The San Diego Temple is always a fun location for me to be able to photograph, and this was no exception!

After seeing all of the pictures available for their wedding, Rachelle & Rick decided on an 82 side album holding 159 pictures from their Wedding Day, and I think it turned out absolutely spectacular!

I’m excited to be back and blogging again after this crazy past week, three weddings in three days makes my feet hurt!!!  And the one thing I learned from it all?  That I really like the 35mm 1.4 lens and that I need to get one for myself, because I can’t just go borrow one whenever I feel the need.  Sara, I blame you entirely for letting me play with it and fall in love with it.  I am a big believer that it’s not the gear that makes the photographer great, it’s the operator behind all the gear, but I will concede that in this case, the gear might play a significant factor.

I’m not really a big gear freak, and I don’t get all excited when Canon announces a new lens because hey, photography has been around for a very long time, and besides getting a camera upgrade every 2 years, I just never saw anything very exciting about the optics and the glass.  Until 2 years ago.  I have been slowly replacing all of my zoom lenses with prime lenses, and up until this weekend my favorite lens was the 14 mm, followed closely by the 50 mm, the 24mm, and then the 85mm.  I guess all of the zoom and macro lenses come after that for being my favorite, but I did get to test out the 35mm 1.4 this weekend, and I’m in love.  Absolutely in love.  I’ll keep you posted for a new arrival from Pictureline sometime soon!

OK, back to Album Monday!  And i do love this Album, I sat there for a minute just running my [clean] fingers over the front cover, it’s the first time I’ve had a bride select this cover and I was startled by how beautiful it was!  Not that I was expecting it to be ugly, but when I saw the swatch i thought, huh, that’s interesting.  When I saw it in person, my heart skipped a beat.  The cover is called Ipanema which has the texture of snake skin, and the spine is done in Dulce de Leche.

As a photographer, I’m not sure why I feel so connected to the covers that bride choose for their Wedding Albums, but maybe it has to do with the fact that I feel I really put my heart and all of my energy into documenting one day, for one couple, and when a bride picks a really stunning cover, I almost feel as though she is saying to me, Great job!, These pictures are worthy of the best materials possible!  And to be truthful, perhaps my brides always pick the finest materials because i don’t charge anything for leather upgrades, but the result is the same.  I work as hard and as creatively as I can, and I get rewarded by having my images in unique leathers and fabrics that the couple are proud to show off.  I see it as a Win-Win situation. 

This Album is 11×14″ wide, with 2 – 3×3″ square B&W images on the front cover.  Since this is an Album, the pages are printed on photographic paper.

So here it is, a few of my favorite spreads from the final design!

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