Vancouver’s Alternative Wedding Show

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UPDATE: Vancouver wedding show Indie I Do is back for year two on January 23, 2010! Visit us online to get all the details

It’s just 10 days away!

If you haven’t grabbed your tickets yet, now is the time to do it. I even have a couple sets free that we’re giving away – so drop me a note for those, first come first serve!

With so many people getting engaged over the holidays and the hustle and bustle that is January when it comes to wedding planning, Indie I Do is a refreshing alternative. Chock full of independent, local, edgy and unique vendors it’s the perfect complement to your wedding planning whether you’re going for totally different or looking for an accent or two for your more traditional do.

Join us on January 17th! Tickets and full info available at Vancouver Wedding Show http://www.indieido.com/

Blue Olive Places 3rd for Vancouver Photography Website!

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We were excited to place third last night at the inaugural Best of 604 awards in the category for best photography website in Vancouver! Thanks to all of you who voted for us

Lots of people came out to the party, and we’re thrilled to share company with many of our friends who also took awards in a number of the categories.

Cheers, everyone!

There’s a good writeup including the full list of winners here

Oh – and it’s the final count down for cans for comments! Comment by midnight tonight and we’ll donate a can to the foodbank for ya. Happy Friday!

Comment on our blog, we’ll donate to the foodbank. Simple!

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  There’s nothing that we love more than hearing from all of the people who read our blog – whether for comments, questions, or compliments. So, we’ve joined forces with a few other fab photographers in town to put our blogs to good use this holiday season!

For one week – until next Friday – we’ll donate one non-perishable food item to our local food bank for every person who comments on any previous post on our blog. Simple!

When you’ve had your fill of going through our photos, head over to these awesome folks and comment your way into even more food bank donations. Oh – and tell your friends – this is a super simple way to get in a donation at the same time as checking out our stuff. Cheers, everyone!

Chris & Lynn (to whom sole credit for coming up with Cans for Comments goes to!) | Erin Gilmore | Amber Hughes | Lori Miles | Bebb Studios | CJ Scott | Jamie Delaine

As expected, this is taking off like wildfire! Here are a few more photographers and other bloggers who’ve joined in so far: Delicious Juice | Jerk with a Camera | Michael Wachniak | John Heil | Tracey Heppner | Krystal Wyman |

Blue Olive Gift Certificates – 10 sessions at exclusive rates!

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Buy one for yourself and one to share, cross two people off your list, or think ahead and get multiple sessions at the regular rate. Maternity & newborn sessions or engagement & trash the dress would be perfect combinations! Anything goes here – family photos, headshots, boudoir, anything you can dream up.

Whether for yourself or as gifts, if you’ve even been *thinking* about getting portraits done – do it now!
We are only selling 10 sessions at these rates and once they’re gone, they are gone. (And yes – they will come in a fancy tin as you see above, all ready for gift giving 🙂

Standard sessions are one location, typically around an hour; extended sessions allow for multiple locations and average around 2 hours. Each session comes with an online slideshow, your own ordering gallery for sharing with friends and family, and one of our custom 8×12″ enlargements. These gift certificates do not have an expiry date and can be used at any time – when redeemed we’ll work to finalize the session details including date and time, location, and ideas!

Grab yours before they are gone – buy online now (below) with paypal, or email us to reserve!

{This promotion is now sold out! Please watch the blog for future promotions}

Blue Olive end of season bash 2008!

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This is approximately what happens when you get a bunch of wedding photographers together, feed them way too much spiked punch, and get them in front of a camera well past midnight….

This was the third year for our end of season wedding photographer shindig at our studio, and with somewhere over 70 people, it was a crazy fun time!

For all the photographers who are reading this, the full set is on facebook 🙂

Cheers, everyone! Can’t wait for next year!

Pssst… Holiday Print Deadlines!

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Just a quick note with a couple holiday print deadlines for the last minute orders we’ve had coming in!

The first – Canvas prints must be in by end of day this Friday November 28th to be ready for local delivery by Christmas

The second – Regular prints and enlargements must be in by end of day on Friday December 5th to be ready for local delivery by Christmas

Also – we have a super exciting holiday sale coming for Blue Olive Portrait sessions! Watch this space for all the details later this week!

Blue Olive Photography – Recent press & fun stuff!

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I have a few mentions of our work that I’ve let slip by the blog, so thought I should take a moment to mention a few of the places we’ve been featured in the past few months and some of the things we’ve been up to!

First up – we were excited to be contacted by the folks over at Canoe.ca recently for a feature they did on Trash the Dress a couple of weeks ago. The article was picked up by a number of newspapers and other publications across the country, and their trash the dress gallery features a handful of our images. Wahoo!

For us, “trashing the dress” really means taking images that are not restricted by the constraints of the wedding day, like worrying about getting the dress wet or dirty. In many cases, it’s a great excuse to get in the water and have some fun, but our after sessions don’t need to involve water or even getting the dress too dirty, either. We have so many ideas of great session locations – for both winter *and* summer, so these are something we definitely look forward to! It’s also one way that couples who couldn’t have us shoot their wedding for one reason or another are able to get Blue Olive photos to remember their wedding by – by getting dressed up again and doing a session with us!

Second – our lovely clients turned friends Steph & Kevin have been in the spotlight a couple of times this year for their amazing 50’s inspired wedding last summer. Shutteryfly.com is the biggest name, with these guys gracing the front page of their wedding section with their gorgeous wedding photos and fun story. Locally, Real Weddings Magazine also picked up their story with a feature about their wedding in the spring/summer issue this year – people still comment on it when they see us, so I know many of you saw that!

Third – not press related at all, but Reilly and I have been asked to speak again twice in the past few months to the most recent digital photography classes over at the Vancouver Institute of Media Arts. It’s so much fun to go spend half a day with a room full of budding new photographers, eager to pick our brains about the business and how we do things. Definitely something I look forward to each new semester! A shout out to all the VanArts folks – past and present – who I know are following our work.

Fourth – shhhh, Reilly would blush if he knew I was even mentioning it. For us, we have Blue Olive Photography the company, but when we’re not working on the business side we just enjoy photography as an art. Reilly has *finally* started to get some of his work out there here in Van and is starting to do things like art shows (something he did much more of when we were back in Edmonton a few years ago), and currently has a couple of shots in a group show here. It’s fun because as a plastic camera/lo fi showing, it’s all about the crazy simplicity of cheap plastic cameras and that thing called film, and the images that you produce really are about you as a photographer and much less about the expensive equipment and the “hey that camera must take great photos” that we work with on the professional side of the house!

That’s it for now… there are a number of fun things that I’ve got in the hopper to share with you all, but for another day! Hope everyone has a fantastic weekend! Cheers