We had so much fun shooting John and Lena's engagement session at Granville Island. This couple was so comfortable together and a real blast to work with. As a Vancouver wedding photographer we have lots of great place to shoot in the city but I really love shooting at Granville Island because it gives you so many different looks, the colors, the grungy textures of the old buildings, the green space as well as the shots of the Vancouver's waterfront. We are looking forward to photographing their wedding this weekend at Hart House in Burnaby.

Here are some of our fav shots of the day.

My fav of the day.

The second day of shooting Vik and Vas's wedding was the Grooms Sangeet. Vikram is from England so the festivities were a little more intimate but there was lots of dancing and everyone seemed to have a great time. Some of My favourite photos from the day.

The grooms family waits for the bride to arrive.

Dancing begins.

The brides family arrives at the grooms house with gifts.

Welcoming the new family.

Lots of hugging and dancing as the families meet as well as some prayer.

Traditional singing and music.

More dancing.

Love this image. Vik really knew how to shake it.

Everyone having a blast.

Some singers performed traditional music.

Up next the henna ceremony.

Here is the second post of the Sangeet. The details were beautiful with rich golden hues as well as orange, brown and red accent colours. People were having a lot of fun and I think the love really comes through in the images. I was really glad for the 16-35mm wide angle as I was literally standing on top of people as I was shooting.

Vik in good spirits.

So many smiling faces and happy people.

I love this shot of Vasudha's bro, he looks really stylish and a little sneaky in this shot.

We had the pleasure of experiencing an amazing week capturing the wedding festivities of Vasudha and Vikram. The first day of shooting was the Sangeet. I am going to do two posts on this happy family event to show the different emotional impact that displaying images in black and white as opposed to color. The black and white images in this post have a timeless classic feel and strip the image down to its emotional core. All these images had only a simple black and white conversion, no fancy photoshop as I wanted them to look very traditional. We also took a much more photojournalistic approach to the first day as we were there to record the event as it unfolded. Just wait to check out the color shots, they'll blow you away with their vibrance.

Vasudha arriving and greeting her family.

She looked amazing.

I love these next two images. Simple powerful pictures.

My cousin Jess and her boyfriend of like 12 years finally got married this summer. Because they are family they got bumped way down the list on the blog posts. Heck they are already back from their honeymoon and i haven't even posted their e-session yet. Bad couz i am. We shot these images in and around the alleys of downtown Vancouver. Jess wanted an urban look and I think we nailed it. Shooting after dark with off camera lighting also gave these a real different feel as well. I also experimented with some new post processing techniques to get high contrast black and white images with very little grey tones.

These two were kids when they met but they have grown into really amazing and pretty darn good looking adults before my eyes. If you are not tired of looking at this cute couple by the end of this massive post check out the slideshow for even more images in full screen mode.