Nice Day For A White Wedding

I jinxed myself.  That’s all I can say on the matter.  I went and jinxed myself.  I was asked to photograph a wedding for a friends daughter and I accepted the honour of doing so.  Whilst talking to them and planning things, the conversation inevitably got round to the weather and what it would be like on the big day.  Amy and Dave thought that because it was happening in March (we discussed this at the tail end of 2012), it could conceivably snow.  Stranger things have happened.  I foolishly piped up and mentioned that I have done lots of weddings and not once has it snowed.  JINX.   Yep, on the day in question, it snowed like it’s never snowed before.  Out the window went all the best laid plans I had of taking the happy couple down to the hotel grounds and capture some shots of them madly in love against a lush green backdrop.  Instead, the heavens opened up and continued to snow and snow a total blizzard and kyboshed everything.

That’s not to say I didn’t have some other ideas to take some photos inside the hotel and the room in which they were married was fantastic for photos.  The light wasn’t the best but I overcame that issue with some flash and high ISO’s (which the 5D MKIII revels in.  It really is the best camera I have ever owned, bar none).

I have just recently completed the photo book for Amy and Dave and also got some other items on order for them.  This leaves me with the chance to showcase some of the photos from the day.  Hope you like them.

Better to Burn Out Than Fade Away!

A brilliant quote from a brilliant movie.  Said quote is from Clancy Brown as the Kurgan in Highlander and he plays the part with such aplomb.  He oozes such character on screen and quite literally steals the movie for me.  Being Scottish, I love everything about Scotland and the Scots.  Well, most of it.  There are some aspects that I don’t particularly enjoy but I will leave that for another day.  And there I go again..  Deviating from what I was wanting to blog about..

I did want to talk about the fact the film also stars Sean Connery (a Scot) as an Egyptian (amended as i got this wrong first time!)and Christopher Lambert (a Frenchman) as a Scot..  And that’s the crux.  The actual accent of Mr Lambert is terrible!  Why on earth didn’t they just put Sean in as the lead character?  I mean, he’s Scottish and could carry off the role perfectly fine.  I suppose he was a little too old.  It doesn’t detract all that much from the film but enough to make it slightly annoying..

But onto the other points I was wanting to make alongside my minor grievance with Highlander.

Point 1.  The film has opening scenes at one of my all time favourite places, Eilean Donan Castle.  What a spectacular place to take photographs.  The drive up is stunning and you are hard pushed to not stop every 5 minutes to get the camera out and take what I believe to be some of the most beautiful landscapes in the world.  And it’s right on my doorstep.  I do feel blessed to be able to hop into the car and drive North to go see some of this fantastic landscape.

Point 2.  The fact is, I do feel kind of burnt out.  Life is kind of hectic right now but it’s all good.  Suppose the thing to think about here is that it’s good to be busy and I am not complaining about it, per se.  Just wanted to get it down on paper/screen as a way of sounding off!

To finish off, I’d like to post a photo of Eilean Donan Castle that I took back in 2010.   It’s one of my favourite all time photos and I processed it back when I was just starting to get used to Photoshop.  All the elements that day just came together.  A little light snow, brilliant cloud scape, reflection on the water.  And there was a wedding on that day too and the bride looked beautiful in her dress (a lovely deep shade of red!)