Pieter Van Impe - International Wedding Photographer || Internationaal huwelijksfotograaf

New website online - Please update your bookmarks / RSS feeds

Pieter — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:59:57 +0000

My new website is online, and because of that you can consider this website as old & retired .

Please surf to my new website, blog & Facebook page & let me know what you think of it!

Why is it so quiet here?

Pieter — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:57:48 +0000

Lately people are asking me more and more frequently if I’m still shooting weddings … Well, rest assured, I’m very busy shooting all my 2010 weddings at the moment!

The reason it has been so quiet on this blog is because off all the work on my brand new website & blog. Bare with me for a little while longer, and normally somewhere next week you’ll find a post here with a link to my new website & shiny new blog

Thank you all in advance for your patience & confidence!

greetz,

Pieter

This was 2009 - Weddings - Slideshow

Pieter — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:15:18 +0000

At the beginning of every new year lots of news papers publish an overview of the last year. 2009 Wasn’t exactly the year where I updated my blog a lot, so I still have a huge backlog of weddings that I haven’t showed you all. I’ll be posting some on the blog in the near future, but just to make you all drool a little bit (and also as a memory for myself, because 2009 was a wonderfull year filled with amazing couples, beautifull weddings & lots of very emotional moments) I made this short slideshow.

Turn up the volume & click the Play button to enjoy this short trip down memory lane. Enjoy !

Amaryllis & Bart - Wedding - Brugge : longest preview blogpost ever!

Pieter — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:52:41 +0000

I hope you have some time to take a look at this preview from Amaryllis & Bart’s wedding, cause this couple is a-mazing !!!!! What’s that ? You don’t have time ? Then make some !!! You won’t regret it

Amaryllis & Bart : thank you, thank you, thank you, I had the time of my life !

I’ll be posting their slideshow very soon, with a little write-up of their breath taking wedding day.

Enjoy !

LIME wedding workshop by Mike Larson & … me :-)

Pieter — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:31:53 +0000

Last Sunday was a big day for me. I was presenting another LIME workshop (check out Squeezethelime.com. As you might know this wasn’t the first time I did this, so why was that day so special ? Well, I was presenting it together with the famous american wedding photographer Mike Larson.

Mike was on tour through out Europe together with the nice people of California Sunbounce and was willing to stop at the Barn on Sunday to join me in presenting a workshop for 26 wedding photographers that came from all over : Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Norway, … It was so cool to see so many people present, all so very eager to learn & improve their craft !

In the afternoon we split up our guests in two groups op 13 and we went out to shoot. Griet & Jochen, friends of mine, where so kind to drive all the way from Kortrijk to Steenokkerzeel to pose for Mike & me. It was their first modelling experience ever which made them a perfect couple to show the students how I go about shooting a couples session.

All the shots below where taken using only available light, a Sunbounce pro & a Sunbounce mini.

Thanks to everyone who came out to our workshop & for all the positive feedback. I’m looking forward to seeing you all grow into even better photographers !

Also a special thanks to Jochen & Griet for driving all that way to pose for us ! We also had a second couple posing, but I’ll post those pictures later

Enjoy !

Els & Kevin - Londerzeel - Wedding

Pieter — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:00:40 +0000

After a few weeks of being ill & a heavy case of the flue it’s time to show you some new photos Today I chose Els & Kevin’s wedding from the big stack of “already processed but still to post on the blog-weddings”

Enjoy their warm love & happiness on these less sunny days.

Kim & Wim - L-Style session - Antwerp

Pieter — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:34:11 +0000

Wow, what a weekend Saturday I shot an amazing wedding, Saturday evening I drove to Amsterdam (in the Netherlands) to attend the première of the snowboard movie “Basic Stuff”, then I slept three hours before heading to Belgium Digital Live, a big photography event, where Bert Stephani & me presented 2 workshops to over 125people. I’ll probably be posting a report later this week.

To satisfy your hunger for more images (for now) I dove into my huge stack of not-yet-blogged-shoots. Tonight I’m presenting you to Kim & Wim who asked me to shoot an L-Style session so they could decorate their new home with cool images. As location they chose for Antwerp, where we made a long walk that produced the images below as a result. Enjoy !

Liesbeth & Ben - L-Style session in Mechelen

Pieter — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:44:34 +0000

When I was editting Liesbeth & Ben’s wedding today, I suddenly realised I still hadn’t shown you their engagement session! A couple of months ago I shot their civil wedding in Mechelen. Once they where officially married & we could legally call them husband & wife, we went for a walk through Mechelen to shoot their engagement session (yes, I’m aware of the irony of shooting their engagement session moments after they got married :p )

I’ve shot in Mechelen on multiple occasions and it keeps surprising me every time! It’s a city filled with fun corners, great buildings, cute squares. Add to that Liesbeth & Ben and you get a really entertaining walk with some awesome shots as a result !

Soon I’ll be showing you their wedding images, but for now enjoy their engagement session !

Sarie & Nicolas - Wedding session - preview

Pieter — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:26:45 +0000

I hope your airco is still on stand-by, because although the temperature outside has become bearable again, this wedding preview from Sarie & Nicolas’ wedding will, without a doubt, make the room temperature rise a few degrees

For now I’ll let my images tell the story, I’ll tell you the story when I put their slideshow online (teasers : Aalst, carnaval, old acquaintances )

Enjoy !

Isabelle & Filip - Wedding preview

Pieter — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:49:41 +0000

Apparently my blogging frequency went way down this year, in part because of a busy summer & also because I decided to enjoy a few music festivals & a couple of mini-vacations. Last year I shot almost 50 weddings and at the end of 2008 I was very close to burning out. I give myself 100% on each and every wedding and that takes a toll on both your mind & your body. This year I’m making more time for myself & my friends and I like it

This summer I went to Rock Werchter, went to France for a week to shoot the Ultimate Snowboarding Summer Camp (I’ll be posting the pics later on) and I attended Feest in het Park for 4 days. I had the best of times & enjoyed every minute of it!
Enjoy life people, it’s way to short!

This way of living seems to irritate some people : I recently got an email from a colleague informing me that some people are posting untrue stories about me on certain internet fora … That’s not something fun to hear, but instead of letting it get to me I decided to take it as a signal that I must be doing a good job since I’m making people jealous It’s actually a shame for those people that are wasting their time writing these things about me, instead of spending their time on their own photography/friends/family, but hey, thank you for spending that free time on me

Enough about all that, I’m guessing you are all here to see some wedding images so let me present you to the amazing Isabelle & Filip. I’m meeting them again tomorrow afternoon when they’ll be picking up their slideshow, but today I’m already showing you all a short preview!

Their wedding was a home game for me : their civil ceremony took place in the town hall of Erpe-Mere & their Christian ceremony was in the church in Mere. It was a big luxury to arrive at the brides home after only 3 minutes of driving & to be able to drive to every location that day while blindfolded
I’m shooting quite a lot of weddings in Antwerpen, Limburg, West-Vlaanderen where I need my gps for every move we make. Well, not that day

I hope you all like the results, and from now on I’ll be trying to blog at least once a week, hopefully even more !