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UPDATE: Check out a photo gallery of images from Joe Flacco's wedding here. The photos can also be found on the website of photographer Jason Prezant , but the site has been inaccessible due to the high interest in the Flacco pictures. . Joe Flacco's wedding photos have been posted out in the blogosphere, and simply put, they are amazing. The photos, which were published to the blog of wedding photographer Jason Prezant, shed a little light onto what the Ravens quarterback is like away from the television cameras and our microphones.

An installation artist who sculpts with mirrors and salt, an innovative cellist and a self-taught photographer whose work has been informed by the four decades that she has spent battling a rare genetic illness are the winners of the 2013 Baker Artist Awards. The $25,000 awards, announced Thursday night on Maryland Public Television's "ArtWorks," are being bestowed upon Dariusz Skoraczewski, the principal cellist of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; sculptor Jonathan Latiano, a recent graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art ; and photographer Lynne Parks.

Photographer Prentice Hall Polk, who died in 1985, spent most of his 87 years at Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) in Alabama. Like James Van Der Zee in New York, Polk recorded the middle-class blacks of his time and place, in such works as portraits, wedding pictures, photos of activities at Tuskegee. But he also recorded the life of the poor rural workers and sharecroppers of his area, in photographs such as " 'Spinning Wheel', Macon County, Alabama" (1927), "The Pipe Smoker" (1932)

Marcella E. Grice, an artist and calligrapher, died April 13 from complications of heart disease at Sinai Hospital. She was 87. The daughter of an insurance executive and a homemaker, the former Marcella Editha Harman was born in Baltimore and raised in Charles Village. Mrs. Grice, who was known as Editha, graduated in 1942 from Seton High School. She earned a bachelor's degree in 1946 from what is now Notre Dame of Maryland University. In the 1980s, she earned a master's degree in audio-visual communication from Towson University.

Beatlemania was sweeping America on Sept. 13, 1964, when photographer Morton Tadder strode into the Baltimore Civic Center, climbed onto his little magnesium ladder in the middle of the sea of screaming fans and began shooting the band playing onstage. Tadder, on assignment for the London Express, shot two rolls of film before he realized the band wasn't the Beatles, but a warm-up act. "I had no idea," he says. "Once you got past Frank Sinatra, I was lost." But when the Beatles finally came on, he shot about 10 more rolls of film.

By now, many have seen the horrific photograph from the front page of the New York Post ("Police question man in N.Y. subway train death," Dec. 5). A man clings helplessly to the platform of a New York subway seconds before he is struck and killed by an oncoming car. The man who took the photograph was lambasted and humiliated on the Today Show by the supreme judges, Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie. They questioned, grilled and toasted the photographer. Their assumption was that the photographer should have been attempting to rescue the man who was shoved onto the path of the oncoming subway car. His reasoning was that he took multiple photographs with the flash to try to call attention to the car engineer to get him to stop.

Lewis R. "Lew" Bush, a photography director whose career at The Baltimore Sun spanned nearly two decades, died Friday of complications from dementia at his home in Palm Coast, Fla. He was 80. "Lew was skilled at his trade and knew cameras and film back in the days when we didn't have what we now have today," said John H. Plunkett, a retired Baltimore Sun assistant managing editor. "His job was not easy. He was up early and stayed late into the night. " Lewis Richard Bush was born in Miami and raised there and in Asheville, N.C. His family eventually returned to Jacksonville, Fla., where he graduated from Robert E. Lee High School.

With its triangular, armored head, bulging eyes and serrated forearms, the predator attacking its prey is a menacing sight. The Transformer-like creature on the computer screen in George Grall's home office is actually a Carolina mantis chowing down on a red-legged grasshopper. And the larger-than-life shot shows what the Ellicott City photographer does best: capture the inner workings of nature up close. Grall, a freelance photographer for National Geographic magazine for 23 years and staff photographer for the National Aquarium in Baltimore since 1984, will give a presentation Friday, Nov. 16, at the Howard County Conservancy on one of his favorite subjects: the reawakening of amphibians in vernal pools.

James M. Kelmartin, a photographer who shot most of the city's major news stories during a 40-year career at the News American, died Thursday of cancer at Stella Maris Hospice. He was 67.From the 1940s until the day the paper closed in 1986, Mr. Kelmartin took thousands of pictures of Baltimore and Maryland, often infusing the subject matter with a strong sense of composition."You knew when he went out he'd never come back empty handed," said Richard Tomlinson, a colleague for many years.

High on the list of must-see exhibits in New York just now is "Paul Strand Circa 1916" at the Metropolitan Museum. Strand (1890-1976) was one of the leading modernist photographers of the 20th century, and this exhibit of works from early in his career shows how he developed his aesthetic.Highly influenced by photographer and modern-art advocate Alfred Stieglitz, Strand began as a "pictorialist," producing soft-focused impressionistic images. But he soon progressed to a series of New York street scenes capturing the energy of the city, followed by cubist-influenced still lifes that approached abstraction.

Some dads play peek-a-boo with their kids. Some play catch. Dave Engledow stages photo shoots. Engledow, a Texas native now living in the Maryland suburbs of D.C., is the creative force behind a series of " World's Best Father " photos. The images depict Engledow with his daughter, 2-year-old Alice Bee, in a variety of hilarious - and unlikely - circumstances. In one New Year's-themed shot, Alice Bee and her dad pour champagne into side-by-side towers (Dave pours into champagne coupes; Alice Bee into plastic baby bottles)

Six finalists were announced Wednesday for the 2013 Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize - and the prestigious award is edging more toward alternate media than it ever has before. The candidates in the running to win the eighth annual award include two documentary photographers, a video artist, a photographer inspired by anonymous tweets, and two sculptors who specialize in large-scale installation art. There's nary a traditional painter in the bunch. The finalists are: Gabriel Bulisova, a documentary photographer and multimedia artist based in Washington; photographer and video artist Larry Cook of Landover; sculptural installation artist Caitlin Cunningham of Baltimore; Nate Larson, a faculty member of the Maryland Institute, College of Art who photographs the locations of tweets sent by mobile phone; documentary photographer Louie Palu of Baltimore and sculptural installation artist Dan Steinhilber of Washington.

Spring is here. It officially arrived on Wednesday morning at 7:02 a.m. What does it look like? On March 20, between the hours of 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., The Baltimore Sun will chronicle a day in the life of Baltimore. We want to see how you spent the first day of spring. Picture This, Baltimore is back. Show us how you work, play and go about a day in the life. Of course, I really want to see what you're cooking and eating. Baltimore Sun photographers will select their favorite photos, which will run in the March 25 Sunrise section of The Baltimore Sun. How to submit your photos: • On Instagram and Twitter, tag your photos with #picturethis13 • Upload photos directly to our photo gallery here #sigshell { padding: 10px; float: left; width: 320px; height: 52px; margin: 20px 0px; display: block; }

Paul Edward Kennedy Mullan, a photographer who made headlines as a foundling discovered in a Towson apartment vestibule, died of a brain tumor Feb. 27 at his parents' North Baltimore home. He was 34. The story of his first days filled news columns in January 1979. The Sun reported he was discovered near the vestibule mailboxes of a Towson garden apartment near Towson University. Days old, he was wrapped in a plaid blanket and dressed in a J.C. Penney shirt and a diaper held together with Scotch tape.

As Baltimore continued to come down from the euphoria of the Ravens' Super Bowl win, superfan Michael Phelps took to Instagram this week to show the special access afforded an 18-time Olympic gold medalist. On Valentine's Day, Phelps posted pictures of his dogs, Catahoula mix Stella and English bulldog Herman, posing with the Lombardi Trophy. “Champ and champ!!!” Phelps posted under the color photo of Herman, sidling up to the gleaming silver football. Phelps, a regular presence at the team's big games and in its post-victory locker rooms, did not mention how his pooches got so close to the coveted trophy.

I've been told the two most important things on your wedding day are the DJ/music and the photographer. This post is dedicated to my photographer! Although we've never actually met in person, I'm obsessed with the photographer that will be capturing our wedding and can't wait to see the shots she gets. Now, if you know me, you know that I have a few rules when selecting vendors. They're very simple but easily broken. And if you break a rule, you're out. My Rules: You must respond promptly (if you can't get back to me, then I can't trust you)

Solomon T. Hurwitz, a retired advertising photographer and lithographer, died of apparent heart failure yesterday at his Northwest Baltimore home. He was 82.An East Baltimore native and City College graduate, he was self-taught in his professional skills.Drafted into the Army during World War II, he talked his way into a transfer from an assignment as a baker to photographic work. He became chief photographer at a military base in Bermuda and attained the rank of technical sergeant.After the war, he was hired by Mar-Matic Sales on the recommendation of a brother-in-law, Joseph Mignogna, who was working there at the time.

A Mass of Christian burial for Thomas C. Krieger, an award-winning photographer who specialized in portraits and pictures of such family events as weddings and bar mitzvah parties, will be offered at 9 a.m. tomorrow at St. Matthew's Roman Catholic Church, Loch Raven Boulevard and Woodbourne Avenue.Mr. Krieger, who lived on Providence Road, died Saturday at the age of 40. He was taken ill that day while working at his studio on Sayward Avenue in the Towson area, about a month after a brain tumor had been diagnosed.

Rosemary E. Allulis, a lawyer and world traveler who was also a photographer and musician, died Tuesday of liver cancer at her Villa Cresta home. She was 52. "She was a genius. She had a fast mind and was such a good writer," said Sidney Friedman, a partner in the Pikesville law firm of Weinstock, Friedman & Friedman, where Ms. Allulis had worked since 2008. "Whenever you gave her an assignment, she immediately turned it around. She was so good she could have clerked for a Supreme Court justice," he said.

Lewis R. "Lew" Bush, a photography director whose career at The Baltimore Sun spanned nearly two decades, died Friday of complications from dementia at his home in Palm Coast, Fla. He was 80. "Lew was skilled at his trade and knew cameras and film back in the days when we didn't have what we now have today," said John H. Plunkett, a retired Baltimore Sun assistant managing editor. "His job was not easy. He was up early and stayed late into the night. " Lewis Richard Bush was born in Miami and raised there and in Asheville, N.C. His family eventually returned to Jacksonville, Fla., where he graduated from Robert E. Lee High School.