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<blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 830385" data-attributes="member: 53455"><p><strong>Falling into the southern Italian N’drangheta Mafia love trap..? (2015)</strong></p><p></p><p>Photos of a wedding taken in Ravello, one of the most picturesque (and wedding-perfect) places on the Costa Amalfitana (southern Italy). To the casual observer of things, this looked surprisingly like a death trap into which an unsuspecting English rose was walking as she was getting married to some up-and-coming N'drangheta heir. On this photo, you see the sacrificial lamb with her brother (looking uneasy) and two other English guys at the back, while the two Mafiosi brothers frame the shot: the groom next to the bride, and his own brother to the left. Of course, all of this is probably just a figment of my imagination... And yet...</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]416608[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p>And in the one below, you see our unsuspecting (and if so, very naive!) English rose in a brotherly embrace with the groom's younger (and much less tough-looking) brother, the only one of the Italians who genuinely seemed to care for her, as if he knew what she was walking into and knew he would do his best to protect her, however unsuccessful he thought his attempts would be... As before, this is probably only my Agatha Christie imagination at work... Probably.</p><p></p><p>I wonder what has become of those people, almost 10 years later. The fact that the wedding should take place on the groom’s territory and not the bride’s should already have alerted those guys...</p><p></p><p>Both photos Nikon D810, Carl Zeiss Apo-Sonnar T* 135mm, ƒ/2 ZF.2 lens, manual focus. Handheld.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]416609[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blue439, post: 830385, member: 53455"] [B]Falling into the southern Italian N’drangheta Mafia love trap..? (2015)[/B] Photos of a wedding taken in Ravello, one of the most picturesque (and wedding-perfect) places on the Costa Amalfitana (southern Italy). To the casual observer of things, this looked surprisingly like a death trap into which an unsuspecting English rose was walking as she was getting married to some up-and-coming N'drangheta heir. On this photo, you see the sacrificial lamb with her brother (looking uneasy) and two other English guys at the back, while the two Mafiosi brothers frame the shot: the groom next to the bride, and his own brother to the left. Of course, all of this is probably just a figment of my imagination... And yet... [ATTACH type="full" alt="51200631620_dea509a9a7_o.jpg"]416608[/ATTACH] And in the one below, you see our unsuspecting (and if so, very naive!) English rose in a brotherly embrace with the groom's younger (and much less tough-looking) brother, the only one of the Italians who genuinely seemed to care for her, as if he knew what she was walking into and knew he would do his best to protect her, however unsuccessful he thought his attempts would be... As before, this is probably only my Agatha Christie imagination at work... Probably. I wonder what has become of those people, almost 10 years later. The fact that the wedding should take place on the groom’s territory and not the bride’s should already have alerted those guys... Both photos Nikon D810, Carl Zeiss Apo-Sonnar T* 135mm, ƒ/2 ZF.2 lens, manual focus. Handheld. [ATTACH type="full" alt="51200631785_449faa2f61_o.jpg"]416609[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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