Mountain Top Wedding

I have to say, today was one of my funnest weddings to date. It is so easy to work with clients (friends?) when they have a lot of their own energy and are naturally just fun. Not too mention the JP was a riot, it was easy to see he loves his job.

We flew out of Alpine Helicopters in Canmore early this morning only to be greeted on top of the East end of Grotto mountain by a nasty storm. It was looking like we would have 5 minutes to get the money shot so of course the pressure was on. We did get a little wet but the storm blew over and as overcast and windy as it was, everyone was having a good time.

Our JP was an ex-National Parks Warden named Rick Kunelius who is based in Banff. Great guy, Rick is very safety conscious and loads of fun while trying to keep the ceremony the way the clients want it. Rick works well with Alpine Helicopter, and I highly recommend anyone who is planning a Helli-wedding or taking a tour through the Bow-Valley check them both out.

Dez and Remi where awesome to work with. Dez couldn't keep her eyes off Remi (the only hard part about the portraits) and the both of them made the day more fun than just a session. The classic military couple though as Remi leaves soon for a tour in Afghanistan. I wish them all the best in their new life together!

Session In The Country

Found this nice little town that has buildings from around 100 years ago, the place is amazing. Tonight we took Shay out for a quick Grad session. The conditions and light were awesome and I am just loving the simple one-light.

Live Airport Runway

Last night I took an old client out to a local airstrip for a new lifestyle session. We left Crossfield around 7pm and on the way we got hit by rain and it looked like the session was done for.

You see I had originally asked this local airport if I could get on (a few weeks back) and when I called them this week there was no answer at their office. I drove around on Sunday afternoon looking for a plan-B but I just couldn't get this vision of the runway out of my head.

Well we arrived around 8pm and found out we had our access so we pulled out onto the runway just as the storm was moving past to the east. It was amazing and great timing, wet pavement and the sun setting directly to the west of us. A few lights from the east and we had it.

Magic!

Happy Canada Day

Last night I had both P.O.'s out for the second half of our web assets shoot. Here are Jeff and Sheleigh after a long day of handing out driving violations on the 1A.

Taking off for a few days for Canada Day weekend. Have a great one!

Local Peace Officer

Finally met up with the local PO to get a nice head-shot. Originally these images were going to be for the new Crossfield Website but the session was put on hold for too long.

Personal Therapy

Shot out to K-Country this morning with a two other like-minded individuals for some serious hill-bombing (that's me in the yellow). I now have the two street luges and when riding, it's always better when there's more than one. I am guessing we got up to about 55km/h because the guy running the followup vehicle couldn't keep up at 50km. Can't wait to go again.

Another Lifestyle Session

Early this morning I met a cool couple out at Gap Lake in the Bow Valley to crank out another fun lifestyle shoot. This time our guy was Tom who is very serious about fishing. I really wanted to shoot Tom out on the water so last Monday I drove out to the mountains to check out some locations.

This was a good spot as I was able to set up my AB 800 strobes on shore and walk out to him on the boat. Thanks to my buddy Tim the night before, as he offered me his neoprene hip waders.

This is the kind of work I could see myself doing all the time, spending time taking photographs of people living out their passions, awesome.