Clarice & Bud

A perfect way to spend the May 24th weekend.  Lots of sun, perfect temperature, and a wedding to document.  Bud is an old work friend so I generously offered no real time frame on my services that day.  It was a long 15hrs!  We started with hair and make-up downtown in a nice old brick building called The Verity Spa.  Then we all packed into the limo and headed north to the town of East Gwillimbury where the ceremony was held at Sharon Temple, a very old church built by Clarice's great great great great great great GREAT grandfather!  So it definitely had special significance for them.

We wrapped up the evening with dinner and dancing at the Enoch Tuner Schoolhouse; another nice little brick building downtown.  The highlight of the day though was truely the great parking spot I got behind the schoolhouse.  A real gem downtown if ever there was one.  Here are a few excerpts from the day...

Natalie & Moon

This was a short day but was also so my first Korean wedding, and we were treated to a traditional Korean tea ceremony, complete with the throwing of the nuts!  They were a fun couple, and since she also rides an R6 motorcycle like mine, she's OK in my books.  We wrapped up my portion of the day with a brief stroll through the Distillery District.  It was nice to get back in there in shoot again.  Here are some of my favorite shots from the day...

FREE photoshoot!

 

I'm look for a couple who is interested in participating in a project I am working on.  The couple must be interested in having a free photography session though... so please only inquire if you like free things!  Call it an engagement session, call it just for fun, call it what you will!  There are some small caveats attached to this offer, but I'll discuss those details with the couple upon request.  Ideal availability is July.  So if you or someone you know is looking for a free engagement session, please let them know about this!

 

EDIT:  After getting a few requests, I realized Ill need a way to manage this and decide who to work with that is fair.  Ill leave this is an open request for a couple weeks and when we get into July Ill make a decision based on location, time/availability, etc.  The couple will need to work around my schedule for this project, and that is one of the caveats.

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Bath Time 2 - The Video!

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I took a break from editting the latest wedding from the May 24th weekend (stay tuned for that shortly) to do this little video of my son during bath time.  Christine had just asked me to take some pictures, but since Id already done that during a previous bath, I flipped the camera over to video mode.  After a few minutes I decided I could actually make something out of this, so I got enough footage to make a little video.  No tripod, no lights, just the camera and 1 lens.... though now I wish I'd used a tripod.  Put it together in a few hours the following day, and the hardest part of the whole project was finding music!  Im still not crazy about the low quality compression the camera delivers for video, but for the quick turnaround time, Im happy with how it turned out, and people think its cute, so it's served its purpose.  Enjoy!

PS. Please remember to enable HD in the player window (click the little gear icon once the video is playing) as there is currently no way I could find to embed the video and have it automatically set to 720 or 1080.