New York City Hall may be swarmed with tourists and couples in love on any given day, but it’s still a favorite spot for Katherine Marchand of Wilde Scout Photo Co, who estimates that she winds up photographing clients there at least a couple times a month. “I absolutely love it,” she says. “Not only does it have the best people-watching in New York City, but I love weddings stripped down to their simplest form and the people who choose to celebrate this way.”

With her familiarity with the building, she knows of a little nook right by an exit that opens out onto busy New York City. “That beam of light comes from a small overhead fluorescent,” she says. “I love stopping here before couples head out of the building into the craziness of New York.” Rather than take in big landscape-like frames of City Hall, Marchand prefers to focus on small spaces like this one. “It gives them time alone together, away from their families and friends,” she notes. For Lauren and Danny, Marchand positioned them there and told them to simply enjoy each other’s presence as a newly married couple. “They just snuggled together and began whispering to one another, and let me shoot away.”

(Shot on a Fujifilm GFX with a 63mm lens at f/2.8, 1/250 of a sec and ISO 2500.)

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