{"id":33,"date":"2006-07-09T08:19:09","date_gmt":"2006-07-09T07:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk:80\/paws\/?page_id=33"},"modified":"2007-01-13T07:27:40","modified_gmt":"2007-01-13T06:27:40","slug":"week-26","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=33","title":{"rendered":"Week 26: Anna &#038; Geert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anna and Geert both work at the company which I manage. They are both great employees (Anna in marketing, Geert in finance), and great fun people to be around. They did not meet at work&#8211;in other words, they were already an item when they came to work for us last year. <\/p>\n<p>So, when they asked me if I would photograph their wedding, it did not take me long to say yes. The wedding was a civil ceremony, presided over by an official of the town of Eindhoven, and held in a special facility used for this purpose, an old house in a park. Like many Dutch weddings, this was a very non-pretentious and informal affair, as will be obvious from the clothing. This is not the country of rehearsal dinners and going into debt to finance a party&#8230;So, here are the pictures. The images are presented chronologically, starting before the ceremony and ending at the reception in the evening. <\/p>\n<p>Geert gets some last-minute advice from his mother:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/26.jpg\" alt=\"4962\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 16-35mm L Canon, ISO 200)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Anna&#8217;s father speaking during the proceedings:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/26alt1.jpg\" alt=\"4988\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 35mm L Canon, ISO 800)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Rings are exchanged:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/26alt2.jpg\" alt=\"4998\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 35mm L Canon, ISO 800)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And then down to business:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/26alt3.jpg\" alt=\"4997\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 35mm L Canon, ISO 800)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Signing the marriage papers:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/26alt4.jpg\" alt=\"5007\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 35mm L Canon, ISO 800)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The couple look at the <em>trouwboekje<\/em>, a little book which contains a record of their marriage and has space for recording child births etc.:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/26alt5.jpg\" alt=\"5021\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 35mm L Canon, ISO 800)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A glass of champagne is served once all the formalities are done:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/26alt6.jpg\" alt=\"5036\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 35mm L Canon, ISO 800)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Geert compares rings with one of his friends:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/26alt7.jpg\" alt=\"5048\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 35mm L Canon, ISO 800)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Anna and Geert leave the wedding hall:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/26alt8.jpg\" alt=\"5059\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 24-70mm L Canon, ISO 400)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Behind the building is a designated photo location with a meadow and a lake and that kind of thing. So we headed there for a few pictures:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/26alt9.jpg\" alt=\"5065\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 24-70mm L Canon, ISO 400)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>These were the only pictures where I actually told Anna and Geert what I wanted them to do. The first is a standard pose, making sure that an ugly sign behind them is not visible:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/26alt10.jpg\" alt=\"5067\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 24-70mm L Canon, ISO 400)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And then I asked them to goof around a bit, which came very naturally for this couple:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/26alt11.jpg\" alt=\"5071\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 24-70mm L Canon, ISO 400)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Later, in the evening, a garden party was held at Anna&#8217;s parents&#8217; house about 60 km from Eindhoven. As is often done in the Netherlands, a song was written for the occasion and Anna and Geert were properly serenaded:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/26alt12.jpg\" alt=\"5108\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 35mm L Canon, ISO 1600)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anna and Geert both work at the company which I manage. They are both great employees (Anna in marketing, Geert in finance), and great fun people to be around. They did not meet at work&#8211;in other words, they were already an item when they came to work for us last year. So, when they asked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":61,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}