Honey Stetson - Photographer is an all female wedding photography business originated in San Diego County. Honey Stetson and her Southern California Studio Manager, Melisa Cogdell, graduated together with Associate in Arts Degrees in Photography in 2002. Both have been running successful individual businesses in the professional photography industry specializing in different genres of photography and have combined to create a strong wedding photography business that is growing across the continent today. We provide a wedding photography service that is natural, friendly, feminine, and reputable.
In addition to wedding photography, we also offer boudoir shoots, engagement sessions, family & children session. With Melisa's strong background in fine art maternity and newborn photography we are able to provide excellent services for our post-wedding clients as well.
Honey has several years of experience photographing gourmet food for San Diego Home/Garden Lifestyles magazine and loves any opportunity to photograph the fine details, colors, and textures of food! Personally speaking, I, Honey, do it, for a few personal reasons. First of all, my grandfather whom I never had the pleasure of meeting owned a photo-finishing & camera supply store in Chicago, IL during my father's childhood. Photography is something that is a part of my father's family history, yet I am the only family member who has pursued a professional career as an actual photographer. I was always under the impression (based on public opinion) that photography can only be a hobby and that you can't make a career out of it. Someone in my past once encouraged me to go on a tour of an art school and to follow my heart and do what I love to make my lifelong income, rather than set it aside as a hobby. Thanks to their encouragement, I changed my major from liberal studies (to become an elementary school teacher) to photography! Great question! Well, I honestly never thought I'd be a "wedding" photographer. I was a bridesmaid in a friend's wedding in Salzburg, Austria when I gained my inspiration. While sitting on the window ledge of a moving taxi, in my dress, with a manual Minolta SRT 101 FILM camera, I captured an image of the bride and groom looking back and laughing from a horse-drawn carriage that had people asking... "Why don't you be a wedding photographer?" It turned out that my un-traditional images and style were different and desired. Referrals started...
But you see, you can't just jump in to photographing the most important day of someone's life without some hands-on, intern-like experience... if you do... your clients either reallllly trust you, you're doing it free of charge, they don't know a thing about you, or you've been dishonest. During my last years of college I hit the pavement (and the Internet) and found photographers that I could assist for. I assisted for next-to-nothing or free for wedding photographers and also had the pleasure of being a loyal assistant to a fabulous food photographer, Birdie Carter, in San Diego

Business Owner: Honey Stetson

Business Address: San Marcos, CA 92069 and Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada

Business City: Manitoba

Business State: Canada

Contact Phone: 888-480-0058 - USA
204-250-9949 - Canada

Website: http://www.honeystetson-photographer.com

http://www.honeystetson-photographer.com/blog

Year Business Started: 2001

Local Affiliations:
Los Willows Preferred Vendor List
Falkner Winery Preferred Vendor List
PPOC - Manitoba (Professional Photographers of Canada)

What areas do you service?: San Diego County
San Diego North County
South Riverside County
Temecula
Winnipeg
Manitoba (all)
International Wedding Destinations

Do you offer any trades for your service or products?: We are open to partial trade options