Eugene & Kseniya’s Brandeis Faculty Club Wedding
We had great sunny, comfortable weather for wedding photography Sunday, May 16 as associate photographer Don Himsel and I headed to the Brandeis University Faculty Club for Eugene and Kseniya’s traditional jewish wedding. They met on JDate and both of their families are from St. Petersburg, Russia, where they weren’t able to have anything but secular activities. So Eugene and Kseniya decided to have a traditional Jewish wedding, complete with Ketubah signing (marriage contract), Chuppah (wedding canopy), the breaking of a glass, and Yichud, the custom of the couple retreating to a private room for 10-20 minutes after the ceremony.
We were especially honored to take part in what was a rare event for their family because of the nature of the customs and politics in their country of origin.
Don and I were pretty excited about the copper-clad backdrop of the Shapiro Campus Center for portrait photography. Check out this slideshow which is a mix of my photos and Don’s from their wedding:
Back from the 2009 Digital Wedding Forum Convention
I was out in Carefree, Arizona Jan. 10-15 for the 2009 Digital Wedding Forum Convention. It’s good for seeing what is available for products and services in the industry, learning new techniques, business management tips, and for inspiration. One of the best speakers was on the first day, keynote speaker David Williams. He’s an Australian wedding and portrait photographer and among the many valuable thoughts he shared was for photographers to regularly visit art museums to look for inspiration and posing ideas. I’ve always liked going to art museums, and I decided to make an effort to go to as many as I can as often as possible. Since coming back, I’ve gone to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, The Newark Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, and the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, the last because I heard they were closing and hadn’t been, so I figured I better before it did.
