Category Archives: Vancouver

Ah, wedding season!

Leanne and Moya, brides from San Francisco, braved last week’s Vancouver chill to legalize the wedding that had been invalidated in California nearly three years ago. They were one of the hundreds of couples snaked around San Francisco’s City Hall in the rain after Mayor Gavin Newsom decided to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples...

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leanne waldal - Freezing on the beach, indeed, though feeling happy and validated creates a lot of warmth — thanks so much for sharing your story and your beautiful art. The U.S. always seems a decade or four behind Canada so hopefully the U.S., or at least California, will catch up in our lifetimes!

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Vancouver has had a tough winter, more like a winter back east than anything we’re used to here, with windstorms and wind damage combined with snow and torrential rains. We missed a month of it being away in the Bahamas and Cuba shooting, but we’ve still had more than enough! When the snow melted in...

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Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep

Started by co-founders Sandy “Sam” Puck and Cheryl Haggard, the US non-profit organization Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep provides photography for infant bereavement sessions. We photographers volunteer our services in order that parents might remember their new little sweethearts through fine art photography long into the future. If you know of families needing...

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Shi Shi

I was delighted to shoot Katari Taiko’s character “Shi Shi” last evening. It’s a bit of a challenge shooting dancing in the studio, limited as I am to the unexpansive edges of the seamless, but I still managed to catch the excitement he brings when he explodes into life. Jan Woo, who plays Shi Shi,...

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