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Here’s a look at the three film cameras I carry on

Here’s a look at the three film cameras I carry on wedding days, and what I reach for each of them to do.

Canon Elan 7e ~ This is my workhorse, my constant. Reliable autofocus that keeps up with the pace of a wedding day without asking me to slow down for it. I reach for it in the quiet moments and the fast ones.

Rolleiflex 3.5 ~My favorite camera I own, full stop. There’s something the lens does that I still can’t fully explain a depth, almost a 3D quality, that makes the people in the frame feel present in a way other cameras don’t quite reach. I bring it out for portraits, and every time I look down into that viewfinder I remember why I fell in love with film in the first place. Square frames for life

Fujifilm 645 ~ Medium format, but with autofocus. When I want that expansive, film quality but need to move, this is what I reach for. All the depth of medium format without slowing down for it.

Some more joyful moments from Katie & Jame’s day a

Some more joyful moments from Katie & Jame’s day at the fair grounds.
Whoever brought the bubble makers was a genius.

This is my favorite thing to capture, pure un diluted joy and love.

Katie and James got married at the Altamont Fairgr

Katie and James got married at the Altamont Fairgrounds in early September. The air was crisp, the sky was impossibly blue, and every single person there was exactly where they wanted to be.

Katie and James are the kind of couple who make everyone around them feel completely at ease, and that energy moved through the whole day. Their loved ones weren’t just guests, they were participants, fully present, laughing loud, holding each other close. It was a joy to be in the middle of it with a camera.

Some days you leave a wedding feeling like you did your job. This one, I left feeling genuinely lucky.

There’s a moment I keep coming back to from a wedd

There’s a moment I keep coming back to from a wedding at the Altamont Fairgrounds. The reception was in full swing, and when I turned around, there they were. A grandmother and a flower girl, hand in hand, completely still inside all that motion. Just watching the couple together. Across about seventy years of living.
Neither of them noticed me. That’s the whole point.
As a documentary wedding photographer, my job isn’t to direct your day. It’s to disappear into it. To be present enough that I feel where a moment is building before it arrives, and invisible enough that it happens anyway. The real photographs live at the edges of the room, not the center. I’ll be there.

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I am New York documentary wedding photographer specializing in film and digital photography for weddings and elopements across the Hudson Valley, Adirondacks, New England, and destinations worldwide.

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