Several months ago friend and fellow photographer Alison Conklin contacted me about being a shooter for an unusual upcoming wedding with her.  The wedding was to take place prior to the start of a home game for the minor league baseball team, Iron Pigs, and Alison wanted me to take some unique shots.

Alison is known for her unique, cutting edge, playful and masterfully shot weddings. Shooting with her means that my A-game wouldn’t be enough, it would have to be better than that.  After some discussions with her, her plans for what she wanted from me, I agreed.  What I agreed to involved me getting on the roof of the stadium and shoot aerial photographay.  Let me clarify, this doesn’t mean I would be on the top deck in a plush box seat, this means I would actual roof of the stadium, about twenty feet above the viewing deck below me.

The wedding day was this past Friday, August 8, 2008.  A beautiful morning lead to some quick thunderstorms early in the afternoon and quickly followed with what couldn’t have been a more perfect day.  Bright blue sky, white puffy clouds and virtually no humidity, very unusual for an August evening here in Pennsylvania.

I arrived at the stadium a bit early to ensure I could meet up with the staff that were to get me access to the roof and scope out some shooting angles.  Being in a brand new stadium while it is empty is a unique feeling.  While waiting for one of the staff to get back to me with what time we would actually get onto the roof (as the ceremony kept getting pushed back), I captured this still in the empty stadium seats.

Shortly after that I headed up to the roof, seriously an amazing view from up there.  The wedding started right on time and happened much faster than I thought.  During the ceremony I switched between three lenses, one of which was new to me, an uber wide-angle lens that Alison was really excited about.

As a point of reference, center field is exactly 400 feet from home plate.  Huge stadium to be captured all in one shot.

For the first wedding shot in the Coca-Cola Iron Pigs stadium and to mark the start of their new life together, Scott threw the first pitch of the game.

A special, warm hearted thanks to Alison for asking me to be apart of this experience.  Wedding photography is not my strongest of skills, but I had a blast and will always remember it, as I hope Tiff & Scott do as well.  Below is one of Alison’s images showing the happy new couple.

View more photos and the slideshow from this wedding here on Alison’s blog.