Family pride

[tahnan]

I don't know if I've mentioned recently (or, perhaps, ever), but I think my sister-in-law does really terrific photography.

Comments

[q-pheevr.livejournal.com]

I concur.

[(Anonymous)]

oh those are ridiculously nice. The ring on the leaf is stunning. (ZB)

[mizkit]

She is, in fact, a really good photographer, and I say that as someone who's a decent photographer myself and perhaps more important, currently bitter over the prices pros charge. But I wouldn't mind her doing my family photos.

What's with the raised chairs and the length of cloth held between the bride and groom in the wedding photos?

[tahnan]

It's a Jewish thing. :-) Bearing in mind that in very traditional Jewish culture (i.e., before less observant traditions began to split off), men and women were kept separate and couldn't dance together or, in most cases, touch one another, one of the wedding traditions is for the bride and groom to dance "together" by holding opposite ends of a handkerchief. Lifting people on chairs is...that one, I don't know why, but it's also a tradition.

[cnoocy]

I think it might be related to wedding dances being divided by some barrier (like a big curtain) so that the newlyweds had to be lifted on chairs above the barrier for the handkerchief to connect them.

[42itous]

Oh my, yes. She does amazing things with light. And she obviously has a knack for making children feel at ease.