Northern Voice

Miranda February 22, 2008 Blue Olive Photography News 1 Comment

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!

Amber & Shane

Miranda February 20, 2008 Engagement Photography Leave a Comment

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!

With Bated Breath

Miranda February 15, 2008 Blue Olive Photography News Leave a Comment

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

Julia & Adam

bop February 4, 2008 Wedding Photography 3 Comments

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

Vicky & Dave

Miranda January 31, 2008 Engagement Photography 1 Comment

We met up with Vicky & Dave over the weekend for their engagement photos. We completely lucked out with spectacular skies! We chased the sun around for a while and captured some great stuff with the city lit behind them in addition to hitting the beach and a couple urban spots. Love it!

Some of my fav images were for a project for the wedding, but I’m keeping those ones hush hush so the guests will be the first to see them. I’ll share those after the wedding in June 🙂

Take care, guys! Chat soon!

Georgia Straight Article – Cinnamon & Galib!

Miranda January 23, 2008 Blue Olive Photography News 3 Comments

On the topic of news, one of our photos along with a great article on Cinnamon & Galib’s wedding is currently out in the January 17th issue of the Georgia Straight! We were honoured when contacted by the reporter looking to feature our work, and these two were the perfect couple for the story.

http://www.straight.com/article-128537/wedding-watch-08

Click “read the rest of this entry” to read the article here!

Wedding Photojournalism

Miranda January 23, 2008 Blue Olive Photography News 2 Comments

I just went through the process of applying for renewal and being accepted for another year with the WPJA (Wedding Photojournalist Association). I was talking about it with someone recently and mentioned that I had 2 images place in the contests this year – and was reminded that winning awards doesn’t actually mean anything if I don’t tell people it happened, and to stop being so modest 🙂

While we’ve been having a great time lately with really unique and fun portraits, the core of what we do has always been capturing moments. The real stuff – the tears, the looks, the excited tension in the room while the girls are getting the last of their makeup done. The kind of images that cause people to laugh spontaneously or tear up when they see them, in some cases when they don’t even know the couple. That is the root of what we do.

The two images that I had place are definitely on the lighter side of things as make-you-laugh real moments, and the judges seemed to enjoy them! These images placed 3rd and 4th respectively in their categories earlier this year from hundreds of submissions.

From Sahar & Chris’ wedding – the cake cutting

And from Andrew & Sara’s wedding – the bouquet toss!

WED Bridal

Miranda January 19, 2008 Blue Olive Photography News Leave a Comment

(photo by Brian Noppe)

On Thursday this week we had the chance to head over to the vendor kick off party at WED Bridal. In one word, WOW!

WED is Vancouver’s newest bridal store with hot hot gowns and a great atmosphere. They have large private rooms for you to change in with plenty of room for your closest girlfriends to hang out with you to see the show. Needless to say, I *highly* recommend giving Jo-Anne & Gemma a shout when you’re on the hunt for the perfect dress!

It was nice to see so many of our favourite vendors and to meet a few new folks, too. We left our camera at home, but Brian Noppe took these great shots! Thanks Brian for being the photographer for the rest of us 😉 Check out Brian’s fantastic work at his site and see more of his WED kick off pics on his blog.

Cheers!

(photo by Brian Noppe)

L to R – Leanne Pedersen, Lynn Jaksa of the fab Chris + Lynn duo, Erin Gilmore photographer and Aislewalk publisher extraordinaire, Us!, Tanya Peters of Milestone events, Camille Fortin-Bensler of Jonetsu Photography, and Brian’s lovely wife Regina Noppe.