Day 17: A day in the life of a photographer

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Well Um... I kind of lost a few more days! But I am thinking that may happen to a lot of people who come to New Orleans. Ha! Actually it has really been fun but we have been busy every minute of the day. We have seen some amazing photographers from all over the world. Most of my favorite photographers seem to all come from Australia. However, they do photography very differently there. They literally spend all day doing photography. They are dressed early in the morning and run all over the city taking pictures with the whole bridal party up until the ceremony. Of course that makes for some amazing pictures.
Although that is not practical in the US I have been doing a little of the same thing with my Mr. & Mrs. sessions the day after the wedding. Since the groom still has his tux we go out the next day in the late afternoon and run all over the city and take amazing pictures that you just don't have time for on the big day. Something to think about my brides! And I LOVE LOVE LOVE doing them. You can substitute them for any of the portraits in my packages such as engagements or bridals or just add it on to a package.
But back to New Orleans! All I can say is WOW. I had been here MANY times for New Years and even the Sugar Bowl twice in college but let's just say I only saw the dark side of New Orleans. Yesterday and today after we finished the trade shows, (I will show more on that later) we ran all over town taking pictures. So it wasn't a lot of bridal photography but it was SO much fun. I have about 85 favorites that obviously I can post all but I will TRY to narrow it down for you. ha ha! Oh and I started out with 516 images, then I got it down to 443 I would keep then down to 85 for the blog so it is killing me to only post these few. And I have MORE in my camera that I shot today that I haven't even processed! I think my favorite part of all shooting here is all the amazing color. If you want your bridal or engagement session down here I am ALL about coming back so bring it on!
Oh and as far as I can say about some of these... Well photographers get a little nutty when we get together. We will pretty much shoot anything and act out whatever for effect.
Laissez le bon rouleau des temps! Diane

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