I wrote to him a while back, with a suggestion that the ladies in engagement sessions mind their handbags. See, in this picture, there was a little purse hanging from the lady's wrist. I thought it was distracting.
He wrote back, all genuine and nice.. (I worded my email very carefully since I know how touchy people can be, but I realized it probably wasn't necessary.) Thanked for the suggestion, and said that sometimes he thought the purses added another interesting visual element. I thought about it and decided that he was right, in some images, but it still bothered me in this one.
Tonight I was going through his most-popular images set and saw this picture. "Wasn't this the one with the purse?" I thought. Hmm. Well, whatever.
Then I went to the website - http://www.ryanbrenizer.com/ - to see how much this dude charges to do weddings (just curious!) and saw the original on the site's Home page. With a purse hanging there under the lady's arm.
And it somehow makes me feel good that such a great photographer agreed with me, at least on this one photo. :)
I'm Stacey. I'm a 31(!)-year-old Wisconsin girl living in sunny South Florida. The highlights in my life are my lovely boyfriend, my aloof cats, my adorable/adoring stepdogs, my two lumbering tortoises, select family members, being outside, being underwater, taking pictures, yadda yadda. Stay tuned for lots of babbling!
A small boy lived by the ocean. He loved the creatures of the sea, especially the starfish, and he spent much of his time exploring the seashore.
One day the boy learned there would be a minus tide that would leave the starfish stranded on the sand.
When the tide went out, he went down to the beach, began picking up the stranded starfish, and tossing them back into the ocean.
An elderly man who lived next door came down to the beach to see what the boy was doing. Seeing the man's quizzical expression, the boy paused as he approached. "I'm saving the starfish!" the boy proudly declared.
When the neighbor saw all of the stranded starfish he shook his head and said: "I'm sorry to disappoint you, young man, but if you look down the beach, there are stranded starfish as far as the eye can see. And if you look up the beach the other way, it's the same. One little boy like you isn't going to make much of a difference."
The boy thought about this for a moment. Then he reached his small hand down to the sand, picked up another starfish, tossed it out into the ocean, and said: "Well, I sure made a difference for that one!"
