FATHER OF THE BRIDE, HEARTLAND AND SPENCER TRACY ALL IN ONE BLOG !!!!

For a wedding photographer there are the key moments, the can't miss shots during every wedding day!! The moment when the bridal dress is put on, the first time the groom sees his bride in her dress, the 'KISS', the first dance and the last dance are all examples. For me some of the most fascinating moments involve the father of the bride.The first time he sees her in her dress, their dance and the menu of emotions that is his face that day!!. 


It must be a very complex day for him, a day of mixed feelings. Do  those feelings include happiness, pride and love? No doubt, all those feelings, but a little droplet of sadness is mixed in. His little girl is leaving now, in most cases, geographically, she is not going that far but emotionally she is making a gigantic leap. She now has a new man in her life. Her husband now becomes the most important man in her life. The father knows he still has a spot in her heart but just not the same spot. 


As we photograph the wedding day and later when I am doing post production, I am often moved by what I see. During the day, I see so many emotions coming out of this man, the father of the bride.
One of my favorite movies is  'Guess Whose Coming to Dinner', starring Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn and Sidney Poitier. Watch Tracy's last scene in movies (he would die a few weeks after it was released) and you can feel some of the emotions of a father.






Now enjoy some of our images of the wedding day reflected in the father's face.

          Yes those are bubbles !!

In this next image you may be wondering, where the dad is, well the dad is the minister. 

BABY YOU CAN LEAVE YOUR HAT ON !!!

Recently we were in Key West and as I was walking around I noticed that lots of people were wearing hats. All styles of hats, men, women and children all shielding their heads from the Florida sun. Now obviously I have seen people wearing hats before, so why did I take notice and start photographing them??? Maybe because I seldom wear hats, one reason being that I take a size 7 3/4 to an 8 hat! So when I say I have a big head, I mean literally not figuratively. Although some would say of me literally and    figuratively, but I digress !!!
One of the first pictures of a hat appears in a Thebes tomb painting which shows a man wearing a coolie-style straw hat!! I did not see any coolie hats that day but I did see many other styles and naturally I started photographing them! 
So listen to Tom Jones sing a song about a hat and make it sexy and look at some of the hats I saw that day !!


 This first one might have been my favorite !!

 This gentleman was walking with a women I took to be his wife.  He was wearing "her" hat at least I think it was hers. No, I didn't ask!!

This gentleman was weaving these hats and selling them on the sidewalk !!

  I agree the hat is not what is really interesting about this women but she is wearing one. She was sitting in a bar at noon wearing the hat and those glasses maybe it was her birthday !! This scene was a little surreal, off to her left was an Elvis impersonator!!  Just so you all know I took this from outside looking in !!!

Then there are those that might want to think about wearing a hat !!

A MOMENT OF ZEN LEAFS FLOATING IN SPACE

" LEAFS FLOATING IN SPACE"

What better day for a moment of Zen, a Sunday a day of rest for many !!