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Wow, what an engagement shoot! Dave and I were sooo stoked to get a phone call last Tuesday from a fun, awesome and super-gorgeous couple living in Connecticut. The call was about engagement photos and they said that they had searched high and low looking for the photographers to capture some unique and creative images of them in the place where they shared their first date… Mont Tremblant, Quebec! We were so happy to be the perfect fit for Rachel and John and to fly out to Mont Tremblant to document this time in their life.

Rachel and John had their first date after they met each other with a group of friends snowboarding one weekend. Neither one of them ever thought that this would be the weekend that they would meet their future love.

It’s so great seeing these two together, they have so many things in common and really just have a love for adventure and the outdoors.

It’s also really nice capturing the connection they have together. It’s very clear that they each hold a special place in their heart for one another.

I love doing artistic crops and shooting moments as they happen… This was such a cute moment after they had fallen down in the snow.

I love this amazing angle Dave caught… Take a minute to look at it and try to figure out how it was shot… John and Rachel are actually standing in this shot! This is an uprooted tree we found while walking in th forest, lol! Dave has such a creative eye for this sort of thing

As photographers, we’re always trying to use new ideas and concepts to spark more creativity. For this shoot, I wanted to break out of my usual shooting style a bit. As I’ve mentioned before, I absolutely love my 50 mm 1.2 lens. It’s soo buttery and amazing, you can really get used to using the same lenses for each shoot if you’re not careful. On this shoot, I used the 24 Tilt Shift for the whole session. It was a lot of fun and went well with our couples style!

I totally love this shot below! Rachel’s eyes look phenomenal and Dave’s angle is very cool too!

This was a bit of an interesting shot!  We found some abandoned buildings and peeked in for a few quirky shots! These guys were so funny, and really hammed it up for the cameras, thanks guys lol…

You can see how much fun these guys have together!! They really have an awesome time and you can tell they are also great friends too

Mont Tremblant has to be one of the most romantic spots in Canada!! Everything looked ethereal when the air was filled with big, white fluffy snowflakes.

As you can see from our sneak peek, we knew we could have a little bit of fun with our awesome couple… We love creating something different and special for our clients.

What a great place for a first date huh?? Yes, there is even a icy slide to cruise down, so much fun!

They needed to warm up a bit after the ice slide, so they sat by the fire… They couldn’t help but laugh when the wind changed and they got smoked out after their ride, hehehe!

After a bit of shooting we had a delicious dinner together in the village. We waited for the sun to go down so we could do some night shooting (my fave)!! We love the chance to create something moody and dramatic for our clients. Rachel and John really loved the engagement shoot we did with my sister Tricia and her fiance Kris this November… It seems to be a very popular engagement session and I think our clients love night shooting as much as we do

Isn’t Rachel stunning in this shot?? We promise, we do not get our clients from modeling agency’s… Although we’ve been asked, hehe! Something that both Dave and I love creating is images with amazing bokeh – that’s the photogaphy term for the giant blurred out lights in the background… next time you’re watching a romantic movie, notice how the more romantic a scene gets, the bigger the bokeh gets!

As we wrapped the shoot, we noticed so wicked lighting coming from a nearby bar in the village. It hadn’t quite opened yet and so they were happy to let us create a few images inside while it was empty. I love these two shots, the purple and blue lights look soo cool eh? Dave went for the awesome shot above and I thought it would be cool to grab this shot below in the reflection of the mirror. What a great spot for a few cool shots!

Thanks so much to Rachel and John for trusting our vision and allowing us to create something special for you! We had a great time shooting this with you and are super excited to see the finished product from the album we’ve create for your engagement shoot Congratulations guys!!!

Here’s a sneak peek of your album while it’s away at print…. The first image in the slideshow is your image wrap cover, with the front cover being on the right, spine down the middle and back cover on the left.

G’Day everyone,

On Tuesday night this week, we got a call from Rachel and John. They’re a cool couple from Connecticut asking if it were possible for us to fly to Mt Tremblant to take some snowy engagement pictures for them. Charlotte and I did a quick search of the FlyPorter website and were excited to see that it was possible to get out this weekend!

So Friday morning we boarded our flight on Toronto island and were walking across the tarmac in Mont Tremblant less than an hour later. Gotta love Porter for it’s convenience, plus the service is great!

We met up with Rachel and John at the base of the village with lots of smiles and hugs. We could tell we’d just found some  new instant friends!

Needless to say, we had an AMAZING time driving around the mountain and walking in the forest with them. We had an awesome shoot, and have lots of great images to edit, however we wanted to share this engagement photo with you. This is one of our favourites from the shoot…

We created the above photograph by creating multiple exposures with John doing an amazing job of holding still throughout! We then overlapped them all in PhotoShop to create this rather striking and unique image!

We couldn’t be more impressed with their diversity and willingness to make this shot happen!

We’ll definitely post the rest of the shoot in another post, but before we leave you we thought you may enjoy seeing this panorama we made looking across the lake at the mountain. You can view a larger version of this Mont Tremblant Panorama by clicking here.

We’re off to the Wedding Co. show at the Carlu in Toronto now to visit a few friends and to get some more cool ideas for our wedding. Hope to see some of you there!

Charlotte and I just got home from shooting the wedding of Julie and Paul (referred to us by another wonderful couple – Audrey & Jay) and we’re full of energy! With every wedding we shoot, Charlotte and I put in every ounce of passion, care and creativity we can muster, and sometime we arrive home in need of a foot message! We were so stoked to finally be able to photograph this awesome couple we met at Taboo resort just this summer. Julie and Paul were the type of couple who are passionate about everything they do – including having fun during their wedding photography… Today turned out to be pretty cold… I think it maxed out at -15°C! So when Julie and Paul still wanted to head down to Toronto’s Nathan Phillips Square, throw on some skates and scoot around the ice for an hour, Charlotte and I were impressed to say the least!!

We had a ball shooting them both, and will enjoy sharing the photos with you all soon, but for now I wanted to say a quick goodbye as we head down to Mystic, Connecticut for a wedding photographers convention. We’ll look forward to catching up with a bunch of ‘photografriends’ down there and take in some new ideas, techniques for both our photography, album design and business.

Seeing that we’re away for the week, we thought it’d be fun to share a slide show we put together of some of our favourite engagement pictures from 2009…. Of course we couldn’t fit in all our couples, but needless to say there were hundreds of other shots we would have loved to put in there.

Stay tuned to the blog for more fun winter weddings and try to stay warm out there!!!

Which is your favourite pics from the slideshow? (just reference the timestamp)

As much as we love how magical snow looks in our engagement photos, we were quite happily surprised to have a clear December day to do some awesome shots with our wicked cool clients Marco & Julie! We were stoked that they chose us to photograph their fabulous wedding at the Liberty Grand here in Toronto this coming July!One of the reasons why we were so excited to be photographing their day is because these guys have already seen us in action last August at Christina & David’s wedding! Christina & David were referred to us through our friends at Pink Twig, one of Toronto’s best florists … Don’t you just love how that happens?! We do, because almost all of our couples were referred to us one way or another!

Since these guys love Toronto as much as we do, we decided to hit up a couple cool locations around the city. The first stop was Toronto’s famous Distillery District. This is such a great location for engagement photos I absolutely love the way the rich reds, coppers and oranges look on the pick up in this photo above! This was shot across the lane from Pikto, a professional photo lab we use quite a bit.

This is another shot I ADORE! Not only does Julie’s hair style look killer in this shot, but I love the way the brick buildings compliment the shades and depth of colour in her hair…

Here are a couple of candid pictures we caught when Dave cracked a joke! We love capturing the natural laughs between our couples. Too Cute!!!

Haha, here are a couple of sweet shots too!! We got Julie and Marco to play around for a bit and pose… Work it… work it!!

I love the Distillery so much for the cute little details you seem to find everywhere you turn! I love the wood work and design on this amazing wall.

As the sun went down we scooted over to the R.O.M. to grab this sexy shot in the rain. Julie and Marco loved my sister Tricia’s engagement shoot near the R.O.M. We thought it’d was cool to get a new angle on the museum to really capture all of the gorgeous architecture!

Here’s an example of the DVD slide show we offer our clients! Nothing better than having a custom slide show of their engagement pictures so they can sit back, relax and enjoy their images together. We’re so excited to be designing a custom engagement album for Marco and Julie as well!! We know we can create something amazing for them with all of the awesome pictures from their shoot. Thanks so much to Marco and Julie!! You guys were great and so open to our ideas… It really makes a huge difference when you’re up for anything!! Thanks guys!!!

Have you ever seen so much yellow??? Coming from Australia, I remember my first Canadian Autumn. I was so amazed, the colour was so vibrant and firey… Australia’s beautiful, but unless you’re Canadian, you probably haven’t experienced Autumn in all it’s glory. Standing in a forest of maple trees, the crisp Autumn air, and the LIGHT, oh the light. I just love it. There aren’t many experiences in nature as calming, or as soothing as walking through a forest in the Fall.

Jessica & Andrew knew they wanted to do their shoot in nature, surrounded by nature’s striking beauty… and we’re so glad they chose High Park, right down the street from our photography studio, for their engagement session.

The sun was shining, and the day seemed to reflect how these two are feeling about each other at this very special stage of their life together. They are both so obviously head over heals in love with one another!

I’m sure you can see in these photos just how much fun they have together!

I love these next two shots.. I feel like an engagement photography should show the connection between a couple, not just how they look when they smile at a camera – you know?

Here’s a cute little moment Jess & Andrew had with the simple direction of “head over there and hang out together… you know, have some fun”… they came up with the dancing! Love it

Charlotte broke out the tilt and shift lens to create this work of art… isn’t the way the trees blur out so beautiful?!

This next shot was almost the same moment, but with a very different lens – the 70-200. It’s such a stunning lens and can be the best for portraits!

We had such a wonderful time doing all these engagement pictures. Before we lost too much light with the sun going down, we headed down toward the lake to grab some final shots.

Walking back to our cars we saw a pool that’s been emptied and did a few playful, arty photos of our adorable couple.

Let us know what you think of the session – we love knowing what type of shots our readers like seeing more of!

For regular readers of our blog, I may sound a little like a scratched record. I always feel so blessed to have such sweet, cool, friendly couples hire us as their wedding photographers! This was the case for us recently when Dave & Jasmine, a fun loving couple from Kingston asked us to become their wedding photographers.

Originally we talked about doing their engagement pictures while they were in Toronto for a weekend visit, but as the weather cooled and time began to run out, Charlotte and I offered to drive out to Kingston to do their session. I think Dave was relieved because he is a busy eye surgeon at the hospital in town.

The day was just perfect… scattered clouds, mild temperatures, beautiful Fall colours and a refreshing lake breeze.

We began the session down by the water, with Dave surprising both us and Jasmine by bringing his guitar and playing to her! What a romantic guy

I love this shot Charlotte captured below. You can really feel the emotion and love these two have for one another…

After we were done shooting by the water (and I think were were all getting slightly chilly), we walked up into Kingston’s main hub and took pictures by some really cool old stone walls and in various back alleys.

I got this next shot by climbing a tree – something I’m becoming known for!

We had a short break, then decided we still wanted to get some shots overlooking Kingston, so Dave & Jasmine suggested we drive up to Fort Henry. Charlotte and I were both so glad we did. There’s some amazing views over the water from up there! Charlotte nailed this dramatic photo by shooting across the hillside.

There’s a photo that a lot of people comment on from David and Christina’s engagement photo shoot at the Brickworks earlier this year… it’s a picture where they were lying in the grass together and I shot it by holding the camera above my head with a very wide lens. Well Dave & Jasmine asked if we could do a similar photo for them, so we found the perfect patch of long, puffy grass and after they got all snuggled up together we made this images.

As the shoot was coming to an end, we decided to mix it up a bit and have some fun with an old school shot. We’re so glad we made the drive to Kingston for their engagement shoot. Not only because it holds a place in Jasmine and Dave’s heart but because we got to experience the beauty and charm of the town!

We wrapped the shoot and headed out for dinner together at the restaurant where Jasmine and Dave had their first date… it’s a really cool little joint with tin tiles on the ceiling, exposed brick walls and comfy lounge seating… and the food was second to none!

Thanks for a great day guys – it was fun getting to know you both a little more… can’t wait to photograph your wedding next year!