Wedding - Let it begin beautifully

Let it begin beautifully

I have been resting up a bit, both me and my cameras for today kicks off a hectic month and half for me during which I fully expect to expose through about a 100 rolls of film, if not more (and that is not counting digital images). Today will see me up in southern Washington for the wedding of Aric and Renee (nobody you know likely, though I am sure quite a few of you know Arics and Renees). I'm looking forward to this one. It's in my old hometown for one, it's a beautiful little farm, and the weather looks cooperative. At some point I am going to set up a camera and make a 30 minute exposure of the entire ceremony. I've never done that before, yet one more reason for excitement. And despite how I sometimes grumble, I really do enjoy photographing weddings, particularly for people I know. It is a definite added bonus. Then I have a couple of weeks to get through those images and it will be on a plane for Hawaii and a second wedding (as well as vacation). And finally I'll hit the ground running from Hawaii, long enough to clear my head of jet lag and repack my camera kit and catch another jet plane for France and two weeks of exploring the far corners of that country. I have begun to acquire the mountain of film this will require and if anything makes me excited it is looking at piles of unexposed film. They hold so much potential. Some of those rolls are going to hold a brand new husband and wife kissing for the first time and may become prints that hang on their walls for years and years to come. The smiles and laughs to be contained on those blank rolls makes me smile in anticipation. Other rolls might include long exposures of beaches or cities under cover of darkness, flared images through a Holga lens and impressionistic renderings seen through a pinhole. At least one roll is going to have an hour long exposure of Trek in the Park, but I don't know which roll yet. Another roll is going to have a chess match on the St. Johns Bridge. That same roll might even have a portrait of me in a straight jacket. And gosh, who knows what I don't even expect to find. The opportunities will produce their own serendipitous finds and the film will be there to record it all for me. But it all starts happily enough today, with a wedding. I'm ready.

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