July 29, 2010

under the bridge downtown vII

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 waited for the ambulance.

About 4 months ago I got an email from both of them within a few days. Tony wanted to surprise Mireille w a canvas and Mireille wanted to surprise Tony with a family shoot. I’m the worst secret keeper in the world and they dropped 2 on me.

This was one of those let’s just meet and make a plan kind of shoot. I was tryin to find the way under the bridge and kept ending up on dead end streets so we looked for the shadiest dude in the neighborhood and figured he’d know. he did.

I absolutely love shooting w these guys. I also had all kinds of pent up photography from not shooting the last week and a half…and I had all my gear back from repairs…and a spankin new 4th flash…and Jessica, of course. As we lugged gear out of the woods she said, “we should get a donkey”).

At the end of the night Mireille handed me her wedding dress and said, “Here, Trash the Dress”. I never thought I’d be the proprietor of 3 wedding dresses. That’s 2 more wedding dresses than Marcia.

So speaking of wedding dresses…

I’m currently working on a gargantuan bridal boudoir shoot with the insane and talented Jeff Cooke and Jason LeFrense near the end of August. As far as we know it’s never been done before…but we need your help. If you’re a bride and have your dress and you kind of feel like being involved in something that surely you will tell people at every wedding you ever go to from here on in…send me a message and we’ll send you the facebook group with the death defying details. There will be no dresses harmed in this project.

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July 27, 2010

10 Minutes w Lola + Canola

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 in there”. Of course this was when we were on our way somewhere and it just never worked out. Finally, 2 days ago, Mom and Marse went antique shopping and I grabbed Lola (Daddy didn’t even bother to comb her hair) and headed up to the field.

A 2 year old in 4 foot high canola didn’t turn out quite like I expected so I recruited Marse after a little ice cream bribe back we went. I’m glad we did. We even managed to get a maternity shot of Doozy.

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July 26, 2010

Ally May Boudoir

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 combinations, set setups, hair and makeup and random tunes. i’ve yet to find the right music for a boudoir shoot though. we tried some Johnny Cash, Metric, My Morning Jacket and a hip hop remix Keith Fudge made me 13 years ago.

Anyway, my point is simply that its always a fun shoot and you really get to know people who initially come in as strangers.

I shot this series with Ally May a few weeks ago and I’ve since learned that she shares a similar entrepreneurial spirit and dabbles in cake design. This was a shoot for a little black book for her husband who often spends much time on large ships with large amounts of firepower.

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July 20, 2010

the Peggy’s Cove Engagement Project

an engagement session at Peggy’s Cove with Shawn + Terra ended in a horrible twist of fate. Shawn suggested a Trash the Dress session after the wedding and Terra…well she found an axe in Peter’s fish house.

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July 18, 2010

Outta Here

So the day has finally come. The next wedding I shoot will undoubtedly be the most personal for me (since I assume Marse wont let me shoot Lola’s) because its the wedding of one of my greatest friends in the world. I have the honor and challenge of being the bestmanphotographer. in a kilt. it doesn’t get any better than that.

so applehead studio is packin up the entire crew and heading west to Okatoks, AB. Me, Marcia, Lola, +1 and BoBo the bear are headed on our first cross Canada adventure. A real live vacation in the summer (except I get to shoot a fun wedding too).

Here’s a shot from last weeks wedding with Sarah + Ryan over in Dartmouth. This is what happens when you don’t make any plans for photos anywhere up until about 5 minutes before you find yourself slipping into a shopping cart and careening downhill.

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