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The Distillery District is one of our favorite spots for engagement sessions and as it turns out it was Natalia and Erik’s choice as well… They like it here even though being so busy lately they were surprised by all the changes the area has gone through in the last year or so. We were there early enough to get some nice morning light and avoid most of the tourist crowds. It was a perfect setting to relax, enjoy their company and shoot a couple of photos at an unhurried, deliberate pace.
We’re really looking forward to their wedding next month. You’ll see, it will be a really nice one 🙂
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Friday, May 30th, 2014 at 5:56 pm
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We’ve had a bout of unpredictable and rather uncooperative weather here in Toronto over the last weekend. Understandably Laura was concerned our scheduled Richmond Green Park engagement session might end up looking more like swimming lessons, therefore we started counting our indoor options. The Downtown Toronto core is always good for this kind of sessions and with the pharaonic improvement construction works going around Union Station one is better off sticking to the Path and the surrounding big indoor spaces to avoid the big mess outside.
Laura and Shane’s relaxed, easy-going attitude made this photo session really fun and engaging, we can wait to shoot their wedding this upcoming October!
The following are a few photos we liked from this engagement shoot. Enjoy!
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Friday, September 6th, 2013 at 1:23 am
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When Brada contacted us thru Facebook inquiring about our availability we were both happy and pleasantly surprised. We photographed Ryan’s sister’s, Amanda, wedding last year so we are really looking forward being part of the family’s celebrations again this year. This was perhaps the most rescheduled engagement session I’ve ever shot due to a variety of unexpected scheduling conflicts and truly uncooperative weather… At some point it almost appeared we would be forced to scrap all plans but a small window of opportunity miraculously appeared and jumped on it. What’s funny is that after all the delays and rescheduling, we were so in sync this day we even got stuck together on HWY 410 rush hour traffic on our route to our meeting point.
So, here we are in Kariya Park on a beautiful mid week day… fish are jumping… ducks and rabbits… the perfect setting…
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Sunday, August 4th, 2013 at 8:15 pm
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It was fun planning this photo session with Codrina and Liviu. They wanted a bit of everything. A bit of the financial district, with perhaps a church, a park and (time permitting) a fountain night shot if at all possible. All with a pinch of Distillery. That sounds like a lot but we knew it’s was also going to be a lot of fun executing it as well.
Toronto is a great city to try and pull all of that. Within the Downtown’s core there are nice green spaces, old churches and new buildings, plenty of opportunity for street shooting and characters like this guy who was playing an instrument made out of a converted cigar box, with 3 strings which reminded me of Seasick Steve and his old arsenal of odd looking guitars. He was incredibly nice and allowed us to shoot a few frames while he was doing a bit of a blues solo. He was quite good actually.
Liviu mentioned he was a bit camera shy and indeed he was … for a few seconds… then he could not stop smiling for the whole duration of the engagement. It was a very pleasant evening of shooting down to the gorgeous warm sundown light.
Here is a snippet, enjoy!
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Wednesday, July 31st, 2013 at 11:46 pm
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We’re calling this time from Romania with a very special couple Raluca and Andrei. This is a family thing. Andrei is my nephew and an unbelievable lucky guy to find his perfect half in Raluca. Their story is not unlike mine and Sandra’s, they were friends brought along as “cover” on a Valentine’s Day date more than 3 years ago and they’ve been inseparable ever since. Valentine’s Day, prefect strangers hitting it off… as love stories go it can’t get any better than this.
So here we are, in the beautiful city of Brasov, Romania, shooting their engagement along the old city core. We even got on Rope Street which is said to be the narrowest street in Europe. Have a look at the last photo if you don’t believe it…
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Thursday, July 18th, 2013 at 12:09 am
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Eva and Mark have been together longer than some people have been married, 12 years. While looking for a photographer for their next year wedding, Eva stumbled on our blog and was intrigued by our trial offer, Several emails later we were all set up to go for an engagement photo session in Edward Gardens while also praying for decent weather as this summer so far is one of the coldest and wettest in my recent memory. Our prayers were answered and we were fortunate to have a superb day.
The following are a just a few pictures highlights from the session.
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Sunday, June 16th, 2013 at 1:55 am
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We’ve never been to Jackson’s Point before so when Melissa and Ben proposed us to come up there for their Engagement pictures, we jumped on the opportunity. They wanted the lake and the rocks in their photos with perhaps a sunset thrown in for good measure. The atmosphere was perhaps a bit hazy and murky but in the end we managed to get our sunset.
Here are a few of our favorite shots.
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Wednesday, May 29th, 2013 at 10:49 pm
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Steve loves the City and wanted to have it featured in his engagement pictures. He is also very fond of one particular mural at the Roundhouse which was featured a few times in our blog so the planned shooting location in the Distillery District became all of the sudden impractical … Toronto is a great city, one where Robocop might quietly line up for a GO train ticket in Union Station and Glenn Gould  equally quietly greets everyone seating on his bench in front of CBC headquarters, just to mention the lesser known attractions.
Here are a few highlights of this session.
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Monday, September 3rd, 2012 at 11:40 pm
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It has been a while since we had an engagement photo shoot in the Distillery District and, on this particular morning the place was absolutely packed. Arriving a bit early, Sandra and I quickly scouted the place for all the changes that happened since last time – a year is a very long time in a busy city like Toronto. Remember the nice CN Tower skyline shot from The Esplanade and featured here ? Gone ! Condos are going up like mushrooms in the Downtown Lakeshore core and construction cranes are poking up the sky in the most unexpected spots. Soon, tall buildings will take their place, forever altering the clean skyline backdrop we enjoyed from the Parliament Park.
It’s always fun shooting in the Distillery. There’s always a nice corner one can relax, enjoy the company of others, photography or not, and this day was no different. The following pictures try to convey that feeling…
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Tuesday, August 21st, 2012 at 1:01 am
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Sandra and I have been living in the GTA for the past 17 years but for whatever reason we never went to Toronto Island. We had to break the ice at some point and get to see for ourselves the famous, postcard perfect, Toronto Downtown city line as seen from Center Island. The evening was gorgeous, wispy pink clouds adorned the sunset and of course, but with us being busy shooting this Engagement session pretty much everywhere else on the island, by the time the sunset came, all the good, comfortable spots on the North shore were taken… Not discouraged by the army of photographers solidly entrenched in their spots with their tripods, we scouted a thin, little limb extending into the lake only the geese and mallards seemed to be using and set camp there to patiently wait for the opportune moment to shoot. We weren’t disappointed.
We’d like to thank Rizelle and Wesley for being such troopers. Without their patience the last photos you will see in this album would not have been possible. The following is a snippet of that evening
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Monday, July 30th, 2012 at 11:54 pm
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