Trip to Atlanta
I recently took at trip to Atlanta, GA for my soon-to-be step-sister’s wedding. I had a bad feeling going to the airport and sure enough, my flight was delayed 3.5 hours due to the airplane missing three screws from an access panel. I’ll spare you the story, but the delay made me miss the last flight out of Denver to Atlanta. Frontier was able to put me on an AirTran flight to Atlanta at 7am the next day.
Here is Atlanta from the hotel room:
My brother, Dave, in the hotel room:
The wedding was an Orthodox Jewish wedding, filled with ritual and tradition. Before the ceremony, the groom and all the men go into a room and drink, dance, and say a few prayers. There were three photographers that were hired to shoot the wedding. I wanted to shoot, but didn’t want to carry a bunch of gear around, so I shot the whole thing with a 50mm 1.8 on my D300.
Then the wedding ceremony, filled with more tradition, but not so much drinking.
After the wedding was the reception, with more drinking and a ton of crazy dancing. We danced for almost an hour before people calmed down for dinner.
Alex played a song for his sister and his new brother-in-law.
The flight home was uneventful. I wanted to take some shots of airplanes taking off and landing before I took off. I saw a great spot at the end of the MARTA station at the airport. I had my 80-200 2.8 out and got nine shots off before a police officer with a dog stopped me. I know I wasn’t doing anything illegal, but I didn’t want any trouble and didn’t want to miss another flight. Here’s one of the nine frames I shot:
