I no longer have a girlfriend… …because I now have a fiancée! We’re currently on holiday in the Italian Alps. When I mentioned our plans for our summer vacation to kleinbl00 he went “you know, being proposed to on a lake in Como is pretty storybook” and I was like “you’re not wrong that’s for sure”. Proposing had until that point been an idea for a future day, but we’re still going strong after five oftentimes turbulent years. So after finally finding a ring two days before we left, carrying it in my camera bag where she wouldn’t have any reason to look around in, finding to a gorgeous green lakeside pergola in a beautiful village on Lake Como, and her mentioning how romantic this place is, I tell her I’d love to make a video of us with my new camera to capture this wonderful place and go down on one knee. She was completely surprised and elated. (And she loves the ring! Phew.) I’m still surprised it worked out as well as it did. I even got the video exactly the way I hoped. Not that that matters too much, but it’s the cherry on the cake that I got both the composition right as well as the technical settings that I wanted (6.2K, 30fps, shutter at 1/60 with my variable ND filter and the Eterna Fuji film setting). It helps that my new Fuji camera has been a joy to (learn to) shoot with.
Marriage is fantastic. I got so tired of "girlfriend" not reflecting my level of commitment. Congratulations, veen :)))
Thanks! Went to a few jewelers, they seem to be quite used to Yet Another Clueless Guy to Sell a Ring To. First a few visits to explore what’s possible, what’s expensive, what looks good and what doesn’t. I ended up going with the local jeweler, their limited selection of pretty nice rings was good to narrow down the choice.
I love that you spent as many lines of text on this as the proposal itself. Congrats!!!I’m still surprised it worked out as well as it did. I even got the video exactly the way I hoped. Not that that matters too much, but it’s the cherry on the cake that I got both the composition right as well as the technical settings that I wanted (6.2K, 30fps, shutter at 1/60 with my variable ND filter and the Eterna Fuji film setting). It helps that my new Fuji camera has been a joy to (learn to) shoot with.
p.s. I don’t know why Italian road designers have decided vehicle clearance is one of the things to let go of when building roads in rural areas, but I hate it. The amount of near-misses with buildings, trees, and other road users in my regular width car that I really don’t want to scratch has been too damn high.