Feb 9, 2012

Leesa's wedding and flash bulbs

My photographing weddings began when I was 18 years old. Leesa and Tim were married in June of 1972 just prior to my going on my mission to Texas. (Stan and Nadine were married in July of that same year and Lynn and Julie in November after I was in Texas of that same year. It was a big year for mom and dad.)

Anyway I was asked to take some pictures for Leesa at her reception. I had my old Konica camera, which at the time really wasn’t old because I had only had it for a year. I had a flash unit for it that was one that used flash bulbs. They could be used once and then had to be discarded. I only had a certain number of them so I didn’t take very many pictures. I always was disappointed that only a couple of them turned out from what I could remember, it must have been a bad experience because I forgot a lot about that night. Anyway Leesa tells me now that there were a lot of them that were good. I don’t remember if I took any at the temple that day but I must have in order for her to say that since I only remember two of them that turned out OK from the reception. I really didn’t have the lighting equipment that was needed for that kind of a job.