THEY by THE SINTRA WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER
With photos of the bride and groom at the wedding ceremony in São Martinho Church in Sintra
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A dusty trunk with a wedding book of mine
They are the protagonists of a story to be collected by the wedding photographer and read later. After a short time afterward and, also, after many years afterward. It is how I see myself in my motivation to work, on the wedding day.
Knowing that what I am doing there will see the light, especially the books where I put all my attention, one day, as in my imagination, a dusty trunk will be found in an attic and my wedding book will be open to descendants, who knows, on the eve of another wedding.
For a timeless photograph
I never see the result of my work, as a wedding photographer, in the short term. Although if we live in a time of fleeting ephemeral, where everything that it is, it was, I only can see the importance of my work if I imagine it resisting time. That is why I chose a theme and objective and introduced my photography as timeless.
Probably I will never know if my imagination will be fulfilled, but that gives me the necessary energy to continue returning, every time a new wedding couple wants me. When I see a couple, sitting or standing, on the altar in front of the officiant, I imagine them forever at that moment so important, for them and all surrounding them.
Photographs will remain much longer than eternal snow
There is an expression for this, which I do not like so much because I do not like so much the cold, used in the photography world. They say that a photo can freeze what happened in time. I think that it is not fair for photography because the frozen can be melted and vanish and I want to believe that a photo can stand so much longer, even if I know that at the top of the big mountains, there is eternal snow.
Maybe, that is why I return to photograph, every time I can, in front of the bride and the groom in the process of transformation as husband and wife, so let me the time and all the presents in this process.
Maybe the wedding photographer is a little vain and thinks he is more important than he is, but it is so good to imagine it. Yes, it is.
Dot by dot:
- One of the main motivations for wedding photographers to return from event to event is to know that their work can be revisited whenever they want, in all future times. Their work revives memories.
- That’s why I strive for timeless wedding photography. I don’t follow any fad or momentary trend. In the future I imagine, I’ll never know if I’m right, but that’s my motto.
- The wedding photographer, probably, gives himself more importance than he has. That’s okay, imagination is a precious commodity and I make a lot of use of it. It, even, helps with the photographs at weddings.
You need to know:
- That’s also what I want for your wedding day. That it’s timeless, in photographs and in life. Let’s talk about it, contact me.
