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Rosita contacted me late last year to do a few photos of her and her family to decorate their newly renovated kitchen with. At our meeting together she let me know that she was especially drawn to my photography as it seemed to really capture people’s personalities and emotions! For the kitchen they decided on a several large B&W canvases of their individual headshots of family members. Although they’re just headshots I really wanted to inject some more personality into the photos by having everyone bring a prop that meant something special to them for their photos. The props ranged from family cat, Russian hats, golf clubs, and hobbyists air rifles and each showed a little something about each family member. From the love of traveling to a favourite sport or past time. We definitely tried a lot of fun silly things to make everyone loose and have fun in their photos and I am sure it shows in the final product!

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Here is Andrea and Chuck in a winter engagement session near the University of Toronto campus grounds. I met the two of them through mutual friends from church and am very excited to be attending and photographing their Vancouver wedding later this year! I have several destination weddings (hey it’s a destination wedding for me if I’m stuck in Toronto most of the time) lined up for 2010 and am looking forward to the various sights, locations, and people that I will get to meet along the way. At this time of year it was starting to get chilly from the cold winter weather so I recommend that all my couples dress warmly and comfortably for our outdoor photo sessions together. Photos always turn out better when you’re feeling good about yourself!

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Maggie and Kiyo got engaged a while back and we headed off to High Park, one of the largest parks in Toronto, for our photo session together. At the time we had a gorgeous bright sunny day and the leaves had just about finished changing colours for the fall season. Before we took photos the cute couple shared a sushi picnic amongst the leaves. You can tell the two of them really belong together since they’re wearing matching outfits! Looking forward to their wedding later in 2010!

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This set was finished a while back but I felt it’s time to post it now as updates on my blog slow down a bit as I try to finish up with all the editing from the 2009 season. Queenie and Anthony had a October wedding up in Markham just a short drive north of Toronto. After the bride and groom met up in the morning, with the groom bearing many gifts as part of the Vietnamese wedding traditions, we headed off to the popular uptown photography location of Unionville Main St for some fun formals. We were greeted to a nice Saturday afternoon in November and were lucky enough to meet up with an organ grinder musician with “authentic” dancing monkey! Eventually we headed up to a fantastic afternoon ceremony and reception dinner at the Shangri-La Banquet & Convention Centre. Congratulations Queenie and Anthony!

venue | Shangri-La Banquet & Convention Centre

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I met Peggy and Simon a while back as they were friends of another one of my brides. We shot this engagement session a while back when the weather in Toronto was still relatively warm. To start the session we had a few drinks at a Starbucks before heading over to Yorkville to check out some Vera Wang dresses. Along the way we passed by the Royal Ontario Museum and even went by the University of Toronto campus!

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