Colleen is a top-notch photographer whose empathetic, thoughtful, focused nature shaped her excellent photographs of our wedding and accompanying events. From our first email exchanges, phone calls, and in-person meetings, Colleen ensured that ...our needs could be meet with kindness and professionalism. We recommend Colleen wholeheartedly with no reservations. The cost of her services are worth it given the exceptional quality given to planning the shoots, her ability to dissolve invisibly into events and groups and emerge with rewarding images, and her dedication to the minutae of post-processing. Her images achieved our ambition of capturing the aliveness of ourselves and our community in our decisive moments, especially of our elder family members and friends who had not seen each other in, at times, many decades. Though we planned our wedding weekend and decorations extensively, our frugal budget and non-wedding oriented venue (a summer camp / retreat center) would not have lent themselves easily to a mediocre photographer. Amidt a flash thunderstorm, in buildings with camp kid decor (not as in a Wes Anderson film), with a cafeteria for our reception, Colleen made good. Should you need to choose between Colleen versus purchasing over-precious decorations, we recommend choosing Colleen ten times out of ten.