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!