Wandering through my favorite city last year in May, a few days before the wedding I flew out there for, and snapping shots with the iPhone and my Holga.
3 days later, the DAY before the wedding in question, I ended up in the hospital with an incredibly painful ulcer, followed of course by a Lamborghini Gallardo sighting. Ulcers and Lamborghinis go together? I hope not…
Early into my conversation with Lauren about shooting her wedding in downtown Manhattan (specifically in gorgeous Soho), she made it clear that she was very interested in my shooting some quirky Holga photography for her.
I just about fell off my chair when she asked for it…
I’d never had anyone ask me to shoot with my beloved Holga before, so after a quick warning about its unpredictability, I absolutely jumped at the opportunity!
It’s been such a difficult few months… Here’s a couple random snapshots from my trip to St. Louis:
After picking out a bunch of personal favorites from Justin & Melanie’s beautiful wedding for the sneak peek, I decided to do something very bold (for me at least) and go almost exclusively to black & white on all the images.
I’m really happy with what that did as a whole and it seems as though black & white is becoming a habit of mine. Almost anytime I try something in black & white, I fall in love with it and decide to leave it that way. Some of my shoots are even designed to only be presented in black & white, though these are usually model shoots (doing one later this afternoon! Woohooo!!)
Maybe my body is preparing itself for something I don’t know is coming… Like going color blind…
I’m going to start with my personal favorite from the whole wedding and possibly one of my all-time favorites:
I hope you’ve already seen Justin & Melanie’s engagement session on my other website, under gallery ONE, but here’s their rehearsal dinner I was invited to.
As always, working with them is a joy. Their wedding day will be coming soon.
Here’s Tom & Angela on their big day
The happy couple:
Just two weeks before this couple’s wedding day, I got a frantic call, asking me about my availability…
I’m glad I was available! These guys were a ton of fun to work with 
It can’t just be me… Emma looks a lot like Jennifer Aniston to everyone else right?! Especially that square image!
Jason and Emma were so much fun to work with. And lucky too; good light followed us everywhere we went despite threatening skies in the morning.
There’s nothing quite like a little diversity here in Utah. It’s refreshing.
Even luckier for me, these guys were from the Middle-East. So the food was familiar (coussa, fatoush, wara’ anab… mmmmmmm), the language was familiar (I spoke Arabic to them half the time while the other half of the time, my flawless American-English turned into a heavy Arabic accent), the culture was familiar, the generosity was familiar; everything. And once I revealed to them that I was Lebanese, I became a lot less threatening with that giant brick of a camera in my hands.
Felt just like home.
To top it all off, Firas and Emma were, as with all my clients it seems, a dream to work with.
Here’s my favorites from the day:
