Wendi always wanted to tell stories. With camera in hand she knew she'd found her medium for storytelling. She honed her skills and found her style through a photojournalism degree, newspaper work, magazine shoots and freelance assignments.

As happens with many photographers, she was often asked to shoot the wedding of a colleague or a friend. Wendi soon discovered that weddings provided the perfect photo story - that story she had so longed to tell from the first day she picked up a camera way back in high school.

Then on the referral from another photographer she was commissioned to photograph a birth. She was asked to tell a different kind of story. Her client was Denise Cornell and the wheels for Thompson Poole Photography were secretly set in motion. As Denise tells the story, "I've been a card-carrying member of the Wendi Poole fan club since that day in 2005 when Wendi captured the most amazing images of the birth of my first child."

As the two's paths crossed over the next couple years, the seed was planted for Wendi and Denise to combine two very different but complementary talents. Denise brought the skills to deliver a killer client experience which freed Wendi to do what she does best - create art. Thompson Poole was born with a firm commitment to hold true to its core principle of storytelling.

What is storytelling?

We'd like to think of life, and especially a wedding, as a series of perfectly orchestrated events, but in reality it's a collection of chapters, big and small that fit together to tell a unique story.

Yes, we capture the grand traditions and all the details you so carefully arranged, but that's only part of the story. What about those fleeting moments of joy, anticipation, sheer exhilaration? What's the rest of your story?

Is it the funny face your sister makes on the ride to the church? Is it your maid of honor telling a time-honored joke that brings back a flood of memories from your college days? Is it your enthusiastic thumbs-up just before you head down the aisle?

How does Thompson Poole capture those moments? As a trained photojournalist Wendi was taught to look for the moment and shoot it. Wendi doesn't settle for simply looking for the moment, she wants to anticipate the moment. The only way to do that is to know her subjects. And as her dad taught her from an early age: get out from behind the camera; know your subjects; tell their story.

What's your story? Let us tell it.