wedding photography at SF City Hall brought back fond memories since my son and his wife went there to get their marriage license. They flew all the way from Hawaii to San Francisco to get married..place where they met. And they selected Joseph at IQPhoto to be their photographer because they wanted the best! Their philosophy was that after 20 years, what do you have to remember that special day? Photographs!
We all have fond, fond memories working with Joseph and his staff, even to this day, although the wedding was 3 years ago. We had such a great time. And what great wedding photographs! I can honestly say that Joseph is the most creative and artistic photographer anywhere.
City Hall makes for a very dramatic backdrop, beautiful shots!
this is superb photos dude i never seen dis type of beautiful wedding awesome
Your photos are amazing. I love the shots of the bride on the stairs. So beautiful! The elevator shot is cute too.