Can anyone suggest a photographer for our small beach wedding?

[AnaEdwardsPhotography]

No one is bashing you, and after re-reading the posts to make sure, everyone seems pretty cordial and you have now over reacted.

Photography of people in the dunes is a touchy subject and has been discussed many times here over the years. We are against it. If you have pics of people in the dunes on your site representing your work you are going to catch some heat, but it doesn't need to get personal.

Simply put, it doesn't matter if you photoshopped the happy couple into a photo of dunes from Madagascar, it is sending the wrong message. I am not trying to be mean about it, just letting you know the facts.

Thanks for the advice, Kurt.
I suppose I might be over reacting. I just haven't seen any posts regarding the photography sites also recommended on this same post, who also display on their home pages pictures which also look like they were taken 'in' the dunes. Maybe they knew better than to thank the members who recommended them, for fear of chastisement. I would think, they, like me, know how to place their clients on the sand in a way that displays the beautiful sand dunes in the background with tufts of sea oats and grass nearby but not touched, giving them a portrait that shows the natural beauty of our beaches.
I've offered to meet SWGB at the spot on Mexico Beach, which he refused.
I might have over reacted when Miss Kitty declared that my website froze her computer, as if warning others not to view it.
Maybe Scooter wasn't intending to suggest that I would hook a starfish intentionally.
As an artist who is also a businessperson, I will continue to give my clients the beautiful artwork they expect and pay well to receive. They ask for portraits with both water and dunes and/or sea oats as backgrounds. I explain to them that there is a fine for damaging the sea oats and the dunes, and that they must keep their children under control and within the area I place them in.
I invite any of you to introduce yourselves when you see me working on the beaches. You can follow me around if you like and witness how these portraits are created.

 

[walk the walk]

Thanks for the advice, Kurt.
I suppose I might be over reacting. I just haven't seen any posts regarding the photography sites also recommended on this same post, who also display on their home pages pictures which also look like they were taken 'in' the dunes. Maybe they knew better than to thank the members who recommended them, for fear of chastisement. I would think, they, like me, know how to place their clients on the sand in a way that displays the beautiful sand dunes in the background with tufts of sea oats and grass nearby but not touched, giving them a portrait that shows the natural beauty of our beaches.
I've offered to meet SWGB at the spot on Mexico Beach, which he refused.
I might have over reacted when Miss Kitty declared that my website froze her computer, as if warning others not to view it.
Maybe Scooter wasn't intending to suggest that I would hook a starfish intentionally.
As an artist who is also a businessperson, I will continue to give my clients the beautiful artwork they expect and pay well to receive. They ask for portraits with both water and dunes and/or sea oats as backgrounds. I explain to them that there is a fine for damaging the sea oats and the dunes, and that they must keep their children under control and within the area I place them in.
I invite any of you to introduce yourselves when you see me working on the beaches. You can follow me around if you like and witness how these portraits are created.

Ana,I recommended you unknowing that you would be chastised to this extent.I truly aplologize.I am a son of a professional photographer whos works extended around the globe and a Pulizter Prize nomination,so I like to think I have a good eye for creative art and was innocently giving a good recommendation to a unknowing patron of this site.I think your outsider status had alot to do with the "nitpicking" of your work and maybe a little jealousy.If the critics really do not like walking on the dunes,I wonder how they feel about building on them?
You are a wonderful photographer and when you are as good as you are,you are going to have those that want to criticize your work,unfortunately it comes with the territory.I think Kurt is a photographer and I am sure he would feel the same way.
The R4 Leica was an amazing artistic tool.

 

[AnaEdwardsPhotography]

No worries, WTW I appreciate the referral. If we ever meet in person we can share a good laugh at all of this ...Lord knows it's been a looong time since I had drama like this! I have a pretty boring life, really... a workaholic artist, who fishes for therapy. A very peaceful existence which I thoroughly enjoy. And plan to continue to the End. Drama wastes energy which can be put to much better use.

 

[John R]

This is a quite entertaining thread. A good rule of thumb; stay off the dunes.

 

[walk the walk]

This is a quite entertaining thread. A good rule of thumb; stay off the dunes.

...and do not build on them as well.I think building on the beach does more harm than foot prints but hey,show a blind eye to that.