Archive: March, 2010

Turquoise & Tangerine Tablescape

Saturday, March 13th, 2010

A while ago I asked my friend Juli from A Modern Proposal to come up with a table theme in turquoise and tangerine. I really wanted to see something pretty put together with these colours, and I tied it to the Rock the Dress shoot that I did last week to get more turquoise and tangerine inspiration. Well, Juli absolutely hit what I was looking for! The orange is beautiful and vibrant, and the turquoise is just perfect! I loved the placecards on the wineglasses with the table numbers, cute and unobtrusive. I’m not sure where to start with how beautiful and organic the centrepiece is! Gorgeous orchids, lillies, moss, and stones, just spectacular! The arrangement is from Flur, a new shop on 124 St., can’t wait to see more flowers from them! Ok, on with the gorgeousness!

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Rockin’ the Dress with Amanda – Downtown Edmonton Bridal Shoot

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

I was pretty excited for today! My lovely model Amanda is actually a photographer as well (www.lightsidephoto.com) and she was a joy to photograph! I think she does as well in front of the camera as she does behind it! Me, on the other hand, I definitely belong behind the camera and nowhere near the front of it, and I’m ok with that! We were also joined today by Harvey of Love Bucket Photography and his brother Steven. They were awesome on helping out with some of the lighting and they were shooting too. The other exciting part of today is that I went and signed the lease for my new studio space downtown! I’m super excited for it! It’s on 105 St and Jasper Ave, coincidentilly, that’s where we also went to get Amanda’s hair done by my good friend Patricia who is a goddess of hair and she works at Celebrity Hair, which is my new upstairs neighbour! I stopped next door to arrange for flowers the shoot and procured the most amazing bouquet from The Wild Orchid! I think I love my new neighbours already!

So anyway, back to the awesome photos! We shot in the alley behind the salon, then just down the street in front of an empty building, then went back to the salon to warm up and then went down to the basement by my favourite elevator ever (yes, I think we will see lots more of it!) before heading off to an old garage at 118 Ave and 97 St to finish up the day. I’m super happy about the images, and I’m looking forward to wedding season starting to shoot even more fabulous brides and grooms!

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Rockin’ the Dress with Kiki – 95th St, Edmonton

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

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!