Since this blog will (in theory) arrive in your email boxes on 26 August, I thought it appropriate to photographically celebrate August anniversaries.  A majority of weddings I have photographed happened in August, followed, in number, by July, June, May, and October.  One thing I realized from going through my images is how many technological transitions have transpired since 2001, when I shot my first August wedding.  I went from shooting my first wedding in the mid-70s on film (both color and black and white and giving negatives/prints to the couples) to digital near the beginning of the 21st century. In the 70s, I gave couples prints, along with a few negatives.  It went from that to CDs, which held what was a truly lame number of images.  Now it is so easy to put images on thumb drives that have more memory than our computer.  I am the first to admit that has spoiled me forever.  Photographers can also send proofs of hundreds of photographs via a number of great websites.  Going through all the folders, negatives and prints was quite the revelation and history of my wedding photographic methods and style.  The entire process made me see how color prints on standard photographic paper, even those kept in the best of conditions, degrade over time, mostly to the yellow side of the color spectrum.  Food for thought.  And with anniversaries on the brain, I begin.
 

Last year at this time, Steve Immel and I, with the great help of Steve's wife, Peggy, and my husband, Fred, photographed Kara and Eero's wedding at Prairie Star near Albuquerque.  Happy First Anniversary to Kara and Eero, with best wishes for a lifetime of joy!

Kara and Eero

Other couples who I photographed and are celebrating this month include Christie and Joel, shown below.    

This was shot with Ilford 400 black and white film, and scanned.

Christie and Joel  

Heather and Stewart

Heather and StewartKONICA MINOLTA DIGITAL CAMERA

Marilyn and Matthew

Marilyn and Matthew

Robin and Dominic

Dominic and Robin

Pia and Mike

Pia and Mike

Who are these people, going to their reception in 1972, for pity sake?  Could we look much younger?  We had to nab one of the guests from the ceremony to take us to the reception.  I missed that part of the planning! 

Daryl and Fred

Our thanks to Debra Harbaugh for shooting our wedding those many decades ago.  And I am grateful to all of you who trusted me to take your wedding photographs, regardless of month or year.

until next Monday,

DB

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