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About Corlis.

As far back as I can remember, I always had an "interest" in photography, but interest alone wasn't motivating enough to make me pursue it as a career. Then, on July 8, 2004, something amazing happened. Seven pounds of inspiration was handed to me in the form of my first born.

I immediately went out and bought a "pro-sumer" camera. Suddenly all that inspiration turned into obsession. I found myself constantly snapping away trying to document every second of my daughters growth. I didn't want to miss a second.

I realized quickly that I had a natural talent for composition and lighting. And so was born Corlis Gray Photography. That love for capturing those beautiful moments of my baby girl matured into a strong desire to share my gift with soon to be wed couples.

I would be honored to be YOUR wedding photographer. So head over to the contact page and drop me a line. :D

I currently reside in Naperville, il. I am extremely blessed for my passion and career to be one in the same.

-Corlis

The piano man and the monkey watcher. :: Ben & Abigail

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Ben is a VERY talented pianist in Chicago. Abigail studies monkeys in Africa. When I put it that way you might assume these two couldn’t be more different, but you’d be wrong. Being that Ben is a musician, and his name isn’t P-Diddy or John Mayer, he isn’t exactly making billions. Abigail is, what I consider to be a genius of sorts, holding something like 1,000,000 degrees in anthropology, so she’ll be paying off school bills until her grand-kids have grand-kids. They don’t have all the money in the world. What they do have in excess is LOVE. Not just any kind of love. Hot pink, Hollywood, roman candle, kinda love. I thought I knew what love was until I met these two.

So being that they have more school loans than the U.S. deficit, but all the love in the world (literally). God was smiling on them one day and led them to me. I just so happen to do 3 pro bono weddings per year for couples in exactly their predicament. After reading the most heart warming email from Abby, I decided to meet with them.

We met in a little coffee shop in Morris, IL called Brewed Awakenings. From there we sat over a couple hot cups of joe and got to know each other. The rest is history.

Here is their engagement session shot at Starved Rock State Park in Utica, IL