Yesterdays engagement session was cold, windy, snowy, and awesome. Most couples would reschedule when the weather heads south the day of a shoot, Garrett and Heather on the other hand slapped on long john’s and sucked it up big time. I love that kind of dedication.
Gorgeous shots, Nate! I love #4.
Very creative ring shots, as well.
I quite enjoy the outdoors, and on days when I’m not photographing people, I sometimes like to take my camera out and do some landscape work. When you combine these two things you end up hiking a mountain with camera gear and realizing what kind of shape you’re really in, and in my case, that shape is on the brink of terrible. As you’ll see in the video, at one point I am looking a little drawn out and talking about how hard the hike is, but what you don’t see is about 1/2 hour after taping that, we passed a group of 65+year old women who were on their way back down…I apparently need to get back into the gym.
In the end though the hike was amazing, and the fact that if you just stood there the only sound you could hear was your own breathing, was just amazing. I’m looking forward to going back when the snow is melted and the lake is no longer frozen to do some more photos. Thanks to Noah (noahfallis.com) for making me get some exercise.
And of course some larger versions of the two photos from the video:
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nice video.
For the last few days the city of Calgary has been covered in a fog, and because of that fog all of the trees are covered in these amazing ice crystals. Last night as we were walking into our building I noticed the street lights were highlighting these crystals on random trees, so I grabbed my camera, tripod, and macro lens and took 15 minutes out of my evening to play around a little, and voila, photos for your eyes.
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This is not a collection of my best photographs of 2009, that’s what my PORTFOLIO is for. This post is the end result of a simple exercise I decided to try out this afternoon. Basically, I went through every month for the past year, and picked out my favorite photograph from within that month. For some months the process was quite easy, for others it was a little difficult. Some of the photos I chose because I like the way they look, others because I just really enjoyed the shoot, and one of them I actually never even knew I had and just found it when I was looking through photos for this post.
The one thing glaring back at me as I went through boatloads of photos from 2009 is that I rarely shot anything just for me. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been truly lucky to get the clients I’ve been getting, and working with them has been amazing, but there is something so fulfilling about doing personal projects. The lighting and techniques you learn when there is no risk involved with experimenting is something I have been missing out on this past year. It’s through those projects that I believe a photographer really truly grows, and that’s the one thing I am concentrating on for 2010 (and every year after for that matter). So here’s to an awesome 2010 (I know its a little late, but better late than never I s’pose) full of photographic growth.
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JUNE
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I love this idea!! And I can imagine how hard it was to do, too!! Gorgeous photos, each of them is so different and all are so beautiful.
Well its the first post of 2010 and I hope everyone had an amazing and safe holiday! Cara and I spent two weeks on the road in Saskatchewan (exciting stuff I know) making stops in Gull Lake and Estevan for Christmas, then to Regina for a New Years wedding which was awesome (maybe a little too awesome as I paid for my celebrations in the worst way the next morning…).
The photos below are of one of my older brothers and his fiance, who were engaged a few months ago. My family originally grew up in a small village outside of Estevan called Roche Percee that is home to this large area of sandstone rocks that have all sorts of caves and what not running through them, which was basically just a massive playground for all of us growing up. When my brother got engaged, he asked if I could go back there with them to do some engagement photos, and since we were all in the same place for Christmas, we made the journey to the ‘Rocks’ one rather chilly afternoon. So with that here are some photos that we took before it got to cold take stand outside any longer (well not to cold for me, cause I’m tough as nails) and I’m looking forward to everything that unfolds in 2010!
This little plant just happened to be off one of the snow trails and I liked the way it looked, so I thought I’d add it in here too.
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