AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS AND FAVORITE OUTTAKES

so, my baby sister got married last month. after christmas my parents threw her an open house / second reception here in oregon, for all the family and friends who weren't able to travel to utah. now, my mother is a wedding planner, this is her thiiiiiing. she rented a venue and hired a caterer and booked a photographer and a classical guitarist (she always does the flowers herself, she happens to be a pretty spectacular florist on the side), and then as luck would have it, our photographer had a family emergency. so us kids sort of looked at each other and blinked a bit, then pooled our collective stash of DSLRs and memory cards together and decided we'd just do our best. 

we were able to make pretty decent work of things, actually. somehow between the four of us we got enough of the classic shots a wedding album needs to be respectable. i offered to do the editing and put it all together into a book for the bride and groom, but the very most fun of course was looking through all of the ridiculous outtakes. a lot of them made it in. a lot of them..... did not. but those are the ones that tell the story of our family so, so well. they made me so happy, i decided to share some. here are just a few of my favorites.

(tough lighting in this place, also we are amateurs.) 

(we'd been watching the godfather that week, which (sort of?) explains this first one.)

△ brandon was behind the camera for this one. whatever it was, no doubt he deserved it ;). 

△ huck had a real healthy dose of satan in him that night.

△ my very, very favorite

△ twinner unattractive closed mouth smiles! we've been married too long and we're starting to morph into each other. pass the pearl jam!

and now i present, our intrepid photography team for the night:

kit lenses ahoy!

the end.

oh but p.s. i made these floral centerpieces myself and hell yes i am pretty proud of it.

now it's the end.