Meant to post some photos of my great friends, Ryan and Melora, getting married at Chautauqua Park in Boulder a few weeks ago. Just got wrapped up in...you know. Some things.
Anyway, here's a few of them but pop on over to Flickr and look at the few dozen of them. I didn't shoot all that much and was kind of limited in where I could go. You see, I was an usher for the wedding so I had other responsibilities.
UPDATE 12-14-2010: How bad is this, I never hit the publish button when I built this post a month ago. You'd think I've never done this blogging thing before.
Ran up to Glenwood Springs, Colo., last weekend to shoot some engagement photos of a couple that will be getting married next June. The challenge was that the fall colors had fallen off the trees and the white blanket of winter has not yet arrived, so finding interesting backgrounds for a couple that is very active in the outdoors was a bit of a hurdle. Luckily happy couple, Audrey and Chad, made it easy on me. All they did was play around Grizzly Creek in Glenwood Canyon and in an alley in town and I just had to try and stay dry while making simple frames.
The happy couple liked what we were able to capture and now they are on to ironing out the many details to come for their day next summer. Now I just have to make sure that CF card I dunked in the creek has dried out...
While I was in Minnesota I broke down and picked up a Holga and a couple rolls of FP-4 to shoot while at my brother's wedding. I was inspired by a good friend of mine who had shot her pimpin' gold Holga at my own wedding earlier this summer. I'm still working out the variance of the viewfinder to the actual film framing as well as the focusing guesstimations. There's something refreshing about taking a step back from technology and being forced to lose absolute control.
Holgas are funky little plastic cameras that each have unique quirks like light leaks and vignettes that are never the same from one camera to another. You get either f/11 or f/16 at 1/100th for a shutter and little icons that represent distances for the manual focus lens. Since this was the first roll of film I had run through the camera, it was all going to be pretty much a surprise. All in all I think the results were fairly to be expected. Now I'll try some color film and some different exposure tricks to see what else I can come up with. That's all for now.
So I know it's been a while since the last posting. I can only say one word: weddings.
First was a couple friends the first part of July. Next was my own wedding on the 23rd. The following week was another good friend's wedding, but it was on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. After that wedding my wife and I took a bit of a trip to the Olympic Peninsula in Washington on our way back from BC. Then after a couple weeks of trying to put our selves back together from back-to-back weddings we left once again for my brother's wedding in Minnesota. Needless to say, it's been a jam packed summer.
Hopefully I'll be able to get back in the groove and start posting more here again. There's a bunch of new projects and ideas to create visual goodies in the coming weeks. In the meantime, here's a few photos from the weddings of our friends and my brother and couple from the Northwest.
