My name is Richard Israel and I am a photographer who lives in
Charlotte, NC with my beautiful wife Beth and our three amazing
daughters, Ferris twelve, Sophia nine and Priscilla five.
I love life, I love
photography.
A few months ago I was asked by Professional Photographer Magazine to test Kodak Ektar 120 film. It’s got super fine grain, unbelievable tonal range, vivid color, and scans beautifully. Of course I chose one of my three most favorite models for the shoot!
a closer look
first off I just want to say a big “Thank you” for all the wonderful comments on Grace and Aaron’s wedding post, my gosh!!!
I awoke this morning to find two weddings featured on two different and equally wonderful wedding blogs ruffled blog and Charleston’s very own the wedding row thank you Amanda and Della so...
Grace and Aaron’s mountain wedding was simply the sweetest and lovliest I’ve been involved in. I’ve been trying so hard to describe it so I’ll just let Grace do it for me.
” Antique, country mixed with some great depression, old time and folk. Everything was pretty much homemade and SUPER low budget. The people kinda...
I’ve been photographing beautiful Olga since she was fifteen when she sang in a band, her wedding and now her maternity pictures. One of the perks of my job, being part of peoples lives.
Eva Catherine, congratulations to the Parsons family.
Testing the Olympus OM1 is over, this camera/lens blows me away, we are now inseparable buddies. I love this camera for it’s size, it’s tiny, when photographing kid’s it’s amazing how much better interaction you get when not using an intimidating camera and huge lens,
It’s totally low tech, fully mechanical, manual everything and lens quality...
Ok, I’m definitely not a chef nor claim to be one, however our family love food and I love cooking, so I thought I’d share this dish I cooked last night. which seemed to be a big hit, I also need you tell you that I’m in love with Grits and only stone ground grits...
I simply had to dig out the very first camera I ever owned, the venerable Olympus OM1 + 50mm, 1.4 lens after seeing UK photographer Jocelyn Bain Hogg’s amazing reportage photography, he uses Olympus SLR’S for their tiny size and legendary optic’s.
I completely forgot how wonderful this camera system was and that lens……wow!!!
I shot a...
Wishing my old friend Elizabeth Webb and my new friend Sara Hall of Hall and Webb Event Design all the very best in their new adventure
tech note: Mamiya 634 afd. 80.mm, Fuji 400h
A beautiful and truly classic Charlotte wedding.
ceremony: Myers Park Methodist Church reception: The Morehead Inn
