Laura and Matt – St. Peters / Marriott, Canton Ohio

Saturday, January 21, 2012 Posted in Columbus Ohio Photographer,Families,PORTRAITS,Weddings

The difference:  Florida in May and Ohio in January.  The similarities:  sisters and weddings and great families and a lot of fun and on and on.

The lovely Amy Carruthers and I headed north on a Friday for Saturday’s wedding and spent a side-splitting evening with Amy’s parents, noshing and trading movie quotes and loving on Amy’s dog who reminds me exactly of the Thurber dog.

On Saturday morning, we were greeted at Laura’s Canton Marriott hotel room by Sara, Laura’s sister whose wedding I photographed on Pompano Beach three years ago now.  Let me stop right here and say I love this family!  Each and every one of them is so warm and friendly and I’m so honored to have been invited to photograph two of the three daughters’ weddings (and hope to shoot sister Amy’s too when the time comes!).

So, the family all share those wonderful similarities, but the weddings themselves couldn’t be more different:  35 people on the beach for Sara and 200-some in a cathedral for Laura.  The cathedral was beautiful, with gorgeous natural light, ornate architecture and decorations from Christmas.

After the ceremony, we headed to Glamorgan Castle in Alliance for portraits, then it was back to the Marriott for the party.

Have a look.

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Kelly Rashka - January 21, 2012 - 2:15 pm

Brilliant coverage, Karen!!! I love what you see soul-sister!!

Fernando Colaço - January 26, 2012 - 6:02 am

As a black and white fanatic I would say your´s are awesome. Very strong contrast but at the right point, great compositions and eye for the right moment. Great. Congrats.

Weaving – Day 3 Columbus Cultural Arts Center

Thursday, January 19, 2012 Posted in Columbus Ohio Photographer,Personal

I’m assuming it was snow that kept the teacher away today, but luckily we had the teacher’s regular helper and quite a few other students with experience to keep us newbies moving along.  In fact, I feel like I accomplished more today than on previous days since it was pretty much nose-to-the-grindstone and very little chatting. Which is fine with me – for an endeavor with so many details to learn, it’s good to spend some time really honing in on the nuts and bolts.

But anyway, my warp is now on the loom and wound nice and tight.  It was demonstrated last week as a two-person job, but I was actually able to do it myself with some guidance (which made things go much faster, not having to rely on someone else).

After winding the warp, it’s time to thread the heddles.  (I know, right?!  This language just gets funnier all the time.)  The heddles are long metal sticks with a center hole and are held on each harness.  The harnesses are operated by the foot pedals, up and down, and control the space where that little slidey thing shoots through.  (We haven’t covered that part yet, but I’m certain the technical name is not “slidey thing”.)

The heddles are threaded using the pattern which will form the design in my scarf, i.e., heddle 1, 2, 3, 4; 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4; etc., until each thread is through its own little heddle hole.  Believe it or not, this is back-breaking work.  Sitting on a high bench, you’re bent over at the waist, arms outstretched, grasping just the right thread, feeding it through the heddle hole, over and over, for hundreds of threads.  So, in addition to riding my exercise bike I’m going to have to do some lat pulls to toughen up those back muscles!!

Next week, I will thread the left-side heddles and then it will be time to start weaving for real!

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Why I like this picture – Columbus Ohio wedding photographer

Sunday, January 15, 2012 Posted in Columbus Ohio Photographer,Jewish wedding,Weddings,Why I Like This Picture

Time for another installment of “why I like this picture”, or “it’s winter, let’s blog”.

This time, the image comes from Megan and Kevin‘s wedding reception at the New Albany Links Country Club.  This was during cocktail hour; guests were arriving and greeting one another and gearing up for a fun evening.

Sometimes I like to just stand back and watch what happens – through my camera, of course.  It’s interesting to me to watch people interact, to try to see patterns and shapes and compositions.

I like this particular image because it has all those things.  I like the undulating quality of the heads spread across the width of the photo and how if you move your eyeballs from left to right it’s like a rollercoaster. I like that everyone is occupied because it makes me wonder what they’re thinking about or talking about. I like that I am standing there with my camera aimed in the direction of all those people and they’re all completely ignoring me. That’s the way I like it – it makes for the most interesting and intriguing photos.

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