Happy Monday.  Blink you eyes and the weekend is over far too soon.  I wrote Saturday morning that I got to go to a wedding Saturday evening.  I did not have to go,  I didn’t get to go to the wedding but was lucky enough to go to the reception. 🙂

It was warm with all those people.  I don’t do warm very well.  Around 500 people were at the reception and I know about 10 of them.  Fortunately I had the D3S with me so all was not lost.  The wine glass was what fist caught my eye on this image.  The way it looked sitting there isolated and forgotten about while the couple converse.  I like this image a lot.

Again outside the reception I noticed this little gull walking up and down the shore line looking for food.  He would stop occasionally and dig at the water.  I really had to bump the ISO up to capture this image.  It was getting fairly dark when I took it.

I notice this little girl when we first arrived at the reception.  She had a cracker in her hand and was dancing to the music playing.    Although I did a lousy job with the composition of this image I still like it.

Why, you may ask, do I have no pictures of the bride?  That’s a fair question indeed.  The few times I actually caught sight of her she was being posed by the wedding photographers.  Other times there were just too many people to wade through to try to get a shot and finally I didn’t even know her.  If she had been wearing a different dress I wouldn’t have known she was the bride.

I didn’t know the groom either.  The only people in the wedding party I knew were the Groom’s Mom and Dad.  So that’ my wedding shoot.

I did want to share my image of the day (July 22, 2012) in case you haven’t been following my 365 Project.  I shot this using the Nikon D800 with a Nikon 105 mm macro lens.  ISO 100, 1/60 sec @ f2.8.  I used two Nikon SRB200 speed light flashes with a red and blue color gel attached, one on each side of the glass, a Nikon SU800 wireless commander to fire the lights.

I filled the small Coke glass with a (Sprite) bubbly liquid and placed it on a piece of foam-core and a foam-core for the background.  Hope you like it.

That’s it for today.  Enjoy your very warm Monday.  Thanks for stopping by and be careful.