This is Ibody and X and welcome to the Candid Frame.

Before we begin, we have filled up the street photography workshop that I'm conducting alongside Val Jardin in February.

If you're still interested, we do have a waiting list that you can apply for.

However, there are still few spots available for the Art of Editing and Sequencing Workshop that I'm conducting at the Los Angeles Center of Photography in November.

It's a great opportunity to learn how to take a body of work that you've been accumulating over the years,

or even a personal project, and learn the skills to edit it into a tight and effective portfolio,

web gallery, or even buck.

Links for both will be found in the show notes for this episode.

Now, when people ask me how I decide who to invite as a guest on the show, my answer is often very simple.

First and foremost, it's almost always about the work, quickly followed by the story.

And if I can get both, I know I'm in for an interesting conversation.

That's the case with today's guest, wedding photographer Kevin Mullins.

Based in the UK, Kevin has created a successful photography business by following his own clear vision of what he wanted to do with the camera.

Unlike so many other wedding photographers who simply modeled themselves after other photographers' style and sensibility, Kevin knew exactly what he wanted to photograph and how he wanted to do it.

The result is that he's created a niche for himself that not only keeps his clients happy, but that keeps the photographer content as well.

I started the conversation by asking him how he transitioned from one successful business into a career as a photographer.

Um, my story is, uh, is relatively unique, I think, in that I was never anything to do with photography at all before I became a professional photographer.

So I didn't have any kind of personal ambition or I wasn't a hobbyist or anything like that, really.

I worked in marketing, online marketing, had my own little business in London, building websites, doing SEO, etc.

And we, my wife and I moved to the countryside and, you know, had children and lifestyle changes, etc.

And I found myself getting on a train at 5 o'clock every morning.

I getting home at 9 o'clock every night.

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