Test of Time Photography

Real days, not poses

Wedding and anniversary photography across the North Country.

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Jonathan Brown
Behind the camera

Jonathan Brown

the North Country

I have shot two jobs. Both of them mattered to the people in them, and I treated them that way.

I grew up in Potsdam and I still live twenty minutes from it. I know what the light does over the Raquette in July, I know which barns hold heat, and I know that the best photograph of the night usually happens while everyone is looking somewhere else.

I work quietly. No shot list read aloud, no herding people into rows for an hour. You get the day you actually had, edited within three weeks, delivered as full resolution files you own outright.

Wedding party walking a gravel road at dusk with the Adirondack ridge behind them
Selected work

Twelve frames

Twelve frames from the two jobs I have shot. The rest are in the galleries.

All galleries
  • Bride laughing as her veil catches the wind on the lodge steps The Whiteface Lodge
  • Groom fixing his cuff in a doorway, lit only by the window beside him Getting ready
  • Long table under strung lights, guests leaning in mid conversation Dinner
  • Grandmother holding a folded handkerchief during the ceremony Canton
  • First dance, the room dark and both faces lit from one side First dance
  • Two hands with worn wedding bands resting on a kitchen table Fifty years
  • Kids running the length of the reception tent in socks Nine at night
  • Bouquet left on a windowsill after the ceremony Afterwards
  • Couple standing at the shoreline while the last light goes off the water Mirror Lake
  • Anniversary cake carried through a crowded grange hall Grange Hall
  • Empty chairs and a fiddle case at the end of the night Last call
Enquiries

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Tell me the date and the place. I answer within a day, and I will tell you straight if I am not the right fit.

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