SWEETS by THE PORTUGAL WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER

Some photos of wedding guests during the wedding party at Quinta da Cascata in Mafra
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Just imagine…
Imagine that the wedding photographer is a child inside one of those stores full of sweets, with all sorts of forms, colors, sizes, and smells. Close your eyes and imagine yourselves as one of those children.
First, you do not know what to see first, such as the euphoria caused by all those things awakening the senses. You look everywhere and prepare to move in the direction of the colors that call you, as if the child in you has a magnet inside, attracting the colors first. But, after, that smell you know, coming from someplace not discovered yet, makes you hesitate, so you can not move.
Finally, the form and shape of the sweets draw in you all your must dearest fantasies on the other side of the room, and, once again, your feet do not know where to take you, until it is possible to satisfy all the wishes so profoundly challenged, for which you were not prepared.
A photographic book
Well, that is how a wedding photographer feels when he arrives at that room where the good food, drinks, and sweets will mix and deliver all the types of delicacies that will attract all sorts of cameras and lenses, tasting all of them in the form of people in a celebration day, honoring those that brought them all there because they love them.
After that hesitation moment, just a moment, like the children in the candy store, he, me, walks with fast eyes and starts to harvest and collect all sorts of sweets in the form of moments, kisses, hugs and talk about, inside his bag in the form of a photographic camera.
He knows, for sure, when he will be in the quietness of the office tasting them for edition, the crop that, for now, he just detects and grabs, will satisfy with pleasure whoever opens the candy box, in the form of a photographic book, the noblest place to show pictures, that was it what it was about.
Photographs of people interacting with people
I already wrote here that, as a photographer, my favorite subject is people. I can photograph the landscape with some elegance, know how to compose fruits under the orange light of the candles, and find those photogenic folds in the buildings on the street of the city with all those shapes that seem like imagined dreams but, it is fact, none of those photos give the emotion I have when I found myself, in the front of me, people interacting with people, doing those things that people do when gathered to celebrate the love of others.
I assure you that, even, if many of those people have had all the pleasure in the world when at the party, doing what they do at the party, not far it was better than mine grabbing their moments and keeping them inside my small bags as if they, the moments, were the most precious sweets of that candy store where the child, after all, it is me, the wedding photographer.



