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Hey there! I am a wedding and lifestyle photographer from Edmonton, Alberta who specializes in laid back, timeless, and modern portrait journalism for the coolest of people around!

This blog-site gives you a window into both my personal and professional life. Here you will find images from the weddings and portrait sessions I shoot, places I have been, and friends and family members. This blog-site is also a source of information for potential clients, and to give them a peek into my life and a sense of who I am. Enjoy your stay, and please look around!

Archive for September, 2008

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Amazing Autumn Wedding – Krista and Dale

September 29, 2008

 

 

This was an amazing wedding! The weather held out for us and allowed us to take some amazing photos out at Kristas parents farm south of Edmonton. The incredible reception took place at the Red Tail Golf and Country Club out by the Edmonton International Airport.  With such an awesome location and a super good lookin’ bride and groom, my job was pretty easy for the day! On to some photos!

 

 

I’ve been doing the veil shot a lot lately. I don’t know why as I used to think veil shots were kinda cheesy. But they’ve been working out for me lately.

 

The car door shot – another shot I don’t do to often as is rarely works out for me. Someone always seems to be in the way. 

 

Probably my favorite shot of the entire day. Here we have Krista walking down the isle, looking over Dales shoulder. I love the emotion in this shot.

Just a nice solitary shot of Krista. I snuck this shot in between the legs of two groomsman.

 

Just a simply classic shot of the flowers.

 

Mother nature gave us no rain. But she gave us wind. Krista and Dale were real troopers for toughing out the cold.

 

At last, a photo of Dale. Another classic relaxed portrait I like to take.

 

Here we have another star of the day. The youngest bridesmaid.

 

Cold and windy. I still got a stunning relaxed portrait. The trees look almost painted in.

 

Just zooming out a little bit.

 

And some hay. Not an easy thing to work with, but challenging. 

 

And finally, just a simple casual close up.



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Krista and Dale’s Engagement Photos

September 22, 2008

Hello! It was a crazy filled weekend of photo taking! I won’t be blogging any photos from Saturday until I even begin editing them. I have so much work from wedding related editing to do first. However, I am going to blog todays engagement shoot, as they are quite a bit quicker to edit and sort through.  Today I shot Krista and Dales engagement photos, and their wedding is next weekend! They actually weren’t going to have engagement photos but they changed their mind when they saw the engagement photos of their friends Sheri and Michael, whose wedding I will be shooting in February. Krista and Dale were an fantasitc love-duo to photograph! Enjoy the photo’s below.

I get asked every now and then, “how come it can take so long to see my wedding photos? Isn’t it a matter of just throwing the images on a disc the next day and giving them to us?”.  This would be nice wouldn’t it?  Even back in the days of film, you would drop off all the rolls of film from a wedding. And even though the photography didn’t do any editing to them (yet), it can still take a long time because the labs staff color corrects and adjusts each photo individually. Now, keep in mind they have STAFF to do this. Then you have to account for even more time to do an heavier editing afterwards if needed. I shoot digital, so therefore, the images end up on my computer for me to do all the color corrections, and other tweaks. I don’t have staff to do this. If I did, my prices would be even higher!  After all the color corrections and tweaks, the job is SO not over.  Unlike a lot of other photographers, I full edit EVERY photo I am going to deliver. This means, any artistic changes, black and white conversions (not as easy to do as you think…at least properly), facial retouching for the portraits. It’s an insane amount of work and can be mind numbingly boring at times. But this is a premium I like to give to my clients – I don’t want to deliver unfinished photos.  You see a shot a certain way before you take it, and in it’s digial raw format it is not a finished photograph.

That’s all!

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Thea and Doug: Kicking Horse Mountain Resort

September 16, 2008

I’m really tired right now – i’m still with lack of sleep from this weekends out of town wedding. I have to much work to do, and I wanted to get this post put together before I get to bed.  As some of you may already know, I was at Kicking Horse Mountain Resort this weekend, it was quite a treat!  I hung out with Thea in highschool, so when I found out this year that she was getting married when she asked me to photograph her wedding I was very ecstatic. Out of the first four photos below, I also hung out with the first three in highschool. Everyone went separate ways after university, moving out of Edmonton, so it was and extra treat to be able to see everyone again. 

I love these photos. The backdrop was easy to work with, the sun was bright and warm. It was a dream to have a chance to shoot directly into the sun on the top of a mountain. Enjoy the photos below! I apologize for messing up on the sizing of the landscape shots, but I would rather go to bed right now that resize them all over again. 

Have a great time in Greece and Italy, Thea and Doug!

 






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Mavericks win gold!

September 15, 2008

This wedding I shot a wedding for an old highschool friend at the top of a mountain at Kicking Horse Mountain Resort that was just absolutely amazing.  But, that post can be saved for later.  I made it back to Edmonton 45 minutes before game time to coach our Mavericks to win first place! Sorry if you came here looking for wedding photos, but instead you get to see the girls who all played perfect.  Our indoor season before this outdoor season was dismal – we won one game.  We made up for that this summer.  From left to right, starting in the back. Me, Chantal, Lindsey, Christy (hat trick today!), Captain Jules, Alysson, Kathleen, Elisa, Samantha.  Bottom, left to right: Karen, Janelle, Lane, Tara, Kristen, Mel, Ang.

Ladies, sorry. Some of us look pretty goofy in this shot – me especially. Trust me, it was the best of the bunch.

 

 

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Kicking Horse Resort, Golden B.C!

September 13, 2008

Hello! I’m posting this from the Palliser lodge in Kicking Horse Mountain Resort, just outside Golden, British Columbia.  We arrived yesterday afternoon, and since then my assistant Erin and I have been just hanging out. And by hanging out I mean editing photos and other business related work. Last night we took an hour and wandered around the resort area and took a few photos until its started to rain again.

Today we are shooting Thea and Dougs wedding, and we start shooting in two hours. Their ceremony and reception is taking place at the Eagle Eye which requires a gondola ride to the top of the mountain. I’m not to good with heights, but I will just have to suck it up!

I’ve been to this Resort before. We came here last New Years with our friends Jenelle and Patrick for some snowboarding and skiing. It’s really cool to be back here again, eat at the same restaurant, and see the place without snow. At least this time I don’t have to make the seven hour drive back to edmonton with a sore butt (second time snowboarding, not easy)

Stay tuned for a blog post of Thea and Dougs wedding in the next couple of days!

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