Welcome ...

Welcome to the Tom Spader Photography Blog. I will be updating this with info of my work.

I am presently the head photographer for one of the Gannett NJ Newspapers. My work can be seen daily in the Ocean County Observer, based out of Toms River and the Asbury Park Press, Gannett's prize NJ paper, based out of Neptune.

Twenty years in the daily newspaper world has seasoned my photojournalistic skills and I am now using them to document the wedding day of selective couples looking for that non-posed, non-set up, formal type of wedding photography. The years shooting everyday, capturing moments as they happen, has prepared me for this growing trend in wedding photography. View my gallery and you'll see what I am talking about.

My wedding work has become my passion. It's such a pleasure to shoot at events were you are welcome. As a newspaper photographer, you are usually not very welcome, to the point where threats of violence, arrest and a lot of "please don't take my picture" are the norm. But, those years working that attitude has taught me to be in the right place at the right time, know my equipment and to always be ready. It has also taught me to see every scene as it own slice of life that can be captured, with an artistic touch, and shared for years to come.

That's a brief intro to where I'm coming from. Check my site. Contact me if you think I have what it takes to document "Your Day, as it happens, one frame at a time."

Thanks, Tom