Welcome to the Any Graham Journey. My guest today is Abby Moore. She's talking with me from Grand Rapids, Michigan, and she's a one on the Any Graham. How are you, Abby?

I'm great. How are you?

I'm really good, too. Tell me a little bit about you.

Well, I'm 29 years old, and I am a wedding photographer in Grand Rapids, but I kind of go all over the place for that. Wherever people are getting married and want me to be a part of it.

I photograph families, just couples in general, portraits, any type of work, and I'm married to a lovely husband named Jake, and my family all lives here in Michigan with me, and I'm currently dying of heat because we don't have air conditioning in our house, and it's pretty warm and fabulous here in Michigan right now.

Yeah. How is it?

It's like 90 in humid, and it was like 40 last week. So that's a lot. That's a lot. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, I want to start writing with something that you're a one on the Any Graham. Yes.

And I want to start with something that I read on your website that I love so much. I hope we get to talk about other things, because I can't imagine where this will take the two of us.

And that is you say, I love working with people who aren't afraid of being vulnerable.

Yeah. That's that's very true. Talk to me about that.

So up to a lot of times, you know, people get their photo taken because they feel like it's something that they need to do.

And when that is the case, there's not a lot of give and take. They're kind of like, all right, I'm here. Like, let's get this over with.

I love working with people who aren't afraid to show and I'm talking about couples in this situation, specifically aren't afraid to show me how they love each other and why they love each other and let that show just enough so that I can capture it on camera.

So, and that takes vulnerability, I think, for people to put that out there.

So, for me, it's so much more joyful to photograph people that want to be photographed and want to let you in to their world than people who would prefer not.

It's so interesting to me. I want to tell you stories that I certainly didn't know I would tell.

You know, my husband's a former Catholic priest who's been a United Methodist pastor for the last 30 years.

And he does lots of weddings and my favorite wedding that he ever did that I was a part of the bride ran down the aisle to meet the groom.

Oh my gosh. It's like she started walking and then she just can stand it anymore and she started running so that she could get to him and get married just as soon as she could.

I love that. I love it too. And it's before I knew the any Graham, but I've often thought back about her and wondered if she was a two on the any Graham.

Because I kind of in my heart, I'm always running to meet Joe.

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