7 years…

» Posted on February 17, 2010

I won it on Ebay.  Well, won it as in I was the highest bidder, I still had to pay for it, but still, I was the winner of the auction for a brand new Canon Rebel, 35mm, complete with bag and stock lens.  I paid for it with a portion of the tupperware of Susan B Anthony silver dollars my grandfather had given me when he died.  And when it came in the mail I couldn’t put it down, I read the instruction manual from cover to cover, I took a community photo course at the college with my sister in law, and then, one day, my friend from work asked if I could photograph her wedding.   That was 7 years ago this month, can you believe it?  Tracy and Joe got married in Manti on the coldest day EVER, and during the ceremony it snowed a little.  When we were ready to take pictures, they gave her a hooded  cloak to wear around the Manti Temple grounds and she looked like she had just stepped from the pages of a fairytale.  I was hooked, irreversibly hooked, on shooting weddings.  I shot the whole thing with my rebel, ten rolls of kodak 200 speed film, and a stock lens.  

 Do you believe in fate, readers?   Sometimes I think I do.  I often think about that tupperware of Susan B Anthony coins, and Tracy and Joe, and I feel humbled, and thankful, and lucky, to do what I do. 

Here are some images I scanned in to share of that very first wedding.  I may have mentioned it before, but I am not technically savvy, so forgive me if they look a little grainy/ghetto.  Manti Temple

Manti Temple, Salt Lake Wedding Photographer

 

Manti Temple

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5 Responses to “7 years…”

  1. courtney bowlden on February 17th, 2010 @ 9:15 pm

    i didnt know you took her wedding pictures. looks great for your first time! you have come a long way!!! cant wait to see more =)

  2. Mike on February 18th, 2010 @ 8:58 am

    Wow. I can’t believe that it was that long ago. That was a very cold day. I remember following Carrie all around the temple as she was snapping shots and we all wondered if we were getting frost bite. Such great memories over the past 7 years. You’re an amazing photographer and I love bragging to people about what you do. Love you!

  3. stacey on February 18th, 2010 @ 11:39 am

    awww! so cute. i thought it was going to be our wedding!! i can’t believe that was 7 years ago!! miss ya!

  4. Susanne Pedro on March 3rd, 2010 @ 11:45 pm

    I will say it again— you have MAJOR talent for Wedding photography!!

  5. Amber Packer on March 9th, 2010 @ 12:55 am

    Okay, you officially SUCK! *wink* I can’t believe how talented you were from the beginning!!!

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