Maggie got ready at the waldorf which is really one of the best places a bride can get ready. The suites are really quite large and the light is great. Sweet Suite.
Awaiting the bride.
Her Dad, ready to take her down the aisle…
The funny thing about winter weddings in nyc is (besides being cold) that daylight is done by 4pm. So going outside to take pictures following a ceremony becomes a night shoot. Apparently, people come out for hot soup after dark as well.
Colin with his boys at Hot Soup across the street from the Met.
Now, my clients look to me for something different – something that doesn’t look like wedding photography – and for something lively, spontaneous and fun so very often I end up seizing opportunities that magically appear (if you’re always looking for them). Being stuck in stop and go traffic on 5th avenue seemed like a great opportunity for a sunroof shot. So I find myself squeezing through the sunroof of our LandRover while Celeste is driving is signaling to maggie and colin in the limo next to us to see if they can fit out of theirs. They do and the crowd on 5th starts cheering and they’re waving and I’m shooting and swapping out cards and lenses on the roof of a moving car.
Isn’t creating spontaneity perfect.
Except for the fact that there was an undercover NYPD car behind us who cranked up their siren up at me – 140 decibels of whoop whoop!
Ooops. Who knew that you couldn’t do that? I didn’t have a “no sunroof photography” section in my drivers’ education manual!
But in the end, I got the shot I wanted.
All is fair in love and wedding photography.
by bd
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