White on white,
and then a wall
of flowers
Fillmore Chapel by Wedgewood Weddings · Fillmore, California
A white chapel at Fillmore, an hour north of Los Angeles, on the first Tuesday of January: a white suit, a white ball gown, and an afternoon that stayed in that register until the doors opened on a reception built around a wall of pink flowers. The portraits were made on the lawn in the last half hour of sun.
A chapel that
gives you
one colour
Southern California
One colour,
and what
to do with it
Photographing white on white on white is a problem before it is a pleasure: there is nothing for the eye to hold on to and no contrast to shape a face. The answer is not more light. It is standing where the wall gives you a shadow.
So most of these frames are made against the chapel’s own architecture — the arch, the dark green door, the recessed entrance — and the colour arrives later, all at once, in a room where the whole back wall is flowers.
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like this?