As mentioned a couple posts ago, Northern Voice was this past weekend and Reilly and I both spoke at Photocamp. It’s *so hard* to try to figure out what to possibly cover in 15 minutes, but we settled on lighting and split it up into two tidy packages and put together our stuff.

My presentation on natural lighting was fairly universal - anyone with a camera from point and shoot to full dSLR and gear could probably get something out of it. Conveniently, if you weren’t there, the whole thing complete with slides and video and all has been put up on the web and can be watched online.

Reilly’s presentation is also online and focuses on more advanced flash use and is probably more interesting to the serious amateur or for pros who haven’t spent a lot of time focussing on lighting, but totally worth checking out. That’s here.

We’ve had a tonne of fabulous feedback from those who came out to hear us speak, and we’ve had requests to get the links out there, so enjoy!

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Reilly and I were excited to be a part of Veil this weekend - a small, invite only, cocktail reception at a private gallery for brides and grooms in the planning stages of their upcoming weddings. We joined a handful of great vendors for an afternoon of visiting with couples over glasses of wine and served canapes. Thanks to everyone who came out, it was great to see so many familiar faces!

Based on the success of the show and wonderful feedback, we are planning to make this a twice yearly event with the next date scheduled likely in September or October. Watch our site for full details on the next event later this year!

Be sure to check out the sites of all the great vendors who participated -

Marliss Productions Videography, WED Bridal, Uniquity Design, Bloom Room, April Cakes, Hot Wax DJs, Milestone Events, Erin Gilmore Photography, Hayley Miller Makeup Artist, Travel by Design, Lolo Jewellry, and us of course - Blue Olive Photography!

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Reilly and I are excited to be heading over to Northern Voice today and tomorrow. Northern Voice is a blogging and social media conference in its fourth year, and is being hosted at UBC.

We’re particularly excited about the Photocamp session this afternoon as we’ll both be speaking and sharing a few tips and tricks for taking great, natural portraits - I’ll be covering working with natural and found lighting, and Reilly will be addressing the use of flash and other modified light.

If you have interest in blogging and social media be sure to bookmark the site and watch for the announcement next year. It’s not to be missed!
Have a great Friday everyone!

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Amber & Shane are getting married in September at the Brock House!

They call Yaletown home so we headed to their neighbourhood for a few engagement pictures on Sunday in the gorgeous sun and warm weather.

Looking forward to the wedding! You guys are awesome in front of the camera - we can’t wait for the wedding day pics!

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I am working furiously on the new Blue Olive website. It is gorgeous. Stunning. You are all going to love it. I can’t wait for you to see it! I keep wanting to post pictures of the design, but then I never was one for being patient, and it would ruin the surprise. Oh, surprise! Surprises are fun. Keep your eyes on this space for the big announcement in the coming weeks!

Hope everyone had a FANTASTIC valentine’s day yesterday, and to all the gals newly engaged, good to have you and get in touch as soon as you start to think about the date! If my web stats are any indication, there was a lot of love going around yesterday

xoxoxo

Miranda

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Julia and Adam ran away to Vancouver from their home in England to get married!

Tied the knot this morning, skiing this afternoon, and then on a plane to Hawaii tomorrow for their honeymoon before coming back to spend some time in Whistler. Sounds wonderful!

Reilly and I were honoured to meet up with them for just an hour today to capture the private ceremony and grab a few quick portraits.  Here’s just a quick peek at the day! Congrats again!

The Vows

The Rings

The Kiss!!

The Bride & Groom

Married - in Canada!

And my fav of the bunch - with the mountains in the background

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