I couldn’t wait to post the second half of Tracy and Nirmal’s wedding day. These guys were so much fun to photograph and I’m cuckoo over these photos.
Part II features their evening ceremony and Tracy glowed as beautifully in white as she did in pink. Guests were very eager to celebrate the second half of this day and a beautifully choreographed first dance got the party started in style.
Congratulations T & N. It was truly our pleasure to share your day with you.
Raise your hand if you miss film. Is yours up? Mine is up – way up.
Some day I’ll get back into shooting with it and developing it. In fact ideas are already forming on that front. I may not set it up the way I used to with the trays in the bathtub and enlarger sitting on my toilet, but I will develop black and white film again and print my own grainy photos on beautiful archival paper. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not knocking digital I love love love digital. It’s made life so much easier in so many ways, but downloading a memory card will never replace the feeling of excitement of seeing a photo appear on a sheet of photo paper in a darkroom.
So, this Vintage Friday is a small tribute to film cameras borrowed from a collector and not even dusted off.
Sometimes it’s hard for me to put a wedding day into words. Steeped in so much tradition and ceremony, Tracy and Nirmal’s double-ceremony celebration was one of those days. I admired their patience and marveled at their stamina while they prepared for their first ceremony in the wee hours of the morning and for their second in the early evening. This was a non-stop day that married two cultures and two kind-hearted souls.
I hope you enjoy looking at their photos as much as we enjoyed taking them.
Stay tuned for Part II coming later this week.
