Will you be my Valentine….

….well that’s what Salty and Peppery are asking tonight. They were busy tonight creating these excellent cards vying for your heart. A bit early, yes, but that day is fast approaching. Here is another set of Salty and Peppery pics for their montage.

Snow Snow and more Snow!!!....

I love snow; I cannot explain in words how much I love snow. Well the act of snow falling mostly, when it gets all ghastly and dirty…well I don’t love it nearly as much then. I do love mountain powder, but alas, I live in Ontario…no mountains. So instead I must entertain myself with walking around the city while it’s snowing. Earlier it was High Park, however this time I chose Main Street Unionville as my area of choice. I know my friend who owns Palettera Custom Correspondences has been looking for more local shots of winter for a postcard series so I thought I’d try to get a few that she may enjoy. The last time I attempted this I ended up falling waist deep in a small river/lake in the area… luckily I’m always expecting to do such a thing and was quite waterproof, this time however I was not and stayed away from the water as best as I could.

Salty & Peppery Meet Snow….

The ongoing series of Salty & Peppery continued today after another snowstorm hit Toronto. I wasn’t here for the first one last week, given I was in Boston, so I took advantage of the opportunity to introduce Salty & Peppery to the snow and what fun they had! I’m too easily amused by these Characters.

Boston 2011....

As mentioned in a previous post, I went to Salem Massachusetts for a wedding, but that is really just a suburb of Boston, Mass. Given the tight schedule I wasn’t able to stay too long in the city but I did get an afternoon of touring in and took a few shots. I would really like to go back again to experience more of the culture that the city has to bring and to just explore more. Boston is such a large city with so much to explore, I really would like to get back there this summer if I can. Here are a few shots of my walkabout I took during that afternoon/evening.

First Wedding of the Season….

Typically “wedding season” would usually fall during the spring through autumn period of the year; which makes sense given those are the warmer seasons.  It’s not often you find yourself going to a winter wedding that is not a destination wedding of some sort, especially in this climate of Canada/Upper north eastern USA.  However this year, the first wedding was on January 8^th, 2011.  The destination was Salem (Massachusetts), more known for their rich witch history rather than their winter getaway spot.  The couple that day would be two good friends who I have gotten to know over the years and who are absolutely perfect for one another in every way.

Frank & Rebecca asked me to be one of their main photographers for this event. Usually I would decline such a role since I prefer to enjoy a friends wedding without being distracted by work, but I guess they caught me in a moment of weakness a few months prior.  I found myself in a situation which I wasn’t 100% comfortable with or familiar.  I have taken a lot of photos at weddings, for friends, colleagues etc but I’ve never had the complete responsibility of getting all the shots fall on my shoulders.  Even with this previous experience under my belt I still found myself somewhat nervous.  I find myself usually at ease going to these types of events and that usually translates into the photos I capture.  I suppose my main fear was that this nervousness would translate into the photos I take for my two friends and not capture all that I wanted to from their most important day.

With all this on my mind I went to the wedding in hopes of doing my best and recording the event with my camera as best as I could. I was put at ease when I discovered that I would be working with someone else, well at least they’d be open to my instructions on what to shoot and so forth.  Between the two of us we were able to capture all that I had hoped and planned and hopefully that’ll translate into two very happy friends/customers.

I’ve been slow to work on the images taken, working on a few here and there as the days went by, but I’ve been able to show the couple a few images and they do seem very happy with them.  I plan on finishing everything by next week if I can since I need to ship the DVD’s with the images back to Boston and I’m sure they want to use them in a scrapbook of some sort as Rebecca is very creative in that manner.

Here are a few of the shots taken of the happy couple on that day.  I was lucky enough to have it snow the day of the ceremony so it was fun to work with the natural environment.  The venue was rustic and gorgeous and the overall ceremony was very intimate since it was only about 75 people.  I must say it was one of the coziest weddings I’ve been to thus far.  With 8-9 more this year (none of which I’ll be a photographer in an official capacity) I’m sure I’ll have my share of variety when it comes to venue/setting/experience.