Sara Lincoln likes to play with a warmer palette and muted colors. At the same time, she doesn’t like to box herself into one specific style. In that vein, she likes that couples from different cultures hire her. “I love the big gestures celebrated at weddings,” she says, “the confetti madness and the dance floor shenanigans, but I am also super sensitive to the small stuff too.” She attributes the music photography she shoots in her spare time to keeping her on her toes both creatively and logistically when “you have to engage ninja mode in order to react to the ever-changing light.”

Check out the behind-the-scenes stories on some of the photos from her submission.