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I had a great time photographing Jamie and Elizabeth’s engagement session in Lethbridge a few months ago—these guys have such a fun sense of humour and were really easy to work with—and their wedding day was everything I expected it would be. And since their engagement session had a rainbow it was only right that their wedding should have a unicorn. No, really.

Their wedding day was filled with their personal, quirky touches—I love weddings where you can look around the reception room and get a good idea of the couple and their personalities just from the decorations. You’ll see what I mean from some of the wedding detail photos below, though you can also get a sense of how genuine and fun they are just from their portraits. Actually, speaking of decorations and details, Elizabeth made all the little origami birds and hanging crystal bead thingies herself. I just posted some close-ups, but the room had them everywhere—so cool!

Jessica and I started our day with Elizabeth at the Lethbridge Lodge before we all headed down to the park just outside of the Nikka Yuko Japanese Gardens for their wedding ceremony. After their ceremony we headed off to various locations around Lethbridge for their portraits.

At one point I was talking to Jamie about him doing a fun photo between the grain silos and he was thinking about it when Elizabeth kicked off her shoes and climbed up between them. Apparently she used to do this kinda thing as a kid all the time. She even emailed me after the wedding to show me an old scanned photo of her as a young girl wedged off the ground halfway up a doorway. Lol!

Their reception was at the newly-renovated and renamed Coast Hotel, which in the same building as the new Firestone Restaurant. There were so many great moments from their reception—lots of laughter and tears.

Thanks for having us, guys! See you again soon, when your photos are finished!

We recently had the privilege of photographing our friend Melissa. She needed some headshots done for a local church. Like many people, the only prior experiences she’d had with photography before talking with us had been unpleasantly contrived sessions and she told me that she wanted something natural, something authentic, something that showed who she was as a person.

So we started out with the headshots, which we did in her house in front of a wonderfully colourful wall, and then moved on to a field on the outskirts of Lethbridge for photos of her playing her guitar. Melissa is a Christian and the photos at the end of the slideshow are of her worshipping God in a very natural way. This shoot was very spontaneous, as many of my shoots are, and Melissa’s photos grew out of an organic interaction between us all. After the headshots I did no posing at all. It was great to photograph someone so genuine who opened up with us like that. Photography for me is very much about connecting with people and my most meaningful and successful shoots are those where people are able to relax and be themselves. I’m a very open person myself and so I think I create an environment where people find it easy to do this.

Melissa is a very gifted multi-instrumentalist and the music in her slideshow was taken from a CD she recorded. You can find out more about her and her music HERE. Click on the play button below to see her photos.