Young Seniors for the win!

I am hitting up the seniors this year! And no not your grandmother. We are talking High School Seniors, seniors with attitude, seniors that are not interested in the typical hat and gown. Seniors with spunk and know what they want in life!

I had the chance to hang out with three very awesome girls last week and do some sock rocking photos! This is Megan and she knew how to make the camera work for her! Watch for more photos later this week!

“Babes” on bikes!

I’m off to Cape Breton for another wedding tomorrow. I’ve been to Cape Breton a total of five times this past summer shooting a variety of weddings, environmental portraits and just generally going on a variety of adventures.

I have to say this past summer has been pretty amazing for me and Karen. We shot in total 17 weddings, 24 family portraits, five child portraits all the while running the studio which has been incredibly busy for the summer months and living our lives. Things have been pretty great.

I still have three weddings left to the 2009 wedding year, but tomorrow I view as the last wedding of the wedding season. I am looking for the short period of Sept to take a break, vegetate a little and just generally decompress from the go go go pace we have been living.

In the mean time while I pack for the trip I leave you with Aiden. Last weekend we had the opportunity to hang out with this little guy. He loves bikes as you can see, there is no doubting that.

My photo friends wedding

This past weekend we went up to Cape Breton to spend some time with our good friend Kelly Martell and partake in her special day with her special guy. I offered to help shoot her wedding along with Erin Dibben and Mark Ramsey. Between the three of us I am sure the photos she will get will be pretty over whelming. The weather held off just long enough to make the day absolutely perfect.

Congrats Kelly and Walker!

Help Portraits! 12.12.09!

A few hours and several e-mails later we are in full fledged go mode! Fellow photogeniuses and my self are planning a huge hoopla at the studio December 12 2009 in accordance to this video. Ideally we are inviting members of the community who may not be able to afford a full fledged family portrait session to come down to the studio and have your wonderful faces photographed by a slew of absolutely amazing and talented photographers.

In the coming weeks we will have more details! But in the mean time if you would like to help out in anyway let us know. We are looking for anyone to give us a hand. Make up artists, hair stylists, Assistants, caterer type people…anyone. If you think you can help us to make someones day special then drop me an e-mail!

Mark and Tina sitting in a … corn field

I’ve met the occasional wedding couple who will come to me to speak photography but sometimes just don’t see them selves in my photos. Be it the price, the place or even the shot, they just can’t see them in the photos. I have to say that it is one of the most important things about wedding photography, well any photography really. You need to be able to see your self in those places, in those poses and looking just damn good.

That’s actually the secret to great photos, no really it is! I can position the light where ever I like, change the depth of field to what ever I please. But if you don’t want to be there in that photo looking absolutely fantastic then that photo is going to turn into trash.

My photos turn out great because I have great clients. They are fun, exciting and just a little bit crazy…just like me I guess. Mark and Tina are no exception of course! We drove up to the valley where they live, ate smoked salmon off the BBQ and had an amazing home cooked meal before going out to shoot.

Did I ever mention I love my job?

Level up!

We spent last week on vacation in the Cape Breton Highlands. Now we where not up there for fun and games the entire time. We did shoot two weddings after all! The first wedding of course was the lovely Luchador photos, and the second was with our good friends Clint and April. Fun times where had by all! Of course they where had by all, we were in Cape Breton after all!

Gorgeous country side, gorgeous couple…what could go wrong? Well we being the evil villains we are, we had a lot of plans up our sleeves!

We met them Saturday down at LeNoir Forge on the Isle Madame in Cape Breton. We did a couple fun family photos and then when no one was looking we kidnapped them in our chariot (Santa Fae) to fly about the tiny island a google (it’s a number. really) of awesome photos where ever we could sneak into. Isle Madam is very very tiny place! Every where we went Clint and April knew somebody. We got a lot of calls from across the road, and horns honked everywhere we went!

Eventually we had to return them to their loved ones of course and the night carried on into an awesome reception! And the rest is history!

Woohoo!

The Family Tree

Another fantastic shoot with a fantastic couple! Of course because I only shoot with the most fantastic of people…

Clint and April had a special tree in a special park under a special sky in which he popped the big question. Obviously we headed back there to take a few quick photo and get to know them better. They even brought us muffins? Now come on, how much better can that be?

After checking out their tree we took a little stroll and it was clear to see that this couple was excited to get married because they could not keep their hands off each other. Next time we will have t bring alog a little spray bottle.

I am pumped to shoot their wedding on Saturday…mmm maybe they will have more muffins.