About Megan // Cedar & Pines
"To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage."
- Georgia O'Keeffe
Through 10 years of experience, I’ve come to know that creating compelling imagery requires vulnerability, softness, and a quiet respect for the intimate moments of life – both the ones we plan for and the ones that are secretly happening when we aren't paying attention. I love my work for this reason. Cedar & Pines is a photo project exploring the concept of love and human connection.
Weddings are a celebration of community, a snapshot into our values, and a reason to dance, regardless of what's happening outside of this moment. Traditional of not, I find weddings to be a radical moment of choosing to share joy with the people around you.
My job, my joy, is in capturing it.
Megan’s work has been featured in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, the Cut, Elle, Brides, Rangefinder, and in publications around the world.
My work lies somewhere between documentary and editorial, as I lean on intuition to capture the day with empathy, artistry, and integrity. I'm informed by a background in fine art and a love of the outdoors, as well as an absolute fascination with human connection (and a deep draw toward all things sentimental and romantic).
I shoot both digital and film, with a heavy emphasis on capturing natural moments as the day unfolds.
When I'm not photographing weddings, you can find me throwing pottery or sewing textiles in my studio in Joshua Tree, or perhaps getting lost on a desert trail somewhere in the Southwest.
— my home in Joshua Tree
— my sweet rescue theo
— my art studio/garage
“Of all the things I wondered about on this land, I wondered the hardest about the seduction of certain geographies that feel like home — not by story or blood but merely by their forms and colors. How our perceptions are our only internal map of the world, how there are places that claim you and places that warn you away. How you can fall in love with the light.”
- Ellen Meloy
