How to Choose the Right Wedding Photographer
I taken a lot of Pix in the last months – please tell me what you think:
I think I have found the best wedding photographer in the St. Louis area. The business is called Lens Magic, run out of the photographers home. She is at the top of her game and does any type of shot you can think of, and the best part, the pricing is well below that of other photographers. When you book with her, you get the entire day, unlike most photographers who just stay for an hour of the reception. Shes there to capture the preparation, vows and post numptual celebration until the last guest leaves. Normally, for this kind of service, you would expect to pay in the thousands, but her service is much less than that although should be much more. I used her service for my own wedding and when the proofs came back, which was within two weeks, I was absolutely amazed at the number of photos I had to choose from. Not only did we have a 100 page album full, she also had a large envelope with just as many photos inside. We had professional pictures of every guest at our wedding and reception, which is much nicer than the disposable camera shots which normally is the only way you get those kind of pictures. When it was time to order, the reprint prices were just as reasonable as her rates were for our wedding day. The best part is, almost four years later, I was able to call her and still order prints. She keeps all of the weddings she does on file so that its possible to do this. She has actually done pictures for a wedding, then been called back for the couples 25th anniversary for copies of those pictures and had been able to produce them!
The best thing is, she does more than weddings! Baby pictures, senior pictures- whatever you want. When she does these types of pictures, she only books one person per day so that she can have as much time as necessary to capture exactly what you're wanting. She will take whatever time is necessary, but without the additional charge that most photographers. You just pay for the session as a whole package, not per hour or per shot!
I cannot say enough wonderful things about this business. This is definitely where I will have all of my professional pictures done from now on and will recommend her to anyone and everyone!
Share your graduation celebration photos, and we'll feature them at www.oregonlive.com/local community news sites and choose a few to be printed in The Oregonian's Community News sections.
Here's how to submit your photos:
- Go here and click on “Submit your photos.”
- Post your graduation photo to the Graduation gallery.
- Write a caption that includes the names of the school and the people in the photo and when the photo was taken.
- Put school and city names in the tag.
That's it. Simple. Now submit those photos!
– The Oregonian
© Adam Lau
Crew members brace themselves on the bow of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society ship, MV Steve Irwin, as it plunges through Antarctic swells. Adam Lau, a student from San Francisco State University, documented the ship and it’s crew as they pursued and clashed with Japanese whaling vessels. Such ships are accused of hunting commercially under the guise of “scientific research.” While Sea Shepherd claims to be non-violent, its aggressive tactics have provoked criticism from other groups, making it the black sheep of the conservation movement.
Lau’s series is included in the PDN Photo Annual 2010 online gallery. The MV Steve Irwin and it’s crew are also the subject of the Animal Planet series Whale Wars.
A message left on the the bridge rail by crew after a whale sighting off Antarctica’s coast.
The crew hurls bottles of butyric acid at the YÅ«shin Maru No. 1, a Japanese harpoon ship, during a clash in Antarctica’s Ross Sea. “Rotten butter bombs” were aimed at the whaling ship’s deck in the hope of making work on board difficult, and tainting meat to be sold at market.
Cook Laura Dakin, right, peers out the galley window as crew member Eric Cheng weathers a snowstorm outside after a failed mission to pursue Japanese harpoon ship, the YÅ«shin Maru No. 3.
The crew in an inflatable fast boat, armed with bottles of rotten butter, are doused by water cannons from Japanese harpoon ship, the YÅ«shin Maru No. 1.
Crew Warren Werrett and Laurens De Groot nap on ropes on the deck.
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on Friday, June 4th, 2010 at 12:00 pm ET
by Danny Tsui and is filed under Documentary, News, Photojournalism, Sports/Action, Vehicles.
Two questions come from this photo, one who is the perv with the camera?, two who is the bad drag queen?, Arf!
While looking through photo sets of dead, oil soaked animals washing up around the Gulf Of Mexico, a friend told me about the photographic work of Chris Jordan. He has taken numerous pictures of decomposed birds whose stomachs contained lots of small bits of plastic trash. "ade in September, 2009, on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and
coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed
bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast
polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to
their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands
of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and
choking."
Though the photographs are shot in a deadpan, matter-of-fact style, they are ominous, gruesome and fascinating. The full gallery is here.