What a gorgeous day it was! The sun was shinning, I could hear the birds singing and life was just a buzzing in full summer.  What a beautiful day it was for a wedding!

Here is a sneak peak of a fabulous couple! More wedding photos to come soon!

Charming, Delightful, Heartfelt and Dear are all words I would use to describe this couple!  On the back roads found on a lovely French Getaway, I found myself stepping into a magical, beautiful french country wedding.  I have never seen such celebration among the family, as they acted as if these were their dear beloved treasures! Such Celebration! Such Merriment! And such true love!

“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.”  ~Ansel Adams

Yes! I shot film once upon a time!

I still love the sharpness + grain that you get when working with film, but I don’t miss how soaking wet my hands were after using the chemicals and since I traveled so much I didn’t always carry with mee an entire dark room, so finding a printer that I loved was pretty hard.  I get asked all the time if I miss film and yes part of mee does, but for mee using film was very expensive!  I would go through probably 6 rolls a day without any projects.  If I was hired on for a wedding or a stock shoot, then I would go through 6-36 rolls easy. Depending on if I had enough chemicals on hand or if I could find a printer, I would pay anything from $4.99-24.99 per roll (!!) depending on where and what I got.  My husband felt at that point that even though I was getting paid for my work here and there, that all in all it was a very expensive hobby, so that is when we sucked up and bought a Digital Camera.

Biggest thing I miss in film/dark room?:  Multiple Exposures, overlaying them and making them look however you want                                                                                                                                     AND: Having something I just created, immediately in my hands, to look at and gush over

I have never looked back since! I know the local high school/college has a darkroom and I have thought about stopping in to see how they are doing, but either than that my iMac and I are doing just fine!

These images are the very last wedding I took with film.  I had a digital camera for years playing with it, but these were the last wedding images I had to scan.  (I don’t miss scanning either, saves mee steps! lol) I didn’t re-touch either, that is the beauty with film sometimes! Color/B&W Film for certain occasions were perfect!

-Melissa E Earle