Alex and Amanda Hopkins

Texas Wedding Photographers With a Passport Problem

If you want the polished bio, the neat little elevator pitch, the curated timeline, you will not find it here. Loure Studios was born far from Texas. It started on dirty bus seats, airport floors, and places your mother would tell you not to go. It started with two twenty-somethings who thought a camera could unlock the world, and were foolish enough to test the theory.

We chased stories before we ever thought to photograph weddings. We drifted through Africa and Europe with backpacks full of camera gear and optimism, sleeping wherever we landed. We lived among nomadic tribes in Namibia, breaking bread with people who understood the desert better than we ever could. We walked with elephants in the quiet heat of the bush. We lived on a Moroccan beach because we ran out of money and it seemed like the only logical next step. We clubbed in London until sunrise. We were briefly homeless in Rome, which is somehow funny in hindsight and terrible in the moment. We got lost in Botswana, sunburned in South Africa, enchanted in Copenhagen, and welcomed in Zimbabwe by strangers who felt like old friends.

Photography was the currency that bought us entry into lives we would have never crossed paths with. It got us into kitchens, backrooms, markets, alleyways, weddings, funerals, and moments that would never happen twice. It taught us to listen before we shoot. To watch before we speak. To show up with respect and leave with a story.

Now we bring that same spirit into every wedding we photograph.