A sneak peek at our shoot yesterday at Lowville Park in Burlington ON.
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Debbie and Bobby – Little White Chapel Wedding
August 27th 2011, Debbie and Bobby got married at the Little White Chapel in Niagara Falls, Ontario. It was a beautiful day. The sun was shining and the weather was hot. You couldn’t have asked for a nicer day or an even better family. Both families welcomed me and my camera. I almost couldn’t shoot enough for them. A great time was had by all. Congrats Debbie and Bobby.
No more hiding – TDDUP – read on….
OK, we can’t hide it anymore….
WE’RE GONNA BE ON TV.
Yup, Susie and I are reality TV stars now:
http://www.hgtv.ca/ontv/titledetails.aspx?titleid=260480
We’re gonna have a viewing party in Burlington on that Tuesday night…or maybe again on the Friday….not sure.
Super Hot Susie!!!
Check out my wife! Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!
She is on her way right now to the Juno’s with Maloreigh. Of course I had to take a snapshot of her. She too has been working her butt off(almost literally) every morning and most evenings. Spending hours on the treadmill and hitting the weights. I can’t wait to see where we are both at in 60 days.
Holy Moly….I haven’t posted in weeks….
So many things have happened since my last post.
I need to review the following books:
David Ziser – captured by the light
Syl Arena – Speedliter’s Handbook
Zack Arias – OneLight Field Guide
Some serious reads in here. I should probably also talk about Joe McNally’s Hot Shoe Diary, but I did already mention it last year after my trip to Quebec.
I really wish that Syl had made this book about 4 years ago when I started photography. It is soooo good! Maybe a full review once I actually finish the last pages. Only about 20 to go.
As I mentioned in my last post, I am doing the P90X workout. It is an incredible workout. I am now on my recovery week. Tomorrow is day 1, which is not easy. It’s the 90 minute Yoga-X workout. I’ve seen some major improvements already. I have lost about 15lbs since I started working out in January, but the first 10 came in 2 months and I hit the Plateau. After 3 weeks on P90X, I’ve lost another 5, but certainly gained some lean muscle as well. I don’t think I have much more weight to lose as my bodyfat percentage will get lower but I will be gaining lean muscle mass.
I do really recommend this workout for people, but it is not for everyone. If you can’t get off your butt to workout every day, 6 days a week and you can’t push yourself, then sit this routine out. You need the personal motivation and direction to watch the videos and put everything you have into them. If you are just going to take it easy, then save your money.
On the photography front, I did my first official corporate shoot. It was pretty cool. Very “grade school” feel. I had in the executive team and senior management in and out within 1 minute each. I won’t be posting any pictures, but you may see them on future publications for Anixter Canada.
That’s it for now.
it’s been a while….
Sorry for the lack of updates dear friends and followers. This year started off with so much change it’s been hard to keep up. First up, I decided it’s time to truly change my body and mind. I’m not going all crazy here, just making the right changes. I get up and workout every morning, prep 5 meals a day and still have time to play with my kids and do all the usual house stuff. On Sunday (March 6th), I started the P90X workout. I’ll be keeping you up to date on how I progress. It’s a real tough workout and not intended for beginners.
The only downside to working on myself, is that I haven’t been able to keep up with my photography as much as possible. Which is why for 2011, I’m taking a bit of a step back right now. I’m working on family shoots and going back to my roots of shooting bands. I’m focusing on my lighting techniques and will be hanging with the likes of Joe McNally and David Hobby at the Flashbus tour. I’m reading up on Syl Arena’s amazing body of work, Speedliters handbook. I’ve read the amazing David Ziser tome, Captured by the light. I’m also going to be shooting lots of weddings as a second shooter.
That’s it for me now.
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Alan
Amazon.ca you rock!
That’s it for now. They’ve just really impressed me with their customer service! I understand that most companies can’t do what they’ve just done for me, but it’s just the level of service, the promptness of the reply and the overall feeling that they care about their customers. I’ll post more another day…plus I have to talk about the actual product I got.
Check out my twitter feed, or facebook by now(it should have posted it) or my instagram page. You’ll see what product I got.
New Treadmill & Great Grandma Update
Happy Wife, Happy Life right? Today I went to Canadian Tire and picked up a Horizon CT7.1 model treadmill. Susie and I managed to bring it into the house and down to the basement without killing ourselves. I got it setup after about 45 minutes. It’s pretty cool! Susie took it for a test run, she did 20 minutes on it and she’s exhausted. Tomorrow morning will bring me to my first attempt on it, but I won’t be doing too much as tomorrow is a killer upper body workout.
On a completely other front, my grand-ma is in the hospital and has been moved to a palliative care room. I spent all of Friday and some of yesterday with her. It is quite sad to see her this way, but after 93 years, she has done some amazing things. I wish her god speed to finish her journey. Take care Grams and say hi to Grand-pa for all of us.
This is from our last visit before Christmas:
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