Val and Ari's wedding - July 31st 2010

Val and Ari are friends of mine who got married on July 31st and asked me to be their wedding photographer. It was a great wedding, held in a small venue in the country about an hour outside of Montreal. Very cute and rustic looking place, which was great for the photos.

We battled through massivetraffic getting there, and while things ran a little bit late, the wedding was really fun. They are both very photogenic people, which makes the images all that much better. They are also very fun people who enjoy life and didn't want anything too dramatic or artsy in their images, which is the type of photography I love doing, but yet provides a challenge as you don't want your images to look too much like snapshots.

So I kept with my ever developing photo-journalistic style and tried capturing their story as it happened. I find it is a good idea to have a second photographer there, as it allows for a bigger variety of images and coverage, so I asked my friend Didier to come along with me on the shoot. All in all, we ended up with about 400 great shots.

Here are a few that I love. At the time of writing this, I have 30 up on my FLICKR. I'll probably be adding more to the set when I go through the images again with a rested eye.

Thanks for letting me capture your day guys, it was a great one!

More live music

I was asked by a good friend (and amazing drummer) John to shoot his band during a battle of the bands in Sainte-Catherine on the South Shore of Montreal. His band, Retrospex, is a very new band and does really funky 70s rock, fun stuff you can dance to. I'll definitely be shooting them again.

I didn't stick around for the last band, but here are some of the pics from the first two (Retrospex and TNT). Both bands had different styles...in the end, John's band did bring home the cash.

Retrospex








TNT

NYC - La Grande Pomme

My wife and I went on an anniversary trip to New York City. It was about a month after our actual anniversary, but hey, any reason is a good reason to head down to New York City

I hadn't been to NYC in just over 4 years, so I was looking forward to making my way down. While my wife had on her agenda a trip to Century 21, I had on mine a trip to BH Photo Video. Together, we planned on hitting some Broadway shows and just soaking in the city. We ended up seeing La Cage aux Folles (which was just brilliant) and Rock of Ages (which was so-so...too tacky for our tastes).

We stayed on 9th and 39th, right at the edge of the Garment district and Hell's Kitchen. Found some great restaurants, met up with a friend for supper, did some touring, lots and lots of walking and spent way more money than we had planned. But its all good, you only live once, right?

Here are some of my favorite photos from the 5 day trip. I'm playing with some different processing, would love to hear what you all think...

I have about 30 of them uploaded on my FLICKR account if you want to see more.