A Quick Note to Catch Up

Hello Everyone! Things have been REALLY picking up here with weddings, meetings, engagement sessions, and DOG SITTING, so I have really thrown the blog on the back burners for the past week or so...my apologies guys n gals! I am alive however, I have just been really busy with playing "Catch Up"... I will be blogging some big posts in the next day or two, one of them being from Lori & Jason's Wedding on Friday (awesome wedding, AMAZING dress!)... hang tight everyone ok? Good things are coming!

Random Note: I have invented a word that really sums up the weather we have been having here on the lower mainland lately... that word is: "Junetober". Yes, its June 10th and feels like October!!! Where is Summer?!?!?!?

Random Photo: Last Monday I was at Jackie Cohen's house (CEO of Army & Navy Department Stores LTD.) covering her annual "Face The World Foundation: Fundraiser". There were several high-end guests there, but there was one guest of honor that I just HAD to try and get a photo with... Sir Tom Jones.

Will (kickass videographer), Sir Tom Jones, and Mr Sexy-man (but most ppl call me Mike)

Jacqui Cohen and Tom Jones

Ashley & Kris: Part Deux!

Alright, here are some of my favorites from Saturday's E-Session with Ashley & Kris! We shot SO many photos, it was hard to pick just a few favorites to post!

I'll update this post with your slideshow tomorrow, can't wait!

MW

Cuddlin' under the pier!

Low Tide, baby!

A little bit of texture!

Ashley and Kris showing off their runway skills! Kris loves to strike the pose! :)

Steaming it up on the tracks!

I love Ashley's "lovey-dovey" gaze!

Kris hamming it up  LOL

I LOVE the lighting in this!

These guys are ROCKSTARS for climbing the tree with me! 

(and holding my camera while I came down)

A little Mood lighting for the sexy couple!

Ashley & Kris: E-Session!

Yesterday morning I drove town to White Rock Beach to meet up with Ashley & Kris for their engagement shoot! It was SUCH a beautiful day, and we had such a wicked time! It was such a crazy day! Climbing trees, dodging ELECTRICAL FENCES, wading in water up to our knees with jelly fish and crabs all around us, it was SO fun!

Here is a taste of what's to come! Stay tuned tomorrow for some more INCLUDING the slideshow!

MW

Mike & Sarah: Wedding

UPDATE: The Slideshow has been added at the bottom of this post!!

The second I got home from Mike & Sarah's wedding today, I could NOT wait to play with the photos! The wedding was on the sunshine coast at The Rockwater Secret Cove Resort, and it was an absolutely perfect wedding!! My assistant Carrie and I took the ferry up Friday afternoon and was warmly greeted by the entire Ware/Peterson clan. The rehearsal was fantastic and we had lots of fun getting to know everyone during the dinner and cocktails. Everyone knew it was supposed to rain on the wedding day, but kept optimistic... and as luck would have it, there wasn't a single drop of rain until literally the SECOND we went inside for the reception!

Mike and Sarah, we had such an amazing time with you and your family, and I am sincerely honored to have you guys in my life. I hope the photos we have captured on your special day will bring back all the love and emotions that we certainly felt while we were with you!

Michael

p.s. I will update this entry in the next day or two with your slideshow! Keep checking in!

Kuljeet: Portrait Session!

I drove downtown today to meet my very good friend Kuljeet Kaila for a portrait session. She had just had her hair done at Eveline Charles, and found this really great purple wall across the street that we just COULDN'T pass up!

Sheryl & Scott: E-Session!

I met up with Scott & Sheryl on Saturday down at the Denman entrance to Stanley Park for their engagement session. They are planning a sweet wedding for September 6th but simply couldn't wait another minute for the engagement session (neither could I!). We stopped in for a coffee to let the sun go down a bit further, and we got a chance to catch up since the last time we met in September. Once the coffees were finished, we took a drive up to Third Beach  for some sunset photos. We got there a little earlier than we expected (cant predict Vancouver traffic AT ALL) so we took some open shade photos before those last golden moments of sunshine!

A few warmup shots, don't these guys look SO good together?!

I just love close-up snuggly shots :)

LOVE this one!

A little extra glow for that settin' sun!

I threw this in cause I thought it was kinda cool! :)

Sexy-time!

Of course, ya gotta have some fun too ;)

I can't wait til September guys!!!

Check out the Slideshow!

I shot myself!

Its been a while since I had my own photos taken (for promo work, facebook, you know the important stuff), so I thought that I would take a stab at a self-portrait until I could find time to get one of the millions of talented photogs in the area to help me out!

Its a little blurry but I really like this shot... Grit helped me tonight with about 50 photos, and she is quite the amazing little photographer.... but I am a very UNamazing smiler.... it sounds very negative, but really, your worst critic is yourself, right?! Sadly, despite her attempt, I really didn't like how I looked in any of them... 

Anyways, I was happy with this one, ironically it was the very first one of the day that I shot!

I thought I would post a before/after shot of my post processing work, check it out!

MW