I’m always excited to try shooting in new locations. I can be a little nervous about it sometimes, since I don’t really know what I’m going to find when I get there. When Lindsay wanted to do her engagement session at Discovery Harbour in Penetanguishene I wasn’t sure what to expect. I’ve lived in Barrie a while now, but I’ve never made the trek to Penetang (as the cool kids call it). I do most of my photography in Barrie, Toronto or Muskoka. Penetang is a beautiful little town and I loved it. I think I might have worn Shawn out a little bit even, but Lindsay didn’t seem to mind the glam of a photo shoot.

It’ll be a great show with a ton of awesome vendors including my friend Nicole from Little Birdie Wedding and Event Florals. Check out the official show poster below.

PS. The shot on the show poster isn’t one of mine. It’s from my friends Ryan and Erika of Rowell Photography

And then I took some shots of Mary Ellen with her beau Ken.

For some reason I kept humming “Thank God I’m a country boy” as I was lugging my lights around the farm.

Jill & Scott, I’m so happy that I could do this for you and I’m just so stoked about how it all went! Could. Not. Be. Happier. Thanks for letting me experiment at your wedding!

Here’s some highlights.

Would I do it differently the next time? Maybe a little bit. I’d like to project the images in a slideshow as they come up. That would be pretty cool. I’d also like to dress the booth up a little and have a way to display the props a little better, so that people don’t have to dig so much. Other than that, it went so well that it’s just about exactly what I was hoping for.

The first set of pictures were taken at Blue Mountain where everyone was very gracious in letting us shoot in their restaurants. The rest of the images are from my personal favourite spot in Collingwood, the Grain Terminal. It’s an amazing grungy, edgy location that’s in the middle of a beautiful park right on the water. There’s three completely different locations in the same place. I love it there.

Rachel and I met mid morning, shot for a couple of hours at the MacLaren and then braved the cold January weather to try some grittier locations. Since we’re kinda wusses, we cut that idea short and went back to the MacLaren to enjoy a great coffee at the Radio Café. All in all I’m very happy with the way the portraits turned out and Rachel’s really happy with them too. Win / win – Yay!

Dear Rachel’s mom, please be advised that your daughter is fully clothed in this photo, it’s merely creative cropping.

I love second shooting because there’s less pressure, and there’s more opportunity to look for shots. As a second, one of my jobs is to get the “fill in” shots. The shots that aren’t really essential but flesh out the story of the day. I’m not so fond of the fact that I don’t usually get to meet the couple before the wedding day and there’s much less of a connection between me and the couple, but as a second I usually try to stay invisible anyways.

Anywho, I’m off to grab the kiddo, enjoy the shots.

I met them at a $tarbucks on Queen St. in Toronto, because I loves me some latte, but also because I love an urban setting for couples shoots. And really, any other type of shoot too. We ran around downtown, looking for any kind of grungy, edgy looking location that we could find to shoot in. Really, we only scratched the surface. There’s so many great locations and so much great light that I could shoot non-stop for the rest of my life. It didn’t hurt that Alain is undeniably  cool and Cindy is freakin’ gorgeous. No. That didn’t hurt at all. I could have keep shooting all day, but I think I wore them out a little bit.

Enjoy!

This next shot is technically evidence for trespassing.