A couple of weeks ago, I joined a facebook group for Vancouver Wedding Photographers. Hold the phone for a sec: can I just say how much I LOVE facebook? Not only is it a fun way to waste a few minutes a day, but it's also great marketing for me. I have a facebook group and a facebook page (both of which are a month behind in updating, but hopefully that will change in the next few days): my clients have left the sweetest/nicest reviews about me and my photography and I just think it's so much fun! Check out this latest review from Denis and Abby:



"I hadn't met Jamie until our engagement shoot, so I didn't know what to expect! The shoot went by really smoothly and we had a lot of fun together! She is definitely talented, and I'm so glad I got her now, because in a couple of years, I probably wouldn't be able to afford her. She's got a great eye for detail and is very laid back in her approach, which was nice. We were quite efficient in getting our photo shoot done in only an hour, and I credit Jamie and her great eye for that.

She also understands the needs of her clients and how excited we get to see our pictures! The teasers were up within 24 hours, despite her having to do a wedding, and the slideshow was up in around 2-3 days, which is incredible. You can read my wall and see just how many great comments we've received on our pages - it's like we just got engaged.

Can't wait to see what the wedding pics are going to look like!"

Isn't that SWEET?!

But back to why I started this entry! So, in our Vancouver Wedding Photographers group, which was created by Tracey Heppner, they are featuring a different photographer every week. Tracey asked me to kick it off! (Thanks Tracy!) Part of the requirements were to pick some of my favourite 10 wedding photographs that show my 'style'--Here are 10 from this year's wedding season. And I can't say that these are my absolute favourites, because I have NO IDEA how I would decide that for sure. But I do like these! :)

Tamara's beautiful dress:




Another shot from Tamara + Dean's wedding: I just love the rush of light coming in from the open church doors, and Tamara with her dad.





They had a really fun bridal party as well--we did some walking in the streets.




Arguably, my favourite recessional image from this year! Chris+Lesia look so joyful.






They also had rockin' dance skills.





Oh, Michael and Emma! So ADORABLE together.





The next two shots are from Mike and Amanda's wedding in July. Love it!









Love this moment too, by a dirty old fence on the Sunshine Coast for Nathan and Paula's wedding.





Possibly my favourite mother/daughter capture: from Taylor and Lisa's wedding.

I enjoyed that walk down memory lane: hope you did too! :)

Lesley and Adam's engagement session was an absolute blast! We spent three hours walking/cabbing it all around Gastown, such a cool spot of Vancouver. It was actually kind of funny, because we had been planning this shoot for a month, trying to find a date that would work. We finally picked one, and when I showed up in Gastown, so many roads were blocked off. There was a little thing called Tour de Gastown going on, which involved hundreds of bikers and crazy on-lookers! Woo, that was a challenge. Good thing that most of the locations I had scouted were "out of the way" alleys and that sort of thing.

Keep an eye out, because I have a feeling you'll be seeing this couple again soon...maybe in a different medium: perhaps video? Perhaps on a new website?

See those little words, wrapped around and around in circles? That's what my head fills like right now. Filled up, to the brim; full. I have so many things on the go, sometimes I think I have gone temporarily (well, let's hope it's temporarily!) insane. I have a lot of new things in the works for my business--I am always growing, always changing, always expanding, always thinking--and I can't wait to see them come to life. One project in particular I've been working for the past two and a half months on.

This summer has been a crazy amazing full-time adventure, and starting Saturday I will be attending Trinity Western University as a full-time student for the Fall and Spring semesters. As a kid, I always dreamed of going to university and never considered that I wouldn't attend! So even when God handed me this incredible career a year ago, and then when He just exploded handfuls of blessings into my life over the past two or three months, I knew I still needed to try the University thing, if only for a year. It'll be a fine balance between social activities, school work and my business: but I'm doing this for me. It's so easy to just have the "me" in your business completely swallowed up. It becomes all about what you're doing, what you're accomplishing, who you're meeting, where you're going:: you can forget about "you!" and in my case, my life goals, my purpose--I'm hoping that these next crazy 8 months when I'm doing full-time school and a full-time business will help me to step back and say, "Who is me? What does she desire out of her life?" It's a weird feeling jumping into such an incredible career right out the doors from high school. I literally graduated and started working ten-hour days at my computer the next day. Eight weeks has gone by and here I am! And I'm about to step through another door in my life, the University door...most likely wearing the shoes pictured above. :)