Wedding - Pam and Brice

I'm a bit slow on the blog this week, but I did have a wedding last weekend. Pam and Brice got married at the Sheraton Cavalier on Saturday, March 18th. We headed down to Stephen Avenue for a photo session after the ceremony. The whole wedding party toughed out some pretty miserable weather and were great sports. Thanks guys (and girls).

Ready to go!


Dad's eyes say it all.


The ring.




Warming up.


Pretty sexy stuff!

Mixed Bag

I had a mixed bag of work this past week. I started off up in Grand Prairie where FMC Technologies hired me to photograph their northern operations. Later in the week I traded in the hard helmet, steel toed boots, and safety glasses for my skiing garb and met my brother and some of his friends at Rogers Pass for some backcountry skiing. The snow conditions were suck factor 10, but the sun and views were impressive.

Skiing - February

Ahhh, February! We've been skiing as much as possible the last few weeks. Here are a few photos.

Crash and burn!

We were up at the Salmo/Creston Pass yesterday backcountry skiing when my brother (photo below) caught a great video sequence of me skiing. You have to watch to the very end for the entertaining part!

Wedding - Sarah and Jon

I spent Saturday photographing Sarah and Jon’s wedding out in Canmore. They had a perfect day in the mountains for a winter wedding. After a heartfelt ceremony we spent some time taking photos along the Bow River before heading up to the Nordic Center for the tastefully decorated reception. The whole day flowed smoothly and looked great thanks to the expertise of CDM Consulting Group, who did the wedding planning and decorating.

Wedding - Catherine and Aaron

Suzanne and I spent and great day photographing Catherine and Aaron's wedding. The reception was at the Ranche Restaurant, one of our favourite places in town. Once again the crazy Calgary weather was too good to be true. During the speeches I am pretty good about staying focused on the job, but their speeches were so heartfelt that I got sucked in. I was winning the battle against emotion, but then Catherine made a reference to skiing in her speech and I was done. The two of them are off to Jackson Hole for a two week skiing honeymoon. Nice!. Kind of makes our honeymoon for two weeks in the Yukon sleeping in my parents old van sound totaly Ghetto. I hope you are getting lots of fresh tracks! -Al

Engagement - Angela and Felix

Calgary weather is so weird. I did an engagement session for Angela and Felix yesterday, January 23rd. It's supposed to be cold. A skirt and open toed shoes and we were outside for two hours! I think Angela is still a bit tougher than normal though.

In the office

Here's a sequence of our buddy Pete getting a face full of cold smoke. We snuck out on a Friday to take advantage of all the new snow. It was pretty funny seeing Pete pull his phone out after the 3rd run and check in with work.









In the office, Kootenay style. Pete runs an IT business in Cranbrook. His clients know not to expect him to be in town after a big dump.

Winter at last!

You wouldn't know it living here in Calgary, but there is actually a lot of snow falling in the mountains. Here are a few shots from last weekend of our friend Karl. Karl's from New Zealand, so he talks real funny, but he likes to ski so we put up with him.

Karl going up through the snow ghosts.


Coming down


Going back up.

Wedding - Lyndsay and Shawn

2005 has been a pretty good year for our business and it was great to spend the last day of the year photographing Lyndsay and Shawn’s wedding. The ceremony and reception were both held at the Executive Royal Inn, while the couple and there wedding party rushed over to Stephen Avenue in between for a photo session. Even though the temperature was above freezing, it still felt pretty cold.

I was happy to see I was amongst Flames fans. Flames beat the Oilers 5-4, now that is a happy ending!

Wedding - Jeannine and Chris

One of my favourite restaurants in Calgary is Piato, which was the venue chosen by Jeannine and Chris for their wedding on the eve of New Year’s Eve. The intimate ceremony took place in front of the fire and was celebrated with a reception that featured some of the best food in Calgary, great speeches, and lots of laughter mixed with tears. It was a great night and I was honoured to be there.