User:Mactographer

About myself

The basics

My name is Dave, I'm a photographer working in the SF Bay Area.

I’ve added many wedding photos to the various pages at Wikipedia because – being a wedding photographer – wedding images make up the bulk of what I have to share here. I also collect vintage wedding images, some of which I’ve also uploaded to Wiki. Be sure to check out the wedding photos of brides in black dresses. (And you always thought they were white.) However, I’ve been digging through my other image files as well and have uploaded other photos for various Wiki entries. My philosophy is summed up by the age old adage, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” Thus, I will try to find entries that can benefit from a photo or two.

Contributions

Most contributions are photos, but I have created a few initial listings:

Manasse-Block Tanning Company: First listing and photos
Castello di Amorosa: First listing and photos
Dunsmuir House: First listing and photos
Cabinet card: First listing and photos
Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness: First listing
Centerville Pioneer Cemetery: First listing and photos
Wedding photography: Photos and professional links to web
White wedding: Photos (both historical and contemporary) + some rewrites.
Andre Disdéri: First listing
Post-mortem photography: First listing and photo
Ardenwood Historic Farm: Photo & expanded listing
Niles: Fremont, CA: Photo
Point Loma Nazarene University: Photo
Jousting Image: Photo
Cover:Family History Pages:Open Spread: 1859 Bible Photo
Worship: Photo of monument to the Right to Worship

Controversial contribution:

This contribution I've cobbled together from a Library of Congress web site seems to raise the hackles of the church/state separationists since it keeps getting deleted or edited out of its Wiki listing. But you can’t change the truth by deleting it. The facts remain as they are, and have been documented by the LOC web site.

Practices of the Jefferson and Madison administrations

A copy of a sermon on the Second Coming of Christ, and on the Last Judgment. This sermon was delivered by John Hargrove on December 25th 1804 before both houses of Congress, at the Capitol in the city of Washington.

Despite the contemporary claims that Jefferson and Madison were strict proponents of the concept of separation of church and state as it is currently presented in modern debate, it is a common misconception to assume that religion was not associated with the practice of politics in early American life. In fact, the Religion and the Founding of the American Republic website exhibit at the Library of Congress states,

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It is no exaggeration to say that on Sundays in Washington during the administrations of Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809) and of James Madison (1809-1817) the state became the church. Within a year of his inauguration, Jefferson began attending church services in the House of Representatives. Madison followed Jefferson's example, although unlike Jefferson, who rode on horseback to church in the Capitol, Madison came in a coach and four. Worship services in the House--a practice that continued until after the Civil War--were acceptable to Jefferson because they were nondiscriminatory and voluntary. Preachers of every Protestant denomination appeared. (Catholic priests began officiating in 1826.) As early as January 1806 a female evangelist, Dorothy Ripley, delivered a camp meeting-style exhortation in the House to Jefferson, Vice President Aaron Burr, and a "crowded audience." Throughout his administration Jefferson permitted church services in executive branch buildings. The Gospel was also preached in the Supreme Court chambers.^[1]

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In fact, the Library of Congress exhibit clearly states that Jefferson apparently had no objection to non-discriminatory religion being practiced in state, but rather he objected ONLY to the formation of a state supported church – such as is practiced by Britain with her official recognition of the Church of England as the state church.^[2]

Images I've captured

Wedding and Portrait Images

These images are from a few of the weddings and portraits I've shot and are used in various articles.

Renaissance Fair, Scottish Games & Assort UK Images

Misc. Photos

2008 Presidential candidate, Mike Huckabee.
US Senatorial candidate, Chuck DeVore
Lunar Eclipse
Bellagio (hotel and casino)
Mission San Jose, Fremont, CA
The Golden Gate Bridge with Fort Point in the foreground.
A shot of the GG Bridge from Marin County.
A VR panorama image is available here.
Inside the Palace of Fine Arts
A 400 year old wine press imported from Italy at the Castello di Amarosa.

Images NOT my own which I've contributed

Old photos which I own, but didn't capture

Mostly historical wedding photographs I've collected.

My grandfather posing for a photo as a WWI doughboy ~ circa: 1918
Note the black wedding dress
And another black wedding dress
I love the wedding tent this lady is wearing. She also seems to hold her bouquet with something less than full enthusiasm.
My great grandmother posing with her sisters. Note the heavy Gibson Girl influence. c. 1902
A very regal looking lady from the civil war era.

Historical images I've contributed, but don't own

Images I've gathered from government or copyright free sources

Obviously I've not scanned or recorded this document. But I downloaded it from the loc.gov web site a few years ago when they were providing a VERY high rez copy of the Declaration (7530x9155 – 14.1 megs). You can’t download this large file anymore from the governement, but you CAN here at Wiki since I didn't throw out my old file.
I wish I could have taken this shot. Great location, but the photographer needed to be in a slightly better spot to make a better photo. Nonetheless, it's still very nice.

Userboxes

Geography

This user is a citizen of the United States of America.

This user lives in or hails from the
San Francisco Bay Area.

This user has visited 15 of the 50 United States.

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14

This user has visited 14 of the 205 countries in the world.

This user is from Silicon Valley.

Profession

This user is a professional photographer or interested in photography.

This user is a professional
wedding photographer.

Ps

This user contributes using Adobe Photoshop.

Misc.

This user participates in the
San Francisco Bay Area
task force.

Today is 24 September 2024

66Y

This Wikipedian was born on 28 September 1957 and is 66 years, 11 months, and 26 days old.

en

This user is a native speaker of the English language.

This user is interested in his or her family history.

This user is interested in
art history.

This user believes that articles are useless without images.

This user is a history buff.

This user is interested in the
History of Photography.

This user is of
English ancestry.

This user is of Irish ancestry.

Alba
This user is of Scottish ancestry.

This user is an Anglophile.

This user remembers using
a rotary dial telephone.

This user does not smoke.

This user is a carnivore.

This user contributes using Firefox.

This user thinks the
global warming issue has been immensely exaggerated

This user believes that hippies, celebrities, and politicians are NOT experts on climate change.

Faith

This user is a Christian.

This user understands that the term Separation of Church and State is nowhere to be found in any official US document and is grossly misinterpreted in popular debate.

This user believes God employed intelligent design during creation.

Politics

This user supports Meg Whitman for Governor of California.

This user is interested in politics.

GOP

This user, by and large, supports the U.S. Republican Party. But does not consider any particular party to be God's gift to politics.

This user will happily consider supporting Democrats who are Pro-life, support tax cuts, don't appoint activist judges and favor smaller government.

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