Wedding photos - Astrid & Ruud

Check the middle photo. I just love it when something unexpected happens. We were walking to the railway station in Haarlem when out of the blue this florist spontaneously offered a flower to Astrid. I was walking heavily laden a good bit behind the couple when it happened but I managed to get a string of photos that eventually ended up in their wedding album. This photo has everything you could ever wish for

I love bright vibrant colours so when I saw this green wall of the restaurant where we held the photo shoot for Henk & Elvera, I just had to take some photos against it. The shoot was in the Avifauna bird reserve (www.avifauna.nl) Got some shots with penguins and flamingoes but the wall shots were my favourites. Improvising again, we got some nice shots of Mark & Alice outside the brightly coloured doors of a disco.......(it was a dreary day, so this got some colour in to the shoot)....

miscellaneous Wedding Photos (3)

Catching the moment is priority 1 during the whole day. Couples nowadays don't want the standard stuff and posing is a bit of a taboe. It's about putting the couple in an interesting location and just letting it happen. The bridesmaids started to peek around the corner at the bride and groom kissing....all I had to do was encourage them to keep looking and compose the shots correctly. You have to nudge spontanity sometimes ;-) Big red Ferraris look good in photos, add a matching umbrella and it's all go. Getting the bride into the big red 'low' Ferrari can make for spontaneous shots!!

Miscellaneous Wedding Photos (2)

As you can see, I'm always in for a funny photo. Check out two of these photos. One at the end of the reception where somebody had finished cutting the cake and just plunged the knife into the cake. Very macabre. And what about the photo of the groom tying his shoelaces on the steps just after the couple get married. He turns away to tie his shoe laces and his new bride gets a kiss from one of the best men. Nice! I'm a photographer and a story-teller! The top photo shows the groom cycling past the hairdressers where his wife-to-be waves as he passes. Sometimes you have to set things up......

Miscellaneous Wedding Photos (1)

It's been really too long since I updated my blog so instead of blogging per wedding couple, I've added some of my favourites over the last few months. I hope you like them

Wedding photos - Wouter & Famke

Wouter & Famke were married in Nijkerk on a beautiful summer's day in July. They both married out of their parent's house, so I managed to get photo's of both preparations. Of course Wouter (as are most bridegrooms) was ready in a flash, most of the time being taken up with his tie (as most bridegrooms). The shoot was at an old pumping station in the polder. They are a spontaneous couple as the photos show!

Wedding photos - Joost & Joanne

Off to Arnhem, this time. First stop after snapping the preparations was the John Frost Bridge ( a Bridge too Far from WW2) for the first photo shoot and then on to the Open Air Museum. There are so many great places to take photos. The got married in a small church (Zeeuws kerkje) in the grounds. We then moved on to Park Sonsbeek for a buffet meal and family reception. The weather was great and so were J&J!!

Wedding photos - Simon & Eva

This time a wedding near at hand. In Amsterdam. I walked in pouring rain from railway station RAI to the hairdressers to meet Eva and from then on to their very nice appartment quite nearby. It was obvious that Eva was having a ball, she was laughing and enjoying herself so much. Simon turned up in a Citroen Traction Avant from my old friend Johan Hoogland from car-hire firm Total Trip. Simon & Eva had so much humour the whole day, with never a dull moment.

Recent Photo Shoots

Time to publish two recent photo shoots. Daniel & Tara Jane's shoot a few weeks ago and Ingrid & Ron's family shoot in Weesp. Daniel & Tara Jane are getting married this week and I'm doing the honours.

Damaris & Michael

The wedding was held at one of my favourite locations - Hotel Hooge Vuursche in Baarn. We spent the whole day there, so no travelling in between times, just photos, photos, photos! The weather was great and so were Damaris & Michael - a really nice couple and lots of fun! In the last photo, I pretented to be moving some guests away for the photo - Damaris was the only one who had a peek to see what I was up to!!

Cherry's Photo Shoot

Here are four of what I think are the best photos. Maybe Cherry has other ideas - go check her blog!
Shoot was near the Amstel Park in Amsterdam......lots of graffiti and plenty of gravity!!! ha ha. Brian