behind the scenes at Kiera Mickiewicz's and Bradford Anderson's wedding

Kiera Mickiewicz' & Bradford Anderson's wedding

What brought me across the Atlantic from Barcelona to Sacramento this spring was the wedding of Kiera and Bradford.

Kiera, a Sacramento native, met Bradford while studying theater at New York University. They now reside in Los Angeles, where Bradford stars in the daytime television show General Hospital. They chose to marry in Northern California, where Kiera's large Irish and Polish family were represented in full force.

This wedding was filled with lovely and very siginificant details. Kiera's dress had been worn by both her granmother and her mother on their respective wedding days. Her bouquet was adorned with tiny photographs of loved ones who had passed. The arch under which they said their vows was built by a family friend out of hundred-year-old wood.

The chosen location for the festivities was the Old Sugar Mill, a quaint and incredibly photogenic venue in Clarksburg.

Click here for more on Bradford.

Click here for more on The Old Sugar Mill.

tech talk, let's make it short

I am always bored at camera talk. Yup! I have been working with photographic aparatus for twelve years, but cannot bare to talk about it. I would rather be shooting. So, I shall make this short. I just purchased the Canon 7D. These are two images from the first test shoot, a location scouting for Kiera Mickiewicz's and Bradford Anderson's wedding, to take place on April 10th in Clarksburg, California.

My two assistants and I went to The Old Sugar Mill in Clarksburg, California to perform what I call a "terrain recognition mission." I had never shot at that location before, and went to check it out and test my lights before the wedding day.

As for the 7D, what can I say? It's another ultra overpriced, super fragile camera, which will probably only last me two years tops, as all of the others have. My old faithful, on the other hand, my favorite camera, is the Canon AE-1, made in the 70's and in full operating conditions. I have never had one single problem with it... It surely upsets me that camera (and all other electronic equipment) is made to be disposable in our era...

For more information about the location, go here: http://www.oldsugarmill.com/