Farid and I were talking about doing a family shoot with his gf and dogs for months. Finally after seeing clear skies and beautiful weather we booked a morning. I brought my camera gear and Farid brought his beautiful girlfriend Devin and two dogs, Taydo and Michka. I’ve known Farid for years, since early high school years back at Carson Graham in North Vancouver. I saw how much they loved each other and wanted to take some photographs – even a small engagement

Our destination was Iona beach, prime get-away spot in Richmond. Away from the busy Vancouver downtown scene and more along the long grassy lands and clear beaches. The dogs were well trained with Michka being the older of the two and Taydo just over year, family portraits were a breeze. Decided to give these two loves birds some time to themselves afterwords though. The passion was hot and love un-mistakable – no way separating these two once together. 3years and still going strong, my words can’t describe how happy I am for the both of you. After going through the photographs, I can happy say it’s some of my best work. Partly skills and majority to the both of them!

Only a week away from their wedding, we decided to shoot our new hybrid engagement package with them. This is a session combines both video and photography into one day. The best part about the hybrid package is, we storyboard and direct the whole thing prior too. We felt incorporating a videographer into an engagement session gave us a new way to shoot a story in a medium you haven’t seen done by anybody else.

Enjoy

I spent a wonderful evening photographing Janisse and Justin at the Rose Garden in Stanley Park!

It couldn’t have been a better day to pick it because the blossoms were at full bloom and shedding petals everywhere. Now when I think about it, I should’ve had my lovely assistant gather up a whole bunch and make it rain – save that next year!

With some time, we made our way into historical Gastown to take photos by the Europe Hotel and Steam clock before it started hailing.. HARD!

No better way to start off the wedding season than engagement photos with my friends Suman and Mario. Once these two warmed up to there picture being taken, there was no stopping them. We took them around Vancouver’s beautiful Gastown and once we got down all the important photos, the rest were all fun!

And than all the fun stuff!

Congrats to Ace and LJ for their engagement!
Ace and myself go back to junior year of high school, so when he came to me to photograph his wedding I was honored.

Here are more photos from the beautiful North Shore Quay:

…First engagment of the season and the weather couldn’t have been better!
The spunky couple Joanne and Matt met up with me at Rocky Point, Port Moody for a two hour engagement session. Big thanks to my assistant Micheal and his reflector skills because without him I wouldn’t have gotten some of the shots that I did.