Category: Photos

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New content added to the web site

Wow! I finally got around to doing it!

Been so busy over the summer, with my day job and weekend work shooting weddings and such that I haven’t added anything to either this blog or the web site in quite some time. Well, today that changed.

I’ve added a new section to the site which features some of my Photoshop work. I called it Before and After, because it features a selection of images showing the original photos and how they looked when finished. A slider overlay lets you compare the two on top of each other. Pretty nifty. I may expand this section, as there are many good photographers, and there are many good Photoshop artists, but for some reason the two skill sets come together rarely. I think I may be on to something here, especially when I also have the skills to put finished artwork on to a wall mural, car decal or coffee table photo book. Which brings me nicely to the second thing I added today…

I’ve added a selection of photos from a wedding I shot in June (thanks to Aaron and Kat for their permission) to a new page in the Photography section, which can be found HERE. Click any image to see it closer. I shot over 700 photos that day, and as you can imagine they took some time to work through. These are some of my personal favourites. I also made a photo book for the happy couple, and hard and soft covers are available for viewing or purchase using the links below. When I gave the newly-weds their hardcover photo book I also presented them with a framed 16 x 20 poster of them walking smiling back down the aisle. The poster has already been given pride of place on their main wall. I know, because they sent me a photo of it.

It’s been a busy summer. Nice to have time to get back to what passes for normal around here. Now, I probably should get to work on my own wedding photos, it’s only four weeks to our first anniversary…

Hardcover: http://blur.by/1uoN5p8     |     Softcover: http://blur.by/1qFZeCs

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Two out of Four ain’t bad…

I have just finished working on the photos from Nick and Elysia’s wedding. I cut it down to 100 keepers which I will send on, and I think they may like some of them.

I also received in the mail yesterday a USB stick with another 600 photos from the wedding photographer. I volunteered to post-process the photos from the day as a wedding present for the happy couple, and here they are. That, guys, is going to take a little longer to work through, but I’ll get to it promptly and have them off as soon as they are finished.

In the meantime, here is a shot I took of the two brothers, Andy and Vyvyan. Andy is quite the challenge for a photographer. As anyone will tell you, the challenge is to try to take a photo he is not in. If he wasn’t so damn photogenic that would be a problem, but he has the knack of making almost any shot look better, even when you can’t actually see the bride in the shot. Because of this unique ability Andy is widely recognised as the most photographed face in Canada, featuring in wedding albums, party photos, cell-phone videos and even, amazingly, other people’s selfies, from coast-to-Canadian-coast, as well as the UK and a large part of Europe. 

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An ex rock-god, Andy was for several years a licensed pilot and qualified aviation instructor. I went up with him once in a Cessna and it was an experience I will always remember. Most enjoyable.

Andy is father of Nick (the groom) and Rebecca, and husband to Jean. Andy works and plays hard and in his spare time likes to hang around the pool with friends and family. If you are lucky, he will allow you time to remove electrical equipment from your pockets before throwing you in.

In preparation for daughter Rebecca and Denton’s wedding in August of this year Andy has already started work on growing an ulcer, which he may leverage to good effect for sympathy on the day.