of opportunities for something you want to pursue…

In the past couple of months I have had to knock back 6 different weddings. These lovely brides and grooms have asked me to shoot their weddings and its absolutely heart breaking to tell them that I am not an actual wedding photographer. I teach 6 year olds for a living.

As I have talked about before, I am shooting my first wedding in September. Its for a very old, dear friend and someone whom knows I am no professional. Unfortunately for her, she and her new hubby will be my guinea pigs. I guess after I do that wedding, I will figure out if it is in fact, something that I would like to do more.

I adore weddings, I adore details and when I was a teenager I dreamed of being a wedding planner, so it kind of makes sense. However, I am also a very anxious person whom is nervous around new people, and I am very concerned about doing a good job. Weddings are highly stressful and I don’t know if I will actually enjoy doing it because of that.

Its so lovely to know that people like my style enough to want to ask me to do their wedding and I have felt terrible when I have had to say no to each of them. Anik, I hope you find someone fabulous!

In other photography news…look what finally came in the mail! I just loaded some film, so fingers crossed that she works!

Its a Yashica Mat 124, which is my first real foray into Medium Format photography. This is why I have been wanting to delve into the med. format world for a long time. *sigh