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Bridges in Venice: with or without love padlocks?

A bride and groom stand close together, smiling at each other in a portrait. The bride is in a white strapless dress, and the groom is in a dark suit and tie. They hold small keys as their photographer captures the moment against a backdrop of a building beneath a blue sky.
Russian couple throwing padlock keys in the channel during a wedding photo service in Venice
A young Russian couple lately hired me as their wedding photographer. Once the Orthodox ceremony was over, I shot some photographs of the couple walking in Venice and locking a padlock on a bridge.

A recent trend all over Europe has couples affixing padlocks on bridges as a symbol for their ever-lasting love. In Italy this habit was influenced by Federico Moccia’s novel “I want you” which has two young lovers fixing a padlock on the Milvio Bridge in Rome and throwing the key in the Tiber.

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A romantic photo walk with a married couple: Love is not Time’s fool

This 5-year-long Russian couple treated themselves with a photo walk in Venice and I had the chance to shoot very romantic photographs.

“Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments

Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an

ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken”

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Wells in Venetian squares: nice ‘accessories’ for photo shootings

A couple in black and gold medieval costumes poses with masks in front of a canal, creating a striking portrait. The scene, perfect for a wedding shoot, features colorful historic buildings and bare trees, hinting at a winter or early spring setting.
couple sitting on a well in Venice during steampunk photo reportage
This couple hired me for shooting a steampunk story in Venice and they had a photo portrait shot with a well on the background.

 

There are at least 600 wells in Venice: most of them can be seen in the middle of the squares while others are inside courtyards or gardens. The former were mostly public wells (even if they were often built thanks to the ‘sponsorship’ of rich families), the latter were private ones.

 

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Shooting a steampunk love story in Venice: a photo walk in fantasy outfits

couple photo portrait for a steampunk story staged in Venice
This Russian couple hired me as a portrait photographer to stage a steampunk story in Venice: they wore outfits combining Victorian-style garments with technological accessories.

Have you ever heard of steampunk fiction? It is a literary genre that flourished in the mid 20th century and includes works by H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, Philip Pullman, Scott Westerfeld, and China Miéville. Steampunk stories combine a strong fascination with steam-powered technologies, backgrounds typical of the 19th British and American industrialized societies and futuristic traits. Continue reading “Shooting a steampunk love story in Venice: a photo walk in fantasy outfits”