Hi, Thanks for checking out my work!
I’m Ami Wirges and I am a photographer based in Central Arkansas. I am the mother of two precious little boys and the wife of one very amazing, understanding man! I am a little bit of a goofball, but I think it is very fitting since much of my job requires playing with children!
I am not SuperWoman. I try, but fail most days (I actually think I had a SuperWoman day back in 2009, but can’t be sure since I didn’t properly document it in the blank scrapbook that has been sitting in a closet since 2008). Sometimes my sink has dirty dishes in it, the laundry is backed up, and my kids are eating hodgepodge dinners made up of leftover tuna, some chinese noodles I found in the refrigerator and almost too brown bananas. And that is if it’s a good day! But I am constantly reminding myself that my kids won’t remember any of that. What they will remember though are the sweet moments we shared together. The quiet time reading books on the rug. The towers of Legos we built for our HotWheels to drive on. The way I didn’t rush them through our nighttime rocking ritual so that I could hurry up and wash the dishes. These are the things I think they will remember…the sweet times we enjoyed together. And oh my, this is the sweet life!
Which brings me full circle back to how this affects you!
I love photographing this beautiful, sweet life we live! Those sweet moments you wish you could bottle up as cologne and spray right in your face when you are having “one of those days”! Whether that is the first precious images of newborns and their sweet little yawns; the sweet, wild innocence of a curious toddler;the gap-toothed smile of a little second grader who has just lost all four front teeth, or the crazy transition between childhood and adulthood that we all remember so well! I particularly adore the love/hate relationship between siblings! Nothing quite beats capturing that once in a childhood moment where they actually look like they might like each other! Oh, they just don’t have a clue that one day, they will probably be best friends!
I definitely feel that since becoming a mother, I have become a better photographer. I know exactly what us mommas like! We want to have tangible memories of that precious, crooked smile of our little 6 month old, or the way the self-concious tween gets embarrassed when you get all gooey on them. We wish we could freeze time when our children show love for each other because those moments sometimes just seem to be too far between!
My other half:
My husband is my hero. He is the most kind, trusting, genuine human being I have ever met. He loves me for who I am even on my worst days. And I love him for who he is even on his worst days. But I think the real reason we work so well together is because we both love who we are when we are together. We laugh, poke fun, play and truly enjoy each other’s company. We married in 2004 and it has been wonderful ever since. Our wedding was absolutely perfect for us and we would not change a single thing about it! I wore the beautiful dress, he looked very debonair in his suit, the love was truly tangible during our ceremony and the reception was a big party with all our friends and loved ones celebrating with us…like I said, it was absolutely perfect! Every single time I photograph a wedding, I am reminded of our special day and my biggest hope is that my client is feeling the true joy of that day like I did! Just soaking in the love, of not only your new husband, but also your new combined families and all of your friends! It is for these reasons that I just adore photographing weddings! There is something about being present at the exact moment when two people take that vow to join their lives together! So wonderfully amazing! Just don’t take a peek at the back of the ceremony during the sweet moments, or you might just catch me wiping a tear from my eye in between photographs!
I would like to help freeze a little moment in time for you and your family and I would be honored for you to call me your photographer!
Thank you for your time!
Ami Wirges
“The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won’t wait while you do the work.” ~Author Unknown