At the end of a five hour trash the dress session w Fraser + Jen we found ourselves in the woods with a setting sun and 4 feet of questionable mud and water between us and the place we needed to get to. There was also the question of ‘how are we going to get […]
When I was in university at SMU I was looking for part time jobs in the summer months and one of them was at a recycling center over in Spryfield. I saw an ad in the paper, called them up and the guys said, “yeah come on over for an interview”. So I roll up […]
I can almost guarantee you that Sarah’s dress was cleaner at the end of her Trash the Dress shoot than it was at the end of the the night on Saturday. To be honest with you, I think Trash the Dress is kind of a bad name but its certainly started a lot of discussion. […]
i have such a good story for you about these guys but it’s late and I’m chasing a rising sun in 4 hours so here are a few grabs from a wedding I shot last Saturday in Annapolis Royal.
Sarah and Ryan decided not to do an engagement shoot and instead opted for a Trash the Dress shoot with…chocolate and Boston Terriers (stay tuned) so I didn’t really get a chance to shoot with them before their wedding 2 weeks ago. We had met a few times and the day was planned perfectly to […]
wanted to get a few up before the guy from the newspaper did!
Tony + Mireille got married in Digby this time last year. It was a shoot I’ll never forget, taking photos on a rotten train bridge 100 feet over a river. Mireille was pregnant at the time. Since then they’ve had Nathan and Tony delivered his own son on the stairway in his house as they […]
I’ve got some really fun images to post from Sarah + Ryan’s wedding 2 weeks ago but I had to put a few of these up first. We kept driving passed this huge canola field in Okotoks all week and each time we drive by I would say to Marse “I just need 10 minutes […]
I had been shooting a lot of boudoir the last few months and what we all end up talking about for days and weeks after is the actual shoot itself. Its become so much more than just a few photos. There’s always a nervous buzz of anticipation for the first hour of preparation. Nirah’s outfit […]
When I got a call from Roseanne at Wedding Bells last year to tell me I was going to be a part of the Top 25 Inspiring Wedding Photographers in Canada I was overwhelmed. It was an honor to be on the list with some of the super talented and creative photographers on that list, including […]
Malcolm Gladwell (I’ve mentioned this before) wrote about how a plane crash doesn’t just happen because of one error. Most times its a combination of several (7) things that bring down a plane. So if 7 errors bring down a plane, what would something simple like running out of tomato juice do? Would anyone notice? […]
For the last two weddings I shot, both brides cried and did that really cute wavy thing with the hand in front of their eyes. Not as they walked down the aisle. Not during the vows. Both brides cried when they walked into the reception rooms to see what Avril Mulholland, of Update Events, had done. […]
I think it was sometime last year that my friend (and fellow Caper) Scott McIntyre designed a fine art, black and white wedding album for his clients. I just thought, “wow thats incredible”. Its got the be the right wedding in the right place with the right look to pull that kind of album off […]
I was running late for Julie + Aaron’s engagement session and Jessica was running a little behind as well. So I sent Julie an email and said I’ll be 30 minutes late. See you at 7.30. As we roll into this incredible lakeside cottage on Queensland beach Julie says, from behind a glass of wine, […]
Do you own a wedding dress? Is it somewhere wrapped up in a box under a bed? Have you ever wanted to voice your opinion about Trashing the Dress? Check out the Trash It or Treasure It discussion live online at Smart Boutique tonight at 9pm Atlantic time. Here’s a few images and the PEI […]
I first met Michelle at a wedding (Sarah + Matthew Pickup) about 2 years ago. A group of people were outside of the reception hall ‘refreshing drinks’ and I happened to grab a photo of her that remains one of my favorites to this day. It was just a candid shot but it totally summed […]
I was lucky enough to spend a fair bit of time with Kim + Keegan when they booked me to shoot their wedding. They were willing to be guinea pigs for anything I wanted to do with them for a studio engagement shoot. So with both of them having some military background we decided on […]
at the risk of contradicting myself…I really like it when couples will say, “we’re up for anywhere you want to take us”. I had been driving passed this underpass for months, every time pointing to whoever was in the car with me that I really wanted to shoot there. so we shot there with Lyndsey […]
I know I sound like a broken record but I love the creative collaboration with clients for engagement shoots. I always tell everyone these are ‘no pressure, anything goes’ kind of shoots. Deb + Kevin wanted something a little sophisticated and contemporary for the engagement shoot and they suggested ONYX as a possible location for […]