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A collage from a few of the weddings of 2006, (an earlier business card without the info).
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Not everything is going to be perfect. Note the muddy dress. And the big smile.
Life is good enough. Isn't it?
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And then there was Meghan & Carl.
I love it when the personalities show through in a photo session. I printed this collage for a signature mat for their wedding.
It rained on their engagement session. But we didn't let it get us down.
The net is a piece of the deer fence around my garden that got torn out by the lawn mower.
Of course this doesn't look like an engagement photo, but Betsy & Ben brought Abby with them.
And this summer they're taking her fishing, in Alaska.
This engagement session we went for a walk on the beach. We hardly talked at all. They related to each other & I photographed. I'm a guy that likes to talk, but this worked. I've found some people need direction & some need to be left alone. If left to my own devises I may tell people to climb a tree or sit on an anthill. It's a guy thing.
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Here's the thing. How do I make a wedding party photograph that isn't like all the other wedding party photographs? I can see if they can be silly. Done that. OK, maybe not try to do it all in one push of the button. I may have to try this a few times to see what new possibilities come up.
1st meeting. Note the mothers watching. Kay got this view. After a bit of photographing the meeting without asking them to pose, we left them alone to have a few minutes to themselves.
The view up 2nd Ave from the Chinese Room (35th floor) of Smith Tower. Doesn't look like a wedding photo to me either. Chantrelle & Dean's original plan hit a snag & they ended up here. Pretty cool place but a photographer's nightmare with a low black ceiling & windows all around. But what a view! Year's back I worked in the building in the lower right. I lived up near the Space Needle & walked to work down 2nd Ave about half the time.
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