After a certain incident of losing a lens to the ocean a few years back, I’ve becoming pretty paranoid when taking my camera gear anywhere near salt water, but the day I met Sourabh and Supriya for their maternity shoot was insanely hot. We were at the beach, and the water looked too tempting, so we all got right in there. Sometimes you’ve just got to risk it all. I’m pretty glad we did.
Jeanie asked me to shoot her wedding and didn’t take no for an answer because of silly reasons like I live on the other side of the world. Thank God. She’s beautiful, charming and pretty much magnificent in every way possible- and I had to meet this lucky Mark fellow.
The wedding was basically in their back yard. Yes, they live here. Yes, I’m jealous. Pearson College is hidden away outside of Victoria, BC and is perfectly Vancouver Island: tall trees, ferns, wild flowers and grasses covering rocks falling off into the sea. <3
With perfect weather, lots of friends and love, some rowdy square dancing and banjos and s’mores around a campfire Love Fest 2013 was amazing. I may or may have not dragged a certain broken groomsman through the forest on one leg for photos. Sorry Robert.
what a beautiful setting for a wedding! and your photos are so perfect!
Breathtakin… from the first ´til the last picture. Great job, dear Carli.
Congratulations! It looks to have been a fabulous event…young and old and everything in between…ad well captured! Hank
I’m going to be an auntie! (x2, actually… but only one from this belly).
Erin was only 5 months along. Unfortunately they live rather far away, so I don’t get to see them too often and this was our only chance to shoot her half-a-bump. You could almost tell she was pregnant if she kind leaned backwards and pushed out her tummy a bit!
I mostly just wanted a chance to shoot in the pretty grasslands around Kamloops.
Oh… and that thing is wild asparagus. Bailey found it along the side of the road and got violently sick from it all night. He’s weak. Erin and I both ate it and we were just fine. It’s totally delicious.
Loving these! You make the awesome scenery shine! And she totally looks pregger, don’t know what you are going on about! Let me know if you are still around :)
Thanks Magalie!
Unfortunately I’m back home already. My trip was shorter and WAY more busy than I had anticipated. Was just in Kamloops for one day, and that was the closest I ever got to Kelowna. Hoping I can line up a few weddings in BC every summer to soak in all that Canadian summer goodness!
When I was asked to shoot a “wine re-corking” clinic, I had no idea just how fascinating it would be. If I had any expectations of the event at all, I thought it might just be matter of taking bottles of wine and opening them up and replacing the corks in some sort of production line type of work. It wasn’t.
Penfolds brings in their top wine makers to asses the health of bottles of wines at least 15 years old, and whether they need to be opened. If the decision to open them is made, there’s a bit of risk that the bottle could be spoiled. The wine is tested by the wine makers themselves and either given an official certification so they can be kept longer or sold at auction, or… well… worse news. The owner also gets the chance to taste the wine before they actually drink it. Then they’re re-corked and packaged up as good as new, with a certification sticker pasted on the back.
There were some very rare and expensive bottles that came in, and a few moments of suspense waiting for the final verdict on the wine and a few “un-certified” bottles that were drank on the spot. All that, combined with the amazing light in the St Regis hotel’s ball room, made this an awesome day for shooting.
What an interesting event, I had no idea they did that! Loving this set, it’s so different than your usual stuff!
Penfolds runs the wine re-corking clinics for customers with bottles aged 15 years or older. It doesn’t matter if it’s a bottle of Grange, of which the current vintage retails for around $600, or a $13 bottle of Koonunga Hill. It’s a chance for wine collectors and connoisseurs to have expert winemakers perform a health check on their prized bottles and learn a bit about how wine ages in the process.
Mr Gago may have access to thousands of bottles of the finest and most cherished wines, but he believes in moderation and work-life balance. Most days, he has one to three glasses of wine and works off his excess calories with exercise, especially running.
Comedy comes in all forms, in all languages, and for all ages. Comedy has become a force in the wine label industry for many years and there is no sign in stopping any time soon. Each wine maker wants to create their own design that will be associated with their wine. Taking pride in the wine label making process is necessary – especially for those relatively new wine makers trying to make a name for themselves. Old wineries may need a make over with their wine label design – what better way to create a renaissance then creating funny wine labels to attract new wine drinkers?
Hi, nice article. I really like it!
This was my first time in the National Museum. It was such a beautiful space for this fun, Miranda and Sudipan’s intimate and super colourful ROM + celebration.
