Tag: Italy

Amalfi’s town square is immediately in front of – and below – the cathedral.

We had just been uninvited “guests” (but welcomed) at a big, cheerful Italian wedding.

There was no shortage of invited guests, but once they stepped down into the (very public) square they were comprehensively outnumbered by tourists.

The featured image captures the moment when the wedding photographers’ barrage had just ceased, at 6.21 pm.

Now relaxed, the wedding party was about to descend the steps from the cathedral to Amalfi’s town square.

At 6.20 pm on 07 September 2023, the wedding party’s group photos were taken.

I was standing several steps below the front of the cathedra, on my right-hand side of the steps.

As is obvious in my photo, the “official” wedding photographers were all standing well to my left.

Shortly before the “proper” wedding photographers set to organising the wedding party’s “group” photos, I descended a few of the cathedral’s stairs.

I dislike posed, “1,2,3 – everybody, say cheese!”  photographs, and am usually bored witless by them.

However, watching what goes on around the taking of such photos is another story – often, a much more interesting one.

As you’ll see in this series’ next chapter, the amused “boy blue” – “off camera”, or so he imagined, at the moment that only my camera was pointed at him – would soon be summoned to the top of the stairs, along with other members of the wedding party.

The photo below looks up, shortly before the “proper” photographers and wedding party were ready for the “group” picture-taking.

At 6.18 pm on 07 September 2023 the newly-weds looked out into the early evening air, and down to the large number of wedding guests who had spilled out onto the cathedral’s steps and across the near edge of Amalfi’s town square.