We’re in the middle of a busy stretch: Three weddings in nine days, including two coming up this weekend, back-to-back on Friday and Saturday. Several weddings in a short time span is the norm for some photographers, but we usually space weddings out a bit more than that. Danny and I think we would probably become involuntary shut-ins if we shot back-to-back weddings too frequently — partly because we would have so, so many images to edit, party because we would buckle under all that physical exertion. But it can be well worth it to have weddings that close together, when couples are as excited to work with us as we are to work with them. That’s why we’re wedding photographers, after all.

Sometimes, though, it’s a nice change of pace to just take a camera with us and photograph whatever we want, without any pressure — no time constraints, no better-get-it-right-this-one-time-because-on-a-wedding-day-there-are-no-do-overs. No one who even cares what the results look like. Nothing beats producing beautiful pictures for a couple. But sometimes it’s lovely to just produce beautiful pictures for ourselves.More to come tomorrow.

~ Laura