#HarryGotHar

Ever wanted the world to stop? Not end, but just stop? Like in one of the movies you might be thinking about right now? Everything right at its place. Nothing moving, just you and the earth aging.

Meet Harshali & Harmesh!

As a photographer, I experience many emotions on daily basis, but it rarely happens to me that I stay in the moment/s and not let the camera distract me.

I felt that romantic vibe when I was shooting these two cuties!

I was shooting their wedding functions for 2 days. I couldn’t believe what was happening and the way my heart kept beating.

It took me time to realize that true and eternal love does exist. It all seemed close when I watched the Bollywood movies. Hard to believe it was possible to embrace the same essence in real life.

On a winter morning the coldest of hours, we wish for the sun to rise soon. The sky outside looks overcast, in a matter of time it starts drizzling like these two different seasons contradicting their presence yet belonging to the same old sky, here we are planets of two different universes yet under this quilt we lay side by side.

I am grateful that happy tears swell my eyes. Day by day I am learning more about ‘love’ and the power in this gorgeous word.

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THE MOST WELCOMING WEDDING!

This wedding is the most welcoming wedding I have ever covered, everyone was so friendly and went out their way to make sure we were all having a good time. It certainly wasn’t hard, the whole experience was incredible.

What I noticed from chatting to all the guests (well not all of them, there were a few hundred!), was that everyone was related to the bride and groom, being a photographer, that was the best part for me. From there, the next two days were a blur. The wedding was a two day affair. Boy, when they say people go all out in Indian weddings, they are NOT joking. Over the next two days we would sleep very little, shoot very much, and eat to our heart's content.

So, prepare to be emotionally and physically wiped. Seriously, you’re going to be active for 18 hours a day. And most of what you experience is going to be brand new and wonderful, from the music, to the food, to the conversations.

Standing next to the groom when he first laid eyes on the bride, dancing like a serpent in a beautiful red lehenga for him, made me a believer. His hypnotic gaze and all consuming smile turned my scepticism into pure admiration and awe. I saw the look of love, the look of two souls merging into one, the look of “You’re it. You’re all I want.” 

It was beautiful witnessing the two days wedding affair to understand that it might be possible for two people to spend eternity together without either one of them wanting to jump out of a window. Together, these two were stronger, and neither one of them felt like they were settling, or compromising, or being tied down.

Two days of this beautiful wedding made me understand that the idea that two people were made for each other does exist. Hell, if two people can live through those two days of mad chaos and still want to spend eternity together, that’s testament enough to their compatibility.

Living simply is the key, less is truly more. We define our own happiness. When in doubt, though, start dancing. Take your Hollywood mindset and put it on a plane to Bollywood.  I promise, it will put things into perspective. 

A celebration of love.

A celebration of love, of commitment, of friendship, of family, and of two people who are in it for forever.

Wedding photography is a people profession, and you get to meet some pretty incredible ones. There are, of course, your clients, who often can become more friends than clients (or flients, as I like to call them). Not only do you get to meet them, but you also get time to establish really solid relationships with them, which makes it way more enjoyable to do your job.

And then there are tons more people you’ll get to meet. There’s the bridal party, who you spend a fair amount of time with, and guests at the wedding. They can be an amazing source of support, advice, and friendship.

People spend countless hours preparing and planning for their wedding day, and a lot of that effort goes into ensuring that they will look their absolute most beautiful. That makes it pretty darn fun to photograph them!

ndian weddings tend to have the best parties once the dance floor opens! A mix of old school and new Indian and American music is played. Everyone is on the dance floor breaking it down — including the uncles and aunties! Even if you can’t dance, as long as your hands are in the air, and your hips are swaying back and forth, side to side, it’ll look like you’re having the time of your life. 

They are wearing fantastic outfits, their accessories are carefully chosen, their hair is perfect, and their makeup enhances their features. It’s like they are models for a day, but you still get all the fantastic real emotions. Win-win!

Wedding Photography- I consider it an honor!

A love combination of two compatible beings...

Love is the greatest of all things and deserves to be captured candidly, with honesty and integrity.

You don’t hire a photographer to take pictures of your dress hanging up in a tree, back lit and shot at f/2 on a DSLR. You hire him because you believe in his vision. 

The point remains: if you show what you want to shoot in your portfolio and people hire you based on that, then you don’t need to compromise.

The single most rewarding thing about photographing a wedding is when a client tells you they can relive the day through the images. If my photographs re-enforce what they felt and mirror everything they experienced on the day, then I know I have done my job.

In no other field of photography will you receive such personal feedback. A commercial client will never tell you they shed tears of joy when they watched the slideshow. Weddings offer any photographer the ability to make a tangible connection with other human beings and this is why I don’t want to photograph anything else.

Weddings bring out something in people that you never encounter in everyday life: a level of openness and vulnerability. Our relationships with our partners are kept to ourselves, only on this one day will you declare how you feel publicly. To allow yourself to be vulnerable is one of the bravest things I can imagine. Being so emotionally charged that you can’t help the way you behave and the way you feel.

There is a purity of emotion that is inaccessible at any other point in one’s life. This purity is what I love to capture.

Shooting products and still life will always be overseen by a shoot director. Their job is to maintain brand identity and communicate brand values through imagery. With weddings you’re able to sculpt your own identity and shoot exactly how you believe the day should be captured. Ultimately, you deliver a product to a commercial client. To a wedding client, you deliver so much more.

You make an emotional connection with wedding clients, to the extent where you feel like you’ve known them your whole life.

I’m a big old softy at heart; I find it easy to emotionally invest in other couples when I see the love they have for each other, because I recognize it. The love felt on the day isn’t just between the couple, but family and friends too.

The highest level of trust is placed in a photographer. I approach it is as if someone has entrusted me to capture their memories for them.

For this reason, I consider it an honor.