Chicago @ Night (Chicago, IL; 06/2010)

Fun with light from the Adler Planetarium:

Meg's Wedding - Before (The Poconos, PA; 06/2010)

I'm having some trouble pulling together all the wedding pictures into an engaging visual narrative.

It's difficult because I realize that, more often than not, I don't treat picture-taking as a journalistic endeavor. Usually, something just catches my attention and I'm soon fixated and snapping away in an attempt to capture it. This produces a lot of random images of many random things that don't always tell a story. The lighting in each photo is different, as are the composition and the subjects. All that said, it's been taking a little extra long time tweaking with Gimp (long live open source!) to pull together a visually cohesive story with what I got over the weekend.

I like to blame this a few things:

1) the aforementioned obsession with taking lots and lots pictures of many random things
2) technical shortcomings, like my non-SLR lens that isn't always able to capture moments fast enough, depending on the lighting (a poor excuse that's quite possibly an attempt at justifying the purchase of a new camera)
3) my actual participation IN the wedding, which kept me from really taking on the role of a good historian
In any case, it was a beautiful wedding with beautiful people nestled in the beautiful Poconos mountains.