[Leica] Wedding Photography

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LUG:

I'm back at the farm in York after spending two weeks in California 
for the Golden Trout workshops in the Sierra Nevada mountains and 
then a week in Chicago for my daughter's wedding.  In California I 
carried 35 pounds on my back over 12,000 feet up and slept in a tent, 
using a pit toilet and hiking 5-10 miles every day.  In Chicago, we 
stayed at a luxury hotel on the lakefront and ate at gourmet 
restaurants every meal.  Guess which one I preferred?!!

While we were out of touch in the mountains, my daughter's 
photographer informed her that he would not be able to shoot her 
wedding and his assistant would be doing it.  I am the one who had 
strongly encouraged her to spend the majority of her wedding budget 
on the photographs (shrimp and wedding cake and flowers all disappear 
but the photos are forever)  To say that she was upset would be an 
understatement.  She told me that I would have to take up the slack 
and get all of the photos that she really wanted.  I studied all of 
Chris' wedding photos again (she loves his work) and memorized what I 
should be taking.  HAH!  If you think it's easy to get the photos 
that Chris does, just go try it.  I'd rather be back in Iran, Iraq, 
Honduras, or even the John Muir Wilderness.

I hope I got some acceptable photos - I took 1754 - and, as it turns 
out, my daughter was more pleased with the assistant's work than she 
thought she would be based on the photos on her website.

So everything turned out o.k., but I hope to never to do another 
wedding!!  I did get conned into photographing my oldest son's 
wedding, too, twelve years ago.  QualChrome ended up ruining half of 
the Kodachromes that time.  I still have two unmarried kids.

Never again!!!!

Tina

Tina Manley
www.tinamanley.com