Word!
The Wedding Photojournalist Association just released the results of its 2007 year end wedding photography contest, and I managed to snag a few awards. Hooray!
One, in the Ceremony category, was for this shot from Heather and Todd’s Vail wedding. They were married at the top of the mountain on the wedding deck. A storm was brewing all morning and things looked a little ominous, but they decided to go for it and risk the rain. The sun was fighting its way through the clouds for the whole ceremony, and as soon as they were pronounced husband and wife, the sun broke through and splashed them with a crazy ray of light. Everyone was talking about it afterward. The judges wrote, “A fantastic, intense moment enhanced by the incredible light and landscape. A painting.”
This next image picked up an award in the Reflections category, and it was one of my favorite shots of the year. You have to stare at it a while to figure out what’s going on. The bride’s mouth is poking through the hole in the hand mirror, and she’s also the one whose face is in reflected in the hand mirror that’s shown on the left side of the image. Wait, huh? What?
So… I shot this image into a huge mirror, and the only thing that’s not a reflection is the stuff on the far right hand side (the back of the hand mirror, the bride’s hand, and her mouth). Everything else is a reflection, and the bride’s eyes are a reflection in a reflection. The image is a complete mindbender that I still can’t always get my head around, even though I shot it.
