This image is special to me. It represents my entrance into photography taken with my first 35mm film canon camera almost 12 years ago. It was one of my first weddings and to this day remains, I feel, one of my strongest images. When all factors of light, element, chemistry and balance align themselves and you happen to be the one with the camera who is given the wonderful privledge to create…this to me begins the process of image alchemy. Of course 12 years ago photoshop did not exist (neither did digital) and so with the evolution of photography I have taken film, turned digital and with a little photoshop, turned masterpiece.