Mary Sledd’s Blog | Austin Wedding Photography and Stuff

I must preface this post by saying this was an AMAZING wedding and Paul and Gloria are so clearly in love in make my heart sing. The photos are wonderful and only the assistants and I knew things were falling apart.

Things started going wrong before the wedding. My 50mm 1.2 would not auto focus. I shrug my shoulders and go on. Then I wanted to use my Quantum power pack with my 580EX flash and this weird thing happened where the flash had a big burst of light and then died. I thought it was a flash problem so I hooked the other flash to the same Quantum and the same thing happened!!! Yikes. Now two flashes down I had to use my last remaining flash with just battery power. My off camera flash trigger also stopped working tonight. Thank goodness for having triple redundancy on my gear and two assistant kits.

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Last night was a very special treat! As part of the Alamo Drafthouse’s Fantastic Fest Uncles Paradise was screened in Tim’s front yard. The movie was projected onto a mini version of the Rolling Roadshow screen. The food was amazing and featured seared Ahi tuna and an assortment of other TASTY treats. The champagne bottles were opened with a saber! And my old friend Mike Curtis was in attendance! I didn’t even know he is currently residing in the USA.

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Yesterday I photographed the ad for Sago a contemporary Mexican food place that will be opening in early 2008 in Triangle Park.

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Floor installation was scheduled to start today. As you can see that isn’t going to happen. The good news is most of the walls are in they just need to be taped, floated and painted. The window and door have been installed. The plumbing is almost finished. The floors should be installed next week. That means I might be able to move in on Oct 8 if everything goes according t plan. BTW - That space at the top of the wall is a long window to let nice light in.

Sledd Photo and Do512 are having a HUGE studio opening party Oct 26. RSVP info is coming soon. There will be lots of Titos, Sweatleaf, Redbull and Fattire. The talent is TBA, but with Do512 doing the booking it is guaranteed to be good! Party starts at 9pm. Wear a costume. The photos are from last years Do512 Halloween launch party.