Architects by trade, ceremonial lovers by rainfall – this couple and their family experienced a photographers
dream scenario – amazing weather and willing participants. In a downpour, we all gathered in cars at discovery
park and with the grooms background in cloud whispering, we had become aware that it would soon stop, and
four of us headed up the trail to the old chapel. Soon the sun broke and the rest of the family followed. Everyone
was smiling from ear to ear. Raindrops are in many of the photographs if you look close. We all caravanned
to the Woodland Park Zoo and gathered in an enormous beech tree grove. The rain stopped for good and a
huge rainbow graced the evening. What a delightful day, what delightful people. I have been making little videos
of each wedding – feel free to view this one’s below.
St. Paul’s Church in Port Gamble, WA
I rarely get the opportunity to photograph a wedding completely in black & white, and for it to work, the event needs to be wonderfully elegant without indicators of what year it is. This wedding in Port Gamble was just that. The bride’s dress was stunning and the groom was classically dashing, poised in front of a small church right out of a Norman Rockwell painting. All photographs I take can either be color or b & w, so I did choose to leave a few bright colorful images in the mix because they were impossible to strip of their color. It was the type of wedding that makes a photographer look very very good.