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Marketing. www.MarathonPress.com CONTENTS | JUNE 2016 ppmag.com ©KANSAS PITTS CHURCHILL ©CHARLETON 72 ©EMIN KULIYEV 82 64 4 PPMAG.COM DEPARTMENTS FEATURES 64 All the world’s a stage IN EVERY ISSUE Nuptials through the lens 10 Editor’s note of Emin Kuliyev 16 Giveaway By Eric Minton 18 On the cover 18 Merited 72 New heights 26 Ask the experts Charleton Churchill marries an 90 Perspective adventuresome spirit with a 98 Final frame career covering weddings By Jeff Kent FOREGROUND 82 Golden hour 13 Character development 14 Eye to eye Kansas Pitts bottles beach vacation joy 16 All natural By Amanda Arnold 17 High emotion SUCCESS 25 Favorite wedding styles 28 Pumping up the volume By Jeff Kent 36 Cowgirl with a camera By Karin Leperi 40 Animal eyes By Angela Lawson THE GOODS On the Web 45 Beauty to go: Profoto OCF Beauty Dish ppmag.com/win ppa.com/cpp Enter to win: Lensbaby Twist 60 Certified professional 46 Start painting: Corel Painter 2016 ppmag.com/gallery/ photographer info By Betsy Finn darryll_jones ppa.com/edu 54 Storage solution: A gallery of Darryll Jones’ Educational resources WD My Cloud EX2100 Eric images By Stan Sholik theloop.ppa.com High-power agility: ppmag.com/news/shaken theLoop forum 58 Sekonic LiteMaster On Mt. 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ALIENSKIN.COM SAFE BET LEADING LINES LEADING EDITOR’S NOTE CAUTION COULD HOLD YOU BACK X The issue of safety is on my mind. This morning I parked my car in the garage across from our office tower at the usual pre-dawn hour that starts my day. Once on the sidewalk, I saw a character standing not far from me. As soon as I began crossing the street he was behind me, muttering loudly as he followed me toward the building entrance. Several yards ahead, an office worker was entering the building. He was halfway through If you always play it safe, there’s the door when the sound of the little room to grow. But if you never stranger’s monologue made him stop play it safe, you or your business may reflexively and turn to look behind not be around long enough to grow. him. Then he saw me hotfooting it to the door. And he did a gracious kindness: He waited for me to get to the entrance while he held the door so that I wasn’t alone on the dark sidewalk with a stranger in tow. I’m pretty certain I wasn’t in an unsafe situation. But I wasn’t particularly comfortable with someone following me for even a short distance. Safety is a conundrum: If you always play it safe, there’s little room to grow. But if you never play it safe, you or your business may not be around long enough to grow. COMING NEXT MONTH We didn’t set out to focus this month’s content on safety vs. risk; it just bubbled up through the creative process. Fired up Hobbies are never far from Adrian Henson’s heart Emin Kuliyev shares some of his delightfully non-traditional wedding images in this issue (“All the World’s a Stage,” p.65).