“I found it very dif­fi­cult to choose just one sin­gle pic­ture as my favorite. I love so many pho­tos for so many rea­sons. To me it is not so much what the photo is about but what it makes me remem­ber about our day However, since the assign­ment was to only choose a sin­gle photo, I’d have to pick the one in the field where we are look­ing off into the dis­tance at the clouds:”

“I remem­ber the day start­ing out with rain, and then sun, more rain, hail, and more sun. The wind was pretty fierce and it was about 7 degrees. Driving to the recep­tion we pulled over to admire some of the neat­est look­ing storm clouds I’d ever seen. And maybe it’s just because I’m not fac­ing the cam­era so you can’t see my runny nose or red cheeks, or maybe it’s the prox­im­ity to Shawn, or maybe it’s just that the breath­tak­ing scene behind the trees had momen­tar­ily stopped my shiv­er­ing, but I don’t look cold. I love that an impromptu stop at the side of the road yielded such a gor­geous shot.”

When I see some­thing inter­est­ing, I try to take advan­tage of it, and that’s just what hap­pened here: I saw some neat clouds that I knew would respond well to an infrared photo, so we pulled over I like this one too, but my fave was taken about 20 min­utes ear­lier, in a for­est in Fallowfield.

This was taken as we fin­ished and we were on our way out. I’ve always like this image.

…Mike

More about the Favourite Image project

Out of all the pho­tog­ra­phers that entered this con­test, I made it to num­ber 14!? Here are the images that placed:

The first is from Amanda and Dan’s wedding…this is their dog wait­ing patiently.

This is one of my per­sonal faves, and was taken right after the cer­e­mony at Christina and Kent’s wedding:

After Wendy and Dom’s cer­e­mony, we were walk­ing around down­town doing the magic time, and we passed this open deliv­ery truck.? How could I resist?

The first of sev­eral from Monique and Andrew’s wed­ding.? I like the com­ment the judge gave!? A friend of mine said her expres­sion reflected the price of gas!

One of my favorite loca­tions in Ottawa.? This is Cristina relax­ing for a few min­utes dur­ing magic time.

Taken as Jordan waited to see Holly for the first time that day.

Monique and Andrew again

Another one of my favorite spots in Ottawa. It always helps when you get a coop­er­a­tive wed­ding party

Crossing the bridge on the way to the Museum of Civilization. Peter (the groom) is in the hat.

You know I love my panoram­ics ? Here is the inside of the Notre Dame Basilica.

and here is the view from the Museum:

One of my favorite ring pho­tos ever If you look close you can see the con­den­sa­tion on the engage­ment ring!

The best room at Perth Manor. This was a pho­tos of Kerri’s dress, wait­ing patiently.

Let’s hear it for brave Brides and Grooms!? In this case, Alex and Lorne.

What a great year…I can’t wait for 2009!

…Mike

The lat­est entry in the Favourite Image project is from Ann, who writes:

“It was really hard to pick a favorite because dif­fer­ent pho­tos appealed to us for dif­fer­ent rea­sons. But we love the tex­ture and tone of this photo. It also just “feels” like that night felt, when we walked out­side into the court­yard. It was twi­light. We were shak­ing a lit­tle bit from the excite­ment of the cer­e­mony. And from the cold. But the world seemed very still, very silent.”

For me, the best shot of the day­was taken look­ing down over the mar­ket. I like how this image has an his­toric feel to it, even if there are mod­ern cars in it

…Mike

More about the Favourite Image project

I had the oppor­tu­nity to shoot with some mod­els this week…here are some of my faves.

…Mike

I had the supreme plea­sure of pho­tograph­ing my Mom’s mar­riage to Francois at the Chateau Montebello on a beau­ti­ful fall afternoon.

…Mike