Grain

The Long Way

Category
Weddings
Year
2025
Place
Pemberly Valley, Maine
Frames
06
Shot on
Medium-format 6x7 SLR

Hannah and Joel drove the long way to their ceremony because the valley was full of fog and neither of them wanted to arrive yet. I followed in the second car with a medium-format camera and eleven rolls. This is the part of the day that is usually skipped.

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  1. 01 Pemberly Valley, Maine

    We stopped the cars here. Nobody said anything for four minutes.

    Medium-format 6x7 SLR, 90mm f/3.5, 1/250 s, f/5.6, 160 ISO film

    The valley, 6:40 am

  2. 02 Pemberly Valley, Maine

    After the ceremony the two of them left the guests and walked to the ridge.

    Medium-format 6x7 SLR, 90mm f/3.5, 1/250 s, f/5.6, 160 ISO film

    Walking back

  3. 03 Pemberly Valley, Maine

    Medium format keeps the white of the veil without clipping it. That is the whole reason I carry it.

    Medium-format 6x7 SLR, 90mm f/3.5, 1/250 s, f/5.6, 160 ISO film

    Veil in the wind

  4. 04 Pemberly Valley, Maine

    The road they took to the ceremony.

    Medium-format 6x7 SLR, 90mm f/3.5, 1/250 s, f/5.6, 160 ISO film

    Road

  5. 05 Pemberly Valley, Maine

    A frame from the afternoon walk.

    Medium-format 6x7 SLR, 90mm f/3.5, 1/250 s, f/5.6, 160 ISO film

    Headland

  6. 06 Pemberly Valley, Maine

    Trees as punctuation.

    Medium-format 6x7 SLR, 90mm f/3.5, 1/250 s, f/5.6, 160 ISO film

    Pines

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