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Lisa & Jon wanted a small wedding at Hurricane Ridge. They hired a minister to perform the ceremony and us to photograph it. After the honeymoon they were going back to the Midwest to have a reception with their relatives. Well, they arrived at the ridge a little late, with bad news. Just as they were leaving their motel to come up to the ridge the minister called and cancelled. Migraine headache. Kay found the ranger and talked him into letting us use the phone in his bedroom in the visitor's center. There's no public phone at the ridge. Friday afternoon, after five pm, Lisa found a judge's wife who said  that when the judge came home she'd turn him around in the driveway and send him up.  While we were waiting we did a few photographs. Because we were near the visitor's center we had  to stay on the paths. In spite of all the people walking by, and stopping to photograph them, we got this scenic with the deer. The judge arrived in about 45 minutes and we went up the ski slope  to a place where we could get off the path to have the ceremony with a spectacular view of the Olympic Mountains. The judge set down his briefcase, pulled out his robe, put it on, handed Lisa a handkerchief, and delivered the most beautiful ceremony we've ever heard, from memory and from  the heart.  He got to us all.                                                                                   

After the ceremony we did a few more photographs. The second photograph above happened as the last of the sunlight sneaked in under the storm clouds. Lisa and Jon were so far away from me I couldn't direct them.  I  just told them to get together and forget about me. They weren't posing for the camera, they were being "in the moment". This is the kind of real stuff I live for.

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OK, I know this is a stand up group, & yes I do these when they want it. 

But the reason I'm showing this one is because we screwed up & didn't make this

 photograph at the time. We left out the groom with the bride's family. So, in PhotoShop

 I isolated the parents on another  layer & pulled them aside, pulled the bride & groom 

from another  photograph & fit them into the space. OK, it wasn't that simple.  

I had to fill people holes & add space on the side. But almost anything is possible.

 

 

 

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Weddings are hard for the little ones. Sometimes they are being asked to perform

and behave themselves. They usually resist and are hard to photograph, that is,

until they are allowed to become their own playful selves. Personally, I think 

it's better to leave them out of the more formal photography and catch them later

being themselves.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But this one. She was the best flower girl we've ever seen. She practiced, performed,  posed,

and never fussed. Want to hire her? Maybe, for a fee I could contact her agents... 

OK, just get your own and make her perfect. Or maybe lower your expectations. This one's got

better things to do than be perfect all the time. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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"They all took a piece.  I think they left this piece for me. They like cake. I like cake..."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

           

 

 

 

 

       

                              

                                                          

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mimi didn't pose for any pictures. I followed her around to catch her being herself. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Psst!  Buddy, think you could fix me up with that cute little thing you're talking to? I like walks in the park & grazing in the bogs.  Tell her that. OK, I know I don't have any legs, but maybe you could turn her around so I could sniff her hair."  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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