While our country witnessed racial barriers fall this week, another group of Americans have had their rights taken away from them. I want to state here that I support love and equal rights. If you or someone you know is planning a same sex wedding or commitment ceremony, I’d love to have an opportunity to document it, with the same respect and dignity that I received on my own wedding day.
That’s fantastic that you’re getting married next year… just 12 months to go! I’m sorry I didn’t repond sooner — I have some catching up to do on this blog. 🙂
Thank you for your support 🙂
Thank you for your support 🙂
Beautiful! That post gave me goosebumps. Thanks for posting
I am!! For December 09, but I don’t know how I could ever afford you. Still, this means so much. I think you’re the sweetest person ever.
I am!! For December 09, but I don’t know how I could ever afford you. Still, this means so much. I think you’re the sweetest person ever.
Sorry Charlotte, could you then please reject the invitation by selecting the appropriate option at http://www.livejournal.com/manage/invites.bml. That will allow for sending it to another author. Thank you very much!
Sorry Charlotte, could you then please reject the invitation by selecting the appropriate option at http://www.livejournal.com/manage/invites.bml. That will allow for sending it to another author. Thank you very much!
i hope so, but we’re in texas so i’m not too optimistic. i don’t know if you’re into this kind of thing or even have time, but there are protests against prop 8 all over the country on saturday. here’s where you can see where they’re held. also, i went ahead and added you, if that’s okay. thanks again for being awesome and showing your support.
i hope so, but we’re in texas so i’m not too optimistic. i don’t know if you’re into this kind of thing or even have time, but there are protests against prop 8 all over the country on saturday. here’s where you can see where they’re held. also, i went ahead and added you, if that’s okay. thanks again for being awesome and showing your support.
I’d love to be able to do that for you and your wife-to-be. Maybe laws will have changed by the time your wedding comes along. I hope so.
I don’t see why my relationship should be any more important or valid than anyone else’s. One of these days it won’t be so!
Hello to you down under! It’s nice to meet you.
Thanks for thinking of me, Vladimir! I don’t think I’ll be able to join, but I appreciate the invitation. 🙂
I wish you could, too. I’m sure a day will come when there is no controversy here, but I wish you didn’t have to wait so long for that day.
A survey in today’s CNN.com shows that only 52% of CNN readers see this as an issue of civil rights. It seems so clear to me.
I’m glad they had a chance to get married, though. I just hope the marriage remains legally binding after all this Prop 8 nonsense.
I’m glad that Prop 2 passed, but I can definitely understand your friend’s frustration!
I’m glad they had a brief chance to get married this year, and I hope their marriage licenses are allowed to last after this!
i’ve admired your work for quite awhile. my girlfriend and i won’t be getting married for a few years, until i’m out of grad school, but i’d love for you to be the photographer. thank you for posting this. it’s nice to have people who care, even though they aren’t directly effected, and who realize it is actually a removal of rights. it isn’t about religion; it’s about everyone being equal and having the same rights, no matter their skin color, religion, sexual orientation, or gender. hopefully one day we’ll get there.
i’ve admired your work for quite awhile. my girlfriend and i won’t be getting married for a few years, until i’m out of grad school, but i’d love for you to be the photographer. thank you for posting this. it’s nice to have people who care, even though they aren’t directly effected, and who realize it is actually a removal of rights. it isn’t about religion; it’s about everyone being equal and having the same rights, no matter their skin color, religion, sexual orientation, or gender. hopefully one day we’ll get there.
I love it! 🙂
I wish what me and Jason have was available for everyone! Let’s hope time brings upon changes for equal rights for everyone!
hello, i hope it is ok i have added you to friends 🙂
g’day from australia. your photos are lovely.
Good day (even if it’s a night)!
This message has been sent to you as well as to some 70 other LJ authors who devote considerable time to photography. The full addressees list is available at:
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Let me invite you to join a new photo-community that is out of any specific subject but photography and that is intended to be not just another one photo publishing site but a virtual club of LJ photographers as well.
Basic principles of the club will be:
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— club members take part in decisions which are responsibility of a single person or of a closed small group in most other cases.
— comfortable and easy publishing and communications.
At the same time the club should be treated neither as an elitist community of extra-class masters, nor best-of-the-best collection nor a “wow-great” day nursery. You will find there also some number of beginners as well as works awaiting and willing for criticism. And it will be a suitable place for putting of honest opinions so that the authors get the direction to grow.
70 invitations is just a beginning. These 70 are to be sent at once and the 20 most active of the addressees will get a status of the club’s seniors allowing permanent participation in the club’s committee.
To obtain a senior’s status you should be one of the first 20 authors who has posted 3 pictures (not in a single row) to the Photo-Guild community. After that you will have also confirm your consent to take part in govering the community by accepting further invitation to the Photo-Guild’s Board of Seniors community.
Along with the message you should receive an LJ community invitation. Please visit page http://www.livejournal.com/manage/invites.bml to check it.
If you have any questions regarding the community or something technical goes wrong with joining the community please contact me right here or by e-mail photoguild.driver A T gmail.com.
Hope you will enjoy the idea. So see you in the club.
Regards, Vladimir Zotov.
hello, i hope it is ok i have added you to friends 🙂
g’day from australia. your photos are lovely.
Good day (even if it’s a night)!
This message has been sent to you as well as to some 70 other LJ authors who devote considerable time to photography. The full addressees list is available at:
http://community.livejournal.com/photo_guild_org/1767.html
Let me invite you to join a new photo-community that is out of any specific subject but photography and that is intended to be not just another one photo publishing site but a virtual club of LJ photographers as well.
Basic principles of the club will be:
— attentive members preview. Careful publishing, respect to colleagues and some minimal skills level in photography are the criteria when considering invitation of an author.
— club members take part in decisions which are responsibility of a single person or of a closed small group in most other cases.
— comfortable and easy publishing and communications.
At the same time the club should be treated neither as an elitist community of extra-class masters, nor best-of-the-best collection nor a “wow-great” day nursery. You will find there also some number of beginners as well as works awaiting and willing for criticism. And it will be a suitable place for putting of honest opinions so that the authors get the direction to grow.
70 invitations is just a beginning. These 70 are to be sent at once and the 20 most active of the addressees will get a status of the club’s seniors allowing permanent participation in the club’s committee.
To obtain a senior’s status you should be one of the first 20 authors who has posted 3 pictures (not in a single row) to the Photo-Guild community. After that you will have also confirm your consent to take part in govering the community by accepting further invitation to the Photo-Guild’s Board of Seniors community.
Along with the message you should receive an LJ community invitation. Please visit page http://www.livejournal.com/manage/invites.bml to check it.
If you have any questions regarding the community or something technical goes wrong with joining the community please contact me right here or by e-mail photoguild.driver A T gmail.com.
Hope you will enjoy the idea. So see you in the club.
Regards, Vladimir Zotov.
This made me cry, and really hit close to home. I wish I could get married just like everyone else…
Thank you very much, Charlotte.
you are an amazing photographer, and a wonderful person.
This made me cry, and really hit close to home. I wish I could get married just like everyone else…
Thank you very much, Charlotte.
you are an amazing photographer, and a wonderful person.
thank you for that, it’s nice to know some people are still sane.
I still don’t understand how people don’t see this as a simple issue of civil rights not being extended to a whole population of people.
And then people want to talk about the “sanctity of marriage” but hey – let’s show how many celebrities get married and divorced like they’re changing the bed sheets. Sanctity my ass…
Sorry…I just never have been able to wrap my head around how this is not a legal union.
thank you 🙂
thank you
My godmother and her partner got married in California in late August, I’m so heartbroken for them.
That is a lovely photo and wonderful values. Thank you.
That makes me feel a lot better about our ability to do them, because that’s pretty much how we approach formals as well. We’d heard other photographers express that sentiment and somehow it made sense?
My best friend is gay, and he is heartbroken that he “earns less respect in California than veal cows and expectant pigs” (referring to Prop 2). Thank you for the kind words. I hope to have you photograph my wedding when the time comes, and I hope too that my friend will have his day as well.
My godmother and her partner got married in California in late August, I’m so heartbroken for them.
That is a lovely photo and wonderful values. Thank you.
shoo pointed me here. that is a lovely image.
This post is amazing as well as the photograph.
shoo pointed me here. that is a lovely image.
This post is amazing as well as the photograph.
One MORE reason why I love and respect you and your work.
It’s so personal and heartfelt.
All of my friends with partners got married in California as soon as it was legal. I’m so glad they did!
I’m still in shock that prop 8 passed. 🙁
I’ve only photographed two same-sex weddings, but I didn’t approach them differently from any other wedding. During ceremonies, I just photograph what happens naturally. When it comes to the posed photos, I strive to capture true personalities, so for that reason I don’t have many posing strategies that I repeat at each wedding. I don’t pose men and women according to certain roles; instead I observe relationships and try to document them.
Re: kudos
I’m glad to hear it, thank you!
You’re welcome! I’d love to be able to be there for you if you choose to get married. 🙂
Re: Actually – my partner and I are marrying – legal or not –
Congratulations, Tina and Fawn! I hope you have a wonderful celebration.
Thanks for appreciating it.
That’s nice of you, thanks! Please do keep me in mind for the future. 🙂
I’ve always been interested by the photographic aspects of a same-gender ceremony, especially since I’m so used to posing with certain roles for grooms and brides. How do you handle this? Do you just shoot the ceremony as though there are two brides? What about formals?
That’s a beautiful photo.
<3
This is gorgeous!
kudos
as an aspiring wedding photographer myself, i think your images are amazing, and are now only made better by your values. 🙂
Thank you! Thank you thank you thank you!
If I ever choose to tie the knot (Knot likely, har har har), You are the absolute first I would choose as a photographer, hands down.
Actually – my partner and I are marrying – legal or not –
this Spring.
Although there is no way on this fine Earth I could afford your services – NOTHING would bring me more joy than being able to have you there…
YOUR photography style is exactly what I aspire to myself.
Love and light.
Tina & Fawn
😉
Well in that case you guys should totally extend it into a vacation! That’s what we’re doing. Although, I think it will probably be sometime after the 2010 Olympics. So don’t start packing yet. We’re not really in a rush…
You rock. Thank you for posting this.
kudos
as an aspiring wedding photographer myself, i think your images are amazing, and are now only made better by your values. 🙂
I’ve already sent an e-mail to to put the bug in her ear. I don’t know the logistics (nor do I think does anyone) but if we can make this happen, I’d be thrilled.
You beat me to it!
You’re so awesome, Charlotte. I wish I knew someone who was planning a commitment ceremony right now, so I could recommend you. 🙂 Heck, I wish I was currently planning a wedding, so that I could have you be my photographer!
I’ve never been, but Whistler is one of Mike’s favorite places in the world!
I’d absolutely be interested, thanks. It would be great to see them again and be able to do that for them. I thought they were already married, though!
Someday. I hope you like Whistler. 🙂
I do actually.‘s mother and partner are planning one in Boston or Provincetown. Not sure when or anything but if we can work it out, would you be interested? I think it’s still considered legal up there. :-/
Actually – my partner and I are marrying – legal or not –
this Spring.
Although there is no way on this fine Earth I could afford your services – NOTHING would bring me more joy than being able to have you there…
YOUR photography style is exactly what I aspire to myself.
Love and light.
Tina & Fawn
You’re so awesome, Charlotte. I wish I knew someone who was planning a commitment ceremony right now, so I could recommend you. 🙂 Heck, I wish I was currently planning a wedding, so that I could have you be my photographer!