Mrs. and Mr. Goodnickels are us. We're wife-and-husband photographers with the privilege of documenting some profoundly awesome moments for some profoundly awesome people. This is what we've been up to lately!


09-05-2008

Okay, for a while we've been wanting to post some of our favorite photos that aren't from the wedding, engagement, family, and baby stuff that we shoot. More than that, we have some pretty dark humor and off-beat taste. Our favorite images can be a little nuts, frankly.

Well, we decided to give those images a forum, and what better day than Friday? So we give you the first installment of TGIF: our probably-not-quite-weekly-to-be-perfectly-honest post to share images that tickle a funny spot in our shared brain. We also have a growing number of photographer friends frequenting the blog, so it's possible that we'll use these posts to geek-out a bit on camera stuff :)

With that, I give you our good friend Chris:

Remember Kristen and Andrew's wedding? Well, when we heard the reception was going to be a pool party, the first thing that I thought of was bridesmaids' dresses underwater. No way we'd missing out on that!

After looking into our options for underwater camera rigs, the Mrs. and I decided to kill a number of birds with one stone, and we picked up a Canon G9. It's the first point-and-shoot we've purchased since starting the business, and we love it!

The SLRs we lug around have gotten bigger, heavier, and more accessory-laden. As a result, we've found ourselves taking far fewer photos at social events, and we've been a bit bummed about it, frankly! I looked around for a portable option, and the G9 just kept popping up. To make things even better, Canon makes a pretty neat water housing for it!

In addition to its duties in party photography, the poor G9 has taken on the role as a seriously over-engineered light meter for our toy and medium format film cameras.

So... back to the photo.

The camera and housing arrived a few days before the wedding. Whenever we do something new, we like to shoot some tests. You just can't imagine the things you haven't thought of, right? So our good friends Chris and Lila let us come over and take a dip in their pool. Good thing they did, too. Within about thirty seconds of getting in the water, I discovered the first thing that we'd overlooked.

Goggles.

Haha. Right? No goggles = no seeing underwater. Great catch, Mr.

We shot a bunch of images, but this one is a particular favorite. There's something really peaceful & haunting about it.

File under: Family , TGIF