beyond category, picture wise ~ a wedding
Tuesday, August 16, 2011 at 02:45PM 
A wedding / sample wedding book spread ~ Elizabethtown, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggenBack on the entry heaven and earth # 1-5, Colin Griffiths stated, "These are the first of your images that I can remember seeing on this blog that I would not immediately recognize as being your work."
Well, OK, but how about these pictures? At least the heaven and earth were square.
One thing I am not is a wedding photographer. I have made some pictures, none of which were of the standard wedding picture variety, at a few weddings of friends or family but never have I ever done a wedding for hire. However, and as the saying goes (never say "never"), I actually found myself doing a wedding for hire for an acquaintance. Although, "acquaintance" is perhaps too strong a word inasmuch as I know the groom because I purchased 2 new cars from him over the past 2 years. He's been good to me so, when he asked me to make pictures at his wedding, I decided to do good for him.
My normal response to such a request is to say "no". However, he immediately stipulated that he did not want all the standard wedding picture stuff. I stated that I could document the event with a few wedding party pictures thrown in for good measure and he said that would be great. So ....
I made about 330 pictures, 90% of which were made with the E-P1 / 20mm f1.7 lens combination - hardly the wedding photographer's camera of choice. And even though there were a number of wedding guests making pictures with their Canikon DSLRs, all the while looking at me like I had lobsters crawling out of my ears (why's he shooting with that little amateur camera?), the E-P1 performed flawlessly. No missed shots, no mis-focus, it just worked exceedingly well for the task at hand.
Were I to magically become a wedding photographer, I would be making wedding pictures with 2 E-P3s - 1 with the Lumix 20mm f1.7 + optical viewfinder, 1 with the Zuiko 45mm f1.8 - and, of course, a Leica Summilux 25mm f1.4 would also be in the bag.
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