Playing Cards and Couch Potatoes

  

 I find lots of photos like these.  Three people, minus the photographer which would make two couples.  In these two photos, the men are the same, but the women are different.  It looks like the ladies were passing the camera, between them. 

Desolate Places

 

 I'd love to know where this picture was taken and what it took for these two ladies to get there, dressed as they are.  The woman on the left is wearing a veil, at least when it's blown up, you can see netting over her face.  And the woman on the right is holding a folding camera.