Like my marriage to my wife and the birth of my children, this is just one of the eye opening things that helps change the direction of my life for the better.

Enjoy.

I’ve heard some pretty good engagement stories but this one is always the one I tell people about.
It’s becoming a tale. An urban legend. Its hardly believable. How could one man be that romantic and sensitive?

Well, my friends, Kevin is that man. He and Carolyn have been together for a long time and so as a part of his proposal he wrote 7 letters that directed Carolyn to 7 places. Each place representing a time in their past. The letters eventually led Carolyn back home, still completely unaware as to what was actually happening and Kevin was waiting w the diamonds.

There was no question in my mind what we were doing for an engagement shoot. I wanted to see these 7 places and hear the 7 stories. So over email we planned out a few locations and one of the addresses happened to be 6969 somethingorother st. I assumed the hard part would be trying to bring up that I had an idea that was, well, sixtyninish. It turns out they could not execute this idea that they were totally into. The headstand was the x factor I had not considered. Nor did I consider the possibility of road construction which would re route traffic so this headstand would need to be performed in front of heavy traffic full of people who wanted to get home for supper. We couldn’t resist a little video…and the image we grabbed the split second before the collapse.

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Well, I’m a liar. I love it and I just found out the other day that Jessica (my lovely assistant) does too. So you can expect to see a lot more of this in the months to come. I’ve cashed in Lola’s education fund and bought some glide tracks, tripods, wireless mics and handed it all over to Jessica and said, “Here, figure this stuff out”.

The video below is a little project that I did with Jeff Cooke and Heather Crosby-Gionet and a plethora of amazing brides, bridal shop owners and artists in Prince Edward Island.

Thanks to everyone involved. It really was one of the most memorable shoots I’ve ever been a part of.

Trash the Dress Prince Edward Island from Applehead Studio on Vimeo.

If you don’t have a site…you don’t have a business.

So I apologize for the down time and confusion as we make a few changes to the website and blog.

There promises to be lots of new and exciting features like 3D images, swim up bar and a VIP lounge for those of you who like to hang out here throughout the day.

thanks for your patience.

this made me laugh…i love it.  very ‘Son of Man’

why are they so glum? One wants chocolate and one wants wine.

here’s how the day unfolded. try not tappin your toes to this…

Lola Jean and the Cocoa Bean from Applehead Studio on Vimeo.

Big thanks to Jeff Harper for his help leading up to this and to Jason LeFrense for his late night critique and pistol whipping.

While I won’t be pulling out the video at this years weddings, I do plan to incorporate some of it into engagement shoots, the Crazy Booth Experience, Trash the Dress shoots and any other interesting shoot I can get myself into.

The best part of this new little ‘hobby’ is that its fun. it forces me to think in series of events as opposed to just mere split seconds. it just opens up a whole new world of opportunities. Wait until you see what’s in the works next…

So anyway, here it is in all it’s blury, underexpose, overexposed, unwhitebalanced, shakey, choppy glory. My first video.

6 wedding photographers. 10 minutes. 4 random, unplanned locations. go.

Untitled from Applehead Studio on Vimeo.