⤵ Covenant The mirror keeps the maid. The window takes the bride – hers, the frame. Between the two, one step – the longest of her life. The lightest – no contradiction. That step: a covenant declared. A bond – indissoluble. Around the table, in due season, young olive shoots – evening after morning. G-d saw it, that it is good. ⤵ #LakeComoWeddingPhotographer · #ReflectionPhotography · #WeddingStoryteller · #FineArtWeddingPhotography · #BlackAndWhiteWeddingPhotography ⤵ This image of the bride’s preparations, too, is a direct, in-camera capture – no photo-manipulation of any kind. I photographed the scene as it was reflected in the glass of a framed floral print hanging on the wall. A note on the poem: The phrase ‘young olive shoots’ in the poem above is a quotation from Psalm 128:3, where the wife is likened to a fruitful vine and children to olive shoots: ‎אֶשְׁתְּךָ, כְּגֶפֶן פֹּרִיָּה— בְּיַרְכְּתֵי בֵיתֶךָ: בָּנֶיךָ, כִּשְׁתִלֵי זֵיתִים— סָבִיב, לְשֻׁלְחָנֶךָ. ‘Thy wife sha...