Katherine and Tom's Elopement and Portrait Session

Every now and then we have the great honor and privilege of being the only people in attendance at a wedding. In the old days these were called elopements, a term which implied a sense of escape, adventure and perhaps breaking the rules.

Nowadays there are many other reasons for two people in love to tie the knot in a very private and personal way. Whatever their reasons, these couples provide us, as photographers, with a delightful prospect: unfettered access and total freedom to make images that we can compose and refine with almost no time constraints.

Katherine and Tom were married in a "Country Wedding" at the Green Mountain Inn today by Mitzi Spears, one of our favorite Stowe Justices of the Peace. We had time both before and after the brief ceremony to play photographically with our subjects and we are delighted with the results. A special bonus was that the bride loves black and white photography, and so below you will find 20 of our favorites in classic B&W.

Because we shoot digitally, the original image is captured in RGB color, and we can convert it to B&W in an infinite variety of blends, perhaps emphasizing the yellows and downplaying the reds, and this in turn can lift the shadows, suppress the highlights, make the background go away, it's truly magical in the digital darkroom!