Aurelia Dougan
Aurelia Dougan in a white ruffled blouse, smiling at the camera and holding her Canon beside her face, with a wooden railing behind her.
The photographer and her Canon, on the other side of the lens.

About

Hi, I'm Aurelia.

I photograph seniors, couples and families on Florida's Atlantic coast. Before I lift the camera, I look at where the lines run: the shoreline, a railing, the horizon. Then I work out where you go in the frame. Sometimes that's the middle. More often it's off to one side, with open space where you're looking, or small against the water.\n\nYou don't need to know how to pose. I give small, plain directions (walk toward me, sit down, look back over your shoulder) and keep shooting through what happens in between. The laugh you didn't plan is usually the frame I keep.\n\nI shoot on a Canon EOS R6 Mark II, and sometimes I slow the shutter and let you blur. Then I edit every photograph myself: color kept honest, black and white toned like a print, and grain you can see. Your photos are private to you unless you tell me otherwise.

Studies in line and space

My own frames, with nobody in them. This is where I work out where an edge or a shape goes before there is a person to place.

A dirt road running straight into open steppe under a wide sky
A wooden footbridge leading into the trees
Cliffs and surf, in black and white
A lone tree on a stony shore
Snow ridges, in black and white
A cliff face rising into fog
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