WPJA winning images

Great news from our (brand new) At First Sight headquarters!

First of all, we are just about moved into our new home and it’s looking great. We’ve got a great little office to meet clients (i.e. you) and we can’t wait to start using it! As promised, we will post some photos as soon as we’re all settled in.

Secondly, the Wedding Photojournalist Association (http://wpja.com) selected two of our photos in their quarterly contest. We are thrilled to be honored with these awards as so many great photographers from around the world compete in these contests. We’re so glad to be considered among them! The first picture won 13th place in the Ceremony category and the one on the bottom was awarded 12th place in the Emotion category:

Finally, Daniel and I will be representing At First Sight at the Marions-Nous show in Montreal on Sunday and Monday. We’ve got our booth all “bling”ed out and ready to go! It was a very last minute decision, but we hope that our presence there will allow many of you to meet us face to face. Daniel will be manning the booth solo on Sunday while I shoot a wedding (third one in 4 days – sheesh!) but we will both be there on Monday. Hope to see you there

Some work, but mostly play

Hello all, I’m back!

Daniel took over my job as official blogger for the last few posts, but I’m happy to announce that I’m re-taking my position. A round of applause for Daniel though… he did a decent job, didn’t he?

So I must say that I certainly can’t complain about life these days. Although we’re as busy as always, and as Daniel mentioned, our upcoming move isn’t making that any easier, I have been enjoying myself tremendously!

But before I get ahead of myself, let’s rewind to last Saturday, shall we? That day, Daniel and I had the honor of shooting the wedding of Mike and Joe, two lawyers from New York City. They tied the knot in the penthouse suite of the St-James hotel in the Old Port of Montreal in a beautiful ceremony that had all the guests, including myself, shedding tears. If you’ll allow me to be political for a moment, I’d like to address the fact that these two amazing individuals had to come up here to make their union official as it is illegal where they live. As I’m sure I’ve already proved, I love my job and witnessing the commitment made by two people – ANY two people – is an absolutely amazing thing. And, might I add (and I apologize to all of my past brides and grooms for the following statement), I have never enjoyed myself so much at a wedding! I stayed well past Daniel decided to call it a night (and many of the guests!) having an amazing time with the grooms’ friends. (Royd, Ben, Scott, Carlos, Derek: I had such a good time that I remember all your names!) Oh yeah, I almost forgot… we also took pictures! Here are a few of our favorites from their wedding:

Equally exciting was my 22nd birthday celebration which Daniel threw for me the next day. He surprised me with a backyard party at my apartment, complete with a personal chef, Chinese lanterns, and the At First Sight photobooth. Some of my friends drove up from Sherbrooke for the occasion and made the trek back that same night in honor of moi! Having all these people that I care so much about made me so excited for our wedding (no, we aren’t getting married yet, and no, we aren’t engaged yet!). Here are a few pictures from my party (note the family portrait of Daniel, myself, and our precious little dog Coco and the one of my cousin Magi holding up my new business card. My family members are my number one fans!).

That’s all for now folks. On Wednesday we move into our new condo! As Daniel mentioned, we might lay low for a while, but we’ll be sure to post pictures of the place as soon as we’re settled in. As a final note, my personal work is online on my brand new website: davinapalik.com (a little shameless promotion never hurt anyone, right?). Check it out and let me know what you think… I know people are reading this, so don’t be shy, leave us a comment!

Ciao!

Marie & Ashraf’s engagement shoot

Written by Daniel

While Davina relaxes at the cottage – okay, it is her birthday this week – I took some engagement photos with Marie & Ashraf who are getting married at the end of September. The highlight from this session came at the very end, when we came across an abandoned lounger in the middle of street. Without hesitation, no matter how dirty it was, they practically threw themselves into it…

We are also adding a new wedding to our featured gallery, so if you haven’t, go have a look at Kathy & David’s wedding photos.

On a personal note, we are moving next week, so we might lay low for a week or two, but we’ll be back with photos of the new place, pictures from Davina’s birthday party (to take place this Sunday), and lots of new weddings to talk about!

Eve & Wes’ engagement shoot

Written by Daniel

Eve & Wes, who are good friends with our photographer Frances, decided to give us “carte blanche” for their engagement shoot. So we took them to several locations we’ve been anxious to shoot at. What we discovered at some of these spots, was almost like something from a movie set. Here are some highlights.