Electric Green Photography

candice and nick :: engaged

starla — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:02:08 +0000

candice and nick were my last engagement shoot for 2010 weddings. so crazy! they are going to have a rockin’ wedding on thanksgiving sunday and i can’t wait to be a part of their day! candice and nick are clearly in love and so easy to be around. would you believe they have been dating since grade nine!!! lots of love going out to highschool sweethearts (insert me pounding my fist to heart here). it makes me smile to look at these images and see so much history between them!

oh, and these were shot in the freezing cold wind/rain on saturday!! can’t even tell can you- that is how awesome those two are. .

the c family :: anytime

starla — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:57:15 +0000

holly contacted me about doing a photoshoot of her e.n.t.i.r.e. family as they hadn’t had any family pictures done since holly wore blue eyeshadow and sported a female mullet!! we met up last week and got down to work getting the entire family plus lots of different other combos. i am working away on them right now and these popped out at me. enjoy the 2am sneak peak!

anytime :: the p family

starla — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:59:33 +0000

natalie and i totally hit it off over email so i was looking forward to *finally* getting to meet her in person and shoot her adorable family! while emailing about location ideas natalie mentioned she liked the location of a recent shoot with the old cars and that her son would love it too. i had to make three trips out to the property to make sure the cars were still there (as the owner of the property is cleaning up the land). they were still there and noah was thrilled. with the location and date set it was just the weather to worry about! after worrying about it all morning we got sunny skies and great temps. thanks for an awesome afternoon you three! i had a great time shooting you.

enjoy the fun and make sure to click here for a slideshow!

crystal and tyler :: married

starla — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:28:57 +0000

it poured rain in the morning and then the skies opened up and we had gorgeous weather for crystal and tyler’s wedding! of course the weather would work out. it had to- crystal and tyler are the sweetest couple and their day was meant to be perfect! i had so much fun hanging out with them and their wedding party all day in calmar. i had such a difficult time narrowing down some favourite images so you must click here to see the slideshow of their day.

not many brides look this great with no make-up on and their hair not done!! the girls got ready at crystal’s parent’s place about 15 mins outside of calmar. such a great property. i think i may invite myself back for a hot tub on their patio!!

what girl doesn’t love some hot pink heels (okay, probably lots of you but i definitely share crystal’s love!)?

some finished touches on the hair. crystal couldn’t decide between up and down but everyone was in agreement- DOWN!!!

i love these next two. they make my heart smile

quick check for texts and then off to get married!!

crystal looks so happy…

one of my fave walking down the aisle pics! it looks great in black and white too.

we held up traffic at the golf course to get these but it was worth it…

gosh, this little guy is precious. hunter is their little boy- you saw lots of him in their engagement session post.

crystal and tyler’s property has so many great spots for photos so we took lots there and then went next door to tyler’s aunts property for the rest of the formals. i could shoot country weddings all.the.time.

seriously?! yes, crystal is that gorgeous. this was an happy accident pic. i didn’t meant to take it of her like this but it is now one of my faves!

from what i could understand almost everyone in the wedding party has grown up together and known each other (to some extent) basically forever. awwww, i love that.

those faces are priceless!

these next to are so alberta!! grain storage and a canola field.

some flash fun with the last dance!

thank you for an amazing day crystal and tyler!

make sure to watch the slideshow.

breezy b

starla — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:49:09 +0000

just in case you were on my blog this morning thinking, “what the heck, i want some more pics of that adorable miss bree”, here you go!!

this was one day after turning 5 months old and if you look really closely you can see her two little teeth poking through on the bottom. they are now even more through and so adorable!

she got bored of our mini-shoot very soon as nowadays she would much rather play with her feet than anything else!

stay tuned for a wedding post later today!

caitlyn :: belly

starla — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 05:02:56 +0000

i know the gorgeous caitlyn through my sis-in-law stacie. they are both amazing hair stylists at celebrity salon downtown. i was so excited to get to shoot caitlyn’s bump that even the crazy killer mosquitos couldn’t bring me down (well, actually, they did after about 20 minutes and we called it quits! lol.)

look at that little basketball!! there is a baby in there and it’s coming REALLY soon!

here is my version of the “heart on belly”- peace and love!!

i challenge you to find a more beautiful pregnant gal anywhere, ever. i totally bet you can’t. caitlyn is pregnant perfection.

eeeew, i didn’t photoshop them out on purpose… look at the skeeters on her belly!

and FYI, caitlyn is just as sweet and amazing as she is gorgeous (so that is lots and lots of sweetness and amazingness!!!). she is going to be a great mamma!

thank you for allowing me to document this amazing time in your life! i look forward to hearing the news of the little ones arrival. and, one word on the final image. a.m.a.z.i.n.g.

i played around some more with processing these images. the location was asking me to do something with it. i hope you enjoy it

and a shout out to my mom for scouting the location for me!! she sure did awesome. i need to get out there again!

the k’s :: family :: anytime

starla — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 22:48:57 +0000

i have met some amazing people while teaching at vic (victoria school of the arts). these guys are WAY up at the top of that list. i have had the honour of teaching both the kids- miss claire when i was doing my student teaching and she was in grade two and then mr. nathan was in my grade six class this year. i always looked forward to celebration’s of learning so i could visit with their parents (in between talking about school, of course!).

it was a perfect sunday afternoon spent capturing these guys. enjoy the images and click here for a slideshow of even more!

you know it is going to be a great shoot when this is the first shot of the session!

though stinky, this alley had some great spots for us!

these next few make my heart smile )))))

every time i look at these pics i laugh out loud. bahahaha!!! i think it is the look on nathan’s face. priceless!

nathan is so effortlessly cool.

claire is going to break some hearts.

awwww. love.

i think this one is my fave from their session.

jaime and david :: married

starla — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 07:26:17 +0000

jaime and david were married on saturday! the day was full of love and family. it was a record amount of family portraits i took and a record amount of tears i shed during the father/daughter dance. oh, love!

i am working away at my weddings and portrait sessions so won’t have time for full blog posts for a week or so. for now, you will have to enjoy little peaks! i hope they make you smile…

::edited to add:: click here for a slideshow!! enjoy!

this first one jumped out at me right away.

and i looooved jaime’s bouquet.

work-it

i thought this image was asking for me to do something to it so i have been playing around. if you :like: electric green on facebook you already saw the black and white one. what do you think about the one below? it isn’t usually my style of processing but lately this has been making me happy with a couple of pics here and there!

i can’t put my finger on exactly why this is my fave image. i think it is the look on jaime’s face. love.

i will have a couple more small posts up for you this week. stay tuned!

ashley and buu :: anytime :: love

starla — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 06:36:47 +0000

it is amazing what you can do in 10 minutes. literally 10 minutes of shooting. we had to cut our session WAY short due to the killer mosquitos outside. we felt like we were in a war zone. lol!! i know that buu was heartbroken about such a short shoot. don’t worry buu- we will schedule a re-shoot

buu and ashley are so in love and adorable together. this was one of the first shots out of my camera.

as you can tell, ashley laughs a lot! it is a great laugh and got me going too.

there are only subtle differences between these two but i can’t decide which one i like best…

about a block away from my home is/was this amazing location with so many options for places to shoot. i have shot there twice already and came back tonight to use another spot. when we came over the little hill i found all the beloved buildings torn down. how stinky. i loved living so close to an amazing spot with literally a dozen location options within the one area. anyhoo, the property owner still has the cars out so we got busy!

i had some fun processing this image. my goal was to get it to look like a pic i would pull out of an old shoebox from the top of my grandma’s spare bedroom closet.

look at these two- they are going to make cute babies one day

despite the killer skeeters and the mini-mini shoot i am in love with these images!! thank you buu and ashley!

bursting with pride :: personal

starla — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 07:50:34 +0000

this past weekend drew, bree, and i (along with my mom and dad and kelly’s mom and dad!) took a little road trip to calgary to watch my sister and bother-in-law compete in their first ever 1/2 IronMan. WOW!

what is an IronMan you might ask. it is “the world’s most prestigious one-day endurance event”. in the IronMan 70.3 (the 1/2) athletes begin with a 1.9 km swim, move on to a 90 km bike, and then end with a 21km run (that is a half marathon!). isn’t that incredible?! my sister began her race at 6:30am with kelly’s age group starting about 15 minutes later. with miss bree in tow and a hotel room to pack i didn’t make it to the swim or get to see the bike. drew, bree, and i arrived to watch the bike transition and cheer them on during the run. eeeeek! it was so exciting. seeing abby and then kelly race in on their bikes and through their transition to their run was thrilling. then, we found a great location and got to see them twice on their run.

abby and kelly have been training for this for months and it was an inspiring and incredible thing to watch and be a part of. i am so proud of both abby and kelly. their commitment and athletic ability is something to admire and aspire to. they are taking a brief two week break from training (although on the way home from calgary they were overheard talking about their next run!!) and will then be resuming training for a FULL IronMan in arizona in november.

here is miss abby right at the end of the bike portion! i love that it looks like she is smiling and that woman is yelling at her.

abigail. 341.

here she is transitioning. both kelly and abby couldn’t stop complimenting the volunteers at the race. abby especially loved this lady who helped her!

i love this one! she was yelling something to me…

now here comes kelly! can you say quads?!

almost ready to take off and start his 1/2 marathon run!

here is ab at about 18km. easy peasy;-)

kelly at 18km.

miss abby crossing the finish line!! i love how she doesn’t even look very tired. she has only been working out for 6 hours STRAIGHT!

i didn’t manage to catch kelly’s finish but i did get these sweet moments of them after the race! awwwwww. i love how the mans arm is blocking their pda in the second one.

miss bree had to make a cameo! the skeeters were CRAZY so she had to stay in here to cheer on her auntie and uncle! she had lots of fun and was so proud of abby and kelly too.

changed and ready to do it again?!

what an amazing event to watch. i couldn’t be more proud of my little sister. her and kelly are truly amazing athletes!!

i hope we get to go cheer them on in AZ this fall and watch them become IronMen!!