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I enjoy taking pictures, and I have photographed weddings aplenty. But there is one apparent trend I had not ever heard of: proposal photographs. Fellows about to become engaged hire photographers to hide somewhere in a restaurant, a park, or where ever the ring is to be given (possibly lighthouses or ancient Spanish forts) to snap a picture the instant the girl accepts the proposal.

My initial surprise is that guys even thought of this. I am the most sentimental man in the world, and I had a camera handy when I proposed to my beloved, but it would not have occurred to me to hire a paparazzo to record the event. My second thought, rooted in devilish Schadenfreude, is that I hope someone is collecting the candid photos of proposals gone wrong. A Flickr group consisting of disgusted or bewildered girls rejecting men on bended knee might be funny.

Filed under: Musings, Photography on September 20th, 2007 | No Comments »