Chris Beaumont
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Good evening everyone on FM.
I've seen this kind of story crop up a number of times before and always found it strangely life-affirming the way we get to see and capture not just the beautiful, but also the tragic moments in people's lives doing what we do, so now that it's happened to me I thought I'd share my story.....
I covered a wedding on August 22nd this year and for weeks ahead of the date, during the formal shot planning stage, the bride had mentioned doing all the photos involving her mother first because she wasn't in the best of health, obviously we agreed to this, and on the day both myself and Sue (my 2nd shooter) were saddened to find the lady in question was obviously very ill, confined to a wheelchair, seemingly unable to speak much and not showing a lot of cognition of what was occuring around her.
Jenny(the bride)'s strength through the day was very inspiring, balancing the joy of her wedding day with continuing to worry about, and care for, her ailing mother.
I discovered a couple of hours ago that her mother unfortunately passed away a few days ago, and I was planning to send a letter of condolence to them along with a 10x8 of the photo below, which I hope will help them in some small way to remember her fondly as she was on their happy day - maybe this is slightly self-indulgant, but as those too few photographers from here that I have met will know, my own mother is currently in hospital recovering from a brain haemorrage which occured 2 weeks ago, and I can't help feeling that these 2 events, and the photo shown below have made me appreciate this amazing job that I'm lucky enought to get PAID to do, about how lucky we all are as a community to have a talent allowing us to capture those seemingly fleeting moments that could so easily become incredibly poignant in times to come.
Have a good day everyone,
Chris
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