wedding entourage

Wedding photography was something I decided early on in my career not to do. Long story short is my father was a wedding and portrait photographer after being a WWII journalist. He offered me the opportunity to take over his business when he eventually went into teaching photography but I turned him down when I caught the advertising bug. So I have stayed very low key whenever I heard a friend needed a “photographer” to shoot his or her wedding. What I do enjoy is taking little moments from these occasions and capturing something fun and candid. Now how could I not record this cute moment when nephews and niece of the groom started the ball rolling at the recent nuptials of a friend’s son. I purposely sat at the end of a row on the center isle about half way back to capture any special moments in the proceedings that might occur. The event was more than adequately covered by two still shooters and two video cameras and my location was well out of their way and I waited for something to catch my eye. By design my isle seat offered me a slightly different point of view of the proceedings than to those being paid to cover the day. The warm late afternoon light with it’s long shadows gave this scene a fresh and clean look as these children came around the corner to start the procession. Being seated also allowed me to be at a more child friendly camera height.