mycah bain
photography
Lead Photographer since 2007 | she/her/hers
Meet Erin
There are photographers who direct a wedding day and photographers who disappear into it.
Erin disappears. And what she finds in there is extraordinary.
She has been photographing weddings and couples since 2016 and her entire approach is built around one belief: the most beautiful moments happen when nobody feels watched. So she doesn't announce herself. She doesn't direct and position and orchestrate. She finds her spot, gets quiet, and waits. For the glance across the room. The hand squeeze before you walk in. The moment you two dissolve into laughter over something nobody else even caught.
She has been known to hide behind a bush to get the shot. She means that literally, and she is not sorry about it.
When Sarah and Anders got their wedding photos back, they kept stopping on images and saying I don't even remember this happening. Not because the day was a blur, but because Erin was so completely invisible in those moments that they got to just live them. The camera was there. They never felt it. They walked away with something better than a record of their wedding day. They walked away with a record of who they actually are together, caught in moments they didn't know anyone was watching.
Erin's couples tend to be a little shy, a little private, the kind of people who want every moment of their day captured and preserved forever but who would genuinely rather not know it's happening. Not the star of the show type. The deeply in love, completely present, let's just be together type.
Those are exactly the couples Erin was made to photograph.
If you want someone who will observe, and wait and find the real moments as they naturally unfold, without ever making you feel like you're in front of a camera, I'd love to introduce you to her.