Archive for June, 2010

Helicopter Engagement Shoot ~ Okanagan Wedding Photographer

Monday, June 14th, 2010

This engagement session was such a fun adventure! Della and Doug own a helicopter (Doug flies it) and asked if they could pick me up in Oyama. I drove out to meet them and they landed in a random field where I ran out to hop in. I felt like a secret agent. : D All the neighbors came out with their cameras- it was kinda neat. We took off and flew over the gorgeous green waters of Kalamalka Lake. This is where Della and Doug pretty much won my heart by saying I could pretty much choose anywhere (in reason of course) to touch down. So with my bird’s eye view, I spotted this great field that I knew I had to photograph in. They made me want to get a helicopter so I could take couples wherever I wanted to go ALL the time! haha. I wish!

We touched down and spent the next hour taking photos in a beautiful big green field. We saw an interesting red contraption from across the field and when we went to investigate we found this huge piece of farm equipment that looked like it had been sitting there for years. A tree had even grown out of it.

When we finally had to lift off, Doug flew us around the new Sparkling Hill Resort on the way back and it was fun to get such an up close interesting view of the gorgeous new development. Sparkling Hill Resort is where Della is getting ready for her wedding in August, before moving on to Summerhill Winery in Kelowna for the ceremony and reception!

I had a great time with Della and Doug- they’re a really fun couple with a bit of a rocker edge which I totally dig. Thanks so much for the adventurous shoot you two!

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A little bit of Rock n’ Roll~ Kelowna Family Photography

Saturday, June 12th, 2010

What a fun family!  Angela, Heath, Payton and Kian met me for a shoot a few weeks ago at the end of a cloudy day for their portrait shoot and we we got some awesome light. Angela works in a photo lab and that’s how she had come across my work- a client had taken their negatives to get developed and she liked them so much that she decided to do a shoot for her family herself (yay!). I was excited when I met them and saw the laid back rock n’ roll style that Angela and Heath have, with Heath’s tattoo sleeves and Angela’s funky hair. Always fun to photograph people with funky style! ; D Payton and Kian were adorable kids full of energy and it was fun capturing them playing around in the tall grass. Thanks for the fun shoot you guys! : )

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Rock the Frock~ a rainy day trash the dress

Friday, June 4th, 2010

Danielle from Stage Right Etc and I decided it would be fun to get another shoot out of the awesome DIY dress that she put together. So we set off for a road trip from Kelowna, BC down south. It rained the whole day but didn’t let that stop us. On a whim I pulled Danielle into one of my favorite second hand book shops to get out of the rain and it turned out to be an awesome backdrop! And of course we had to work the rain and mud into our shoot so we found a very large area full of grey mud and Danielle started running around jumping in huge puddles, rolling in the mud, while I tried to take photos while not slipping or sinking too far down in the mud, all the while holding an umbrella with one hand and shooting with the othe. “Why did I not bring an assistant to this shoot,” went through my head many times. haha. We also found a great field of purple flowers to  take photos in as well as a gutted empty building that I’ve been wanting to shoot at for a couple years but never got around to driving down south to it. Overall- a really fun day trip scavenger hunt for good photos! Thanks for the fun day and countless laughs Danielle. ; D

This Trash the Dress shoot pairs up with the Vintage Wedding shoot that I did with Stage Right Etc which got featured on Style Me Pretty.

Big thanks to Amrit Jonhson from La Casa Hair Lounge (on Pandosy in Kelowna ) for the awesome cut and dye job with Danielle’s hair!

The rare and elusive “Dani Bird.”

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