Gayle Brooker Photography Blog

Happy Friday!

Gayle Brooker — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:04:34 +0000

What a gorgeous day it is here in Charleston! I could not be happier to see Emily and Sam’s beautiful wedding on the Wedding Row! Thank you Della for including this wedding on your lovely blog. Thank you also to Kristin Newman Designs and Gathering Floral and Event Design for turning Hibernian Hall into a beautiful Spring wonderland.

Click here to view the complete wedding from the Wedding Row!

On the Wedding Row!

Gayle Brooker — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 17:25:50 +0000

I love being apart of the fantastic blog, The Wedding Row! Thank you for selecting Brinley and Will’s beautiful wedding. Also, I would like to send a thank you out to Gathering Events for designing such a lovely wedding to photograph. To see more of this wedding click here: The Wedding Row

Charleston Wedding Magazine…..Spring 2012!

Gayle Brooker — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:04:02 +0000

Happy Valentine’s Day !

What a special treat to have such a lovely and colorful wedding in Charleston Wedding Magazine! This wedding was shot on location at Lowndes Grove, which is always a favorite of mine. Thank you to all the vendors involved especially Calder Clark Designs for creating such an inspiring wedding to photograph.

To read the entire article please click Charleston Wedding Magazine

Southern Living Weddings Magazine 2012

Gayle Brooker — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:44:41 +0000

It’s official, the new Southern Living Weddings Magazine is out on newsstands. I have the great fortune to be represented in there for three of my weddings. This would not of been possible without all the wonderful talent behind the wedding designs and of course my beautiful couples. Thank you thank you to all!

Thank you 2011!

Gayle Brooker — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:13:53 +0000

I would like to send out a sincere thank you to all my 2011 clients it was an amazing year working with all of you. I wish for you all the best as you make your way through your first year of marriage. It’s a wild ride – one filled with lots of excitement, love, and laughter. I hope to see you all again sometime soon!

Happy New Year!

Here are some of my favorites….

This last group was taken at one of my close friend’s wedding – I was not the wedding photographer but could not resist taking a camera.

Found Friday

Gayle Brooker — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 21:36:56 +0000

For Neilson, as you sail your way up to Georgetown for the wooden boat festival this weekend.

Found Friday

Gayle Brooker — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 18:40:27 +0000

Last weekend I was up at my parent’s house with Neilson and we decided to go through some of my families old photos. We found some amazingly funny stuff like my brother dressed up as a West Side Story “shark” lounging on the diving board and flexing his barely there muscles or my 70’s styled Dad with his wild curly hair tucked into a classic Mickey Mouse hat and a leather (or could be pleather) jacket playing with hand puppets while I laughed on his lap. There were so many great images and I wanted to take them all but my father wasn’t quite ready to let any of them go. However, I did sneak one out of my mom. So here it is…my mom age 32 or 33 living in Germany. This was taken by my father who was a avid amateur photographer. I love this image so much!

Kay and Jonathan’s Engagement

Gayle Brooker — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 23:20:34 +0000

I feel so lucky that today I can share with you all my cousin Kay’s engagement session taken up in Greenville, SC. Kay and Jonathan are to be married this Saturday and while I am not photographing her wedding, to her disliking, I did have the privileged of photographing her bridal portrait and engagement session.

While in a perfect world I would of been able to photograph her wedding and mingle with all my family and friends. The reality of it all is that wedding photography is my job and I take it very seriously which means I would have not been able to do both – photograph and mingle. When I am on a job I am completely visually focused and, you can ask any of my assistants, I even sometimes forget words. It’s quite a strange phenomenon I have to admit and my assistants are scrambling to read my mind on what I am asking for…whether it’s a flash, fill card, film….more on this another day.

Next week I will share with you all some selects from her bridal portrait.

Congratulations to Kay and Jonathan!

Art love

Gayle Brooker — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:32:31 +0000

Before I became a wedding and editorial photographer, I received a Master’s in Fine Arts, specializing in photography, from the Rhode Island School of Design. While these were my most challenging years as a student, they were also the most thought provoking and expanding years as an artist. I was completely immersed in art making, art critiques, art lectures, art theories, and of course viewing lots of art. Not to mention all of my friends were artists. It was a total art nerd-a-thon. Now nine years later, I still have a complete love for making art and looking at other artists for inspiration. I have an extensive library and weakness for buying art books and not all of them are photographers. I find great inspiration in all sorts of visual imagery and look forward to sharing with you over the years some of my favorites.

To start off, this is a artist that I learned about today and in fact she is not a photographer but uses photography to document her sculptures. This body of work, Monumento Mínimo, is simple, elegant and hauntingly beautiful.

Artist: Nele Azevedo, sculpture

Link: NPR Story

On Bump Smitten…

Gayle Brooker — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 23:56:20 +0000

While on vacation last week, I received word that Bump Smitten had posted this fun birthday party! Here are a few images and please click here to see all the others! Thank you Bump Smitten and Tara Guérard Soirée !