RINGS IN THE NEST by the WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER IN FÁTIMA
From photos with wedding rings, bride and groom and daughter, at Quinta de D. Nuno in Fátima, on their wedding day
Transformation by the lenses
Like in a nest, I sometimes seem to have an image that reminds me of something else just before I press the magic button on one of my cameras. This happens to me often, and perhaps it’s a driving force behind my imagination in choosing the best way to capture a particular moment of the many that abound on a wedding day.
Being on a wedding day with so many possibilities and combinations to photograph from every angle imaginable, having people and places in front of me that manifest themselves in such a way that they keep offering me compositions that are impossible to miss, I always find one or two that, because of the transformation that the lens can give me, I can’t help but make a connection to some place or object completely out of context.
It looks like a nest
Like in a nest, that’s how I saw the two wedding rings in the middle of a silk rose. It could have been just that. A rose made of a delicate fabric like silk with two rings with a very important mission to fulfill in a few hours, linking two people to a commitment to life together with everything that means and does. But I remember well the feeling the wedding photographer had when looking for the best viewpoint and composing: look, how cute, it looks like a nest.
Again, the nest and the wedding photographer
The wedding rings have fulfilled their purpose under the watchful eye of the all-important witness in a mixture of childish curiosity and amazement at what they want this for. But it’s beautiful. The party, as wedding parties are, begins to entertain guests and the wedding photographer sets off with the groom, the bride, and their little girl for the photo session and, in one of the shots, looks at a nest. Again. A kind of allegory for what a family is and where it lives or meets every moment it’s together.
I don’t think that what flashed through the wedding photographer’s imagination is unreasonable, because a wedding, the ceremony with the rings, the celebration with all those who love them, tends towards a nest. The house.
- In Quinta D. Nuno in Fatima, Portugal
