Earlier the summer I was in Sault Ste. Marie to shoot a wedding, and Meaghan and Jason asked if I had some time to shoot their engagement portraits while I was in town. We braved the mosquitos and freezing cold ankle deep water from the St. Marys River to make these great photos on Whitefish Island.

Congratulations Meaghan and Jason!

Next year I will be heading north of Toronto to photograph the wedding of Jaclyn and Tyler, but this year we spent some time in Toronto’s Distillery District creating their engagement portraits.

Cheers, BG

Fairy-farts. That was the theme for this engagement session. Fairy-farts. Lindsay’s phrasing, not Steve’s. I just roll with it. To me “fairy-fart” means juxtaposing ideas. So we started the shoot among the remaining blossoms at Lincoln Fields (fairy portion), then took to the Island Parkway on Steve’s Suzuki motorcycle (fart portion). I was hanging out the back window of a moving vehicle to capture them in motion – a la my $100-million Ferrari shoot.

Fairy-fart.

I have no idea why it took so long to post these, but my good friends Darren and Lisa got engaged and I shot these pictures. They are already married for Pete’s-sake! You can see their wedding photos here if you dig – Darren + Lisa’s Le Belvedere wedding. Anyway, we shot their engagement session in and around the Hintonburg area. Enjoy!

I got off a few frames in the nice light before the sun found a huge cloud to hide behind for the rest of my engagement session with Kristen and Cory at Hartwells Locks on the Rideau Canal. But, when you have flat light, you work with what you have left; and sometimes you make a bit of your own nice light.