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10 Questions to Ask Your Wedding Photographer and 2 More to Ask Yourself

What Your Wedding Photographer Should Tell You Before You Sign a Contract By Nina Callaway Before you can hire a wedding photographer, you need to know if their style of taking pictures works with what you envision for your wedding. Here are some important questions to ask any wedding photographer: What’s your primary style? Posed and formal, relaxed, photojournalistic, creative, artistic, candid, traditional? Do you shoot in color or black and white? Or both? Do you shoot in a digital format that can create both color and b/w versions of the same picture? What kind of input can we have on the direction of the shots? Can we give you a shot list to work from? Are you the wedding photographer who will actually take our pictures? If not, can we meet the person who will be? Can we meet any assistants who will also be our taking pictures? How many times have you worked specifically as a wedding photographer? How many were similar to the size and formality of our wedding? How many other ...

What MEN think about ....

Do men think about sex every seven seconds? New research says not, so we asked a bloke to tell us what really goes on in male minds… If I thought about sex as much as people think I thought about sex, it would take me a month to write this article. That's not because people see me as sex mad, it's just because I'm a man. According to common perception, men think about sex pretty much all the time. In fact, the figure usually bandied about is one sex thought every seven seconds. Let's spend a moment taking that in. That's 8,000 sex thoughts a day, or 240,000 in the average month. Where on earth does all the football fit in? Thankfully, psychologist Terri Fisher has done some research on this very subject, and it turns out that men don't think about sex anywhere near as often as that. So what are we thinking about on all those occasions when we're staring blankly into the middle distance and failing to even acknowledge your presence? Here are a few clues... Se...