I know that I had promised this post for a while now and I apologize that this is coming a bit late. I've been REALLY busy lately as I've gone back to school and have started my classes. I'm taking a couple of photography classes with the eventual plan of getting myself into the realm of photojournalism. The classes I'm taking so far are, for the most part, review given my experience level in photography but it's also exciting. One class deals with film photography and although I've shot film most of my life, and prefer to choose film over digital personally, I've always used labs to develop my film for convenience and lack of darkroom experience. So with that said, I've taken any free time that I do have and using that by spending time in the dark room to gain more experience with film and print development and it's been SUPER FUN! But that's another story...
I would like to give this particular entry its' deserving details but unfortunately all the time I've spent in school, dark room time and all, it's catching up to me and I'm really worn out so I'll keep it brief. As I've said in my previous entry, this was my first time in Catalina and I loved every minute of it. Shooting this wedding with my friend Pamela was an honor and a joy, as it is always, and the wedding itself was really grand. It took place in the theater of the Casino, followed by the reception in the ballroom of the upper level. The theme of the wedding was really cool. It had this old 30s-40s jazzy theme that I adored and given the history and architecture of the Casino itself, it really worked well. Outside of what was going on outside of the venue, it really felt like I was taken back in time to Catalina circa 1930. The ballroom was breathtakingly beautiful with its' chandelier hanging in the middle of the ballroom as its' centerpiece. Jazz was being played during the reception courtesy of the big band jazz band that was hired to play that was rather lovely. The last time I heard a big band jazz group was many years ago in Santa Barbara and it's always great to hear that music.
Fun was had by all. I had the chance to work another wedding, a very beautiful and romantic one I have to add, got to work with my friend and a favorite photographer of mine again, Pamela Masters, got to visit Catalina for my first time and even had a ghostly encounter. That story was promised but I'll refrain from posting it. If you want to hear it, you'll have to ask me when we meet (for those of you readers who actually know me).
There were many great photos to look over and I still haven't completed the editing process. They're mainly from the reception and maybe I'll post those at a later date but I just wanted to go ahead and throw some photos out there since I promised a couple weeks ago that I would. I generally like to keep things simple so I went in with that in mind when going into this particular edit process.
I would like to give this particular entry its' deserving details but unfortunately all the time I've spent in school, dark room time and all, it's catching up to me and I'm really worn out so I'll keep it brief. As I've said in my previous entry, this was my first time in Catalina and I loved every minute of it. Shooting this wedding with my friend Pamela was an honor and a joy, as it is always, and the wedding itself was really grand. It took place in the theater of the Casino, followed by the reception in the ballroom of the upper level. The theme of the wedding was really cool. It had this old 30s-40s jazzy theme that I adored and given the history and architecture of the Casino itself, it really worked well. Outside of what was going on outside of the venue, it really felt like I was taken back in time to Catalina circa 1930. The ballroom was breathtakingly beautiful with its' chandelier hanging in the middle of the ballroom as its' centerpiece. Jazz was being played during the reception courtesy of the big band jazz band that was hired to play that was rather lovely. The last time I heard a big band jazz group was many years ago in Santa Barbara and it's always great to hear that music.
Fun was had by all. I had the chance to work another wedding, a very beautiful and romantic one I have to add, got to work with my friend and a favorite photographer of mine again, Pamela Masters, got to visit Catalina for my first time and even had a ghostly encounter. That story was promised but I'll refrain from posting it. If you want to hear it, you'll have to ask me when we meet (for those of you readers who actually know me).
There were many great photos to look over and I still haven't completed the editing process. They're mainly from the reception and maybe I'll post those at a later date but I just wanted to go ahead and throw some photos out there since I promised a couple weeks ago that I would. I generally like to keep things simple so I went in with that in mind when going into this particular edit process.