LOVE OF A LIFETIME by the WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER IN ALGARVE
Because a few photos were taken at the end of the wedding party in Agostos, Algarve
A love in two ways
Since I’ve had a taste for photography, black and white has been my favorite way of cultivating it and indulging myself, as if it were one of the most important things to complete me and even give me an identity. Even today, it’s with a full chest that I realize I’m a photographer. It wasn’t always this way, but it’s been this way for so long that I have no idea it could be anything else.
Photography has become so ingrained in me that I have no doubt it’s my main identity. What would I be without it? What’s strangest is that I’ve never had a passion for it, as you often read about others. Never. But she has always loved me. She sneaked into my life as if it were unimportant until, one day, she asked me if it wouldn’t be a good idea to start working together. And it was. It has been.
Of love for black and white photography
For many years, mine, the one I made for myself, was in black and white. Not that I had any dislike for color, I didn’t. But I didn’t care much for it and even had some theories about it. I know that she, the colored one, sometimes treated me badly. I often had them, the colors that are part of it, in the wrong place, they threw off the harmony that I liked inside them, and even had a kind of tantrum with the light that illuminated them. So I didn’t pay it much attention.
Two loves after all
Over time I came around to it. Maybe it wasn’t the color that was wrong so it didn’t give me good photos. Maybe I hadn’t bothered to take a good look, because I was so enamored of black and white photographs. Maybe I didn’t give it a chance. But just like photography, which slowly entered my life, I’ve been giving color a chance, and I’ve been seeing that maybe I was wrong. They too can be beautiful, eye-catching, and worthy of my attention and love when the time is right and the way it should be. And they, too, reciprocate for the wedding photographer.
- In Agostos
