Joshua Mikhaiel photography

If you’ve got a story you’d like captured whether it is a wedding day, or another love thats stood the test of time, I will be there with bells on. (and a camera) not just to document and watch but to be as much a part of it as anyone else there.

I will laugh cry and get down with whatever you’re up to because I believe that to really tell a story well you need to live it. You need to get inside the story and become a part of it if you really want to capture its truest essence. I’m into the details but probably not in the way you’d think.

If you want me to be in the room when the real smiles come out, and the tears flow, and the wrinkles next to your eyes start creeping in.. If you want me to tell the real story, not just take some “pretty pictures” then thats exactly where I’ll be. I believe photographs are so so important. Not just as a window back to the moments that matter the most, but as a way of preserving those moments in a way that goes far beyond just reliving memories.

I’ve been struck by a thought recently about the power of photos and in a way their purpose. Most of the people who see a photograph I’ve taken, of your wedding, your family, your trip, your art space.. whatever it is i’ve captured.. the majority of people who see that photo over time will not be people who were there to experience the moment from themselves.

Think of all the people who haven’t been born yet, your children, friends you haven’t met yet the wonderful people who are yet to enter your life. I see my responsibility as a photographer as that of documenting these moments in a way which really transports people who weren’t even there right into your shoes and to make them feel as much of what if felt like to be there as humanly possible.

I hope you feel that when you look at my images. That they make you feel something. I don’t care much for prettiness in pictures i’ve i’m perfectly honest. I don’t think beauty is every really purely visual. And as much as photographs are about as visual as it gets the real beauty in them is that they can make you feel things.

Thats always my goal. I want to create and craft images that make you feel things.

About

A little about me hey? Well, You're probably best of heading to the video's section and watching that to hear a longer version of my story. But in short. I'm a country kid who's moved to the big smoke for now. But I love getting out in the country again for all of my weddings. I'm so blessed to be able to do this job for a living and I'm pretty thankful to God for giving me some camera skills to put food on the table. But really it's not about the camera for me. It's about people & connection.

Joshua Mikhaiel

Chief Excitement Officer