Less than a year ago, I shot Candice and Ryan’s wedding! And now they are blessed with a little one! I’m so glad I got the chance to shoot these maternity photos as it’s the beginning of such a wonderful journey!

Recently, I did a shoot to capture the cast of Life Unexpected at their favorite hang out place at Rodney’s Oyster House. It’s one of their favorite places to go after a long day of shooting the show around Vancouver. It was a blast shooting them and just hearing about their stories. I was also introduced to the delicious espresso vodka! Yum! I couldn’t post them up before but here they are now. The photos from the shoot are featured in the December issue of Watch magazine! Here are the spreads from the magazine!

I was contacted by a friend of Crystal and Kai that was coming to Vancouver after their recent wedding in Asia. I always photograph my couples before the wedding, during the wedding, and after the wedding. Never was I invited to participate in doing some photos during their honeymoon! (*hint hint*) It was such a blast.

I think a premise is in order. Crystal is an actress/singer in Asia. I was told that she recently starred in the movie Forbidden Kingdom with Jackie Chan and Jet Li. (One of the movies I actually watched!) So being in the spotlight more often than not, she wanted some unique photos on each of their honeymoon destination. Something you couldn’t get anywhere else! At their Vancouver stop, they wanted something that ties the west coast roots with their photos. So we decided on an aboriginal theme to the whole shoot. We rented some very authentic costumes here in Vancouver with some awesome headgear! And headed for some westcoast mountain views and……. TOTEM POLES!

I had to do some homework for this shoot totally! I found some historic native indian portraits that were done and I tried to replicate them in some of the shots there. You’ll see most of them are in sepia and has a sense of grit and edginess in the male portraits. It was so fun and hard trying to do the serious looking shots. All in all, I think we got some really great shots. They really loved it!

Here’s what we got for the day:

What an awesome afternoon we had! We headed out to Deas Island out in Delta! They got some gorgeous vintage houses there that was so beautiful! Everyone should go there to check it out sometime! There are some really cool tall grass there that’s great for photos. Sorry Dave that your allergies kicked in! At least the photos don’t show it. I usually pop a claritin before I head out for a shoot. Oh and we saw this bright yellow wall on the side of the house and I couldn’t resist it!