It has been some time since I last posted a message on my website. The reason for my delay can be found in the last picture of the series below. Yes, that’s right! I’m getting married!
It didn’t happen as planned though; Adrienne and me were supposed to build an igloo in the Swiss mountains under a guide’s supervision and spend the night in our own creation. In my mind that would have been the perfect place to propose. Snuggling together in a cosy, self built hut made of snow, candle light, it doesn’t get any more romantic than that… But just a few days before we would go Adrienne got an email saying that there wasn’t enough snow in the mountains to build the igloo. To make things worse, back in Holland newspapers were reporting that kids were building igloo’s on the streets!
So I quickly had to come up with a plan B. I booked a hotel in Bellinzona, a nice small town in the Italian part of Switzerland surrounded by three castles. In the evening, in our regular hotel room, with regular heating and regular lamps, I went down on one knee an proposed.
Even though it wasn’t the most romantic location it was still a very nice moment, and most importantly, she said yes!

 

I have added a “Portrait Portfolio” link to the navigation-bar on the top of my site.

Inspired by an exposition of Harmonie Juliana, Mariëlle wanted some pictures of her and Ralph with their musical instruments in a similar setting. I was happy to comply and together we made some very serious works of art.

 

Bin asked me to take some pictures of her a couple of weeks before her due date on the 5th of December. Of course this was a nice challenge and I happily agreed to do so. Bin and Arjen preferred black and white pictures so I used Nik’s Silver Efex plugin to give the pictures a more authentic look.