I love it!
I started on the 1st of January with a beach wedding ... not your tropical paradise style of wedding, more down to Earth than that ... more like a black sand, murky water, incoming tide type of wedding.
It was great to see two people so incredibly happy about getting married.
Ann is a photographer. I have a rule about photographing photographer's weddings .... I don't do it.
I don't do it because most photographers have an opinion about how things are done, Ann promised that she would leave it up to me. She did okay!
Bridal Shows
We hate them and secretly love them.
Every year there are two shows in Christchurch within weeks of each other. That is something that we can never understand! So twice in a month we give up our weekend to stand cheerfully greeting every bride to be, mother of bride, friend of bride, sister of the bride, wedding stalker, and occasional groom to be, we meet, hoping that they will like us and choose us over the other options. Every year we say NEVER AGAIN! and then the next year we do it again. Is that an addiction! some sort of sociological weakness. Why do we do this to ourselves?
Is it the secret stash of sugary drinks to get us through the day? Is it the cool stuff people say about what you do? Is it the connection with other people in the industry?
Is it the previous brides that come by just to say Hi. Or is it some perverse affliction that only a trained psychologist or another photographer could understand?
If you see us at a Bridal show in Christchurch .... or anywhere, actually, say something nice and make it all worthwhile.
Staying in business
In what has come to be affectionately known as 'these difficult times' (but will historically be referenced with some oppressive phrase like "the financial collapse of the first decade of the new Millenium") it is important for us to look ahead.
We know that in many places things are hard.
We are working to a positive future. We are not cutting back but building up.
We do this because we love what we do ... actually in this moment I can feel a Winston Churchill speech coming on !!!!
Maybe a good time to stop!
Really pretty pictures. I really like the last one (the beach shot). I know what you mean about taking photos for other photographers =P