Thirteenth Collection

This picture has been taken in the wonderful setting of the castle"Attendolo Bolognini" in Sant'Angelo Lodigiano,Lombardia. In this photo, I managed to capture a happy and very important moment of the wedding of Barbara e Marco. The lovely way in which Barbara stares at her daughter.I love telling the wedding in the same wait is felt by the bride and groom, just to say in a climate of spontaneity.In this picture, in particular, it is strengthened by the presence of their daughter that makes even more special the most important day of their lives.

The Hague, The Netherlands. This photograph was shot in Grand Hotel Amrâth Kurhaus The Hague. The original plan was to do the couple shoot on an outside location. 24 hours before the shoot plans changed drastically due to bad weather forecast. September can be cold with rain and a lot of the wind in The Netherlands.Without any pre-preparation, we headed to Kurhaus.
I am still amazed how well the couple dealt with the last minute changed plan an circumstances. The hotel staff helped us very well to do our job without disturbing the hotel guests. In the end, we managed to shoot a series of beautiful images for the couple.

This picture was taken on September 25th, 2015, during the wedding of Mohammed & Shaza at “Mir Amin Palace”in Lebanon. Mir Amin Palace Hotel offers 19th-century splendor for a perfect wedding or time away from the hustle and bustle of city life. A courtyard with flowing fountains and plush landscape, overlooking the mountains and more than 20 villages. We waited for hours to get the specified daylight passing through the window, and once we found the best moment, we captured the bride fixing her dress in a very natural way. And this was the result, a black and white picture captured at the right moment and the right amazing place.

This couple loves Amsterdam as I do and while we walked to our next location to the canals I wanted to stop at this particular spot. It was quite busy and we had to move back and forth due to traffic and buses crossing the street. After I had set my camera ready I told them to move quickly to their spot so we can take the picture. What the bride-to-be loves most about this picture is that in the background you see the bank building her parents worked most of their lives and that her late father is in this way remembered in this special picture.

Michalis and Efi, are in love with each other very much. They are also in love with wild nature and for this reason, we chose the Delta of Evros, a few kilometers away from Alexandroupolis in northeastern Greece, for their wedding's "next day" photo-shooting! This magical place, with its unique sense of freedom, is worth every photographers visit!

On a very, very hot day, Tine & Timo got married. This lovely, young couple had their wedding ceremony and photo shoot in the beautiful gardens of the medieval castle in Moerkerke - Belgium. We were already at the end of the session when Tine wanted to cool down her tortured and overheated feet. She kicked off her shoes and walked on the cool stones in the shade of the willows. With the sun in front of her, I just had to throw myself instantly to the ground and capture this intimate moment.

This photo was taken in the cloister of Santa Chiara in Naples, a uniquely beautiful cloister completely decorated with hand-painted majolica tiles. Gabriela e Giancarlo is two splendid people. I have loved them for their style and discretion. In this photo, I’ve tried to show their special and real love.

What a beautiful vintage wedding on the famous day, on May 15, 2015 Pim and Madelon got married. The whole day was epical and everything was just magical! I took this photo just after the ceremony, at the beautiful villa called Marialust in Apeldoorn.

St. Louis Union Station Hotel, which is a DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, is one of my favorite places to photograph Couples, because of the gorgeous architecture and detail of the building. The St. louis Train Station opened on September 1st, 1894 as the largest – most beautiful terminal in the United states! However, in March of 1979, it was purchased for $5.5 million and reopened in August of 1985 as a Hotel. The reason I love photographing couples here is because of the Romanesque arches, barrel vaulted ceilings and stained glass windows. While photographing my Bride: Teddi Moorman, one of the Union Station employees happened to be walking by. I grabbed him and asked his permission to photograph him as our groom. He graciously agreed and the connection between Tom and Teddi was amazing!! You would never know they had just met! As apparent in this photo, there was more than just a “pose” going on!

The reason this wedding couple wanted to take pictures in this lovely park, was because they fell in love in this park on a classic white bridge. The picture was inspired by Ryan Brenizer.

When I was taking this photo, my idea was to let the bride's dress melt and blend into the snow colored waves. So I turned around and said to the bride, "Come up, I'll take a good photo for you!" And without a single doubt in her mind, she climbed up onto the rock with me. When the waves hit to dampen her body, her reaction was to my surprise, she wasn't fearful or screaming, but instead gave me most perfect smile, allowing me to complete this photograph! I am very thankful for her trust in me, she is the best bride that I've met!

Many photographers are against shooting at high sun, but I just Love it! It’s always a challenge to do something different in bright sun. You need to put all effort to show up the story in a different view. Andreas and Ines, a lovely couple from Austria came all over to the Croatian cost in the city Savudrija to promise eternal loyalty. Waves of the sea, hot sun, and almost 40degrees celsius created the unique moment of bride and groom walking down to the pier.

I made this image as the Bride arrived at the ceremony, which was being held in a winery in Cornwall. It’s technically a very simple shot, on an 85mm lens, but sometimes simplicity is the best approach. What struck me was the calm, hopeful, serene look on her face as she looked on at some of the guests waiting on her arrival. She isn’t actually looking directly at me, but just past me, and this is a completely unposed moment; I was hiding in amongst the guests waiting for the car to pull up. The window light is soft and makes the Bride pop off the darker background and framing of the car. A simple, gentle moment amongst the hectic-ness of a wedding day.

Towards the end of the day when the sun was setting in beautiful Negril, Jamaica, the bride and groom and I headed down to the ocean near some cliffs to take some photos. The waves were violently crashing up against the cliffs surrounding a small cove and I decided to have the bride and groom stand on one cliff as I made my way to another cliff across from them to get the entire scene on camera. We waited a long time to get this shot, as I was perched on the very edge of the cliff to gain a different perspective and went through getting soaked a couple of times by waves before getting this image! I knew the second that I took this shot, it would be my favorite and it really is! It's everything about the warmth, beauty and excitement of being in Jamaica! Needless to say, I am soo lucky to have clients who were willing to literally put themselves on the edge of a cliff with waves crashing up on them on their wedding day. It was just such an amazing way to end the day.

This picture was taken in Martinique (Caribbean sea). That day, the sea wasn’t very clear and even if the sun was there, there was not much light underwater. The only possibility was to achieve this pic near the water surface to have more light. I asked the bride to remain underwater during this time, i asked the groom to dive from a small fisherman boat to create depth to pic. Isn’t too easy for the Bride to stay underwater because the dress rises to the water surface.

The location of this gorgeous affair is one of my favourites in Scotland, Errol Park Estates. There's a variety of backdrops there; from the beautiful sweeping drive to the authentic mansion house, the whole place is a throwback to another era. This photo was taken towards the end of our couple session. I always encourage my newlyweds to take a little stroll together on their own, it gives them a chance to revel in the moment and enjoy some time away from guests! While chatting and re-living the day, Sigrid and Juraj stepped into the light at just the right time, their eyes only for each other. The sun, the couple and the location were just perfect.

It is a pleasure to capturing moments of love like the wedding is. A wedding day is one of the most important days in our lives and everything should be perfect this day, but the only thing that we can’t arrange is the weather. This photo was taken at small but lovely wedding of Lubica and Ondrej in the small homestead Ujezd u Planice near Pilsen in the Czech Republic. I used two flashes, one behind couple for lightening rain drops and one small flash in the umbrella for lightening bride and groom from the top. It is one of my favorite wedding pictures.

We found this amazing location just by a lucky chance. We had a two hours trip to make this shooting in Navarra, Spain, and before reaching our thought location, we saw the tree trunks and the snow surrounding it, and we just got astonished and went for the perfect shoot. The reflection of this amazing couple was captured with a little pool on the floor. I knelt down and tried to have a nice composition with the couple, their reflection, the tree trunks, the little tree and the sky.

This picture is of a postboda in Geneva, this is exactly Lake Leman, in a small jetty. The sky was very cloudy, almost raining, and gives a special touch. This report has a special value, is the wedding of some great friends, Josean & Luciana.

This was my first time in Costa Rica and it met all expectations and more. The bride and groom, Kortney & Chris, were walking hand in hand down the beach together. I love giving couples a breathing moment after the ceremony and before we start photos so that they can soak it all in. As I was walking behind them, changing my lens, I notice how perfect the whole scenery was and how that one tree and the open blue sky and water engulfed them. I dropped everything and began shooting. This set of images was the Bride's favourite of the whole bunch :)

The inspiration for this photo was the couple’s wedding theme: Taking the Plunge. Little did they know, that would be a shockingly apt interpretation of their wedding weekend as Texas saw record rainfall that month. Their custom outdoor wedding site was completely washed away repeatedly, leaving the wedding professionals scurrying frantically until the very last minute to set up the 600-guest reception site. But that’s neither here nor there. Wesley and Keller wanted to do underwater portraits, and we excitedly obliged, as we love every opportunity to do something out of the ordinary and get creative. We shot this at the bride’s parents’ house in the Fort Worth area. Right on the lake, they have some breathtakingly beautiful property, complete with an outdoor pool. So we had the location. The bride ordered an inexpensive, second-hand dress, and the groom wore his old tux. Most underwater portraits are taken during the day with natural light, but we wanted to give our clients something unique and different. So we set up a series of strobes and shot at sunset and nighttime. Shaun majored in photography, so his extensive light training made this a quick and easy setup. It was the off-camera lighting that gives this image the ethereal quality it has — the glowing bubbles, the shadows cast on the bottom and sides of the pool, the contrast. We used the ewa-marine underwater bag for watertight protection, and Shaun dipped underwater with the couple to get the shots. We did need to coach the couple through breathing and keeping their faces relaxed, but the bride is a dancer and therefore needed to coaching whatsoever on body placement. That was all her! The couple used a series of underwater photographs for a custom, fold-out save-the-date, and we couldn’t be happier with how the finished product turned out!

I’d already made some portraits with Hannah and Simon earlier in the day, but during the wedding breakfast there was some amazing light outside. So after setting up a couple of flashes I asked them to come outside for another couple of minutes for some more portraits. The light was fading fast and we finished in a couple of minutes, but they then decided to practice their first dance. I left the lights set up and just shot what was happening - unposed and totally natural.

I really enjoyed capturing this image. My main objective was to show brides how beautiful & elegant a "Boudoir Bride" can be. In addition, I wanted to show how a "Boudoir Bride" can be done on the day of the wedding. There is no need for lots of props or over the top surroundings. All you need is the bride & her dress!

It's a classic!!! And a moment everyone expects on a Peruvian wedding. Gabriela tossed her bouquet so gracefully, with both hands, no looking back and really straight into the hands of one of her friends. This was an amazing wedding on the countryside of Lima city, full of light and love, and of course so much fun. Gabriela and Jorge made such a beautiful and unique couple and I loved to photograph their day so much.

The photo was taken in the Lake District, Cumbria at my favourite time of day, just as the sun was deciding to retire for the day. My Bride and Groom had mentioned to me a ‘beauty spot’ about 5 minutes away from their wedding venue, so we jumped in my car and took a little drive. The beauty spot is called Surprise View and looks out over Derwentwater, Keswick. I’d never been there before and needless to say, I was quite happy when we got up there. I wanted to show a sense of scale and remoteness in the image and have them framed in amongst the trees and set against the expanse of water.

The photo was taken at the end of the wedding. Their wedding was unfortunately moved indoors because of rain and she was disappointed that most of the earlier pictures had to be taken inside, to where I responded, "then let's grab an umbrella and go out! It doesn’t matter now if the dress gets dirty and wet” And we made beautiful art shortly after.

Andrej & Cecilie, two young Norwegian spouses, have chosen Tuscany for their big day! They celebrated their wedding in a medieval Castle with all their relatives and friends. In a romantic and intimate moment, one stolen shot.
Andrej & Cecilie perfectly inserted in the Tuscan countryside, everything perfect ... as their marriage!

This work has been done in Sintra, a natural site in Portugal. Taking advantage of the last rays of sunlight filtering through the branches and playing with orange plastic front of the lens.

Photo was taken five minutes before the wedding. I had one (only one!) opportunity to freeze the moment. From a 5th floor and holding my breath, i wait and shoot when only a car was crossing the street. I think composition is the key of this photo. Badajoz, Spain.