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By the way, I HAVE to discuss pictures with you, Mack. I will email today. I keep forgetting.
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There was This Flower all over Washington D.C. when I was there this past weekend. What is it? I'm not familiar with it.
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Azaleas are very common in Virginia - you should see the drive into the Norfolk airport when the azaleas are blooming (goes right through the Botanical Gardens).
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Yup, a calla lily from Bob n Dana's wedding. The IR negatives and contact sheet FINALLY arrive today. It took them forever to process them and I'm not sure why.
They turned out really cool, but STILL. A ridiculous wait. They did send it next day air once they were done, their dollar. Posts: 14745 | Registered: Dec 1999
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I had calla lillies on my place settings at my wedding, but I don't have any cool pictures like that.
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It reminds me of a Mapplethorpe, really Mack. I thought that's where you were going with this.
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You know, Tom and I were at a wedding this past weekend and the photographers were obnoxious. That got us talking about how great a wedding photographer we thought you were. You were in all the right places at the right times, but didn't command presence or focus the wedding as a picture-taking event. And the pictures you took are phenomenal. (Including that lily one) You really are a great photographer, Mack! Makes me half tempted to do it all over again just so we could hire you as a photographer. Posts: 1777 | Registered: Jan 2003
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Christy, I also went to a friend's wedding where the photographer was obnoxious. It seemed that he had to be nearly important as the bridge and groom. VERY obtrusive, especially during the ceremony itself. Using flash, jumping all over the place, it took away from the ceremony. That's when I knew that a photographer is there to document the event in the best way possible, but isn't supposed to exactly be a PART of the event. The attention should be on the bride and groom and the party, and not the photographer.
There are SOME times when you have to make yourself known. During the portrait shoot. Or in the reception when I was trying to get the dancing shots and people kept walking in front of me.
Memories of the event shouldn't be of the photographer, they should be of that day, and the photographers pictures should bring up memories of that DAY, of the celebration of a couple, with friends and family.
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