Jordan & Danielle's E. Session

Downtown Edmonton was the backdrop for my photography session with this sweet couple, who will be getting married next year. From back alleys to rooftops, this city's concrete jungle provided some great settings and ideas as we photographed this pair of lovebirds. Conditions were great on this beautiful, warm Sunday evening - the sun gave us excellent lighting options, and also it was not too busy out, except for those who were taking advantage of outdoor restaurant patios.





















Jordan & Danielle are a fun outgoing couple who seemed to have a lot of fun in this unique engagement photo setting, and it really showed on their faces. Thanks so much!

Agape Love

Agape means Love in Greek, but not just love is the deeper kind of love. This word represents divine, unconditional, self-sacrificing, active, volitional, and thoughtful love. No wonder why Jerry named his dental office love. They are full of fun and love for their patient. I had an amazing time capturing the staff and the beautiful decoration. I'm just into that red wall. Here are some shots from the session.

Tracey and Her Source

I met Tracey over a year ago at her store BirthSource. She is a professional doula who opened a baby store on the east side of Edmonton. It's a very nice store with an array of unique things for babies and moms. I hung a couple of baby pictures up at her place, along with my business cards and price lists, and have been blessed with a lot of new moms and babies coming from there.

She decided that it is time for her family to take professional portraits, so they all dressed nice and headed to my studio back in September. A very nice outgoing family with a lot of passion towards each other. We had so much fun, and we tried so many different poses! I really enjoyed the photoshoot with this family.

Your store is beautiful, by the way. Keep up the good work, Tracey! I can't wait to shop there for myself someday... :)

The Allan Family at Hawrelak Park

In the fall, I had a newborn in my studio with her little sister. She had grown up so much since I last saw her. Little Ilaria looked so big and smiley, her outfit matching with her big sister as we headed to the park to play around in the bright yellow leaves.

Mackenzie loved to be outside, feed the ducks, and play in the leaves - she had her own understanding of what is to be in the park; try to tell a two-year old to sit down when it's so nice out! So, instead of sitting we lay down in the leaves and when that couldn't occupy her, Daddy had to bring all his muscle out and play airplane with her.

What a great day! Thank you guys, that was so much fun. Looking forward to photographing you again.
Helga

Trashing the Dress - in Costa Rica!

While down in Costa Rica recently for my wedding, I also had the opportunity to do a trash the dress session! This was very unlike my past experiences with this type of photography in Canada, since I now had the spectacular backdrop of beautiful warm ocean waves, tropical foliage, rugged cliffs, and an endless white beach to work with!

My subject also had a lot of fun, and was thankfully not inhibited by the idea of getting saltwater and sand in the wedding dress.
Thanks Petra!

A Family of Crocs

My family came all the way from Hungary to Costa Rica to be present at my recent destination wedding ceremony. I was very happy to see them, and we definitely had a great time together during that week in the tropics. It was not long enough. But anyway, my family (mother, father, and sister) love to wear Crocs. Yes, I mean the oft-seen multi-coloured rubber shoes (though we also did see a few native Costa Rican crocodiles during the trip).

Anyway, there is apparently a Crocs photo contest back in Europe, and they wanted me to make use of my camera and the beautiful beach scenery to help them submit some entries when they got back home. We definitely had a great time doing it! Here are some of my favourite shots of my family in their Crocs:

The Best Wedding of My Life!

Some good news to confirm to you all, who may remember that last September, I mentioned that I got engaged. Well, at the end of this past March, I was finally married to the Love of my Life!

Obviously these are not photographs which I personally took, but I am happy to share them anyway:

It was a destination wedding, with the ceremony taking place in a lovely tropical location: Punta Leona, Costa Rica. I love doing wedding photography, but obviously, it would be quite difficult to take my own pictures that day, so we hired a professional photographer friend of mine from Winnipeg, Jeremy Hiebert, to come down and capture the occasion in all its splendour. As you can see from the above photos and the entry at his blog site, he did a great job of making beautiful images of me and my wonderful new hubby! Thanks, Jeremy!!!

But of course, even with all the hustle and bustle, I could not help but grab my camera before the wedding day got underway, and take a few images of my own:

Hope you enjoyed!

Salvatore, What a Beautiful Name

Little Salvatore was only a couple of weeks old when his parents brought him to the studio. What a trooper. A little angel with big brown eyes. He could be a model, since he just fit perfectly into every position we put him in.

Congrats mom and dad, he is a sweet little boy!

Hope to see him and his family for his first birthday.
Love, Helga