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Whistler Wedding Photography – Sam and Geoff Sneak Peek

Darko — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:54:22 +0000

Here are a few photographs from my first wedding of the year, in beautiful Whistler, BC. It started of with a long 4.5 hrs journey (normally 2hrs) due to some really bad weather the previous night but once that was over the day could not have been better. Nicklaus North Golf Course was the setting for the wedding and we went around the grounds for some photos before the 4pm ceremony in order to capture all that beauty before it was too dark.

The ceremony was indoors in the clubhouse which had massive windows looking over a field of snow that is apparently a lake in the summer. The band The Ruffled Feathers were unique and very good and the cake, oh the cake, scroll down and look for yourself. One of the most stunning designs I’ve seen – those flowers they were all individually hand made and yes, edible. Well, they were mostly sugar so I wouldn’t really eat them but they looked amazing.

Full post with more images is coming soon.

Empty Shelves – Closing of Videomatica

Darko — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:12:21 +0000

Videomatica was Vancouver’s only video rental store specializing in international, classic and independent cinema. It recently shut its doors after 25+ years in business. This video shows how the store, and it’s closing influenced some of the film lovers in Vancouver.

Video was produced and directed by Laurent Goldstein from Citrus Pie Marketing Group – a film buff himself - he rented more than 1200 titles from Videomatica over the last two and a half decades. It was shot by myself and Eric San Pablo Chu and edited by me.

Engagement Photos in Stanley Park – Manku & Ashish

Darko — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:04:29 +0000

This was an unexpectedly adventurous photography session in Vancouver’s Stanley Park. We had extreme changes in weather but it made for some interesting engagement photos. We started of in a cloudy Vancouver autumn day, which turned into a downpour replaced by the high winds and finaly ending with sunshine. All that in under 2 hours!

Ashish and Manku were headed to India for their wedding but they wanted their engagement photos done here in Vancouver. Ashish flew up from LA just for the weekend so rescheduling was not an option. But, with all of the meteorological chalenges we managed to capture some beauty of this city and the west coast that they can share with their families back on the sub-continent.

We started by taking some photos in downtown Vancouver, in front of the Olympic Torch and some beautiful foliage but few minutes later the sky cam down on us and we had to run indoors. Luckily, the Convention Center was next door and the beautiful wood wall was a perfect backdrop. For some strange reason, security wasn’t happy with us taking pictures inside even though every tourist in the building was snapping photos of the gorgeous wall! For some reason engagement photos are bad for their publicity!?

Engagement Photos - Vancouver Convention Center

Again, only few minutes later another change of weather occurred, this time for better, and we headed out to Stanley Park. By the time we got to the lighthouse, patches of blue sky started to show up and the wind started to blow the leafs off trees. Then, as we arrived to the sea wall near the Third Beach the wind picked up so much that the waves nearly washed them off into the sea. We made it through the session with dry clothes and some great engagement photos.

Take a look at the gallery with all of the engagement photos from this session

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Bride’s Choice Award Winner

Darko — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:23:59 +0000

WeddingWire announced the winners of the 2012 Bride’s Choice awards and i’m happy to say that I am one of them. As a thank you I promise to update the blog with lots of award winning (ok, this is the only time I will brag about this) photographs.