Haven’t been posting much lately, but will have lot’s more coming soon! This summer has been awesome with all the weddings, and now that fall has come along, it time for some more engagement sessions! Trying to get a try day in Vancouver these days has been a nightmare! But, we finally got one mid-week and we took out Laura and Jordan for their engagement session in Stanley Park.

We basically lucked out because the morning of the shoot, it was gloomy as hell. Glad we trusted the weather forecast! Anyways, on with the photos!

Some amazing clouds, and not to mention the amazing couple as well!

This one screams VANCOUVER! Love it.

Right by the seawall near the lighthouse. So in love with this image!

One of my favorite black and whites I’ve done lately.

Had a great time shooting with Laura and Jordan! So looking forward to your wedding! I’ll be posting more once you’ve seen the rest of the set in the studio!

Had a blast shooting Kendra and Michael a couple weeks back! We went to my favourite place to do any sort of photos…. GASTOWN! I really can’t pick a favourite from all of these. I’m gonna have a blast shooting their wedding this weekend!

Love the cute expression Kendra has on her face.

So mid way through the whole session, I found out these guys didn’t know what an eskimo kiss was!!! They got the hang of it quite fast.

Loving the look Kendra is giving Michael here!

Eleasha and Michael contacted me and were looking for some fun shots of them being them! They are both from Fort St. John, BC and decided to come in to the city for a bit of fun. They are getting married in Vegas very soon so they wanted something a bit different. We came up with an idea to go to a retro diner for some photos! We got some milkshakes, fries and the works!

Love the decor they had up at the place. They really loved this one with the bright walls.

We then took a quick drive and headed to the Marine Building on Burrard. It had this awesome front entrance from the Art Deco movement. I found out Michael was a big Smallville fan. And it turns out that this building is the Daily Planet building they use in Smallville! So very cool! They just need stab that globe on top and it’s perfect!

Looking back at Jacklyn and Alex they share many similarities to me and Rita. I first met J+A in Richmond when they were planning their wedding. During the meeting we both thought each other looked very familiar. It turns out that we all went to the same highschool, RHS! GO COLTS! In fact, that is where Jacklyn and Alex met each other and started dating 8 years ago. Around the same time that me and Rita started dating too! In fact, they live just one street away from Rita! How amazing is that?

They just had their wedding recently at the Hilton! That’s coming up next! Here are their engagement out around the Gastown area.

Here are some of my favourites from Agnes and Michael’s engagement shoot! We headed out to the new convention centre out in Downtown Vancouver. It overlooks a beautiful view of the mountains and also peeks of Stanley Park as well. I really love what they have done around this area. It was years back when I remember it was still under construction. I didn’t even know they were building this. I finally got a chance to visit it when me and Rita went there to check out one of the Canstruction pieces that our friend help build. Anyways, A+M is getting married soon up top at Grouse Mountain. I can’t wait for it!

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:

So here’s the story! Dustin contacted me a couple weeks back about doing some photos of him and his ‘girlfriend’ Tanya. With him being in Kamloops, we exchanged emails about a million time to stamp out the details! The plan was to go around Vancouver, take some photos, and at the end surprise Tanya with a marriage proposal! How awesome is that!?!

I was so psyched up for this shoot and was mentally preparing myself so I would not say anything to give it away! After all, we did called it a portrait session the whole time! So here goes…

Love this! 1 pose 4 look!


Did I mention that I love lens flares? I caught this awesome one here!




This was so funny. See the shadow? That’s my head! I was trying  to hide behind the seawall so that I’m not in the shot. With only my head peeking up, this well dressed dog gave me a weird look. There’s Tanya and Dustin on the top right.




We finally got to the beach! Our destination for proposal-ville!
I think Tanya is about the cry here…
SHE SAID YES!!

Congrats again Tanya and Dustin! Thanks for having me capture all the sweet moments! Give me a shout when you’ve set a date!

This was one awesome shoot. Meeting for the first time, I didn’t know what to expect. But one look and this couple’s got a unique style to them. We started out in Yaletown and then headed up to Gastown when the light dropped. We really like to draw from each couple’s personality in our engagement shoots. I think we got their soft side and their edgier side.

The funniest thing happened when Lex ran to fill up the parking meter while me and Chrissie was just waiting around. An “up and coming” photographer chatted up Chrissie to do some photos in the future……..while I was standing right there with camera in hand. Umm Hello! At least acknowledge my existence! Anyways….

Last couple of shots in Gastown was with street light only and I totally pulled off the impossible. Good thing I had my favourite lens with me. Gotta give it a good cleaning tonight!

Their wedding is coming up in a couple of weeks and I can’t wait to be working with Chrissie and Lex again!