I always have a second photographer with me at weddings. The overwhelming majority of the time it is photojournalism superstar Gary Cosby Jr. We work hard to capture all the emotion and character that presents itself during a typical ceremony. Sometimes we feel like we are doing the job of 3 photographers and sometimes we actually are!
These are some photos from a wedding that Cosby and I shot a couple of years ago in Athens, Alabama. We knew that there would be a great vantage point from the upstairs balcony of the house at Madelyn’s in the Grove. We also knew that we would be hard pressed to actually get up there and shoot during the ceremony. So we put on our newspaper photographer hat (which if you are Cosby looks like this) and decided to utilize a remotely triggered camera.
This isn’t something we do at every wedding because truthfully it’s not always necessary…but at times it can really make a difference!
If I would have been running up and down stairs at this particular venue I would have risked missing the moment below.
by David Higginbotham
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