26 June 2008
25 June 2008
The Village Wedding - 19 - the cool guy
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24 June 2008
The Village Wedding - 18 - the conversation
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23 June 2008
The Village Wedding - 17 - the mother of the bride's house
Posted by Jilly at 14:49 11 comments
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22 June 2008
The Village Wedding - 16 - the mother of the bride
Posted by Jilly at 14:20 17 comments
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21 June 2008
The Village Wedding - 15 - the secret
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20 June 2008
The Village Wedding - 14 - the onlooker
To answer questions: No, I wasn't the official photographer and no, I wasn't an invited guest either. Like this lady, I was simply looking on - but in my case, snapping away as I walked around or stood and also stared. Sometimes it was hard to tell who was a guest and who was a villager. Everyone enjoyed it though, especially me!
I respected the centre of the square - and the reception itself - and walked around the outside - the 18-zoom lens on my camera doing all the work. Of course, many people were taking photographs so it was fairly easy to get lost in the crowd.
(I'm in the USA at the moment - Westerville, near Columbus, Ohio - later I'll be in Utah - so big apologies for lack of comments over the last week and thanks so much to everyone who is commenting on my blogs. I really appreciate them. I hope, from today, to slowly start commenting again provided Internet access allows it).
Posted by Jilly at 13:41 15 comments
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19 June 2008
The Village Wedding -13 - the girls
Posted by Jilly at 13:24 6 comments
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18 June 2008
The Village Wedding - 12 - the beautiful child
This little beauty had just picked two geranium flowers (pelagonium) and put them behind her ears. I asked her father if I could photograph her and he proudly agreed. She smiled as you see, for the smaller photograph.
I prefer though the main photograph which I took a minute or so later - a rather wistful look.
Posted by Jilly at 13:45 15 comments
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17 June 2008
The Village Wedding - 11 - the dress
Posted by Jilly at 14:31 14 comments
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16 June 2008
The Village Wedding - 10 - the mouthful
Posted by Jilly at 14:23 9 comments
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15 June 2008
The Village Wedding - 9 - the waitress
Note: The Frugal Traveler from the New York Times featured Monte Carlo and Menton recently. Click on the link read about Monaco and then see a video of Menton. Thanks so much to Alden for this information.
Posted by Jilly at 13:27 13 comments
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14 June 2008
The Village Wedding - 8 - the guitarists
Posted by Jilly at 13:29 11 comments
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13 June 2008
The Village Wedding - 7 - the look
Posted by Jilly at 13:17 21 comments
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12 June 2008
The Village Wedding - 6 - the shoes
Nathalie features a wedding - always fabulous photographs from Nathalie - on Avignon Daily Photo today.
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11 June 2008
The Village Wedding - 5 - the broken foot
The climbing plant is Trachlospermum Jasminoides, by the way.
Posted by Jilly at 10:06 16 comments
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10 June 2008
The Village Wedding - 4 - the reception
See Sally from Sydney Daily Photo in Monte Carlo today! Please click on the link.
Posted by Jilly at 18:16 6 comments
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09 June 2008
The Village Wedding - 3 - walking to the square
Sally and family (Sydney Daily Photo) are still asleep....zzzzzzzzzz
Posted by Jilly at 07:23 15 comments
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08 June 2008
The Village Wedding - 2 - the ceremony
Meanwhile, I'm off to Arma di Taggia's railway station in Italy to collect Sally (and family) from Sydney Daily Photo. That's about an hour and a half away. Why aren't I collecting them at Menton railway station? Well - they've found a 250 kilo bomb near to Ventimiglia station and this afternoon all roads in and out and of course all trains are disrupted from 1.30 p.m. to 7 p.m. so there are no through trains from Italy to Menton. 8000 residents nearby have been evacuated. Anyway it takes more than a 250 kilo World War II bomb to keep Sally away!
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07 June 2008
The Village Wedding - 1 - outside the church
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