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it rocks

like when you comment the pictures below (gets more personal)
music is cool also (tom waits and bruce)
pictures are stunning (maybe too much wedding or is your main focus? I guessed you were just in stock)

overall is a very easy friendly, and relaxing to see, looks like a fun photographer, nice to hire perhaps!

notice another thing sometimes you have to grey letter like in price and other tab.. hard to see something without selecting

I like the images, and agree with the sentiment about 'taking self too seriously'.  AFAIC, we're all perpetual learners developing in a craft.  It's one thing to feel pleased with your progress, but quite another to be up your own posterior about it.

It's different... I like it.  You have some typos on your home page though.

ditto on the pricing page... very hard to read

The flash seemed to work well and loaded well.

  Tried to load the page at 9:33 NY time, and got a 404. Maybe you're already making some of the changes suggested.
My thought on reading your post is that if you are trying to get away from the "pompous photographer" style, you're on the right track, especially if you are trying to connect with the wedding market. Good luck!

Overall, I really like the website!  As others have said, the pictures are just gorgeous.  I like the layout.  It's very eye catching and holds your attention.  Also showcases your diversity as a photographer very well. 

My hubby, who's looking over my shoulder, also really liked it!  He said he didn't like the music at first, but it got his attention and made him look over.  Then he was captivated by the pictures.

Here's my couple of "constructive criticisms".  I think the music is a good attention grabber at first, but should either fade out or stop.  It keeps going on to the point where it is distracting from the pictures, IMO.

I really loved your little opening screen talking about yourself.  Very funny, self-deprecating, and cute.  Makes you seem like a nice guy.  But here's the thing - I would NEVER hire a guy who describes his wife as a "super hot babe".  Guys may get it, but to a lot of women it is very off-putting.  And women are the ones who hire the wedding photographer most of the time.  It's great that you love your wife, but "married a smart, beautiful woman" would be a lot more appealing to a female audience, not to mention just more respectful. 

I think you have put in a lot of work and it really shows.  Very impressed overall

Not if you're using an iPad!

Hey Mat, as much as I hate flash, you have done a really nice job with the website.   I love all the little touches - like the writing of the directories on the right and the transitions.  Don't get me started on your style, love the photos. Do you have an hour to talk about them?

That landing page though, I really thought for a few seconds I had a bad link and went somewhere else.  The SnoopDog photo really threw me off for some reason, it took a while to sink in that you are a photographer and you took a photo of Snoop and aren't just a teenager that clipped a photo off the web.  I don't know, maybe just a font change to more of a story book, or the first few words in a celtic type of font...  I think it needs a Mat Hayward Photography or similar at the top so you don't lose visitors.  Forgive me for being so negative about the landing page when everything else is really really nice.

I thought the same thing as Pixart. I thought it was a joke at first. I wouldn't have dug further if I didn't know it was you.