I forgot the little backpack I stow on my kayak the last time I went out so I just stuffed my shit in my bra, and the ridiculous amount of stuff I pulled while fishing around for the key to my car had all the fishermen waiting in line at the launch laughing. Shameless and practical for the win.

Yes! Then they get gross and I have the debate about whether are they too gross to use and remind myself AGAIN to get them a bag.

Ugh, WHY did I look at the comments on the CNN article?!!!! I don’t understand how people can invest the time and effort in being so hateful. It’s completely and utterly depressing.

I have always thought that she has the most gorgeous, sparkling, friendly eyes. I’d never imagined they could look so sultry and confident. She looks amazing!

I'm in the same camp. I got a little jolt of happiness for them when I saw the headline load.

Seconded. When I was a kid I had to have a minor medical procedure and the doctor asked my mother to give me benadryl before the visit to chill me out. I was a nervous hyperactive mess for hours. Nobody ever tried that shit with me again.

Because sparkly, crackly explosions make it a little bit better.

well played.

Because she is still responsible for young children, they matter in all of this too. If this pregnancy had killed her, they’d be without a parent to raise them. Adopting would give her the additional children she wants without the risk of orphaning her other children.

Gahhh I had the same exact reaction. GROSS!

Yup, it has. She just always sticks out in my mind because I had a photohistory teacher who hated women and she was his example of how women photographers are hacks.

If it is transformative, it is new art, and therefore his. He is banking on the changes he made being enough to call it transformative.

I didn’t think it was that cut and dried, if he photographs the photograph(screengrabs) isn’t it now his work of art?

Sherrie Levine has been doing this since the 70’s. She kicked it all of by photographing the images in a Walker Evans exhibition catalogue and then reprinted them without altering them at all. I’m pretty sure she moved into doing paintings like Van Gogh at some point too.

I currently do wedding photography and there is definitely a difference between tosses done earlier in the evening, and later when everyone has had more than a bit to drink. It’s kind of embracing.

I’ve got more than a few pictures of me ducking as the bouquet sails over my shoulder or standing with my arms wrapped tightly around me as it comes flying my way that friends have given me from their weddings over the years. I want nothing to do with that nonsense.

I caught one too, more on reflex, and was promptly jumped by the maid of honor who literally wrestled me to the floor before I could understand what was happening. She could have just asked me for the stupid thing, though part of me is convinced that her stealing the damn thing away from me rendered me permanently…

I photograph a lot of weddings every summer and I’d say for every ten bouquet tosses, there are about 1-2 garter tosses. Most couples are sort of uncomfortable with the whole scene.

I think the problem that some of us had wasn’t with the toss so much as not wanting to participate and being singled out and forcefully hauled out. I don’t have a problem with tosses, I do have a problem with being loudly pressured to participate.

What you’ve said absolutely resonates with me as I’ve recently been thinking that the benefit of being a little older is that I am not looking for someone to complete me, nor am I looking to complete somebody else. I’m a fully fledged adult who is aware of who I am as a person, I’m looking for someone to compliment…