3 Days 4 Weddings

And the weather sucked for all of them.
Friday was outside in the rain. Saturday was 2 inside with thunderstorms and today it was outside and cold and windy. But I got some really cool images. I will post some on Monday night. I will be busy with post production for a few days. My Godsend of an assistant Tracy will be out all week so there will be no free time at all.
In the last 10 days I have photographed 6 weddings, a dance at a school and a corporate shoot. Also edited and did the artwork for 2 other weddings that Chip shot for me.
Next Friday is a prom and a wedding at the beach on Sunday. If the weather is good, I might stay at the beach for a few days, I think it will be well deserved .

One Couple Two Weddings

This weekend was a monster. Lets start with Friday. I had a Hindu wedding in downtown Atlanta at the top of a skyscraper at 2pm in the afternoon. My assistant Tracy shot the reception dinner at 7pm at a restaurant. At 6pm I loaded in and set up for the Father Daughter dance at the school where I have the photography contract. 175 fathers and daughters. All photographed and photo packages sold. Home at 11pm
Saturday morning I start round two of the Hindu wedding from the day before, only now it is a full blown Catholic wedding at the big Christ The King Cathedral in Atlanta. Same bride and groom.
At the same time, Chip McGrath is covering two smaller weddings for me at a local event facility where we also have the photo contract to supply photographers and produce finished wedding albums. The reception for the Catholic wedding is at The Biltmore in Atlanta. Home at 10pm.
Today I downloaded and started to edit my jobs and we will do Chips jobs on Tuesday. Tomorrow at 7am I am back downtown in Atlanta shooting a senator with the CEO of Equifax another one of my contracts. With all of that said, we must have all of the back end work done on all of these jobs by Thursday, as I have 4 yes 4 weddings this weekend. Photos are from Friday and Saturday.

Cell Phone Photos

Cell phone cameras have become rather good for taking snap shots. They have a high enough resolution to make good 5x7 prints and better. They do have limitations like very poor quality in low light, slow shutter speeds and fixed focus tiny little lenses but so what.
I was fooling around with my I Phone the other day and decided to see if I could make anything useful from the built in camera.
My first photo is called "Go to the Light" The 2nd one is called "One Second Left in the Penalty Box" When I told my daughter what I was trying to do she showed me the one she took with her Motorola Razor of Garen shaving. So we added that one to the collection. It's called "Think I See a Wisker"
When I get about 20 or so they will hang in a local restaurant for a while as 11x17 size prints. If you have something you shot with a cell phone and would like to have it in the show, send me the file for consideration.

If You Dont Like Ga Weather Just Wait a Day

So yesterday we got about 3 inches of rain where I live. The lake that I live on rose about 3-4 feet, washed out the road on the other side of the lake and almost flooded my fire pit.(See Photo) It rained all morning yesterday and then in the afternoon, the temp went up to 65, the sky cleared just in time for yesterdays wedding and the bride and groom had a wonderful evening. As soon as they left the reception, the wind picked up, the temp drooped and now we have 3 inches of snow with the forecast of "Thunder Snow" at 3pm I have never heard of thunder snow but I guess we will be finding out just what that is in about 1/2 hour. The photo is of last nights bride.