Champagne, bubbles, birthdays and besties

It's hard to believe this month is more than half over! It's as if time has been set on fast forward lately. I'd love to be able to push the pause button for a chance to reflect, relax and enjoy the changing of seasons. However this month doesn't look like it will slow down any time soon, i have heaps of fantastic shoots coming up. Not to mention the gorgeous wedding i photographed this past wkd, I can't wait to post teasers, the bride was absolutely stunning!

Speaking of pretty ladies...

A few weeks ago i had the pleasure of photographing two fabulous girls who also happen to be great friends of mine. It was Lauren's 30th Birthday and her bestest friend Kristen wanted to surprise her with a fun filled, champagne fueled session. It was one of the last hot, sunny summer days we had before the chill of fall began to hit. I had an awesome time on this gorgie day with them and absolutely love the way these turned out.

I was actually able to fit this vintage bike into my tiny car! The girls were pretty impressed when i pulled it out.

Nothing like champagne in the setting sun with your favorite girl.

Gorgeous besties.

Champagne giggles...

Lauren is such a classic beauty, she has that 'old hollywood look' to her.

Since we had sort of snuck onto this field to get a few shots, the girls were nervous the entire time that they would be chased off the property.

As soon as we got the shots we needed they bolted!

These next few frames are my favorites from the day. The sun was setting fast and i was worried we wouldn't have the time to shoot by the water but i just adore the way they turned out.

The Golden Girls {true love}

A beautiful four story home surrounded by luxurious pools and waterfalls, decorated with exotic trees and luscious plants. Immaculate weather year round and not a worry to be had other than deciding on what to wear to dinner with my favorite ladies; the golden girls.

This is our future plan... Eventually, after the four of us are all married or not, widowed or divorced, with or without kids/grandkids, we plan on living a fabulous life together in Florida (or somewhere breathtaking).

These ladies are family. Sure i have an amazing family that i love and nothing will replace them, but the golden girls are my chosen family. I really don't think anything will ever come close to what we have together... it really is true love.

We were able to spend a couple of weeks together earlier this summer. Half of us live across the world and it's not a regular occurrence to be all together at once so we decided to capture it. We hired a friend of mine Darryl schipper (a fellow photographer) http://www.darrylschipper.com/ to take some shots of us.

These are a few from the session.

My biggest fan

Friday! This week has been flying by, i feel like it should only be wednesday for some reason (probably because this week has been crazy busy) but i'll take friday over wednesday any day.

This weekend is also jammed packed but i'm looking forward to it. I just really hope the weather holds out for tomorrow morning. I've been watching the weather closely all week hoping and praying that it was too early to tell and that the forcasters were wrong. So far they are sticking to cool, insanely windy and rainy for saturday... this is not good considering i'm shooting a wedding in the morning. It's still only Friday afternoon so who knows, it might change, positive thinking right?
I'm sure it will all turn out fabulous, rain or shine.

Last weekend i head out with Christine for a quick tour around the Hockely area. Christine is literally my biggest fan as well as one of my biggest supporters. She also LOVES to be photographed and makes a fantastic model, don't ya think?
I've photographed Christine plenty of times, editorial shoots, her engagement pics, her trash the dress pics and everytime i'm always amazed at how incredibly stunning she is.

Don't you think she looks a bit like Drew Barrymore and Blake Lively? ...but even more beautiful.


Thanks mama coulter for the braid.


Christine and i went and got tattoos together this past winter (my first) and i think hers is displayed nicely in this shot. It's a Zibu symbol of friendship, Zibu is an Angelic healing language of symbols, a visual image of energy. I just love the meaning and how elegant they turned out.







I figured out how to make the images on my blog larger, which is great but i also realized that my camera and lenses are in desperate need of a cleaning... especially after looking at the spots below. But regardless of the spots i love the way these turned out, thanks for looking so fierce Christine ;)


Happy Friday...

Frolicking

As much as i have a hard time with mondays, since i always seem to be exhausted as opposed to well rested from the wkd, i always love starting a fresh new week.

Starting something new, anything really, always holds a bit of excitment and anticipation of what's to come. The possibilities of what your week will consist of; who you will see, what you will accomplish, where you will go, what you will learn. A blank canvas awaiting an image, a story, created by your experiences and the people you encounter. That being said, thank god this monday is coming to an end, i'm exhausted!

This past weekend was a busy one, but it was loads of fun and I was able to accomplish ample more than i had originally planned. I'm super thrilled about it really, nothing better than getting stuff done.

These are some photos i took of Kelly on Friday, it was a caesar fueled shoot. Well, Kelly was fueled by ceasars, i indulged after the shoot. I had been wanting to snap some of Kelly since i first had the pleasure of doing so in the fall when her family hired me. We had made plans together already and it was a beauty day so we agreed it was the perfect opportunity for caesars and photos.

We headed out with no specific locale in mind. That's what i love about living in my area, there are endless open fields and rustic terrain that make for the most divine backdrops. We came across a couple scenes that i just couldn't pass up, especially with the awesome light that was streaming down from the early setting sun.




Kelly has such incredible eyes, it's the shape and the piercing colour that have some sort of sultry effect. These eyes are just asking for trouble.

I think i got her to strip down numerous times in my car in order to change into what i was wearing or throw on a different outfit. I would assume the cars driving by had quite the show.


Frolicking...

I didn't realize this field was more a marsh then just dried up straw, we both had soakers after this shot, nothing like flats full of muddy water.





Dirty feet . The result of frolicking around barefoot :)