Alice in Wedding Land

Alice in Wedding Land, originally uploaded by Teacher Dude's BBQ.

White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane


One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall

And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall
Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call
Call Alice
When she was just small

When men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know

When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's "off with her head!"
Remember what the dormouse said:

"Feed your head
Feed your head
Feed your head"

Weddings Vs Riots - which are more stressful?

Just looking through the pictures I took yesterday. I was asked to take pictures of a wedding, something I found more nerve wracking than covering a riot. At least with protests and demos there are always more chances to take another photograph, but if I made a mess of something during the ceremony then there is no way to go back and do it all over again.

Usually when I go out and photograph an event I just need a handful of images that work and I don't need to worry about the rest. That logic doesn't work in the case of weddings as everyone wants their picture taken and there no excuses for mucking things up.

The situation wasn't helped by the fact that is was sweltering inside the church so half the time my glasses fogged up making focusing a mite difficult. Just as well there were no extra lights for video as I think the bride and groom would have melted on the spot.

Wedding

Baptism, originally uploaded by Teacher Dude's BBQ.

Lydia as bridesmaid

Lydia as bridesmaid, originally uploaded by Teacher Dude's BBQ.

Wedding day guests

, originally uploaded by Teacher Dude's BBQ.

Scenes from a wedding

Scenes from a wedding, originally uploaded by Teacher Dude's BBQ.

Society wedding

Society wedding, originally uploaded by Teacher Dude's BBQ.

You could tell it was a society wedding by the number of SUVs double parked next to the church, In the yard the place was wall to wall trophy wives, all with the same blonde haircut and social x-ray figures. Tom Wolfe would have been proud.

Going to the Chapel

Scenes from a wedding

It's a wedding. I don' know whose, I didn't ask. I just mingled with the guest and took photographs of whatever caught my eye.