Thanks to those who helped me catch this stuff on photo. Wanda and Dave both did a great job! Sorry there are so many thumbnails, I tried to trim it down, but there was just too much fun stuff going on.
                                                                                                                                     
- 11/08/2006 06:25:00 AM
Seldom is Russ smiling
- 11/08/2006 06:27:00 AM
...and if he is smiling, it's a half ass do-i-have-to-smile, smile. Beautiful wedding though, despite his sour scowling face :) Congrats to both.
The Dee - 11/08/2006 08:00:00 AM
Wow the fire pictures are totally cool and the sky is amazing. I'm so glad you got those because I don't think anyone else got pictures of the fire. The others are great too, especially the one of Bran walking me down the aisle. Thanks homey!
The Dee - 11/09/2006 09:52:00 AM
Figured I'd clarify: Russ doesn't do the fake picture smile, so when you see him smile in a picture, it's cause he has a reason to smile. The grumpy face in a lot of the pictures is because he was in a lot of pain, I think from moving the keg around... no telling with all the work he did last week. Wish I could get pics of him smiling more often cause it's my favorite Russell-face, but I guess photographers just need to be on their toes to catch it more often, or picture cohorts need to make some kind of goofy joke ;) (See nasty grimace in my face in pictures with my parents for good reason not do to the fake smile thing... scary thing is it matches my mother's). Sorry I moved in the fire picture, Chuck, I'm not sure I was aware I was being photographed. I seem to be two-faced!
- 11/09/2006 10:39:00 AM
Figured I'd clarify due to your clarification: I know Russ was happy that day, despite his pain. It was a beautiful ceremony/concept, and he is very lucky. I meant to imply that he could have expressed it a little better :) Seriously. Look at the picture with you and all the bridesmaids. Not even a hint of a smile. Again, I'm sure he's not miserable. How could he be, he's surrounded by pretty women and his new beautiful bride, but he looks miserable as hell.
- 11/09/2006 10:43:00 AM
Yet another clarification: he is surrounded by beautiful women and Brandon in the picture...I didn't mean Brandon was a bridesmaid...or a pretty woman.
Chuck - 11/09/2006 11:04:00 AM
You're right Anonymous, Russell doesn't look happy in some of the pictures. But to vouch for him I was there when he was working - hauling wood, moving ladders, strip-teasing for the guys. It's likely that at any one of those times he could have injured his back - and in fact his back was injured.
It's like having the 'roids. Ever try to smile when they're all flaired up?
- 11/09/2006 11:13:00 AM
You're right Chuck. I failed to take into consideration that he was strip teasing for the guys.
- 11/09/2006 02:01:00 PM
I know I should drop this...but I'm not. What's the point of moving the keg, the ladders, the wood, and strip teasing? He clearly did all this in preparation for his rite of passage: the wedding. A rite of passage is a way for a culture to celebrate and remember particular milestones in their individual lives: the point of this one is to celebrate the union of two people. It is an event to be remembered, thus the pictures.
My point is this: why would Russ endure all of this labor only to appear miserable? When he looks back at these pictures with his grandkids, he's going to think was I really that miserable? He would not appear to be celebrating this rite of passage at all, thus making the ceremony and the labor, (not the marriage mind you) pointless.
And I'm sure that in the profesional photos, he is smiling. I hope so anyway.
The Dee - 11/09/2006 07:00:00 PM
Chuck's ARE the professional photos ;)
Actually, he's smiling in enough of these and others that friends and family took, that it really wasn't an issue with anyone anywhere until you brought it up, although I have said he isn't much for smiling in pictures. Some people aren't. If I had a husband who never smiled in reality it might bother me, but as it is, there's no problem. The pictures are great and there are just as many of them I'm not happy with MY expression as ones where Russell's face isn't schooled to perfect fake geniality. If he was unhappy the day and the event might be pointless, but as it is, it's full of wonderful memories... whether they got accurately captured on film or not.
So ya, now would be a good time to drop it.
Jared - 11/10/2006 01:27:00 PM
Anonymous, you are going to push this? If you were there (i only skimed over your rantings) you would know he WAS happy. He knows he was happy, and his family KNOWS he was happy. This is best left with i hope we all could be so happy and so blessed....ps chuck have you noticed that we are both giving the peace sign in the pics...>???
Chuck - 11/11/2006 12:08:00 PM
Not until you pointed it out. Hippie. :)
- 11/13/2006 07:25:00 AM
Truly, I apologize. I let the title of anonymous empower me into being offensive and rude, although you probably figured out a while ago who this is. Of course I don't believe any of what I said...I just wanted to see how far I could go, and if anyone would argue with my bull shit. Clearly, I hit some emotional chords, and again, I apologize (especially to you Dee). The pictures are great, Chuck, and I do consider them to be proffesional. I'm so very happy for the bride and groom, and once again, gorgeous wedding.
And by the way Jared, who said I wasn't there?
Itchy_turd - 11/18/2006 01:38:00 PM
The best people-pic is Russell & Deana, I also think this pic of the fire is excellent.
Good work Chuck, and congrats again Russell & Deana.
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