Weddings (2002-2012)
I shot my first wedding in the fall of 1977. I brought along the one camera that I owned, a pile of black and white film, a borrowed flash, and my cousin Mark who was visiting from California at the time and tagged along as my quote/ unquote “assistant”. I remember when first meeting with the happy couple, and without much thought or research, came up with a price for services that was so low that I basically made no money. I was working as a photo-lab tech at Parsons School of Design at the time and except for shooting a few local newspaper gigs this would be my first paid event assignment.
I never considered myself a “wedding photographer” but for the next three decades weddings became a regular staple of my commercial diet, and I would shoot somewhere between five and ten of them each year. Although photographing a wedding could be quite stressful (at least until the couples stress abated, and the ceremony and portraits were completed) I always found it fascinating to be such an intimate eyewitness to the intense family dynamics that always seemed to take place on such an important day.
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