THE INTERVALS by THE LISBON WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER

Photos of the bride and groom at the first dance, cake cutting, and others, at the wedding party at Quinta do Lumarinho in Sintra

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The photographer’s morning jitters before the wedding

   The wedding photographer would be lying if he said that late at night I still have the same energy that when I started the day, sometimes down, in the way of groom and bride’s home, especially the groom, full of that nervous that appears to me since my first one and, no matter how much I do, there is no way to let go of me.

Since the beginning, I always thought that, as time went on, it would go away and the skill would bring me that calm and, at some point, already he, the nervous one, would have gone to another parish and stopped boring me, every time I start to prepare my tools in the day before and, sometimes, not even to sleep gives me rest.

After some time, I started to think that something was wrong with me, that maybe I was not cut out for photographing weddings, and, maybe, one of these days it would be better to find something else.

After all, I’m not alone, and it’s a good thing

     So, since I am a photographer for their, weddings, it would be better to join with some people that do the same and find out what they tell about the subject.

That is how the wedding photographer asked and it was accepted in one of those forums on the net and there, when I was trying to find how it works, one of the first discussion subjects he found was exactly about that annoying thing that, after all, took all the colleagues who exercised this profession.

Conversations lead to conversations and everybody concludes that this nervous is because of the love for what we do, inside arms and legs, of tight stomachs, and that irritating irritation since we get the first foot out of bed, that we can not get in time, I am already late and I am still here, this can not happen, it is always the same thing, the traffic, well…so, of it is like that with them too, it is because that is how it should be and, maybe, when one day I stop to feeling it, the nervous, perhaps the love was gone.

    Until now, it has not gone away, rest assured because since the first photo was done, it has gone away for I do not know where. But this love does not mean that the photographer is always like this all day.

What’s left to do at the wedding

Because I owe to your sincerity, some moments are so boring that it seems that the time does not want to pass. Although a wedding day is a constant offer of photographs I love so much, late at night, not even those that like so much to have fun at the party will do it, they still are there with the will, but not with the energy and, at the same time, not all the rituals of day are complete.

It is late, also the wedding photographer starts to feel sleepy coming and there is no way to remember the cut of the wedding cake, the single ladies have not jumped yet, through the bridal bouquet and, without it, there is no way to know who is getting married next. In those intervals, late at night, the wedding photographer waits, everything is done except what remains to be done and, stoically, he waits for the moment of the moments that still are missing, without any nervousness.

Late at night. Only late at night.   

Dot by dot:

• Before leaving for any wedding, I always have that little nervous feeling of anticipation. It’s never gone away since my first. They say it’s a good thing, it’s because I care.

• That’s what other colleagues told me on a website where people with the same interests and tastes get together to discuss them. That’s right, it’s a sign that you care and have a sense of responsibility. That puts my mind at rest.

• So rest assured that the morning jitters, which start the day before, have not yet passed to the wedding photographer.

You need to know:

• The photos are of some parts of the wedding party that took place at Quinta do Lumarinho in Montelavar, Sintra.
• That’s right. It’s my big sign to show me that being a wedding photographer matters. I want to be snowed in for yours, too. So contact me and we’ll talk about that and many other things.