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174 siting futurity surroundings, such as one of water mounted on the boat shed and one featuring the church tower in China mounted in a park- ing lot looking out over the original church. At the most popu- lar spot in town for taking portrait photographs as it provides a stunning mountain backdrop, one found a photograph of a Chinese wedding party, with a photographer photographing a wedding couple with his helper holding up a large reflector to ensure proper lighting for the wedding photographs.12 While it used to be rare to find wedding couples among the Asians tak- ing pictures of each other at this spot (I can provide much docu- mentary evidence for this claim), the opening of Kazim’s report from October 2018 indicates that that is changing: Eine junge Chinesin schreit auf. Ihr ins Haar gesteckter Schleier wurde von einer Windböe erfasst und ins Wasser des grün schimmernden Sees geweht. Dahin das Hochzeits- bild! Der Bräutigam schimpft, auf Mandarin, man kann nur ahnen, was er sagt. Derweil versucht eine Freundin, die Braut zu trösten. Es ist ja nur ein Fake-Foto — die echte Hochzeit wird noch in China gefeiert, wo dann die Bilder aus Hallstatt den Gästen gezeigt werden. [A young Chinese woman shrieks. The veil that was attached to her hair has been taken by a gust of wind and blown into the shimmering green lake. The wedding picture is ruined! The bridegroom curses, in Mandarin, one can only imagine what he’s saying. In the meantime a girlfriend comforts the bride. It’s only a fake photo, after all — the real wedding will 12 There is much evidence that wedding photography features prominently in both Hallstatts. In Raidel’s documentary, there is a wedding photography scene, in which the reflector for lighting ends up occupying the entire screen. Fischer-Schreiber also comments on the popularity of weddings in Hallstatt See in the “Hochzeitstrubel” [“Wedding Whirlwind”] part of the report of her visit, in which she deems Hallstatt See “eigentlich eine ziem- lich gelungene Kulisse” [“actually a quite successful stage set”] (Fischer- Schreiber 2014).