Wedding

This past Saturday we had the privledge of spending the day with Cathy and Glen. They were a wonderful, cute couple and they were a pleasure to work with. By the end of the day everyone was quite tired but the party was nice and mellow. Cathy "wowed" everyone with her spectacular red dress. I wish I could post pics but they decided against sharing when signing the contract. It was a great day in all and I am very happy that we were able to be a part of it.

Today I finished retouching Thalat and Alasdair's wedding pics. I will get them off to the lab tomorrow. Next up is Diane and Adam's wedding.

Kristy & Kyle

Last Saturday Kristy and Kyle also were married here in the Edmonton area. My associate Julie photographed their wedding on my behalf. They had a lovely ceremony on the SunRidge Ski Hill and their reception was in the Chalet. They had alot of great photos - you need to check out their slideshow - Kristy and Kyle's Slideshow.

Thank you for sharing your special day with us Kristy and Kyle. I look forward to going through the images with the both of you.

E-Session...

On Sunday I met up with Margarita & Kelly at West Edmonton Mall to do an e-session. These two had one of their first dates at the ice palace so we had to stop in there for a pic or two. This couple was really cute and we had some fun with this session. Yep, that Christmas tree is still up in the mall! Not sure when they are going to take it down - are they done filming the movie?? Luckily we also got to board onto the infamous WEM boat! We were playing Pirates of the Carribean and got these great shots...

I so enjoyed working with you two. I'm sure the wedding next year is going to be great!

Threasa & Louis

Last Saturday we were able to spend the day with Threasa & Louis. They had a few delays but once the ceremony got started the rest went quite well. We moved on to the Muttart grounds afterward to do our family photos and ventured around for the bridal party and couple shots after that. Louis showed me a great little spot on a hill that overlooks the city - I love the view there! Since this couple have a history with "Wendy's" we decided to stop in for a quick little photo opp before heading back to the reception. Here is a link to the couples slideshow if you'd like to check out more photos. Threasa & Louis's Slideshow.

Thank you to the both of you for including us in your celebration. We enjoyed capturing memories with you and I hope you had as much fun as we did. I look forward to seeing you tomorrow to go through your pics.

Back online

in facebook. I guess I requested too many people to be linked to me...I was messaging past clients and facebook decided I was spamming. That sucked. Well, I'm online there again and luckily I didn't have to start my page over again. So maybe if your in facebook hook up with me instead of waiting for my invitation...

Facebook glitch!

For some reason I have been disabled from using the site. I'm not sure if this is going to disconnect me totally or if I will be able to log back in to my same site again once we figure out the problem. In the mean time I just wanted to let you know I'm not off of there by my choice and if you need to contact me - please use our website or email contact@creationsphoto.com or even give me a call at 710-0012.

Next...

Just a quick post to let clients know where we are in the retouching line-up. I just finished up with Angela and Greg. Had a lab issue with Gerhard and Rosangela's order but that is now fixed up and ready to go as well. Next on the list is Thalat and Alasdair.
Hope everyone is enjoying the heat here in Edmonton...we'll be complaining about the cold again in a few weeks I'm sure :)

E-session

I spent a couple hours with Brad and Anita this past Sunday. We had some fun walking throught the leg grounds, scouting out their church and Brad serinaded Anita in the River valley. We tried to get a good "family" pic with their cat and dog before we left the house, unfortunately the pets didn't want their pics done. I do love this shot of their puppy though. Anita wanted to make sure we got a few "fun" shots so they decided to roll down the hill at the Leg. I think the one below turned out quite cute, even though Brad was not into rolling (it makes him feel nauseous). I really enjoyed hanging out with these two - looking through their photos we got some great images for their engagment book. I look forward to shooting their wedding this fall.

Our garage sale went well and the boys happily sold a few of their toys. Now I just got to get the garage cleaned up again :)

Just FYI - we just booked wedding #84 the other day. Coming up on number 100 slowly but surely...who will be our lucky winner??

Erin & Davin...

This past Saturday was the wedding date of the century. 7/7/7 became one of the most famous wedding dates ever. We shared the day with Erin and Davin. It was a beautiful day for a wedding - the weather was in full cooperation. We travelled to the museum grounds after the ceremony along with alot of other couples. Luckily we arrived in perfect timing to nab my favorite corner for family shots. As we finished up in the corner another bridal party took it over and we moved on to some of my other favorite spots. We ended up with some fabulous photos as you can see here. Of course I have also created a sneak peek slide show with a few more of my favorites as well. I hope you enjoy it....Erin and Davin's Slideshow. Thank you to Erin and Davin for including us in their special day. We had alot of fun working with the both of you.

On Sunday we (my family) went out to Ma Me O Beach for a special anniversary photo shoot. We met up with another photographer who joined us to "trash the dress". What is "Trash the Dress" you may be asking? Well, I came across the concept online quite awhile ago and thought it to be a great idea - contrary to many of my friends whom I have discussed it with. It is when you go out in your wedding gown anytime after the ceremony - be it the day after or in our case 10 years after - and get as outrageous as you'd like in it. There are no limits - no boundaries - cause you really don't plan on wearing the dress again. I love my wedding dress and have only worn it the one time. I have 2 boys and there are no plans to "pass it on" now, besides I remember how fun it was trying on dresses and finding the "perfect" one. I'm sure my grand-daughter will take great joy in this as well. It was custom designed for me and luckily still fits as it did 10 years ago. I was soo excited to wear it again for this photo shoot and as I thought about the fun stuff we could do, Ma Me O came to my mind. I LOVE the shots that we took that day!! It is rare that I like shots of myself but I am very proud to show these off! Omari shot for us - the second photographer that joined us was Mark Pawlyszyn, he was fabulous to work with and even got me talked into jumping off the pier for an amazing shot he took. Here are a couple of my favorite shots from Omari's camera...

What a fun experience this was. I will need to add the trash the dress session to my pricing list and if any of you out there get adventurous enough to try it out...I'd love to be there with you! I must add - contrary to the title the dress is not really trashed at all. Full of bugs and sand but after examination I'm sure with a good drycleaner it is still completely usable. Hummm, maybe it needs some more trashing :P

This weekend is our one weekends off for the summer. Somehow it didn't get booked and I must admit it is a nice break, although the boys have talked me into setting up a garage sale. They are anxious to buy a basketball hoop and I told them that they must pay for it - so there are a bunch of toys being sold. If you'd like to stop in and say HI, I'd love to see you. The address is 116 Warwick Crescent, Edmonton and I'm running the garage sale on Friday and Saturday from 10 am - 8 pm. I also have an e-session that got rained out that I will be shooting on Friday night (Omari will have to babysit the garage sale for me). Looking forward to some good weather....

The retouching list is beginning to grow again. I am currently working on Angela and Greg's pics. I will be picking up Rosangla and Gerhard's from the photofinishers tomorrow. I will keep you updated as to who is next and so on.

Happy Anniversary Honey!

Today is Omari and I's 10th wedding anniversary. We met back in high school and have been together for going on 17 years. Marriage has been good to us and we have worked through alot of mountains together. I just wanted to take this bit of time to wish my honey a very happy anniversary.
We are doing something fun in celebration on Sunday. I will post a pic or two next week to let you in on it.
We had our first son by the time we had the actual wedding celebration and Omari started his first teaching job the very next day - therefore we didn't go on a honeymoon. I have been determined for the last 10 years that we would go on a cruise for our 10th anniversary to make up for the lack of the honeymoon. So, later this year we will be doing it! Yeah! I am so excited, the tickets are booked and the plans are now made.
Tomorrow we have wedding plans, Sunday along with my fun family time, I'll be doing an e-session. I think we will be putting together a garage sale for next weekend as this is the only weekend this summer that we actually have off and the kids are anxious to sell some of their stuff to make some money for a basketball hoop.

Jamie & Mac

This past Saturday we had the privledge of spending the day with a beautiful, young couple and their families. Jamie and Mac were alot of fun to work with and I believe we obtained alot of great photos for them. We actually had taken soo many photos that part way through the reception I had to sit down and do some in-camera editing because we were running out of memory to work with (we carry 22 GB of memory!!). This family was the first to show me the "screeching-in" of the groom. It was fun to watch Mac go through the hoops his new family put before him and he happily kissed his bride after kissing the fish right on the lips. I wish Jamie and Mac a very happy future together. Thank you both for inviting us to share in your happiness for a day. I look forward to getting together with you to view your photos.

Of course I have made a small slideshow for friends and family to preview a few of my favorite photos from the event....check them out....Jamie and Mac's Slideshow....