As you may or may not know, I have a small obsession with shopping on eBay. Lately, I’ve been buying wedding dresses. I just can’t pass up a good deal. So, with the collection of dresses I have amassed, I decided I had to put them to good use. I’ve been wanting to show the possibilities of what wedding photography can be, and Rock the Dress sessions are a useful way to do that. Sometimes it’s just not possible to get to do everything you want on your wedding day with time constraints, not wanting to get messy, etc. so a Rock the Dress session is a great way to get to wear your dress again and have a fantastic photo shoot. It’s also a great opportunity to get fabulous shots of you and your honey in your wedding attire if you were disappointed with your wedding day photos.

I met with Kiki yesterday, I had found her on Model Mayhem, and if anyone is in need of a fantastic model, check her out! I’m already dreaming up new schemes to photograph her again! Here’s her profile: http://www.modelmayhem.com/1111085

We first headed out to the old Edmonton Spring Works building on Jasper and 95th. I really love this spot! The area was a little busy, especially with the crazy traffic at the grocery store next door. After working around the building, we headed North a few blocks to where the LRT heads undergorund on 95th St to enjoy the awesome grafitti on the tunnel. Both spots are totally unconventional, but yielded amazing images! Always fun to have a few accessories, and I’m really enjoying balloons and a long stretch of veil to blow in the wind. I’m also in love with the orange orchids in the bouquet, and very thankful to girl at Flowers by Merle who put it together for me at the last minute!

Here’s just a few of one of my new favourite shoots, and if you’d like to see more, check out the gallery on Facebook!

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Spring is finally arriving, and I’m not afraid to leave the house anymore! Let’s celebrate with your very own photo shoot! It can be a family session, a couple’s sessions, kid’s session, a fashion session… whatever you want that we can do in 30 minutes! Want a longer session? Book 2 spots back to back!

Sunday Snaps! will be ongoing for the month of March. Each Sunday will have a new location and there are 6 photo sessions available for each Sunday.

**Pricing**

For the event, a 30 minute photo session is $150 and you will receive 15 hi-res files on a disc and one 8×10 print. This special pricing is only applicable for the Sunday Snaps! series.

Additional prints and product may be purchased at regular price – see website for product pricing here: http://www.envphotography.com/urban-portraits/investment.html

**Schedule**

Sunday, March 7, 2010 – Churchill Square

2:00 – 2:30 – OPEN
2:30 – 3:00 – OPEN
3:00 – 3:30 – Lisa Marie
3:30 – 4:00 – BREAK
4:00 – 4:30 – OPEN
4:30 – 5:00 – OPEN
5:00 – 5:30 – OPEN

Sunday, March 14, 2010 – Off Whyte at 103 St and 83rd Ave

2:00 – 2:30 – OPEN
2:30 – 3:00 – OPEN
3:00 – 3:30 – OPEN
3:30 – 4:00 – BREAK
4:00 – 4:30 – OPEN
4:30 – 5:00 – OPEN
5:00 – 5:30 – Sons of No One

Sunday, March 21, 2010 – Near Grant MacEwan – 105 Ave. & 105 St.

2:00 – 2:30 – OPEN
2:30 – 3:00 – OPEN
3:00 – 3:30 – OPEN
3:30 – 4:00 – BREAK
4:00 – 4:30 – OPEN
4:30 – 5:00 – OPEN
5:00 – 5:30 – OPEN

Sunday, March 28, 2010 – Mckay Ave School – 104 St & 99 Ave.

2:00 – 2:30 – OPEN
2:30 – 3:00 – OPEN
3:00 – 3:30 – OPEN
3:30 – 4:00 – BREAK
4:00 – 4:30 – Karen Lopushinsky
4:30 – 5:00 – OPEN
5:00 – 5:30 – OPEN

** please arrive 10 minutes prior to your start time to ensure things run smoothly as the schedule is quite tight and there is no time to make-up for lost minutes.

E-mail elizabeth@envphotography.com to book your space and to get your contract sent to you! Payment is due at start of photo session!

I’ve put together a few inspiration boards from past weddings and photo shoots. I will try to do more of these in the future!

Ravishing Reds -Wedding Colour Board

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A group of great photographers from Edmonton and the surrounding area are getting together to raise money for breast cancer research, through an event we are calling “Rock the Dress for Breast Cancer”.

This is an event where women can come out in their old wedding dresses, bridesmaid dresses, or grad dresses to look & feel beautiful while raising money for a cause that affects women all over the world!

**ALL proceeds will be donated to the “Relay for Life” event**

Cost: $100 will get you a 45 minute one on one shoot with a professional photographer, and a disc with 20 high res. images.

Exact Locations are TBA – Each Photographer will be choosing their location, and once you are booked with your photographer, we will be contacting you with all your information!

ENV Photography will be doing 4 sessions on May 15 for the Event.

See the news clip on Global!

Contact Rachelle Hall (Crave Photography) to book your session: Rachellemarie_hall@live.ca

More info on facebook too: http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/event.php?eid=344282728967

Yesterday afternoon I met up with Monica on the chilly streets of Edmonton outside of La Piazza Dasee near Whyte Ave. to take some photos for her newly revamped website. Monica is a WPIC certified wedding and event planner, check out her site if you are in the market for an awesome wedding planner. We’d been chatting over e-mail for the past few weeks prior to the shoot, but yesterday was the first day we met and I liked her right away! She was so much fun and very easy going, not to mention gosh darned adorable as you can see from her photos! We spent a little time outside catching the last remaining rays of the day before ducking into La Piazza Dasee to warm up. They have an awesome cafe area that I didn’t know about, and I just may deviate from Starbucks every so often to go back there!

Here’s a few of images Monica and be sure to go check out her website at www.aisleplanyourday.com!

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Friday afternoon found me on the road, headed East, for my first foray into Saskatchewan for the weekend. My destination was Humboldt, SK for the No Limits: North workshop that was being hosted there. The drive was an interesting one, in that the roads were so straight and flat that I found myself easily going 160 kmph while singing along to to The Crack at the top of my lungs since I had no one to talk to.

I arrived in Humboldt Friday night, somewhere around 7:30 and totally forgot about the time difference, so it was actually an hour later, and I cruised around town, but couldn’t find much going on so just went to the Inn and crashed. I must admit, I’m not fond of sleeping places without my Derek and the 4 furballs, so didn’t sleep so well. Saturday morning came too early and I was up at my equivalent of 6 am to head to Imagin Photography (the Studio where everything was taking place) for 8 am (well, they called it 9, but not in my head) where I was joined by 15 others to learn from Mike Long and Andy Armstrong about pin-ups, fashion, glamour and boudoir photography. We each got to shoot a little with a model each day and learned about light, posing and post-processing.

At the end of the two days, I headed off to Saskatoon to spend the night before arriving home today after a very snowy drive. Here’s a few shots of one of the lovely models, I will show some of the pin-up stuff once I’ve finished working on it.

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Ok, so I am dorking out a little, but I’m just so excited! I just got accepted to the AGWPJA and the WPJA! Now, i’m sure that doesn’t really mean anything to most people, but they are associations of really awesome photographers! The first time I applied last year, I wasn’t up to par and didn’t get a response so I waited, and practiced some more, and got better and just re-applied in December 2009. I got an e-mail over the weekend and have been accepted! Woohoo!

I got in just in time to send in some images for the last of the 2009 contests, so off I go to pick those out to send!

In the meantime, go check out all the amazing photographers on the sites!

I met up with my friend Patricia today to check out the basement of the salon where she works (Celebrity Hair on 105 St and Jasper, you should go see her because she is awesome!) and we did a little Rock the Dress session. It’s fun to experiment with lighting and non-traditional locations. The elevator in the building is just awesome with old scuffed hardwood floors, wood grate and brick walls surrounding. Patricia worked a pretty traditional looking dress, but the photos are far from traditional! We had some fun with a big chunk of tulle that looks awesome in the photos! We ended he session in the very scary pitch black boiler room. The only light in there was the flashlight that I was using to light the session. It was so quiet and creepy down there and then every so often the boiler would roar to life! Was scary, but totally worth it because look at how awesome the photos are!

Just a reminder that you don’t need a pretty building and trees and flowers to take awesome wedding photos!

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Yesterday I met up with Lisa and Greg for their engagement session. We were supposed to have gotten together over the holidays, but things didn’t work out. That’s fortunate though, because it got to be +3 degrees yesterday! Warm in January rather than the -20 that was when we were first going to try! We met just North of Whyte Ave and worked the area. We had a pretty sketchy audience, especially when I was doing the ring shots. Luckily the police decided to come by and chat the guy up! I’m so looking forward to Lisa & Greg’s wedding in May! They are just adorable together!

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