Sometimes this job takes you to places you’ve never been. Sometimes you see things you’ve never seen. Sometimes you find yourself in situations you never expected to be in. Last Sunday I found all three. Walking through Spitalfields market on a Sunday at 5 trying desperately to find a toilet…luckily this wouldn’t be the only place I hadn’t been (or perhaps had been…if you see what I mean). Of course the real place I hadn’t been that deserves the kudos is the Sandy’s Row Synagogue.  From the outside an unassuming and quite frankly almost miss-able location.  Once inside that all changes.  Add this to a midnight amble through Petticoat Lane and you’ve covered the places I’d never been.  Now to seeing things I’ve never seen.  Top of the list would be an entire wedding party, some carrying candle lanterns walking en mass through the streets of E1 from the Synagogue to the restaurant.  Being a Jewish wedding you have to add in the clarinetist who ‘serenaded’ us all on our journey.  Its days like this you learn to travel light.  Finally, being in the situation you never really expected to be in.  I suppose the fact that Gill is Claire’s mum would top that list.  I photographed Claire and Richard’s wedding a number of years back and now I was back to photograph mum’s wedding.  The Circle of Life?  Maybe more a trapezoid.  Either way I was flattered and grateful to be back amongst familiar faces and even some new ones…thinking specifically of Claire and Richard’s Benji.

With a 6:30 ceremony (yes…that’s PM) and a Sunday night finish I will say that the blog will be a shorter.  How could it not?  But I think what you find is still a lovely memory of a special evening.

a game I like to call…Where’s the Synagogue?

A tish…apparently

The Three Basses

London baby

The World Record Conga Line attempt fell slightly short

indeed…

Crazy dancing in what had to be the smallest space in crazy dancing history

Holly asks me to cover her eyes when the bad lady comes on the screen in Tangled…that is all

Showstopper