Photography | ORANGE CITY, IA


Josy Gommers, an 18-year-old Dutch exchange student, and her boyfriend, Andrew Stienstra, volunteered to help re-create the classic shot from “Titanic,” where Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet stand with their arms outstretched at the ship’s windswept prow.


The Orange City version is on a grain silo.


“It was a perfect night,” Gommer said. “No wind. The sun was just going down and the sky turned all these different colors. There were a couple clouds. We were up there maybe an hour until the sun started shimmering a bit, and then it went down.”


The young couple went down, too - after they changed out of their clogs. There were other photos, too, like the one of the girl racing through town on a motorcycle, her apron flying behind her. And the shot of Burg’s step-daughter, Maria Plueger, water- skiing in her fancy hat and soggy wool dress.


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“People in all the other boats were staring at her like, ‘Is this some sort of Amish family?’” her mother, Lisa Burg, said.


But no matter how bizarre the situation, nearly everyone Clement asked to pose accepted his invitation. (One town leader decided it would be a bad idea to be photographed with three masked men smoking cigars in front of the Masonic Lodge.)


Even Liza Schouten agreed to help and volunteered her week- old daughter, Summer. The older Schouten slipped on a hospital gown and her own pair of clogs. The younger Schouten wore a pair of tiny decorative clogs Clement found in a souvenir shop - and a layer of ultrasound jelly for that freshly born look. “It was a fun thing to do,” Liza Schouten said, speaking only for herself. “(Summer) was crying until she peed, and then we couldn’t get her to cry again.”


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