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Calgary Portrait Photographer
Trash the Dress Image Featured on 2 Popular Websites
Posted February 1st, 2012 by Sean Phillips with No Comments
Image Featured on SmartBride and MSN.ca
The image above was featured today in an article over at the SmartBride Boutique website about wedding dress “Trash the Dress” photography sessions.
Chinook Outriders Motorcycle Club Photoshoot Redux
Posted September 24th, 2011 by Sean Phillips with No Comments
Last weekend I got together with the Ladies of the Chinook Outriders Motorcycle Club (the Calgary chapter of the Women in the Wind) for another photoshoot. Long time readers may remember that I created individual and group portraits for the same club last summer. We got some great results last year and they wanted to do it all over again this year. It has been a tough thing to schedule, but we finally managed to pull it off this past weekend.
Last year the shoot was done at Fish Creek Park and the images all had trees with bright green leaves in the background. The images looked great but we wanted to do something a little different this year. We chose an industrial location and used the loading dock and red brick walls of the old Molson Brewery in Inglewood (more recently the West Key Storage building) as a backdrop. I really wanted to give them something striking and different and the industrial location helped with that. You will see from the following example images that I processed many of the images to really play up the grungy location that we used.
Charity & Bruce | Wedding Sneak Peek
Posted August 26th, 2011 by Sean Phillips with No Comments
The Wedding of Charity Derksen and Bruce Potter on August 20, 2011
Derksen Potter Engagement Sessions
Posted August 12th, 2011 by Sean Phillips with No Comments
I had a beautiful engagement session with Charity and Bruce (and their dog Lola) at the Ranche recently. They are such a beautiful couple and the Ranche is one of my favorite places for photography. The place has so much going on that there ends up being a really wide variety of stuff to use as a backdrop for portraits. My two favorites are the walls of the red barn and the long grasses in the nearby fields. Charity and Bruce were both great sports and they were willing to try anything I asked for, which always makes my job easier!
It was great to be able to spend a few minutes with the couple in a more relaxed setting before their upcoming wedding. Even though this event will be relatively small, weddings are always pressure packed and it’s much nicer to get to know each other in a different atmosphere before the wedding.
Simply Sunday: Calgary Stampede
Posted July 17th, 2011 by Sean Phillips with No Comments
It’s been a long time since I’ve been able to find time to post a Simply Sunday article, but I really wanted to get this one out… Life and work have been ridiculously busy for me over the last couple of months and it looked like I wasn’t going to be able to get down to the Calgary Stampede grounds this year. I have been busy with Stampede related events and activities, but until today I hadn’t been to the Stampede itself. A last-minute opportunity to take in the Stampede Rodeo on the final day of the this years Stampede presented itself and we took it!
As anyone that lives in Calgary knows all too well, the Stampede has a way of taking over for the first couple of weeks of July. Although some people get pretty fed up with it all, I actually really enjoy it and I love to go down and take part in the action on the grounds. We’ve been to the Rodeo several times in the years we’ve lived in Calgary and it’s something that I’m always excited to see. My kids enjoy pretty well everything about Stampede too, and it’s a great opportunity to teach them about farming and animals, and even more about the pleasures of fried food. Mmmm, Mini Donuts!
