I finally got some wedding photos uploaded to Flickr. They're not very high-resolution images (and how I got them is a not-yet-finished saga, which I hope will eventually have a happy ending). However, they're there for folks to look at.
I restricted access to friends and family for any photo that includes anyone besides me or Jeff. If you're a friend or family member and don't have a Flickr account, let me know; I can give you a guest pass to see all the photos (although you won't be able to add comments).
The Saga I referred to is that the wedding photographer appears to have disappeared. She took photos of the wedding and put them up on her website so we could see them; so far is fine. Admittedly I then took a long time getting an order in, which I did last October. I mailed her a check with a list of the image ID numbers I wanted. I also ordered a high-resolution CD of all the images, and she assured me in email that I had the right to upload the images to Flickr. Great.
But since then I heard nothing more from her. I emailed her multiple times, until my emails started bouncing (with a weird "Temporary error on maildir delivery" message I've never seen before). I tried phoning, but the phone number on her website goes to someone else now. We had another lead, but that didn't pan out either. I did email her again this week, and it didn't bounce, but I haven't heard anything back either.
I know she took my money; I have a copy of the cancelled check.
The photos on Flickr are scraped from her website, but I don't feel guilty because I did pay her to use the images. I'm hoping I'll get to replace them with a better version at some point, but at this point I'm really not sure how this is going to turn out.
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