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Wedding Robin and Mae in Antwerp

And now for something completely different. I recently photographed a wedding for our friends Robin and Mae. I hear you thinking: but I thought you don’t photograph weddings? Almost correct. I just do it for friends and family — and people who beg me. Robin has been a very good friend of ours for a long time. He didn’t have to beg. He is a friend, not only to Sophie and me, but also to our boys. He was also the most eligible bachelor we knew. So when he called us from Antwerp: I’ve met someone and we’re getting married — and you’re all invited! it took us less than half a second to decide we were all going!

“To photograph a wedding well, it helps to fall in love with the bride a little.”

And what a party it was! Mae, his Philipino bride is warm and beautiful. The weather was fantastic. We did a photo session in the morning in the park by the Middelheim Museum. The afternoon began with the church service, in the magificent Sint-Carolus Borromeuskerk. It was followed by a reception, a dinner and a fantastic party.

I don’t photograph many weddings. Not that I don’t enjoy it, but it’s hard work! I have the greatest respect for fulltime wedding photographers — I couldn’t do it.  A friend of mine, a really good wedding photographer in his own right, whispered me the secret one time: it helps to fall in love with the bride a little! That has actually turned out to be pretty good advice. If you like the bride, the wedding is easy. If you don’t… it’s a tough job.

Falling in love with Mae was no challenge at all :-). It was easy to see how our good ole’ friend lost his heart to this warm, compassionate beauty. The wedding was a real reflection of who they were: a perfect blend of Cypriot fun, catholic reverence and compassion (both Robin and Mae are actively involved with a catholic mission to the poor and marginalised), and Philipino fun, good food and laughter. High points for me were when Robin started throwing the roses from the wedding cake into the audience, and when he and Mae started dancing and singing to ‘Now I’ve had the time of my life’ (Dirty Dancing), Oh yeah, and when my boys started dancing… Boy, they can dance!

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Best idea of the day: Mae had a wedding dress with a zip. During the day it was a beautiful long dress. But in the evening she just unzipped a part, stepped out, and it became a great dress for dancing. Now why didn’t someone think of this before?

Just to explain a thing or two: Robin is from cyprus. And so we did some fantastic greek line dancing. So fun to be not just a photographer and to get to dance! And dance we did. My wife and my boys (and me) partied till my feet hurt. Here’s a picture of Sophie, Judah, Joel and Joshua with his girlfriend Rio.

Headshot, Portrait with one of my favorite writers — Brian McLaren

Brian has been one of my favorite writers since 1998. Brian is also a friend — someone who has helped me make sense of (my) faith in a rapidly changing world. I know he not just done that for me, but for many, may people. Today Brian was in Holland and I was asked to take some publicity photo’s of him. Of course I was only too happy to oblige.

The full picture set is on Flickr.

RSM gala for MBA International students Erasmus University

Last Saturday I had the privilege to photograph the RSM gala for students of the International MBA program at Erasmus university — and I do mean ‘privilege’. I also photographed this gala last year and was ever so pleased with the result. Well, it turned out, so were they. Several of the guests commented to me how they loved last year’s collection.

This year the set up was a little different. There were almost twice as many guests, meaning there were two floors for the gala. Also, this year the guests had been forewarned that ‘the same photographer as last year would be present again’ and ‘he is available to take your photo.’ Well, that made quite a difference! Last year it really took a whole before people wanted to be photographed. This year I was barely in the door and I was swamped with requests already. I barely had a moment to myself — just a brief one when I sampled the wonderful deserts :-).

Again, people loved the quality of the images they saw on the back of the camera. They kept coming back for more. People took the opportunity to have me shoot a special portrait of them. As much as possible, I tried to take headshots and full-body shots. After all, everybody looked just amazing in their evening wear. As I always tell people when they like my picture: “it’s really difficult to take a bad picture of good-looking people…!”

I photographed with two different set-ups: I brought my Elinchrom Ranger RX and shot with umbrella. I also used my Nikon SB-900 on a stand with Nikon’s CLS system, aiming it at the ceiling and using it as a reflector, while dragging the shutter. Truth is I liked the second set-up better. I think the black marble floor makes for wonderful reflectiions.

The whole set of images is on OYPO so everyone can order their own favorites in what ever size and type of print — including wall paper and printed T-shirts.

Lots more pictures after the jump! Remember to click on the photo’s to see them larger and sharper!

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