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richard israel photography bio picture

welcome!

My name is Richard Israel and I am a photographer who lives in
Charlotte, NC with my beautiful wife Beth and our three amazing
daughters, Ferris twelve, Sophia nine and Priscilla five.

I love life, I love
photography.

Tag Archives: speed graphic

grace & aaron

Grace and Aaron’s mountain wedding was simply the sweetest and lovliest I’ve been involved in.  I’ve been trying so hard to describe it so I’ll just let Grace do it for me.
” Antique, country mixed with some great depression, old time and folk. Everything was pretty much homemade and SUPER low budget. The people kinda...

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a bride

Lindsey is a model bride in more ways than one, she is a very successful working model plus she totally gets what I do, Yes!!!
She literally jumped out of the shower, put on her dress a little mascara let her hair air dry and off we went.
For photographers: The first photograph (black and white) was...

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large format love

I am in love again with large format, I used to shoots tons of 4×5  fashion and portraits.  About 4 months ago I bought a 1960’s Super Speed Graphic 4×5 press camera and I back. The images below were shot a while ago but I’ll be posting recent LF shoots very soon.
I’m also very excited...

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elisabeth-rose + michael

Elisabeth-Rose my wedding day partner in crime, super8 girl, travel companion and great friend married her childhood sweetheart on Feb 6th, Elisabeth and Michael met when they were 8years old and they absolutely adore each other.
The day was also extra special because the now famous (or infamous) “Gang of Four” Kristin Vining, Christopher Record, Rodney...

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