Shooting Germans

"I shoot people. Then I take them into dark rooms and blow them up."-Anonymous

Relax yourself. Yes I shot the Germans. But I did it with my Nikon D90 and a zoom lens. Sebastian and Luciana Zerm, Uncle and Aunt to my favourite baby girl (seen here eating raspberries), were kind enough to allow me to do a belated wedding photo shoot. They got married in Germany and came to Canada for a short visit. Between their German humour and my hard to understand accent, we had some fairly entertaining moments. Before we started, Sebastian told me several times that he was just so excited. I told him that's good and smiled and carried on with whatever I was doing. After about the tenth time, and him showing me his shaky hands, I realized that he meant nervous, not excited. Oops. "You're nervous? Haha! Good! Just what I like to hear."

Usually when I am shooting people, instead of posing them I tell them to "just be". I have a need,that I blame on my uncle Robin, to photograph people in their natural, unposed state. However, Sebastian and Luci's home language is German. So as I attempted to calm their modeling nerves with "Don't be nervous, just be" I sent Luci running, screaming "A bee!! A bee!". Cristina, her sister, ran in the opposite direction, "Waaaah. I hate bugs. Waaaah." Sebastian bravely stood his ground and brandished the lacy white umbrella, swinging it heroically at the menacing, non-existent bee. In spite of our faulty start, we did end up with a few nice shots.

Beautiful, happy Germans.

Right after the "bee". Look how well they composed themselves.

On the Quesnel walking bridge.

Awwww.

The shoes.

The bouquet.

Definitely not the best quality, but it is one of my favourites.

Sebastian's nerves have left him and his personality starts to take over.

Haha.

On a dock with Luci's older sister, Cristina.

Through the veil.

Lovely People.