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Natalie and Mark

Friday, July 17th, 2009

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I had the opportunity to photograph the wedding of Natalie and Mark.

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They were married in the Draper Temple, which I had not yet had the opportunity to photograph.  It is a beautiful temple in a beautiful location.

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Afterwards, Natalie and Mark hosted their family and friends for a fun evening of barbecue, ice cream, and dancing.  It was a wonderful evening.

My daughter, who worked as my assisted that night, summed it up by saying: it was the most fun wedding reception I’ve ever been to.

Congratulations Natalie and Mark!  May your love grow as you continue to grow closer through out all time.

The attached images are a few of my favorites from that day.

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I often think it’s the detail shots that make a wedding album spectacular. There are so many uses for them in the album.

They can be used as a full page anchor on one side of a two-page spread.

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They can be turned to opaque and used as a background image on which other images are placed.

Or, they can be used as a sequence of smaller images within a larger spread.

I love to capture detail shots such as these.

Morning’s Hill

Saturday, July 11th, 2009

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My favorite subject is light.  I love to photograph dramatic light.  This scene depicts the contrast found as the fiery burst of morning first invades a slumbering land.

Hours before making this image, I arrived at my perch overlooking Oregon’s Hood River Valley.  At that early hour, the valley was cast in a pre-dawn, infant light.  The pale landscape had not yet revealed its secrets.   I had come to this spot intent on photographing a snow-capped Mount Hood in the breaking dawn.

Having accomplished that, I could not leave – the landscape below me had come to life, its secrets revealed.  Sunlight began popping down the throats of canyons rimming the east, playing wonderfully across the orchards, vineyards, and hills spread throughout this valley.  I continued making photographs until the sun had crested the mountaintops and the entire valley had flooded with light.

This image, Morning’s Hill, is among my favorite captures in that valley.


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