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Specializing in available light, lifestyle photography and enjoying life nestled in the Canadian Rockies, I am passionate about making pictures.  Just ask my kids! 

I shoot throughout the East and West Kootenay, Alberta, the Washington DC Area and The Yucatan Peninsula... and of course, beyond!

Whether it's your wedding, your family gathering or a simple portrait, I'm eager to work with you and offer a unique, professional perspective on your special occasion!


{specials} impending valentines day: feeling romantic!

02*01*2010 Posted in destination, gratitude, specials!, thoughts and images

Call it the full moon, call it an air of impending romance (proposals, helll-llloooo!) or call it, I still have a few available weekends this summer… whatever you call it, I’m extending my package specials till into February.

~Ladies: Consider doing something special for yourself -and that special someone… go Boudoir.  Nothing sets the Valentine’s mood like pretty (read: SEXY!) pictures.  Until February 14th, take advantage of a 10% savings as well as a $30 print credit.  A little intimidated to go it alone?  Arrange an afternoon for yourself and four or more friends and enjoy your own sitting for FREE!

~Getting Married? Book your date before February 28th and receive 10% off any package price and add an additional $30 in free prints! Book before the 14th and you’ll get the remarkable bonus of calling the high-resolution images yours!

Planning a wedding in Mexico (Mayan Riviera in particular ;) ?) We are making our plans for April/May as well as the fall, October into November.  The weather, the sea, the light… there’s NOTHING like the Caribbean!  I’m excited already!

For more pricing information, please visit the website or contact me for more information.

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{events} olympic torch relay 2010!

01*27*2010 Posted in events, families, happiness is...., kids

Last Friday marked the Olympic Torch’s journey through our fair valley. From Radium to Canal Flats festivities lasted throughout the day.

Invermere really put on a show and the turnout was really quite remarkable.  Hermann Mauthner, husband, father, grandfather and the area’s foremost judoka, enjoyed thoroughly the honour of bringing the flame into the heart of the festivities.

Things continued into the night here in Fairmont.  From the hotdog eating contest that kicked things off to the kids relay and ski races to the torch ski that ended the evening, fun was had by all!

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{destinations} merida & the mayan riviera: ya-hoo!

01*21*2010 Posted in destination, families, i do, kids, mine. all mine.

We are makin’ our plans!

As far as winters go, we’re faring pretty well.  I know the ski hill is suffering a little with all these mild temps but for those of us pining for the tropics… well, it just brings us that much closer I suppose.

Despite an easy winter, there’s a part of me that is always basking in the Caribbean sun, climbing ruins and eating the best damn pizza on the continent (Corleone’s in Merida Centro!)… and come the end of ski season, ALL of me really will be!

I will be available at locations in and around historic Merida and along the dreamy Mayan Riviera (and beyond… hello, Belize!) for this spring.  If you’re planning your wedding or a family vacation in the Yucatan or Quintana Roo, I am happy to offer my services beginning early April and through the second week of May.

Edited to add:  I can’t believe I forgot to mention that, for those of you planning further ahead, we will be back in Mexico the third week of September until well into November, 2010!

Contact me for details!

Book your date now!

Regular package prices apply… depending on the location there may be some travel and/or accomodation expenses.

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{events} fairmont hot springs: art show at smoking waters cafe!

01*17*2010 Posted in events, gratitude, happiness is...., specials!

I am so excited as I sit here on this balmy January morning… en route, as I type, are a truck-load of prints in various sizes and finishes… several of my favourite local photographs of this past spring and summer…

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They will be on display at Smoking Waters Cafe here in Fairmont in celebration of the Olympic Torch Relay and its tour past Fairmont this Friday, January 22nd.  The official art show will run all weekend, as do the wide range of family activities, but my prints, as well as the works of several other local Valley artists, will continue to enjoy their space in the cafe for the next little while.

While I’m at it, don’t forget about the portrait and wedding specials running until the end of the month!  There are a few weekends still available for this spring and summer, so book yours now!

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{mine} expressions of mini-me!

01*12*2010 Posted in gratitude, happiness is...., kids, mine. all mine., specials!

My hat.  My glasses.  I never thought I’d ever have my own little Mini-Me!

Oh, and to take the pressure off, I’m extending the High-Rez Copy Special until January 31st!  Whew!

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{weddings} invermere, eagle ranch: sarah, stephen & kian!

01*10*2010 Posted in couples, i do

Between Christmas and New Years I had the immense pleasure of spending the day with Sarah, Stephen their beautiful son Kian and the rest of their family and friends.  The setting was the lovely Eagle Ranch Resort, as beautiful in winter as in summer to be sure.

I began with the girls at Fusion Spa in Invermere before heading off to the snow-covered golf course for the lovely mid-day ceremony.  The weather grew colder over the course of the day, but the team was up for anything, including traipsing through snow to mid-calf!

Along with some lively Irish dancing and an emotional slideshow, the evening was a wonderful time where their loving family and friends celebrated the couple as individuals, newlyweds and young parents.  It was wonderful to be a part of!

Sarah, Stephen and Kian… I wish you all the good things marriage, parenthood and life has to offer.  Given what I witnessed on your special day, I’ve no doubt you’ll have it in spades!

Don’t forget to check out the New Year’s specials!

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{thoughts} inspiring comparisons… my immediate family.

01*08*2010 Posted in gratitude, happiness is...., kids, mine. all mine., thoughts and images

I recently enjoyed one of the best compliments… EVER!  Some of my work was recently compared to the entirely incomparable Sally Mann.  I will accept the compliment heartily, enthusiastically, with immense gratitude… and knowing that, as I said, there really is NO comparison to the singular and remarkable, if controversial, Sally Mann.

I came to know of Sally Mann’s work a few years ago and was dumbfounded.  Struck by the sheer artistry and freakish and experimental technical proficiency… the woman works with a hundred-year-old 8×10 view camera for cryin’ out loud!… I became an immediate fan.

My children, like hers, are a fundamental part of my collective body of work, though she has pushed the envelope without a doubt, in ways I would never have considered… her images illicit cries of ‘exploitation’, ‘objectification’, and in some cases, outright ‘pornography’.  But with her three children her subjects in Mann’s most famous work, Immediate Family, she garnered widespread respect and admiration for her intimate and daring photographs depicting their lives in rural Virginia.  Through her children, she documented motherhood, youth, fear, boredom, growth… life.  Everything any parent has seen.

Your feelings about her or her judgement aside, there’s no denying her images evoke feelings of the familiar, the mundane, the joyous, the innocence, the beautiful.  She captures childhood as so many of us remember it, or would like to… free.

While I am proud to consider Mann an influence, along with the likes of the formidable Dorothea Lange, I make no claims that there is any possible similarities between my work and hers… but I will enjoy the comparison.

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{mine} cold and frosty… and, cold.

01*07*2010 Posted in happiness is...., mine. all mine., pets

Yesterday was VERY cold in our fair valley.  But we didn’t let it stop us from enjoying a frosty x-country ski around Mountainside- a glorious, scenic trip where it’s actually possible to forget how FREAKING COLD it is!

Me and my Honey-beast, through the fresh snow…

As happy as she was to bound from the car into the snow… she was as happy to bound back into the car and go home.  But I had to capture a few shots before she defrosted her beard.  My beast doesn’t like getting her picture taken.  She gets all sheepish and refuses to make eye contact with the lens… even my NEW ever-so-much-more-less-obtrusive-merry-christmas-to-me fixed 50mm 1.4 lens- whooot!

Weird.

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{weddings} panorama: from across the pond… karena & neill!

01*04*2010 Posted in couples, happiness is...., i do

Whew!  With the holidays said and done… it’s back down to bizznezzzz!  A few gigs behind, I’m getting around first to posting my New Years Eve afternoon up on the mountain.

Karena and Neill of Glasgow, Scotland, eloped over New Years to the sparkly summit of Panorama to celebrate their union and their love.  And a more-in-love couple you’ll be hard-pressed to find… I thought Karena would topple poor Neill right off the side of the mountain when the charming Mr. Stuart-Hill offered they were free to kiss for the first time as husband and wife!  They were so excited to be on the mountain and downright exuberant in the fact they were getting married.  Truly lit up… I was honoured to be a part of it.

We began the shoot at their hotel room and shortly thereafter made our way to our transportation up to the summit- a  helicopter! While we began the shoot down below in delicious light of the soupy clouds, sprinkles of snow and the occasional gentle sun beam making itself from through the grey, once we disembarked up top… or should I say ducked for dear life as, what appeared little more than the AirHog my eldest son got for Christmas, lifted off from the summit, leaving us crouching in the swirling snow… the clouds parted. Sun!

It was a glorious afternoon, and a lovely ceremony (as always, thank you, Mr. Stuart-Hill!).  We came equipped with all implements warm and cozy, but between the sun, the excitement and a good dose of adranalin, there was none required. We were also so very fortunate to be at the top of the mountain with the couple’s two very qualified friends and attendants- Panorama Ski Patrol!  Whew!

To Karena and Neill… I wish you all the love and excitement this unique day represented, through soupy clouds and beaming sunshine!  All the very best… and I think more brides should consider getting married in floral Wellies!


Don’t forget to check out the New Year specials for your upcoming event or gathering! Big Savings, I say!

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{specials!} happy new year offers!

01*02*2010 Posted in specials!

Happy New Year!  To mark 2010, I thought, here on this fair Saturday morning so very early into this fine new decade… what better way to ring things in than to offer some dead-of-winter specials!

So, without further ado…

~Families! Book your sitting before the end of January receive 10% off and $30 in free prints.

~Ladies: Consider doing something special for yourself -and that special someone… go Boudoir.  Until the end of January, take advantage of a 10% savings as well as a $30 print credit.  A little intimidated to go it alone?  Arrange an afternoon for yourself and four or more friends and enjoy your own sitting for FREE!

~Brides and Grooms: book your date before January 31st and receive 15% off any package price and add an additional $30 in free prints! Book before the 15th and you’ll get the remarkable bonus of calling the high-resolution images yours!

For more pricing information, please visit the website or contact me for more information.

Here’s to a picture-perfect 2010!  :)

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