Wedding Albums

So the big day has come and gone, months of preparation and your special day went off without a hitch.  Everyone will talk about your wedding for weeks and maybe months to come, and the memories of the wonderful event will slowly fade away.  I'm sorry to burst your bubble but it is the truth.  So how can you hang on to the memories for a lifetime?  Photographs, and what fine way to display those photographs but in a professionally designed album.

Today I want to share with you some of my favorite wedding album pages I have created.  Now, due to space I am only going to post a few pages here, be sure to head on over to my website to see even more.  And by the way, who says albums have to be just for weddings anyway?  Ever consider an album of a first birthday party, or fiftieth? An engagement party? A Quinceañera? Albums are not just for weddings!

Well, enjoy the photographs and be sure to take a look at the rest of the Wedding Album pages over at http://www.hackworthphotography.com/galleries/wedding-albums/

LA County Fair 2010

The LA County Fair, and probably any county fair, is just an endless gold mine of photo opportunities. So, with my camera bag strategically packed and my very pregnant wife in tow, we set out on our yearly pilgrimage to the LA County Fair.

So what should I shoot? What would you shoot? I actually went in without a plan, though I did recall watching the wood workers last year carve their miniature sculptures and thought that maybe a cool photo op, or maybe the model train sets, who knows.

So as we exited one of the exhibit halls we ran in to the carousel, spinning seemingly nonstop at a nauseating pace, (at least for those of us who suffer from motion sickness). This could be the pic I was looking for, but how do I make it different from every other photo of the carousel every other patron has taken? Maybe with a long shutter speed I can show the motion of the fair's most traditional ride.

So I took my camera, set it on the ground, propped up by my wallet, set the camera on Shutter priority (to control the amount of time the shutter is open, a full second in this case) and snapped this shot;

And who can resist the deep fried treats at the fair, especially funnel cake! So we sat down to have our dessert and my eye kept scanning the landscape for another shot. This scene of the patrons lined up at the ticket counter  with the rides in the background just reminded me of a traditional scene at a county fair;

Finally, just as we were heading for the front gate to leave for the night I caught a glimpse of this contraption they call a "ride", it rises to the top of the tower and then drops back to earth leaving the rider's stomach hanging somewhere in the stratosphere;

So this was our trip to the LA County Fair and the images I came home with. I hope you enjoyed these images and the stories behind them.  For more of my work be sure to stop by my website and take a look see!


Kevin


www.HackworthPhotography.com