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A16 LOCAL
Monday 14 May 2018

Aruban born and bred Steve Francees has a passion for photography. Being a local photographer he knows the hidden
gems of this island and captures them in an amazing way. As a Family and Landscape photographer Steve is ready to
create your next ‘vacation memories’, morning and/or sunset shots. T: (297) 738-0777, M: stevefrancees@hotmail.com,
www.instagram.com/stevefrancees and www.stevefrancees.com

Traditional house How to look good in vacation
pictures

Here in Aruba we do have something very special on our houses and that is the decoration
on the outer walls of the houses. It’s a tradition and recently a Dutch student came to Aruba
to do a research how come we do have designs on our houses. This house is located in
“Piedra Plat” that means “flat stone”.

Night at the beach As a photographer my job is to let you look good and we all know

we all gain extra kilos on vacation and vacation weight does not
count but it can be seen in pictures. Here are four tips. First tip is
to always have a straight up spine, do not bend or don’t look like
a palm tree. Second have emotions in the picture like having fun
and have expression on your face, emotions always kills extra kilos.
Third, always have your chin up and a bit forward and this will kill
the double chin. Fourth, have one leg before the other one. This is a
picture of Lena I took last week using these 4 tips.
Downtown Aruba

This is a very local tradition and as kids this was one activity we were looking forward to. We
still do this every month at least 2 times. Families get together to dine on the beach and just
talk and have fun. If you want to do this, please remember that it is against the law to grill/ This is a place you don’t go at night because all the stores are
BBQ on the white sand, this is not possible. Do the grilling somewhere else but not on the closed but it’s very nice to walk downtown at night. The shot I took
white sand. December 2015 and things have not changed since then.