We’re up to Image No. 8 from my website, and this one is from Aliza and Ben’s wedding in 2011 at Congregation Tifereth Israel and The Westin. I remember when it was mentioned to me that Ben and his groomsmen would be having traditional shaves at the Mug & Brush and would like for me to stop by for pictures. Uh, YEAH! An old-school barber shop, with tattooed hipster barbers wielding straight razors with grace and elan? The answer to that is soooo yes. I always love an opportunity to photograph something out of the ordinary.
This shot made my website not only because of its uniqueness generally, but because of its intensity: the intensity of the groomsman’s stare along with the intensity of his basically having a knife on his face, at the mercy of the barber whose view I’m pretty much blocking with my head and camera. Makes me shudder just thinking about it.
