#Delta wedding photographer

[eranjayne]

Britt & Miguel | Tsawwassen Wedding Photographer

Set against a backdrop of blue skies and snow-capped mountains, this wedding was a beautiful celebration of love and family!

We’ve come a long way since I FORGOT MY CAMERA at Britt’s family photo session back in 2021 (no joke, I actually got to her session and realized there was NO camera in my camera bag – first and only time that has ever happened #fingerscrossed). Thankfully, Britt, her parents and her brother’s family were so forgiving and kind, and after a speedy trip home to grab that very important, missing…

[queerasfact]

Golden Orchid Societies

Golden Orchid Societies were communities of women in the Pearl River Delta region of southern China who chose not to marry, or not to live with their husbands. Golden Orchid sisters may have been asexual, aromantic, women-loving-women, or had other reasons to avoid traditional marriage.

Golden Orchid Societies generally consisted of small groups of five or so women, who lived together and pooled their financial resources. Instead of marrying a man, some Golden Orchid sisters had a solo wedding, showing their desire to remain independent from a husband. Like other weddings, these weddings were family affairs, with a banquet funded by the woman’s parents.

Many Golden Orchid groups lived together for their whole lives, and saved up to retire as a community.

Learn more

[Image description: Liang Jieyun, 85, and Huang Li-e, 90, two of the last surviving Golden Orchid sisters; they are two elderly Chinese women, facing the camera and photographed close up]

[developphoto]

Eugene Richards: In This Brief Life PhotoBook from DEVELOP Tube on Vimeo.

"In This Brief Life" is a collection of some fifty years of photographs by Eugene Richards, from his earliest pictures made of sharecropper life in the Arkansas Delta throughout his lifetime as a photographer. With your help and support of the Kickstarter campaign, he’ll produce a book that speaks of the wonder and diversity of life, of sorrow and exaltation, of war and peace, of today and yesterday. This project will only be funded if it reaches its goal by Wed, November 30 2022 12:00 AM EST. Learn more about the project, its rewards, and lend support at kickstarter.com/projects/eugenerichards/in-this-brief-life

Eugene Richards is a photographer, writer, and documentary filmmaker who has authored seventeen books, the most recent being "The Run-On of Time" (Nelson-Atkins Museum, 2017), a career retrospective in association with the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the George Eastman museum, and "the day I was born" (Many Voices Press, 2020), the story of six men and women who are living in the memory-laden Mississippi Delta of Arkansas. Among numerous honors, Richards has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Award, and the Robert F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award for coverage of the disadvantaged.

[courseone]

Refined x Tec Petaja - Presets & Profiles Developed in collaboration with acclaimed photographer Tec Petaja, this new line of color and black & white presets are tailored to travel, lifestyle and wedding photography. A dozen variations of Portra-inspired presets elevate edits with distinctive tones, contrast, shadow depth, and grain. B&W edits take on new life with the clean and classic aesthetic of Ilford HP5 400 and Ilford Delta 3200. INCLUDES | Desktop & COLOR Mobile Presets & Profiles Desktop Supported Software: Adobe® Lightroom® 7.5 or later Adobe® Camera Raw 10.5 or later Mobile Supported Software: Adobe® Lightroom® App TEC PETAJA Named as one of the top wedding photographers of 2020 by BRIDES Magazine, Tec Petaja’s ability to capture the authenticity and beauty of his subjects is what makes him one of the most sought-after wedding, lifestyle, and destination photographers in the industry. When he’s not on a plane flying to his next destination, you can find him at home in Nashville, Tennessee where he currently resides with his wife and sweet baby Pax June and Lake Hue. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF6xNvb-Pds&list=TLGG6gIiKEQDt2MxNzA5MjAyMQ[/embed]

[irvinenewshq]

Sensible Pointers: Take this photograph subsequent time you examine a bag

This previous summer season reminded us of the various the reason why checking a bag generally is a battle and why bringing carry-on baggage could also be a greater possibility. However typically, it’s simply not doable to pack mild. Lengthy holidays, journeys to a number of locations with totally different climates, to not point out weddings and related formal occasions could make for overstuffed suitcases. In these circumstances, you’ll usually must examine a bigger bag. Whereas we hope the baggage state of affairs continues to enhance from what we noticed this summer season — significantly with respect to journey abroad — it’s all about doing the whole lot in your energy to make sure your bag arrives with you at your vacation spot. That additionally means persevering with to organize for what you’ll do within the occasion one thing goes flawed. Right here’s one factor you need to at all times do. Tip: Take a photograph of your bag tag Image what occurs if you examine a bag: You present your ID, the workers weighs your bag and, should you don’t have elite standing or baggage advantages by way of a cobranded bank card, you pay the charge. Then, earlier than you get in your means, the agent palms your portion of the bag tag slip. It’s in your reference, and to assist brokers with discovering your bag within the occasion one thing goes flawed. What do you do with that little slip? Prior to now, I’ve discovered myself stowing it in my pocket; hardly a foolproof methodology for retaining it secure. That’s why TPG senior reporter Zach Griff has a easy resolution. He recommends at all times taking a photograph of the slip proper after you get it. Remember to seize all your private info in addition to the bag tag quantity; baggage declare workers will ask you for that quantity within the occasion one thing goes flawed. SEAN CUDAHY/THE POINTS GUY Think about ready in line to speak with the workers, annoyed about your lacking bag, solely to appreciate you misplaced the slip and aren’t certain about your bag tag quantity. By taking that photograph, you’ll robotically have a backup copy of it. SEAN CUDAHY/THE POINTS GUY The app may help, too It’s also possible to use the airline app to trace your bag by way of the system. The app ought to present you the place your bag was final scanned (however notably, it received’t give you a real-time glimpse of the place your suitcase is). With some airways, the bag tag quantity will seem within the monitoring knowledge on the app; that is one other means to make sure you have the quantity useful. It’s possible you’ll even get a push notification replace on the bag’s standing; I acquired one from Delta Air Strains after lately having to gate-check my bag to my last vacation spot. The replace included the bag tag quantity. DELTA AIR LINES Nevertheless, I’ve run into circumstances the place — with the intention to entry the bag monitoring — I wanted to punch within the bag tag quantity. (In the event you merely can’t appear to trace down your bag quantity, ask if the agent can look it up utilizing your journey affirmation quantity or frequent flyer quantity) Within the midst of the stress of a misplaced bag, it’s best to have your bag tag quantity proper at your fingertips. Backside line There are just a few the reason why you would possibly want your baggage info simply accessible after checking a bag. If one thing goes flawed, that bag tag slip you get on the counter will be an vital lifeline for extra simply finding your baggage. Since small items of paper simply go lacking, snap a photograph of it as quickly because the agent palms it to you for some additional peace of thoughts and straightforward reference within the occasion one thing goes flawed. Originally published at Irvine News HQ

[sanjosenewshq]

Top quality lamps which are constructed from recycled product waste

In a collaboration between the design workforce at MVRDV and upscale lighting model Delta Gentle, a brand new vary of luminaries was on show on the 2022 Milan Design Week. The sequence referred to as Excessive Profile is a wedding between revolutionary design, handmade high quality and recycled supplies.  Proceed studying beneath Our Featured Movies The commercial look comes from a product discovered within the Delta Gentle manufacturing facility: leftover aluminum profiles. With the artistic perception from the MVRDV workforce, these castoff items have been recycled into wall, ceiling and flooring lamps. Saving the scraps from the waste pile was a major aim for each groups and got here with the additional advantage of comfort. Nevertheless, it wasn’t a concession to depend on the aluminum items. As a substitute, the choice delivered a good looking aspect that will have by no means been thought of earlier than.  Associated: Lamps by Biohm are constructed from espresso and orange peel The partnership between these two corporations looks as if a pure match with Delta Gentle’s historical past of collaborating with architects on different designs and its repeat look on the Milan Design Week. The corporate additionally needed to make sure a top quality, brilliant and colourful addition to the product lineup. MVRDV is understood for such a design in its architectural initiatives and people abilities proved complementary within the Delta Gentle work too.  Thanks! Preserve a watch out for our weekly e-newsletter. Be a part of Our E-newsletter Obtain the most recent in international information and designs constructing a greater future. SIGN UP SIGN UP “The venture began with the query of whether or not we may develop new prospects with Delta Gentle’s waste materials, as a substitute of inventing a very new product,” mentioned MVRDV founding companion Jacob van Rijs. “Specifically, the stacks of aluminum profiles in numerous shades of white, silver, black and gold proved to be a supply of inspiration. The wonderful particulars of those profiles are normally hidden contained in the wall or ceiling; we needed to make their magnificence seen as the principle characteristic of the brand new design.” In consequence, the cube-shaped pendant gentle, wall fixture within the form of an arch and a freestanding mannequin with profiles positioned facet by facet. Though it begins with an industrial materials, the look is softened with colours of pink, ochre, gentle inexperienced and lightweight blue, amongst others. The colour profiles are a daring step for Delta Gentle, who sometimes sticks with commonplace white, black and gold assortments. Moreover, the venture affords modular points for the long run by means of using automated design expertise that may generate dozens of configurations to contemplate. From a sustainability standpoint, the venture earns factors for reusing industrial waste that solely must be transported from the backroom to the showroom. It’s also recyclable on the finish of the helpful product life.  + MVRDV  Photographs by way of MVRDV Originally published at San Jose News HQ

[atlantaartisticweddings]

Atlanta Wedding Photographers Share Unique Event Venues

As an Atlanta wedding photographer, I get excited when a bride and groom choose a location that is unique and reflects their personality.  May it be a historical venue that reflects their love of the old city or you want a venue that has great views of the modern city and historic park.

Delta Flight Museum, is a venue that is very unique and is a symbol of modern Atlanta.  Atlanta is a Delta hub which means most connecting flights go through Atlanta so there are a lot of people that are connected to Delta.  The Delta Flight Museum is housed in a couple of connected renovated historic airplane hangars built in the 1940’s.  In 2011 the museum was designated a Historic Aerospace Site. There is close to 70,000 square feet of event and meeting space.  You can have your wedding under a 747 or have a smaller wedding in one of the smaller museum areas.  As an Atlanta wedding photographer I just love that there are so many unique photo opportunities for the aviation lover!  There is a Delta iconic 21 passenger Douglas DC-3, a DC-7B and a static DC-9 one of the first early commercial passenger planes.  If you are a pilot and love old planes I would suggest the Delta Flight Museum for your wedding. 

There is a new unique venue that just came on the scene and it is Guardian Works.  The Atlanta wedding photographers at Atlanta Artistic Weddings were one of the first to photograph a wedding there. It is located in the Echo Street West 19 acre community development near the new Westside Beltline.  The renovated 1908 beam and brick building features 8,000 square feet of air conditioned event space and 4000 square feet of sheltered patio space that steps down to 10,000 square feet of courtyard and porch space.  The space is operated by Novare Events.  They are one of the biggest and best event space operators.  You will see them mentioned a couple of times in this blog. 

The one event space that has the best Atlanta skyline view is Ventanas.  It is a modern Atlanta wedding venue that is located by Centennial Olympic Park, a beautiful park located in the center of downtown Atlanta.  It is a turnkey event venue with hotels next to it, a kitchen catering company located on the premises, and a beautiful event space.   It has floor to ceiling windows to give you a panoramic view of downtown and midtown Atlanta.  You can even see Stone Mountain and Kennesaw Mountain from their balcony.  When you look down from the two story event space you can see Centennial Olympic Park and the Georgia Aquarium.   The best feature of Ventanas is the helipad located on the roof.  When you have a helipad on the roof you have a beautiful skyline view of the city and if you like you can make a dramatic wedding exit in a helicopter!

One the coolest places in Atlanta is located in the middle of the city at Piedmont Park it is the Piedmont Room.  As an Atlanta wedding photographer it has some of the most beautiful settings around.  The Piedmont Room was built in 1928 as the clubhouse for the golf course that resided in Piedmont Park.  It is built with Stone Mountain granite walls.  The ballroom is surrounded with floor to ceiling windows that give you a view of Piedmont Park and the Atlanta Skyline.  When you get married there they have several areas for the ceremony and photos.  You can just take a step outside of the venue and you are in the middle of Piedmont Park.  A lot of people rent golf carts and quickly travel to some of the parks most scenic backgrounds.  At the end of the night for your exit you go through those handmade wrought iron gates.  A perfect cap to a perfect wedding location.

One of the more elegant and larger wedding venues is the Biltmore Ballrooms.  Built in 1924 as part of the Biltmore Hotel, it was a meeting place for Atlanta’s business and social events.  In 1999 The Biltmore went through a total renovation to and was restored to its original grandeur.  It was then added to the National Register of Historic Places.  The ballroom has handmade plaster and relief ceilings, Palladian windows, Tennessee marble floors and large restored crystal chandeliers that lights up the ballroom to let you know you are in a very special space. There is a courtyard by the building entrance where you enter through brass doors and through a porch that is supported by large marble columns.  It is an Atlanta wedding photographer's dream location and is full of elegance.

Thanks for checking out this Atlanta wedding photographers blog! I hope you enjoyed the read and that it inspired you to check out more of the many fascinating wedding traditions from around the world. Make sure you keep coming back to see what the Atlanta wedding photographers at Atlanta Artistic Weddings are up to! If you’d like to contact me go to the contact page and drop me a line at https://www.atlantaartisticweddings.com/contact-atlanta-wedding-photographer. I would love to hear from you!

Thanks again!

[all-hail-the-witcher]

witcher as characters in john mulaney specials

-jaskier: joasiah, the man who proposed building a gazebo during the middle of the civil war

-stregobor: the “expert” on horses in hospitals who once saw a bird in the airport

-tissaia: the principal who wanted to talk about what happened yesterday 

-valdo marx: the kid at the sleepover who says you watched beetlejuice last night because “its tomorrow now”

-tavern owner 673: detective who wants to mop up a pool of the killers blood

-lil bleater: petunia sitting in the stroller breathing like chris christie when people lean in to see the baby because “shes sick”

-roach: the operator, who is a real person that you have to be nice to, putting the wires in holes to move the voices around, because it is the 40s

-lambert: the guy who calls his friend asking is he wants to get very dressed up (including hats!), and wave to a cruise ship as it leaves the port

-yennefer: the lady standing by the laser printers because her husband is being an idiot trying to please everyone by buying an hdmi cable and asking about a best buy rewards card

-vesemir: dads in church shoving away the jackets to look for the pamphlet and singing loudly to get their kids to sing

-mousesack: the guy on snl announcing “salt. and pEPPAHHHHHH”

-the sorceresses of the lodge: a group of people deciding to order fries as a little ~adventure~

-blaviken: delta airlines, delaying a flight, giving a meal voucher that doesnt work, taking off without a passenger, and framing someone for murder

-renfri: the kid who stole old antique photographs from house parties in high school because its the one thing you can't replace

-the dude who's wagon geralt ends up in at the end of ep 8: the nurse at the clinic with far too much energy who had a batman sticker on his stethoscope who says “pshhh you’re not gonna faint!”

-fringilla: the friend who said to go to the clinic for a regular visit and then get a xanax prescription by saying that you get nervous on airplanes

-that mayor of the town in ep 5: the dude running around taking milk from cows and then leaving because theres no proof of purchase

-all the people at pavettas betrothal party when duny comes in: the alterboy at the wedding who says “awwww shes ugly!”

-triss: the dog trainer who walked in like she was doing a paranormal investigation and said “you need to show dominance over your puppy!”

-aiden: the real estate agent who takes her clients to a house with no toilets, suggested an on fire garbage can could be a nursery and didnt like paved back yards for the imaginary kids

-ciri: the kid getting partial credit in college for saying “i think emily dickinson is a lesbian!” 

-geralt’s mother: the lady in the supermarket who says “nooooo!” when kids walk in to her store

-eskel: the people at plymouth chrysler who can give your minivan a belt by putting a saucy strip of wood around it

-dara: the kid who had a bra planted in his sweatshirt by cirque du soleil and then immediately wanted to die of embarrassment

-pavetta: the lady who had a phone call that consisted only of “hello? HUSH”

-the doppler: the bad guy in the film who holds a joint in a way that no one ever holds a joint

-istredd: bill clinton standing outside the library asking to walk people home

-calanthe: the lady on the street who gives the advice of “eat ass, suck a dick, and sell drugs”

-chireadan: john mulaneys mom melting when bill clinton said hi to her in the middle of a ballroom in chicago after she pushed back a whole bunch of secret service

-geralt: john mulaneys dad reading angry under one light like “mmmahhh” and saying that “you have the moral backbone of a chocolate eclair”

[thatscarletflycatcher]

My Fanwork Masterlist

(for the folk that only use the mobile app)

ELIZABETH GASKELL

Happy Birthday, Elizabeth Gaskell!

North and South

White… snow white.

After the proposal.

Little Women

Amy March - Perfect (1994)

Jo/Fritz - Wait (1994)

Jo/Fritz saying goodbye (2017)

Jo/Fritz be worthy, love (1994)

Little Women 2019, leaked vs. final script, scene by scene.

AUSTENVERSE

Do not mistake

Emma

Jane Fairfax/Robert Martin

Emma ITV 1996 before and after

Emma ITV 1996 color test Mark Strong

Mr. Knightley and Harriet dance 1

Mr. Knightley and Harriet dance 2

Sense and Sensibility

Your Heart Understood Mine

Persuasion

Straight To You

Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice (1980) Opening titles - episode 1

Austenland

Deleted Scene - Awkwardly Entangled

Bride & Prejudice

Balraj kisses Jaya

BRONTEVERSE

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre (1997)

Jane Eyre (1996)

Jane Eyre (1996) I melted.

A review of Jane Eyre (1983)

A review of Jane Eyre (1996)

Rochesters’ alignment

Wuthering Heights

Funniest shot I have seen in a while.

PotC / One sided Norribeth

Photograph.

CotBP Deleted Scene: the proposal.

Lucky: (T) Some say that James Norrington’s tragedy was being an Austen man in a Disney fantasy movie. And it is a truth universally acknowledged that any Austen man needs an Austen heroine to get his happily ever after. What if the events of Curse of the Black Pearl happened some years later? What if the events of Mansfield Park happened several years earlier? What if the paths of a certain commodore and the Prices were to cross?

THE LORD OF THE RINGS

Farawyn 1

Farawyn 2

Josh Groban

The Music of Josh Groban: Closer (1 of 2)

The Music of Josh Groban: Closer (2 of 2)

The Music of Josh Groban: Awake (1 of 2)

The Music of Josh Groban: Awake (2 of 2)

False Alarms

Test text - February Song

Test text - If I Walk Away

Test text - You Are Loved (Don’t Give Up)

You Are Loved

Happy 39th Birthday!

Happy 40th Birthday!

In Great Comet 1

In Great Comet 2

Rick Astley

Beautiful Life

Jack Davenport

The Wedding Date 1

The Wedding Date 2

Called Out in the Dark

JJ Feild

The Romanoffs trailer

Dan Stevens

Miss Marple: Nemesis

Matthew Goode

Miss Marple: A Murder is Announced

Los Simuladores

The Mountain’s Liar

OUAT incorrect quotes Rumple and Hook as Molero and Milazzo

The Mixed Marriage

The Social Debilitator

39, Victoria: (T) Santos visita la tumba de Victoria y recuerda su tiempo juntos.  Viene a llenar la escena del comienzo del 1x07 y del final del 2x11, antes de que Santos cruce el puente.

MCU

Strike Team Delta

Dovetail.

Doctor Strange

Broken

Stephine - Persuasion

Loki

Sun

Steggy

Have you seen my girl?

May Parker/Bruce Banner (Green May)

Cute

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Fitzsimmons - Nothin’s Gonna Stop Us Now

Rumbelle/OUAT

Remember and Don’t Forget

Repairing chip

Rumbelle as Jirafales and Doña Florinda

The Fate of Pierrot: (G)In which teacher!Mr. Gold is forced to attend a costume ball prom as a chaperone and decides to dress up as Pierrot. He didn’t expect to find Columbine there.

Also set in this universe: Up in the Sky (G) Belle reading Five Weeks In a Balloon inspires Mr. Gold to plan a very special gift for their first anniversary. Set a few years after The Fate of Pierrot. 

Under the Lights of the Grand Paris: (G)The old cafés hide in the cloud of their mystery hundreds of little wonderful stories. In this case, it is the story of a certain Belle French and a certain Mr. Gold.

Will You Still Love Me?: (T) In a castle near Avonlea, Lady Belle falls ill with a misterious disease that physicians cannot explain. A humble spinner from the other end of the Enchanted Forest will be the key to a happy outcome. Visions are seldom all they seem.

[Chapter 1] [Chapter 2] [Chapter 3] [Chapter 4] [Chapter 5] [Chapter 6] [Chapter 7] [Chapter 8] [Chapter 9] [Chapter 10] [Chapter 11] [Chapter 12]

Gaze the Lights: (T)  After Gideon’s first birthday, the Golds set out on a journey around the Land Without Magic. A year later, the last days of December found them in Buenos Aires. Looking for a quiet place to spend Christmas, they crossed the Rio de la Plata to visit Colonia del Sacramento. The quaint colonial village had a surprise in store for them. Canon divergent after Gideon’s first birthday.

A Place to Call Home (T): the orphanage is a grim place, but the new superintendent is set on changing that. If only the doctor were a bit more cooperative…

Or the Dear Enemy AU in which Belle is the superintendent, Mr. Gold the visiting physician who is also looking for his lost son, Ruby and Astrid team up to help Belle, Archie plays the banjo, some (hopefully) funny shenanigans occur, and there’s a happy ending after lots of fluff and some angst.

[Chapter 1]

Regina/Gideon (OUAT):

Not Coincidence, But Fate: (G)  When Regina fails to wake Zelena, she thinks she is on her own to save Henry and break the curse. She didn’t expect to find the answer to her prayers hitchhiking by the roadside.

[Chapter 1] [Chapter 2]

ASSORTED

Mission Impossible 1-6 main titles.

Thunder Bear (crossover OUAT/MCU - Thor/Merida)

Kabir Bedi as The Black Corsair (1976)

About Time BTS Mary’s Red Wedding Dress.

My Top 10 posts of 2018.

My Top 10 posts of 2019.

My Top 10 posts of 2020.

My Top 10 posts of 2021.

Updated: April 20th, 2022.

[venusandromedadjarin]

I’ve Just Seen a Face

Ch. 2, Masters of War

Chapter Song Recommendation: I’ve Just Seen a Face by the Beatles

18+, slight angst, soft!Frankie, mention of stitches, mention of death, 2k words

Joan is nice enough to bring you a book after her morning rounds and it’s a much needed distraction from all the poking and prodding the doctors puts you through. The day passes slowly since you don’t sleep much. The doctor reluctantly agreed to lower the dosage on the pain medication, rolling his eyes throughout your arguing before finally signing off on your chart. That was hours ago, and even though your head and side is throbbing, your mind is starting to clear. The reading helps, even though you aren’t really sure what the book is even about. Laughter from next door breaks your focus from the pages, and you look up to see the clock reads 7pm. The guys are probably visiting Pope since the days officially over. 

Your ring catches your eye on the counter and you stare at it for a second before looking away. Shaking your head, you open the book back up, thumbing at the corner of the page. You don’t look up when the curtain slides open, the laughter getting louder, before dissipating again when it’s closed, “Hey, can I.. uh, can I come in?” The voice is gruff, but soft and smooth all at the same time. It’s a conundrum that makes you smile against your will. 

“Hey Morales, you’re already in the room so make yourself at home.” 

“Frankie,” he sighs. When you look up at him, your brows knitting together, he elaborates, “You can call me Frankie.” He smiles sadly down at you, wringing his cover between his tan hands. You can’t help but stare at them, noticing the small scares that litter his knuckles and his thick fingers. Quickly, you shake your head and gesture to the foot of the bed before trying to scoot back. He reaches towards you when you wince, almost reflexively, “Here, hold on.” Frankie sets his hat on the counter next to the ring, hesitating for a second, before stepping towards you. He reaches out a hand and when you grasp it, he helps you sit up before grabbing the pillows behind you and stacking them up. He nods for you to scoot back and doesn’t take his eyes off of you while you do, squeezing his hand in the process and trying to not to gasp at the pain in your side. When you’re settled, he loosens his grip and moves towards the edge of bed, sinking down to sit at your feet. He leans so that his body is angled towards you. You’re both silent for a second before, “I wanted to say I’m sorry about Sergeant Kearnes…”

You stiffen for a second, glancing at the ring and you see his gaze follows yours. Before answering him you close the book, dog earring your page, and throw it onto the counter as best you can. “Thank you.” It comes out shorter than you expected it to and you blanch, “I’m sorry. I-“

“You don’t need to apologize, Costa,” he runs his hand over his short hair, fidgeting because he doesn’t know what to say. 

“Alex.” Frankie lifts his head to look at you, his brown eyes searching your face and you find yourself smiling for the second time since he’d entered the room. “Why does Pope call you Fish?”

He chuckles, and it’s a sound unlike anything you’d ever heard. It’s a sound you could get used to hearing. Guilt trickles through you and you look over at the ring again, and he notices it, his chuckle dissipating. “We all have call signs. Well, except Benny,” Frankie looks towards the curtain, the men’s voices low on the other side. “Pope is the most faithful of the group… not to women, maybe. But to us. We’re a family. He has hope, so much hope. The guy’s insane sometimes, drives us crazy. Tom ‘Redfly’ Miller is the head of the team. He’s the oldest, too and the wisest. He’s pretty serious but he’s a good guy, his intuition has gotten us out of some messed up shit.” Frankie looks at you, only to find you watching him intently and he smirks, his cheeks becoming pink. “William ‘Ironhead’ Miller, he’s a fucking soldier if I’ve ever seen one. I’ve never met anyone more proud to be serving. Benny is his little brother. They both signed up after 9/11. Somehow we all ended up on Delta Force and now we’re a family.”

You tsk, “You still didn’t tell me why they call you Fish.” He blushes again, rubbing his hand over his hair before clasping them together in his lap. His nervousness makes you laugh playfully, “Tell me!” 

“Whiskers,” he chuckles again and it’s your turn to blush. When we were training together, I kept getting counseled because my facial hair grows back too quickly.”

“No,” you breath out with a laugh. The movement makes your side prickle with pain and you grasp it, but motion for him to go on.

“I’m serious! I’d fucking shave at 0500 and then by noon it would be growing back. The whole base knew it and so someone made a joke that I had whiskers like a fucking catfish and, well.”

“Your call sign is Catfish?!” You snort and he blushes harder, but the minute he sees you whimper in pain he reaches towards you. His fingertips come to rest on your wrist as you grasp your ribs, your breathing labored from laughing. For some reason, you don’t shrug away from his touch. 

Frankie glances down at his hand on yours before quickly pulling away. “I’m sorry, Alex” he stammers. You shake your head, glancing toward the ring again. He studies you as you look at it, watches as you wipe a few tears away and then shrug. “Hey,” his voice is soft and you look back at him, this time your grey eyes search his face, looking for any sign of malice or bad motives. When you find none, you make eye contact, his brown eyes soft in the dim light. “Maybe this is overstepping, but do you want to talk about it?”

The curtain slides open just then, and Pope sticks his head through, glancing between the two of you while Frankie looks startled and embarrassed all at the same time. “The guys are heading back to the barracks. Are you staying here, Fish?” Pope doesn’t miss the way his best friend looks towards you, asking for permission or for an order to leave, and he definitely doesn’t miss the way you subtly nod towards Frankie. 

He clears his throat, glancing back at Pope, “I’m going to stay a bit longer.” The man nods before closing the curtain, and a minute later there’s scuffling and laughing next door. Frankies shakes his head, “That’s probably Benny.” 

A door closes and the room quiets down again. Soon after, Pope’s overhead light turns off and the only lights that are on are the dim ones on your side and the reading light Joan clipped to your I.V. stand. You silently study each other for a moment, the faint blush creeping back onto Frankie’s cheeks. When you finally speak, your voice comes out stronger than you expect it to, “Beau was complicated.” 

He waits for you to go on, but when you don’t elaborate he knits his eyebrows together, “How so?”

You sigh, picking at a loose thread on the blanket covering your legs and suddenly aware that all you have on is a flimsy gown. “We met when we were really young, in college before he enlisted. I was going to school for journalism and I never thought I’d land in the Middle East. It was never vey serious, but by the time we graduated, we’d been on and off for a few years so we decided to move in together. It was rough, he wasn’t faithful through it, and I decided to go back for a Masters. Right when I was about to graduate, he came home with the news he enlisted and I was livid. Beau went to basic, and I got a job as a journalist for a huge news station… When I got the offer to come overseas and photograph the war, I wanted to turn it down, but he claimed it would be good for us. So I did, I packed everything up and threw it in storage. About a year in, he proposed on the base we were at so that we wouldn’t have to split up again and then we got moved here. We’d only been engaged a couple months, and it’s not like we had the wedding planned. Our life is here. Well, he wanted it to be.”

Frankie sighs, searching your face for the inevitable tears, but none come, “Do you love him?”

You look up at him, sadly before whispering, “I used to. Am I bad person for that?”

“No, Alex.” 

The two of you sit in silence for awhile before Frankie leaves, and by that time you’re so exhausted you don’t realize he leaves his cover next to the ring. 

The next morning, the doctor discharges you after taking out the stitches in your scalp and checking the ones in your side. Your concussion has pretty much healed, but your head still aches if you focus on something for too long. As you’re gathering your belongings and about to pull on the medical sweatpants, you hear someone clear their throat on the other side of the curtain. Pope’s getting the last round of x-rays to make sure he’s cleared, so you call out and ask who it is.

“It’s me.. uh, it’s Frankie.” Your heart leaps a little and you try to calm your nerves before calling back to him to tell him he can come in. He looks shy in the bright light as he enters and sets down a pile of clothes on the counter, letting the boots he’s holding drop to the floor. “Um, Brandt is back from her post and I figured you might want clean clothes…” he trails off, wringing his hands as he sits on the edge of the bed. 

“Thank you,” you smile at him before taking the pile and going into yours and Pope’s shared bathroom to change. Your stitches tug when you pull the shirt over your head and you grimace, trying to keep your breathing even for your lung’s sake. Looking in the mirror, you realize how exhausted you look and you can’t wait to shower back at the barracks. You pull your jeans before splashing water onto your short hair, trying to tame it. Frankie looks up when you come back in the room, and you think you see his eyes shine a little but he quickly looks away while you sit down next to him to pull on your boots. 

“The team has a meeting later, but after that we were going to go to dinner at the mess and then that movie they’re showing in the warehouse. Figure there’s nothing better to do.” 

You look over at him as you finish lacing your boots, arching a brow at him, “Catfish, are you asking me to come?” He startles and looks down at you, a blush creeping across his cheeks.

“I-I don’t want to be disrespectful, I just-“

“Yes, I’ll come with you,” your smile makes his blush deepen, his own smile playing at his lips. He stands up to his full height, waiting for you to finish, before grabbing his cover from the counter. 

“Here,” he takes the ring gently and holds it out to you, expecting some sort of backlash, but you silently take it and tuck into your jeans pocket as you stand up. Against your protests, he picks up the bag with your cameras and salvaged clothing before holding the curtain open for you. The main door to the room is open and you blanche at the strong lights in the hallway. The hospital bustles around the two of you as you make your way to the entrance. He tugs his cover on before pushing the door open. 

The heat from outside forces its way through the doors before you even step out into the blazing sun. The base is calm. The Beatles pours out of a radio near a handful of soldiers playing basketball on the make shift court which makes you smile, “Beau would be whining about getting his ass kicked out there.” You laugh, holding a hand to your brow, trying to block some of the light.

Frankie studies you before making his way towards the barracks and you fall into step beside him. He walks slow for your sake, afraid of making the wound in your side or your lung ache. “Are you okay?”

You glance at him out of the corner of your eyes, “Honestly?” He nods down at you, his cover blocking the sun from his eyes and you can’t help but feel slightly disappointed you can’t seem him in the sun fully. “I’m better than I have been in awhile. I miss him, but I miss the Beau I knew years ago. I just wish it wasn’t like this.” 

The song grows louder while you both walk past, and you hum the lyrics, Had it been another day I might have looked the other way…

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Star & Rowan | Galiano Island Wedding Photographer

Galiano Island was certainly showing off her unparalleled beauty at this stunning fall wedding that I had the pleasure of photographing!

I will jump at any chance to visit Galiano Island. It’s one of my favourite places in BC – so serene and laidback, with absolutely stunning scenery and wonderfully friendly people. When Star and her fiancé Rowan reached out to me from Australia this past summer, and asked if I would be interested in photographing their wedding in October, I knew I couldn’t pass up the opportunity! Especially…

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Pride 2022 19/30: Golden Orchid Societies

Golden Orchid Societies were communities of women in the Pearl River Delta region of southern China who chose not to marry, or not to live with their husbands. Golden Orchid sisters may have been asexual, aromantic, women-loving-women, or had other reasons to avoid traditional marriage.

Golden Orchid Societies generally consisted of small groups of five or so women, who lived together and pooled their financial resources. Instead of marrying a man, some Golden Orchid sisters had a solo wedding, showing their desire to remain independent from a husband. Like other weddings, these weddings were family affairs, with a banquet funded by the woman’s parents.

Many Golden Orchid groups lived together for their whole lives, and saved up to retire as a community.

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Billboard #1s 1973

Under the cut.

Carly Simon – “You’re So Vain” -- January 6, 1973

Knowing who this song is about -- if there even is someone -- would make it a lot less fun. "You walked into the party like you were walking onto a yacht" is one of the greatest lines of all time. The subject of this song is a grade-A douchebag, and yet his life's kinda enviable, isn't it? He can fly his plane to see the total eclipse of the sun, he hangs out with spies, he seduces his close friends' wives, his horse wins races. But he "gave away the things he loved." He chose to be a movie character instead of having love, which is rather sad. It's a more complex song than it seems at first. And it's a lot of fun.

Stevie Wonder – “Superstition” -- January 27, 1973

Can't write too busy jamming. Okay so this song is great. The sentiment is one we need a hell of a lot more of. The music has my favorite funk beat. It's my favorite Stevie Wonder song, and one of my favorite songs period. Actually this is three in a row of my favorite songs now.

Elton John – “Crocodile Rock” -- February 3, 1973

Well that ends that streak. I don't like Elton John's music. I find it dull and irritating. I can't even pinpoint why entirely, because I can't listen to enough of his music all the way through. I have had to listen to this one all the way through at every wedding reception I've ever been to, though. It's a boring dance song, and boring dance songs are very bad things.

Roberta Flack – “Killing Me Softly With His Song” -- February 25, 1973

Roberta Flack is great, but I prefer the Fugee's version of this song. Flack's version is a little too color-within-the-lines for me.

The O’Jays – “Love Train” -- March 24, 1973

An optimistic, happy song about everyone loving each other and getting along. It's also a good dance song, which makes it easy to get on board.

Vicki Lawrence – “The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia” -- April 7, 1973

She killed her sister-in-law for cheating on her brother? Really? Really? Well this is where revenge leads -- now her brother's dead too. This song doesn't get at anything interesting and the story is simply unpleasant. The music in this song's not spectacular or anything, but it deserves a better story.

Tony Orlando & Dawn – “Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree” -- April 21, 1973

This lounge lizard singing a twangy country-ish song doesn't work. He doesn't know how to do it. Also, it sounds like they were trying to make it into a novelty song. Someone coming home from prison and hoping his wife will still want him is in very poor taste for a novelty song. This song somehow became about soldiers returning home. It's a really bad song for such a poignant and complex topic. It's a really bad song for anything.

Stevie Wonder – “You Are The Sunshine Of My Life” -- May 19, 1973

Stevie Wonder and his wife Syreeta Wright were in the process of breaking up when they recorded this love song together. They stayed in each other's lives until Syreeta passed away, though. Knowing that makes this song even more moving.

The Edgar Winter Group – “Frankenstein” -- May 26, 1973

How did a hard rock instrumental reach the top of the charts? The riff is pretty great, and some cool things are going on with the electric guitar. Hard rock instrumentals aren't my thing, though. But I think it's good, even if I don't want to listen to it.

Paul McCartney & Wings – “My Love” -- June 2, 1973

John and Paul both started producing lighter, slower songs after The Beatles broke up. I feel like George was keeping them grounded. Or I guess maybe Ringo -- who knows? This is tolerable, which is more than I normally say about too-light 70s love songs. Actually I think this is also a sex song. For the most soporific sex imaginable. Paul McCartney's bass playing was awesome when he was in The Beatles. I don't get why he didn't build songs around that after they broke up.

George Harrison – “Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)” -- June 30, 1973

Another spiritual song from George Harrison, but it's better than "My Sweet Lord" in multiple ways. First, the melody's not plagiarized. Second, it has forward motion. You can actually dance a little to it if you want. Third, there's a bit of anguish there. Spiritual songs are always better when they have the tang of pain to them. And Harrison's guitar is on point. Pretty good.

Billy Preston – “Will It Go Round In Circles” -- July 7, 1973

The last two #1s were by ex-Beatles, and this one is by the man often called "the fifth Beatle." It's the best of these three by quite a ways. It sounds to me like it's about the creative process. A song with no melody, a dance with no steps. And the one I like the best: "I've got a story, ain't got no moral/ Let the bad guy win every once in a while." Sounds like his story's a lot farther along than the song and the dance.  The music is funky and soulful with a lot of different things going on, but without feeling overly crowded. Excellent.

Jim Croce – “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown” -- July 21, 1973

Leroy Brown is a big, mean man, and everyone's scared of him. Until he goes after the wrong woman and her husband kicks the everloving crap out of him. Being big and mean doesn't count for much if you're a dumbass. It's sort of a country/funk blend, and I like it.

Maureen McGovern – “The Morning After” -- August 4, 1973

Mneh. I know why this one became a big hit; it was the ballad attached to a hit disaster movie. The Poseidon Adventure, one of the biggest disaster movies. I don't get disaster movies either. This song is schmaltz.

Diana Ross – “Touch Me In The Morning” -- August 18, 1973

Diana Ross sure sang a lot of songs in which she was desperate for a man who didn't want her. This time, she promises to be content with having sex just one more time in the morning with a one-night stand. How low maintenance of her. It's slow. It's boring. It gives me the icks.

Stories – “Brother Louie” -- August 25, 1973

Louie is white. He falls in love with a black woman. When he takes her home to his parents, they explode. I think he probably chooses to stay with her, but the song isn't clear. There's the fetishizing "Danger, danger when you taste brown sugar" line. Interracial relationships were really dangerous then still, so that's something. But I don't like the music, I don't like the singing, that one line is really bad and so I can't like the song at all.

Marvin Gaye – “Let’s Get It On” -- September 8, 1973

After learning about Marvin Gaye's life, I am extremely torn about this song. Marvin Gaye's father was a horrible right-wing preacher who made him think sex was a wicked thing. This song is Gaye's celebration of shedding the guilt instilled in him, and finding how wonderful making love was. But I still can't like this song. It's too light for me. (Marvin Gaye's father ended up murdering him -- he was truly a horrific excuse for a human being -- but at least Gaye was mentally free before that.)

Helen Reddy – “Delta Dawn” -- September 15, 1973

Helen Reddy manages a lot more emotion in this song than she did in "I Am Woman." I get it; I prefer stories to polemics too. That doesn't mean I like this song. A story song should have more than two verses and a repetitive chorus. Also, I don't like stories where women go mad because men promise to marry them and then split. I'm looking at you, Charles Dickens. Everyone's got tropes that make them itch, and this is one of mine.

Grand Funk – “We’re An American Band” -- September 29, 1973

My family moved a lot, but I always spent summers with my Grandmother in her cottage near Flint. So Flint is more my hometown than anywhere else. I'm definitely cool with a band from Flint laying claim to the "American Band" label. That doesn't mean I like the song. It's about touring and drinking and groupies, and then it's about repeating the chorus about a hundred and twelve times. Yeah, the music rocks, but it's repetitive and bores me as much as any soft rock ballad ever could.

Cher – “Half-Breed” -- October 6, 1973

I have a lot to say about this song. Way too much. Therefore I'm going to say nothing, except that nothing changes overnight, and this song is a massive improvement over the previous decade's songs about Native Americans.

The Rolling Stones – “Angie” -- October 20, 1973

I liked when the Stones were nice in "Ruby Tuesday." I don't like it so much in this one. It's a step too far. He's singing about how he still loves "you", Angie, but it's time to break up, and I just can't hear it as anything but insincere, fair or not. I feel like he's got someone else waiting. I do like how Mick Jagger makes "Angie" sound like "Angel" when he sings though.

Gladys Knight & The Pips – “Midnight Train To Georgia” -- October 27, 1973

Diana Ross was jealous of Gladys Knight and the Pips, and undermined them at least once. I am not surprised. Gladys Knight is a better singer than Diana Ross, and who wouldn't want the Pips singing and dancing behind them? This song is about how the singer's boyfriend is leaving on a midnight train to Georgia because he couldn't make it as a star in L.A., and she's going with him. Good for them. I love this song.

Eddie Kendricks – “Keep On Truckin'” -- November 10, 1973

Right into falsetto from the start. Sigh. This is a disco song, and it's not technically about trucking, but there are a lot of truck metaphors in it. I find a lot of disco weirdly hard to dance to -- I can't locate the beat somehow. I can dance to The Alan Parsons Project but not the Bee Gees. This is one of those disco songs I have trouble with. So it doesn't work for me to listen to or to dance to, and it's falsetto. Not bad falsetto, but still falsetto the whole way through. I don't hate it but I don't want to hear it again either.

Ringo Starr – “Photograph” -- November 24, 1973

This song is about looking at photographs of someone and missing them. It sounds a bit like an early Beatles song. George Harrison helped Ringo write it, and some of Phil Spector's collaborators gave it the "wall of sound" treatment. The former is likely why it's got a good melody and some interesting musical touches; the latter is why it gives me a headache.

The Carpenters – “Top Of The World” -- December 1, 1973

The singer is newly in love with someone who loves her, and it makes her feel wonderful. Very straightforward, honest, and unembarrassed, and Karen Carpenter's voice is gorgeous as always. The hook is dangerous; this song is likely to be in my head for a few days. That's okay though, because I like it.

Charlie Rich – “The Most Beautiful Girl” -- December 15, 1973

This is a country song in which the singer realizes he just destroyed his life, and is desperate to salvage it. He's asking if you've seen "the most beautiful girl in the world," because he needs to find her to apologize for the things he said that drove her away. It's sad and sweet, but it doesn't make me feel an awful lot.

Jim Croce – “Time In A Bottle” -- December 29, 1973

When this song would come on the oldies station, my mother would yell "Gah!" and change the channel to anything else. Her graduating class, very much to her chagrin, had decided it would be their song. (I don't remember what my graduating class's song was, but I remember some of us trying to get "I'm Too Sexy" to win and failing. I think we ended up being saddled with "I've Got Friends in Low Places.") In any case, I was prejudiced against this song before I heard it the whole way through. Jim Croce died young in a plane crash, so that is very sad. My reaction to this song is still the same as my mother's. It's glop.

BEST OF 1973 -- "Superstition" by Stevie Wonder WORST OF 1973 -- "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" by Vicki Lawrence

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Atlanta Wedding Photographers Follow Covid Protocols

As an Atlanta wedding photographer with over 20 years experience,  the last couple of years have been the biggest challenge yet.  It has been 3 years of curve balls and adversity for everyone. We have to address these problems honestly and together if we are going to get through this.  We always have the safety and concerns of our clients at the forefront of every  wedding we do.

During this long-lasting pandemic a lot of adjustments have been made to weddings.  We are flexible with each client and their unique circumstances.  We address any concerns that they may have.

Let us talk about safety first. I can guarantee that the Atlanta wedding photographers at Atlanta Artistic Weddings have been vaccinated and boosted.  We have been tested numerous times and we also continue to test frequently to ensure that everyone's healthy.  Our photographers are always looking at the ever changing covid guidelines.  So that you can have a safe and joyous wedding with your guests with no worries.

During the wedding our photographers will be wearing masks and following all the guidelines established by your wedding venue.  Whether you're getting married at a hotel, church, or synagogues we respect their safety protocols and will follow them to the  ”T”. 

We also know that changes have been happening in our clients’ personal lives, and try to be sensitive to that.  We have rescheduled many weddings due to covid.   Weddings can be overwhelming even at the best of times and we want our clients to know that they are not alone in this challenging period. The only way we can get through this unique time is to help one another and be sensitive to each other’s concerns and feelings.  Weddings are an emotional time where people get together and celebrate love and family, and our Atlanta wedding photographers are here to help in any way that we can!

Thanks for reading this blog!  Make sure you keep coming back to our blog to see what the Atlanta wedding photographers at Atlanta Artistic Weddings are up to! If you’d like to contact me go to the contact page and drop me a line at https://www.atlantaartisticweddings.com/contact-atlanta-wedding-photographer. I would love to hear from you!

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David

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Robin & Peter | Ladner Wedding Photographer

Ladner wedding photographer, Eran Sudds of eran jayne photography, highlights a rustic, barn wedding on Westham Island in South Delta.