Hitched
When I first moved to Denver in 2016, live music and snowboarding composed of like 98% of my entire life. I was photographing a SoDown show downtown when I met this lovely couple at the bar who were Bassheads through and through. We chatted about electronic music extensively and how they got engaged recently aboard Holy Ship, an EDM festival on a cruise ship. After about ten minutes they said, “we’re getting married in 6 months and we want you to shoot our wedding”. I thought it was odd that they had never seen my photos before but immediately wanted to hire me for such an important milestone in their life. I thought they were all talk, as people at shows often do. But hey, they had good taste.
Half a year later I was flying out to Maryland to photograph my first solo wedding. Not gonna lie, I was a little nervous as a most wedding photographers have two shooters for multiple camera angles and to be in two places at once. But really, I knew I was more than capable and had a really sweet setup of a canon DSLR and my canon 35mm AE1. My high end lenses for my DSLR worked on my film camera with an adapter so I could shoot various focal lengths with both cameras on a shoulder harness. I ran around like a headless chicken and kind of winged it, but the photos came out great and the couple was elated with their photos, so was I.
