THE OBJECTS by THE WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER IN PORTUGAL

Photographs of some of the objects that were part of the wedding day
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An important part of us

Objects and their soul. As a photographer, I’ve been dealing with objects for many years. There’s no point in describing them by genre, type, or purpose because there wouldn’t be room for that in a simple article on the wedding photographer‘s blog. However, very early on I began to realize that certain objects belong to us in such a way that their description goes to a much higher level, beyond the type of object they belong to.
They cease to belong to the world of the inanimate, those who can’t move on their own, and become part of the animate, those who have their animus and who carry them around as if they were incorporated into them. They become so important that not knowing about them for a moment, being without them for whatever reason, is as if we were missing an important part of ourselves.
Some kind of soul of their own

Still others manage to reach a much higher level as if they had a kind of soul of their own, and without their soul our own, individual, family, or group soul would be incomplete, even losing some direction in search of new meaning.
I come across these at weddings where I also photograph them. Their importance goes far beyond adorning a groom’s wrist, a bride’s ears, or neck. They fulfill this task and make them more beautiful just by their presence.
Much more than props in the wedding

They even steal the limelight in the eyes of others. There are even those who have so much history with them that they end up possessing a kind of soul that makes them their own and those who take them with them undergo an inner transformation that is different from what it would be without them.
That’s what the wedding photographer has learned over the time he’s been photographing them before they become part of and add something greater to whoever is wearing them, a groom or a bride on their wedding day. I’m sure of that.
That’s why it’s the first thing I do as soon as I arrive for the first part of the day’s proceedings and absorb the light emanating from them, verifying that some of them are, in fact, much more than props. I have doubts about it.
Dot by dot:
- The wedding photographer encounters certain objects that go beyond mere utility, whether aesthetic or utilitarian as if they embody something that makes them indispensable.
- Some even seem to have a kind of soul, they are the ones that give and transmit the importance of what they are going to do, like on the wedding day.
- So, one of the first things the photographer does when he arrives at the wedding venue is to photograph them, because he knows how important they are.
You need to know:
- It was at Quinta do Pé da Serra in Sintra, Portugal
- Even at your wedding, the photographer will remember those objects that will be important and indispensable to you. Give me a call and we’ll talk about it.