The day after the wedding I took Andrea out for a trash-the-dress session by an old dilapidated barn and cabin, along with my second shooter Brandi and Andrea’s friends Michelle and Jennifer. We had a lot of fun, most of all Andrea – she said, “every woman should get to do this!” (Ladies, that’s a HINT!)

To top it all off, Andrea went into the lake – after sunset!

Betsy did get pretty cold after hanging out in the lake for a while with the sun going down lower and lower… but what a trooper she was!
The underwater shots were definitely experimental – I have only used the housing a couple of times and wanted to play with it a lot more, but we were both so cold that we called it a day…

It didn’t take much convincing to get Betsy – my assistant and second shooter – to agree to doing a trash-the-dress session of her in her wedding gown! Not being one to hold on to things for sentimental reasons, she would rather have cool photos of her in the dress than have it sit in a box forever (not that she had gotten it cleaned, anyway…).

Though I have to say I am not so much into actually trashing the dress, as in tearing it and purposely getting it dirty, more into creating unusual, cool, creative, fun images. So here’s the first set, from the Railroad Museum in Carson City: