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orbital deluge (shaded imposition)
Nikon D100, 24-120 f/3.5-5.6
2003.03.15
On1 Photo Raw, Topaz Sharpen AI, Topaz DeNoise AI ~ January, 2021; Skylum Luminar Neo ~ December 2022

This was a weird day, as I recall. It was the day of one my first weddings out in Cali; It was to be a beach wedding, a BIG wedding, one of those weddings that makes or breaks you as a photographer, and in the week leading up to it, several things happened in a flurry: a couple of schedule changes related to the bachelorette party, something had gone haywire with the cake, the reception venue was double-booked somehow and had just figured that out (or at least that was their story). And then, just two days before the wedding, the father of the bride called me to tell me the wedding wasn't going to happen because the groom was....back in jail. So instead of a shooting an incredible wedding, after a little rain shower, I wandered the neighborhood intent to put this digital equipment through its paces while trying not to think about what I was going to do with all the film I wasn't using at the awesome wedding that didn't happen.

As things turned out, this little rose was waiting for me when I got back home, tucked away under some larger shrubs where it was getting a constant trickle of runoff from neighboring leaves. I didn't keep a ton of photos from that little walkabout; it was more about thinking than doing, but it was an important day for me. And this one in particular has stuck with me all these years. I have, as you can imagine, several versions of it, but while I was experimenting with some new tools this winter, this has come to represent the looking-back upon that day, so I thought I'd share it, and the memory with you. It's also towards the colors of what was going to be her wedding, at least as I recall them at this distance of time.

Funny things happen in this process sometimes. And sometimes, the process itself is amusing. I've had a pretty amusing relationship with this photograph for almost twenty years now. It would have been a pretty big, portfolio-boosting, awesome wedding, and all I got instead are a bunch of wet flowers in the rain.

That's a fair and even exchange, the way my life has gone. XD

Description
orbital deluge (shaded imposition)
Nikon D100, 24-120 f/3.5-5.6
2003.03.15
On1 Photo Raw, Topaz Sharpen AI, Topaz DeNoise AI ~ January, 2021; Skylum Luminar Neo ~ December 2022

This was a weird day, as I recall. It was the day of one my first weddings out in Cali; It was to be a beach wedding, a BIG wedding, one of those weddings that makes or breaks you as a photographer, and in the week leading up to it, several things happened in a flurry: a couple of schedule changes related to the bachelorette party, something had gone haywire with the cake, the reception venue was double-booked somehow and had just figured that out (or at least that was their story). And then, just two days before the wedding, the father of the bride called me to tell me the wedding wasn't going to happen because the groom was....back in jail. So instead of a shooting an incredible wedding, after a little rain shower, I wandered the neighborhood intent to put this digital equipment through its paces while trying not to think about what I was going to do with all the film I wasn't using at the awesome wedding that didn't happen.

As things turned out, this little rose was waiting for me when I got back home, tucked away under some larger shrubs where it was getting a constant trickle of runoff from neighboring leaves. I didn't keep a ton of photos from that little walkabout; it was more about thinking than doing, but it was an important day for me. And this one in particular has stuck with me all these years. I have, as you can imagine, several versions of it, but while I was experimenting with some new tools this winter, this has come to represent the looking-back upon that day, so I thought I'd share it, and the memory with you. It's also towards the colors of what was going to be her wedding, at least as I recall them at this distance of time.

Funny things happen in this process sometimes. And sometimes, the process itself is amusing. I've had a pretty amusing relationship with this photograph for almost twenty years now. It would have been a pretty big, portfolio-boosting, awesome wedding, and all I got instead are a bunch of wet flowers in the rain.

That's a fair and even exchange, the way my life has gone. XD