Kristen's Graduation Portraits

Kristen and her family came down from Edmonton a couple of weeks ago to have some graduation portraits made, and we were fortunate enough to score a beautifully sunny evening to shoot on at Baker Park. She brought her elegant and fun, gorgeously green grad dress with her, and her cheery personality really comes through in the images.

This session also happened to be my first since switching over from Canon gear to a Fujifilm system, and I was thrilled with how my X-T1 performed. Without geeking out too much, I'm really pleased with the image quality in the files, and found a number of features specific to this type of camera to be extremely useful. The small size and light weight of the Fuji mirrorless system is ideal for the type of work I do, and I'm excited to continue flexing its muscles in different circumstances.

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Landon Turned One

I had the privilege of making family portraits for the Dalziel family last summer, and was excited to shoot a new session for little Landon's first birthday - especially when southern Alberta's ridiculously snowy spring gave us a window of warmth to show off some grass and allow for short sleeved shirts.
I met up with Anna, Jaxon, and Landon at Strathmore's Kinsmen Park and we ran around and goofed off for a couple hours. What a fun, loving family; here are a few shots from the session:

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Eight Month-old Banner

Each month, I do a few photos with my son Banner, which are always a blast to shoot. He's changing so quickly, but one thing that's always been consistent with this little guy is that he has the most expressive eyebrows I've ever seen on a baby. He turned eight months old yesterday; check out some of the pics:

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Nikki Reimer

Last week I was thrilled to be contacted by acclaimed Calgarian poet Nikki Reimer to make some promotional headshots for her upcoming book tour. Nikki's work is wry, unflinching, and masterfully observant (for more on her writing, including her first book, [sic], click here), and so we were going for a serious but not stuffy tone with the pictures. We met up at her house and did some work both outdoors and inside, using an amazing painting by her mother as a backdrop. It was a privilege to work with her. Here are a few samples:

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A Winter Engagement

I was so privileged to be asked to shoot engagement photos for this exuberant couple: fans of both the Roughriders and the outdoors, they were keen to take advantage of the snowy woods at Big Hill Springs Park a few weeks ago. It's a wonderful location with waterfalls, little bridges, and a nice diffuse light in the afternoon, and when Jody turned it on for the camera she was beaming. Check out a few samples:

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A Session in Two Parts - the Popek Family

The plan with the Popek family was to start at their house, then take the C-train to downtown and get some images in the spectacularly colourful Plus-15 near the Epcor Centre for the Performing Arts. Great idea, except for the epic snowstorm that blew in that morning. We still did some shots in the house as planned - we live in the same neighbourhood, which was uber-convenient - but decided the likelihood of actually making it out of Tuscany to get downtown was pretty low. Rescheduled to a few weeks later, we met up downtown and had a blast with the multi-colour stripes lining my favourite Plus-15 (everyone has a favourite Plus-15, right?) and a nearby mural. Here are a few of the resulting images:

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