That was the com­ment from one of the judges in the ISPWP win­ter photo con­test, for this image:

Taken from Krista and Steve’s wed­ding, it is one of my favourite images ever It didn’t place as well as I thought it would…but then humour is so sub­jec­tive, so I’m happy with how well it did.

From the same wed­ding, this image place 20^th:

Earlier in the sum­mer I went to Alaska to help my good friend Melissa shoot a wed­ding, and I con­vinced the secu­rity guard to let us out onto the cat­walk of the Alyeska tramway pavil­ion at the top of the mountain:

Fourth place, not too shabby

…Mike

Bee and Shawn decided to add a fifth ses­sion to their Year in the Life pro­gram, so we headed out­side to enjoy a sunny win­ter day. He seemed to enjoy it despite the fact that the lit­tle bean was wrapped up almost as tight as the lit­tle brother in A Christmas Story.

Just before the win­ter hit, we had a new walk­way put in…finally. It’s been too long! As always, here is a time-lapse video for your enjoyment.

…Mike

Welcome to the new face of the Photos for Life blog!

After much hand-wringing, design notes, plan­ning, design­ing, draw­ing, design­ing and plan­ning, the new look for the blog is finally live. A more pol­ished look, eas­ier on the eyes, and hope­fully eas­ier to find what you’re look­ing for.

In case you’re won­der­ing, this is what a plan for a blog looks like:

Well, part of it anyway.

Enjoy!

…Mike

This is my niece Halle and Charlie the Dog mak­ing snow angels. I hope you all had a hol­i­day filled with as much joy as this.

…Mike