Celebrate, Celebrate by Having fun with fire works

We had our usual fun with the fireworks tonight to celebrate the 4th of July with our granddaughter visiting for the week with us.

We first did the sparkler in front of the camera with a long exposure and then we found some new foreworks this year that give off a real bright light just like a strobe so we had to try a few images with them as well.

Miracles in our day are real

I don't know if I told the story about my daughter's wedding. I was using two camera's due to a problem with one of my lens (I found that out later) anyway when I went to upload the images one of the cards failed and I lost 52 images which included the images taken with my wide angle lens. All of them were pretty much the group pictures taken just after the wedding. I finally paid and downloaded a program which was able to retrieve the raw files but they were corrupted in such a manner that they wouldn't open in photoshop. I tried several ways to fix them but never succeeded. I had found a program where I could see all of the bytes and bits of each 6 meg file and hoped that I could go in and change the files enough for photoshop to recognize them. Then I met a young man at BYU who was majoring in Computer Science and I asked him if he knew anyway to recover them. He found a program that was able to fix them and now they are just like new and I have been able to open them and color correct them. I am very thankful to a young man who had the ability to find what I needed to correct the problem. For my family here are some of those images.

This is the large group with both sides of the family.

This is the groom's family and friends.

Groom's immediate family.

Bride's family and friends.

Bride's grandparents.

Bride's immediate family.

Bride's sibling's families with parents.

Some of the Bride's aunts and uncles.

The Brides worst Nightmare_realized

It was the Brides worst nightmare coming true. Just when she was supposed to walk down to the awning by the river where nearly 50 guests were already waiting it started to rain. I was asked to go see what her plans might be and by the time I got to the house it was raining much harder. Then it really started to come down and the decision made to move it to the church. Here are a few of the images over the next 45 minutes. Oh just in case you might be wondering, yes this is the same bride that I photographed in the rain last week doing her bridal pictures outside near her home where the wedding was to take place.

The brides father (on the left, the tall one) coming up from the river through a river of falling water.

A guest puddle jumping his way to the car.

Just an idea of how much water fell, there was no puddle an hour earlier when I arrived.

The groom under the blue umbrella heading to the car to go to the church.

The bride (yes the one with the veil in her hair and the dress on her arm) headed to the car as well a few minutes later.

It will always be a wedding to remember.

A cool Chevy

A friend of mine asked me to take pictures of his son's wedding open house. He mainly wanted to have some extra ones taken of his CHEVY. That i must admit was fun. Thanks Spanky

The Rain Effect

So I said I would put some from the rain on the blog. This first one was taken between storms.

Then we went down by the river under the trees and it started to rain. See the drops on the umbrella.

It is hard to focus as you are running backwards and it is raining very hard and you are worried about the brides dress. This wasn't a "Trash the Dress" shoot.

However with rain storms and late evenings you get the beautiful rainbows.

Yes I extended the rainbow, it was a hurried job but could get to be kind of fun with time to work on it a little longer.

Same effects , different bride

So this week I had two brides for bridals and it rained both times. Ya just gotta love this rain we have been getting but it does make taking outside photos a bit of a challenge. Anyway I will put some of those on later but here is one of the images I took while inside. Same four effects as with the last bride yet the pictures are totally different.

Bridal Fun

So I was asked today why I don't put more of my brides on my blog. I guess I really don't have a good answer but tonight right after the rain and before some more rain came I did this beautiful brides pictures in my yard and of course had to play in photoshop with one of the images. Here are the results.