Last Saturday we spent the afternoon shooting Andy and Kim’s second engagement session. We often do that if the couple is willing, especially if the wedding is several seasons away, we can incorporate seasonal changes and interests into the story. And besides…I love doing it!!!
We had photographed Andy and Kim at the Como Park Conservatory in September and they were interested in doing something in the winter. So we returned this time to shoot in the conservatory itself and then we moved on to downtown St. Paul and Rice Park/Landmark Center area.
Great early spring weather and lots of people out.
Here is a link to their slide show it loads a lttle slow so if it hangs just refresh your browser:
March wanderings
And a few images:
A few of the Landmark Center and Rice park
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This is the third wedding that we have set up our “portable studio” during the reception as a different approach to the traditional family photos. We have found that this approach turns what typically is a boring tension ridden time for friends and family into a very relaxing and fun time. There is something about the lights poping and music going that in the words of a family memeber from a frecent wedding ” I feel like a model…like I am at a real shoot”!
Anna’s family hadn’t all been together for several years so it was a great opportinity for them to get some family photos.
Here are a few:
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After a week of continual computer issues I finally have been able to get Brandon and Anna’s wedding preview up. gtheir wedding was held at the historic Minnesota Boat Club on an island in the Mississippi River directly across from Downtown St. Paul. The club has been a rowing club since the late 1800’s.
Luckily for the bride and groom the blizard that was coming held off until Monday so their wedding day was crisp and sunny.
But first a couple of outside shots of the Boat Club
This is the second wedding I have set up a remote camera opposite the couple to get a different point of view. The shot above was taken with a camera attached to an articulated arm which was clamped to the music guy’s speaker stand. The camera had a 10.5mm fisheye attached to it. I trigger it either electronically with a Pocket Wizard. One is attached to the camera’s hot shoe and se to receive the other to my camera hot shoe set to send. I can set it to fire when I shoot or I can fire it separately…makes some great fun shots.
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Come and join us as Marsha and I along with two other artists present our interpretation of the unfolding nature of relationships and life. We will be exhibiting images fromsome of our weddings that illustrate the progressive unfolding of two people as they move toward becoming a couple.
Come and join us for the opening St. Patty’s Day at the Frank Stone Gallery in North East Minneapolis, all detasils are on the card graphic above. Hope to see you there.
The statement below describes our approach to this project and what we hope to show:
We look for those unnoticed moments of life the ones that penetrate deeply into the very essence of our subjects. We have chosen to work on the study of human relationships as embodied by the ceremonial marking of the formal onset of couple hood, the wedding. This time in a person’s life is often full of a wide range of emotions as each person begins the transition from young adult to full adulthood. It is a time discovery, of searching for identity, and frequent challenges to one’s self confidence.
Rather than taking a traditional approach to documenting this time of emergence we are placing our emphasis on the nature of the search for identity, and feelings of becoming a couple. To do this we begin working with couples early on in order to establish a relationship of trust and comfort and individualized attention. Individually each wedding event is a story, not only of the couple but also of all those who connect to them, the interactions between each becomes a chapter of the story. Our vision allows us to see and record the subtleties of those interactions and essentially witness key moments. Collectively, our images tell a greater story, of hope, vision ,separation and anticipation all important and necessary for successful integration of life’s experiences that lead to wisdom.
Metaphorically, the wedding represents the movement and subsequent unfolding as a person progresses through the cycle s of persephone’s Journey. Emergence into couplehood represents a transition into a new cycle and a new form of being that will require it to follow Persephone’s path for survival. Our access to a couples life allows us to capture that journey and the resultant cycle of unfoldings.
Each image is treated both individually and as part of the whole, Bill applies the same techniques he used while working in film to each image only using digital tools. Whether in a darkroom or on a computer screen the visual interpretation of each image and hence each subject is founded on the energy of the subject. Bill views the photographic image as the starting point in his interpretation, his camera and lenses are is brushes.
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Here are a few of the casual portraits from Josh and Jenny’s reception.
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Last Saturday we had the pleasure of photographing Josh and Jenny’s wedding at the beautiful Landmark Center. I had broken my left arm two weeks prior and was a little concerned about how it would go but the wonders of modern medicine made the differece. We had an assistant for the first time and despite having to learn some complicated set up stuff he was a great help.
Anyway the wedding was a small intimate ceremony in one of the court rooms at the Landmark Center which is on the National Register of Historic Places. The full attrium and marble colonades offered an unbeatable location for the couples first site of each other prior to the ceremony. We spent the better part of the hour before photographing them around the building.
The reception was at WA Frost in St. Paul and since it was a small group we took casual portraits of those attending so that Josh and Jenny would be sure to have images of their best friends.
Here is a brief preview:
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by Bill Weaver
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