A gap in the market

A funeral photographer

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11678482

A bit strange but when you think about it why not?

I was asked to do it once years ago for a family, many of whose members were scattered around the globe and couldn't attend. I must say I felt a bit awkward and sort of kept back a bit.

When in the video business we were asked to a divorce party and a birth, so not as unusual as you might think!

It certainly makes a change from weddings anyway.
Maybe some of you wedding photographers and soon to be wedding photographers could offer it as an option too? A little discretion at the start of proceedings and more active as the wake progresses.

I took a couple of photos at my mother's funeral. Sounds a bit weird, but I'm glad I did it. Mostly of the flowers it's true.

I wish I had taken some at my father's too - so many of those who went to his wake are no longer with us. It was a good wake too - we all sang happy birthday to him, as it would have been his 81st birthday.

I've often thought that there was an idea here and that some people would like a record, especially as it pulls together rarely seen family members from all over the globe.

However, there are emotional difficulties with it for all concerned, and not everyone at a funeral might be happy to have a photographer floating about.

Sounds like a good idea if people want that sort of thing photographed, Just don't take your brightly coloured KX or KR, it may look a little out of place.

That depends. A friend of mine wore a bright pink dress at her grandmother's funeral. It was one of the grandmother's last requests that every one should where something bright, especially Sarah who normally only wears black.

Mrs Ted had a friend form Hungary who said it is regular practice to take snapshots at funerals.

Many people have photographers for the funeral and to take open-casket pictures of their dead relatives in the coffin.

Dif'rent strokes, I guess

The only person wearing black at my husband's funeral was a young RC Priest friend who apologised to me as he had come straight from a funeral for one of his own Parish , everyone else satisfied Raymond's express wish and wore brightly coloured clothes - even me .

The undertakers men did look rather out of place in the sea of bright colours

I wouldn't have minded a few photos , but I didn't want a lot and I've no idea if any were taken .