Pebble Beach Wedding, Carmel California!

Photographer; Peer Johnson (contact me here)
Ceremony; Carmel Mission Basilica
Dress; Vera Wang
Reception; Inn at Spanish Bay, Pebble Beach California

This is one of my favorite shots (below) of all time for several reasons. Many, many elements came together; lighting, composition, exposure, mood, environment, perspective, a decade of experience & avidly watching fashion photography. The bride has a slightly masked, hint of a smile; about to smile. The more you look at it the more you notice. It has that type of “What?” about it. Minimal instruction on my part & I firmly believe the less I say the more the Bride says. This hit it out of the park-I was just a spectator. If I could go back & change anything, I wouldn’t. Flawless in my opinion & possibly my favorite wedding shot ever.

Carmel Beach Wedding

Second Frame; the day was nearly over, the fog came in & we decided to do one last quicky shoot on the fairway. We walked out, she dragged her feet around on the ground. I said nothing, as I often do & then she returned to the reception. Perfect, no instruction on my part, simply observation. THAT is what I do.

Carmel Wedding

Earlier in the day we had a chance to sneak off to the beach. The weather was PERFECT! Another perfect day in gorgeous Carmel, California.

Carmel Wedding

“Movement breaks the plane of still photography, the conveyance of movement in a still image has the advantage over motion imagery as video CAN NOT effectively convey the impact of a particular moment, frozen in time. A little deep but entirely true.”
Peer Johnson

Carmel Beach Wedding

Back at the reception at the Inn at Spanish Bay we had the perfect opportunity to do whatever the ladies wanted. The bride & her friends wanted to do some fun shots & we ventured back out onto the fairway. The ladies all joined hands & began running down the fairway. It’s one of those images where they were just purely in the moment. I didn’t ask them to do that, I didn’t ask them to pose, I didn’t suggest where they should go, they just did it.

Beach Wedding Carmel

After a moment we looked up & saw that a group of golfers were waiting to play through. One of the groomsmen was shouting at us to get off the fairway. I turned to the girls & told them to, “tell him that I begged you to do that for the shot”. They all said, “O.K., we’ll all blame YOU!”. Fair enough;)

PJ