• Our latest lovely young couple, Jennifer & Erik, were married earlier in the day and then came to meet us for some afternoon portraits in the park before heading off to Whistler for the weekend!
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When we first met Laura & Henry, one of the first things we found out is that they are now living in Ontario, so shooting our usual engagement session before the wedding was not in the cards. Luckily, their tea ceremony was a couple of days before the wedding, so we did have a nice chance to go to a nearby park beforehand and get them comfortable with the type of photographic attention they'd be getting on wedding day! :)

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• We love shooting in Stanley Park, and here's a sneak peek from Laurie & Jon's wedding last week where we went down to the beach since the weather has finally been getting better lately!
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• We recently had the pleasure of photographing Eva & Carl's wedding!
  
  The ceremony was held at a gorgeous little seaside location near Britannia Beach just off the sea-to-sky highway.
  
  For a sneak peek of some images from the day, please use the scroll bar below.
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  Eva's aunt graciously loaned her art gallery for the getting ready portion of the day.
  

My client needed some updated headshots and although it was a little cold outside, we decided to do the session in Yaletown since the sheer variety of locations makes for great headshot backdrops almost anywhere you go!

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• Networking with local photographers and cinematographers is a wonderful thing. Through my friend Jordan, a local filmmaker, I had the chance to join their small group for a meetup where they were testing out some of the latest tools that they had picked up. As a still photographer, I was pretty mesmerized by all the goodies that they brought, like HD monitors that fit in the hotshoe of the camera and have many interesting features like false colour for measuring exposure and edge peaking to help with focus. Somethings, like the LED video lights are already being adopted by photographers as well. Jon (reluctantly) volunteered to model for us while we tested some of the gear. Here's my belated shout out to the gang for letting me tag along! Thanks guys, all of whom you can find on twitter: @jdog23 , @phoric ,@mattdrake123 , @stevetan , @klimlevene , @jonrawlinson
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Lisa and Rich helped us start of the 2011 season earlier this year, after flying in from the States to get married in beautiful Vancouver ... except that Vancouver wasn't cooperating.   Luckily, Lisa's radiant smile warmed things up and it turned out to be a great wedding!

I've also been trying out more collages lately.

Maya has the big beautiful kind of eyes I could take photos of all day long.  Such a busy family, it took a long time to organize our shoot, but the wait was worth it!  

It's been awhile since I last blogged, so I thought I'd get 2011 started with some colourful photos from Illuminate Yaletown. It was raining on Friday night, making photos a little difficult while holding my umbrella & monopod, but once you're into it then you stop worrying about your gear.

I've put a few favourites below, and I've got a few more on the Flickr set.

Here is the main website for more information about the event.

Great installations by all the artists involved!