JONETSU Studios among American Photo Magazine Top Ten Wedding Photographers in the World 2011

Chadwick and I are extremely humbled and delighted to have been chosen as one of American Photo’s Top Ten Wedding Photographers in the World.  In ‘wedding photography land’ worldwide, this is the bee’s knees of mentions, and the talented company we share on this year’s list include people that have been incredible innovators in our field for a long time.  I’d say surreal and overwhelmed are appropriate words to describe how we feel being mentioned with these folks.  Please take some time to check out their work- very inspiring:

• Yervant | Yervant, Melbourne, Australia
• Rocco Ancora | Rocco Ancora, Melbourne, Australia
• Parker J Pfister | Parker J Pfister, Asheville, North Carolina
• Nate & Jaclyn Kaiser | The Image Is Found, San Diego, California
• Marcus Bell | Studio Impressions, Brisbane, Australia
• Jonas Peterson | Jonas Pederson, Brisbane, Australia
• Jesse & Whitney Chamberlain | Our Labor of Love, Atlanta, Georgia
• Greg Gibson | Greg Gibson Photography, Washington, D.C.
• Dina Douglass | Andrena Photography, Los Angeles, California
• Chadwick & Camille Bensler | Jonetsu Photography, Vancouver B.C.

We wanted to thank first and foremost, our clients.  It must be said that we know we’ve done something right when we continue to work with the kind of genuine, warm and ultimately trusting couples since JONETSU launched in 2000.

The issue will be on news stands on May 10th, and it’s up on Zinio in digital release now.  In the Editor’s note (below), you can read how the decisions came to be.

Thank you to the esteemed people on the advisory panel who nominated us (so awesome!) and a special thanks to writer Aimee Baldridge for digging through our hour long conversation to get to the heart of what we’re about in the article.

Feeling very grateful and honored today- thanks for your kind messages & phone calls- they mean a lot to us.  To our family and friends- always our biggest support system- thank you for your continued support and positive energy.  We couldn’t possibly feel more loved, and to be able to count on you for last minute requests (CB!!) & honest feedback is pure GOLD!

Moving forward, it’s our intention to maintain our focus on creating the best images we can by capturing our couples’ true spirits and personalities.  This kind of recognition adds even more creative fuel to the mix.  There are so many deserving photographers out there (within Canada, too)… it’s a lot to handle right now…so we’ll just get with this and pop some champagne!  Yay!

The cover (amazing image by Rocco Ancora):

Editor’s note and Advisory Panel.  100 nominees were researched to get down to the final ten.

And here is our feature.  The editors chose this image of Tracey and Ryan following their intimate ceremony in the back yard of Ryan’s family home: