If you’re here to compare posts with previous posts, then it’s probably best to close this window before you read much further. After only a few nights of chasing the northern lights, one of the most important things I’ve learnt is how completely futile it is to compare one evening to another. In fact, not only is it impossible, but it’s really the quickest way to lose the feeling of pure exhilaration that is observing and chasing the aurora borealis. No two displays will ever catch up with one another, and each has it’s own very distinct beauty. This evening was certainly far less dramatic, but it was ridiculously beautiful filled with a certain magic that is, once again, impossible to describe with words from a place of not being directly under the aurora itself.
Oh my, those colors!! And look at the stars. Who’d knew we live under such a beautiful sky? Do you happen to know what is that constellation that shows up in almost all your photos? [in the last photo it is on the left] Stunning and such peaceful photos.
Well done Sean!
Sean, you could do this 365 days a year and I would come back here every day to see this! No need for comparisons on my part–these are all spectacular.
Less dramatic? Pshaw! These are amazing. I love the lights coming up from the ground and the perspective you get from these images with some trees and other earthly happenings included. I was going to include the numbers of my favorites here but then it looked like a math book. Gorgeous, Sean. The other thing is … what an amazing amount of dedication for you to be out there each night photographing this splendor. Awesome. Oh…and I’m ready for a photo of your tent.
Omigosh. I’m so behind in reading blogs. Haha, over 2 weeks, I’ve accumulated over 900 unread entries. CAN’T PASS THIS UP! Freaking gorgeous images! ARGH.
I cannot recall, for the life of me, a time where I have felt more love, more appreciation, and more enthusiasm for being here on planet Earth. I just can’t. Even now beginning to put together this post, I’ll include a photo into the area below and the very feeling of that moment washes over my body. Goosebumps and all, zipping up my jacket so quickly I cut my lip wide open and all, throwing my arms in the air, my hands on my head and all.
To quote Kjetil… “It is one of the best nights so far this season.” But it was cold. So cold. The wind howled at the water where we started, dropping the temperature to below -20, easily. We took a chance and headed inland just after 10p to a beautiful valley you’ll be seeing more of (think camping with a bonfire), where it was much cooler – but felt a million degrees warmer without the wind. Enough words, here’s sight of our Wednesday evening…
Oh my gosh. These are ridiculous! #s 10 & 11 are my favorites. Absolutely incredible, Sean! In the first photo, what is the bright green light at the bottom of the photo? It’s kinda across the water….I was going to say shooting star in some of the other photos but obviously not that low…
Jen
I actually said “wow” out loud while scrolling down. stuunning. <3
the post and the pics are so inspiring!!! nature + earth are such a miracle!!! so jealous you had this amazing experience (i wanna go toooo) BUT SO SOOOO HAPPY FOR YOU!!!!
mum
Sean, these are … stupifying. I’m so envious that you have been able to be there and experience this awe-inspiring sight. They’re so eerie looking and totally out of this world. Can’t wait to see some blown up to poster size! xoxo mum
I don’t even have words. Hoe do you narrow down to your favorites. I mean, they are all so beautiful. Mother nature sure knows how to put on a good show! I think #10 is my absolute favorite. I am glad you are enjoying yourself!!
I’ve been away from the blog world for a long time. Today I finally took some time to return. Your site was the first I came to. And I’ve sat here in total awe. Total, absolute awe. Wow. I keep going back through them. They are just so beautiful. sooo beautiful. I want to point out my favorites, but theres too many to name. This is amazing. Thanks for sharing. This made my day.
[...] I don’t want to sleep because when I wake it wont be as beautiful. It reminds me of Tromsø. Remember February? Real Winter. Wouldn’t it be great if you could wrap up a night, stuff it into a bottle, and [...]
I’m not sure if you’ve seen her, because she loves a fun, tireless game of hide & seek but when she comes out to play – she plays, endlessly. If you’ve seen her, you know there aren’t words that accompany these moments. In fact, there aren’t even words to help define the sight of her or re-live these moments away from her. You just… you can’t describe it, you… you have to see it, you have to stand in the -12 for six hours in snow a foot and a half deep, surrounded by the Norwegian mountain scape and the dead silence of the valley.
Wow, wow, wow. I can only imagine what seeing this in person must feel like. I bet lots of adrenaline, eh? Amazing, Sean. Thanks for sharing. And capturing.
[*Faints. Looks again and faints once more. And then laughing at the Peugeot in the final photo. ;)]
I can’t possible imagine what you FEEL when you see THAT. I am in awe since I opened your blog. With such anxiety and actually fear of what I might find.
Stunning and that’s not a big word, my friend.
I think your smile is wide on your face, and not just because of the cold! ;)
Can you bottle some from 11th photo and send by courier? Just a pinch to have it in my room, please!
Please spoil us! MORE?
this is so incredible and you capture the beauty so well!!
Brad Creasser
Again we are speechless!……. your ability to capture the sublime is amazing, i bow down to your eye and your photographic skill, i’m scared to see where your vision will take you! [ah to be so young and so talented.....] Hats off to you Sean!
Love Brad, Brenda & Colette!!
I am. It’s ridiculous, and I’m not sure I really understand it and how it happens but I’m just richly blessed. Imagine!
There is so much I want to write, so much I want to say thank you for. Not only making both of my flights on standby travel, but being assigned a window seat on one, and the bulkhead (row with extra legroom) on the other. Surviving a snowstorm in Frankfurt airport and still getting out on time to connect in Oslo for my third & final leg up to Tromso, where I’ll now reside for the next week and a half.
I have to tell you, 28 hours of travel from Vancouver to Tromso was exhausting but on the 27th hour up at 35,000 feet looking out the window and seeing the aurora borealis dance again for the first time in two years & one month – I forgot all about being tired, or how wrinkled my clothes were, or just how utterly disgusting I was. It was magic, and not a thing in the world can compare. So while I sit here in the living room, enjoying being interrupted every few minutes by Kjetil’s two boys who are in LOVE with Guitar Hero – I feel indeed, richly blessed.
The sun has set on Tromso outside, and twilight is quickly approaching which means just after we sit down to dinner here now – we are off into the countryside until the wee hours of the morning to chase the northern lights, my absolute favourite.
Beauuuuuutiful, Sean! I’m so glad you made the flights too! And window seats no less! :) Hope you’re having an amazing time! :) And keep up the photos, love seeing them! :) PS What’s the one of the 9 together? It’s beautiful.
Sooooo cool!!! :D
Good to have you on the same continent, my friend! :)) I can actually feel you closer. Lol! Glad you had amazing flights and you saw Aurora from the air, and been mesmerized by it.
More?
Im sooooo jealous Sean!!!! You promised next time you went to see this, you would pack me in one of your suitcases and bring me along!! LOL Simply gorgeous! cant wait to see more!
I am trying to take a moment to collect my thoughts, but it’s somewhat difficult because these photos, like the rest of yours, are incredible. They leave me speechless and in awe. I am sure you must have a very good quality camera, but without your perspective and talent at capturing moments like these, your photos wouldn’t be as great. Wow…
I heart Norway.
When it feels as though this universe has knocked itself out in countless ridiculous ways to satisfy yet another burning desire of pure wanting from me, I wouldn’t dare hesitate taking the inspired action that follows such synchronicities. Paper tickets for standby travel are here, which means I won’t be.
This is where I’m going to spend the next little while. No, really. Literally, right there. Twisting my neck in ways that will bring excruciating pain, and have my breath literally taken from me by sheets of colour dancing across the sky. My favourite experience on this planet. So how does that all sound?
Talk to you from above the Arctic circle. Real soon.
Yes. Now I see why you were so excited to post this. Your passion for the Northern Lights is incredible. I can’t wait to see the photos you come back with this time.
Haha! In that regard the evil white stuff is gorgeous! That last photo….brilliantly,blissfully, breathtaking! I can’t wait to see what photos you take on this journey, Sean! I’m so excited for you.
You killing me! :D Making me jump on the first flight to Norway!
Wonderful photos, and I bet this year they will be even more amazing [like that's even possible! ;)]
Have fun, take care and wow us with amazing photos when you will come back!
Wahooo! Safe and happy travels, Sean. I can’t wait to see what brilliance you come up with next. No really, I can’t wait. And are you going to literally be staying in that tent? LOVE that one. Cheers!
Are you kidding me!?! The images are ridiculous! I hope you have a blast and be safe! Please bring back lots of images like the last one, i only dream of seeing it in person.
I love to make believe. I love feeling inspiration, I love continued inspiration and allowing it to flow. I love feeling the life force behind just being a part of the inspired action I take. I love working at the airport, and I looove that I have opportunities to express creativity in an industry I adore. I love when my timing is perfect, and I love beautiful sunsets. I love twilight skies! I love how AWESOME the people I work with are. I love being so weird that photographing aeroplanes makes me feel exhilarated. I love knowing I’ve taken a beautiful photograph. I love feeling the natural flow of life. I love allowing, I love appreciating, I love basking, I love it allllllll!
Good time for the photographs that inspire such an outburst!
These are beautiful! It must be nice to have a job that allows you to do this :P I need to find an awesome sunset location in the Halifax area. It’s hard having so many hills.
I love the movement in the last 2 photos. Everything is so crisp and clear in your photos…every time. You know I’ve been to YVR 3 times in the last 10 days? I haven’t taken any trips, just the people around me.
You are so lucky to work at an airport! How do you stop yourself from getting on a plane! Great shots of inside the aircraft. You’ve got some amazing skills Sean! Love each and every one! :-)
Oh wow, super cool! Especially love the last one with the blades whirring and the other plane whooshing away. It’s awesome that you get to work at the airport and take photos at sunset!!!! (Too hilly in Coquitlam for any good sunset!)
Wow, Sean. These are seriously magazine style images. Your clarity and use of available light is outstanding. Keep doing what you love… cause I love looking at it!
Great series, Sean! I love the close-ups of the controls in the cockpit and I really love the ones looking in from the outside! Were you standing on the steps? And yeah….that last one = fabulous!
Your love for love is inspiring. Makes me love YOU!
Tom McKibbon
My depression is now complete. Not complete as in it has ended. As in, rather, I will miss the bird. And the thumbs up. Times two. And secretly laughing at ones inability to hit the T Line. It was great working with you Senior Norman.
If you’ve met Tanya, you’re as delighted to know her as I am.
She’s one of those people you watch move through life with incredible ease, not because she isn’t wanting very much – in fact, it is the absolute opposite to be true. She left everything she knew to be her back in Kiev, Ukraine and arrived in Vancouver days later. It’s no sooner that she says she would like to have that, and you see her living it. She walks, she speaks, it happens. Plus, she rarely stops smiling. Hence the magic.
Woot! Yay for remembering to take photos this time! :) They are beautiful! And I don’t blame ya for including both. They are both AWESOME. The silhouette against the rad-tastic sunset… I’d keep ‘em all. ;D (PS. She has awesome eyelashes!)
I really admire people who can just leave what they know behind and go someplace brand new and essentially “start over.” Love the location, Sean. Looks like you had some pretty nice weather too. Love the colors in #6 and # 13 is just wonderful!
Yay! I am loving the tone and colors to these. They feel very rustic and genuine. Great silhouettes at sunset. :) Glad to see you are finally getting some work done!
Sean. I love your lines. Seriously love the lines and composition. You really have a knack for putting your subjects so perfectly in the shot, with the most perfect alignment. LOVE IT! :)
I recently asked a friend what their favourite thing about planet Earth was. Her response was two words that were definitely unexpected, but I thought were incredibly profound…
“It’s diversity”.
Perfect words. I am definitely appreciating the contrast of our time & place. It’s a beautiful world, on all levels of beingness.
Soooo beautiful. Oh Sean, your images of this world are every time amazing! Such wild locations and the sense of freedom bursting out of them!
Oh, I feel trapped in the office right now! :)
SEAN. Love these. Seriously spectacular!!! I’m about to go to bed and your images have left me feeling refreshed and renewed. LOVE IT. :) Thank you for sharing these – stunning stunning stunning. :)xx
ohhhh….so awesome! i am in love with the lighting. the 7th one down is my favorite, but i am totally diggin the moon in the last image. rad, my friend!
Catherine Santos
haaaay makes me so relax..beautiful photos sean! keep it up!
Beautiful. Each image leaves you feeling at peace and just so… calm. I could imagine myself lying on the edge of the water just staring up at those gorgeous clouds. Love the reflections in 9856 and the sun setting in the distance.
:) :) I’m glad my words had such an impact on you :) .. but these photos are OUT OF THIS WORLD. Seriously they’re incredible. wow. Beautiful. Thanks for sharing these :) Made my day.
Horizon photos have my heart – really, they truly do. I wish I was better at them – you are fantastic. The 4th, 5th & 6th one from the bottom would TOTALLY be hung in my house. Love.
You know those shoots… in fact, you know those moments where everything feels, and is, life giving and just so easy. I would love to give you a sense of that, but I think labelling it as the emotion of life giving is as accurate as I could ever give to you through words. You just feel life pour through you on all levels of your beingness! You know when you get it, when you have goosebumps up & down your entire body because there is nothing more exhilarating than lining up with a desire and then taking inspired action and watching it unfold before your very own eyes. I’ll admit, I’m more often one to turn inward for this lifespiration (Yep – life-inspiration) but certainly Kayleen inspires it within me, without exception. This woman is glorious.
Now I have to tell you, I wasn’t going to share this but I feel like I want to and since it’s my blog and I can be as selfish as I want… I’m going to :) When Kayleen & I had got the images we knew we wanted (It took about 20 minutes through three, was it?, locations, we headed back to Waves Coffee in Steveston and she insisted I transfer the files to my Macbook right away because she was so dying to see them. I was nervous.. straight out of the camera images = butterflies. But I did it, and she browsed through them, tearing right up in front of her favourite images while trying to point out how her they were, she held such appreciation that I cannot even tell you the warm, certain feeling I had in my tummy. It moved me, and for this K, thank you.
This woman is beautiful. And fun. And full of life. And with a sense of fashion that mesmerizes me! :D The look of the photos, the style, the general feeling of pure bliss is so overwhelming, I might smile for the entire day, thanks to you and this beautiful lady.
Someone asked on her blog if photography is art or not. Looking at these, I only can say a loud YES. Congratulations Sean and thank you very much for letting us into your soul for a little while. Your personal photos are the ones I look for the most. They have this vibrancy, this joy.
Emily
I love this woman more than I can explain as well. She is always there for me and it’s clear that her vibrant personality shines through her smile. The door way shot is also my favourite.
Love you both!! xo
There’s something very special about this shoot. I’m not sure if it’s the fantastic photos and how natural they feel, or the beautiful words that came along wit them, but there’s something so special. These photos seem SO REAL and I just love the feeling that goes along with each and every one of them. Oh I could go on and on raving about how in love with these photos I am. Wow. The same thing happened to me the other day – Charlotte asked if she could see the images SOOC and I was like umm … hesitant haha. But she saw them and loved them, so I understand how pleased you must have been. Thanks for sharing these beautiful images.
Awesome! I love that door shot (and that commercial is amazing too), the one just above it, and #7 too. Everything looks fluid and natural. Beautiful job, Sean.
I will speak from the technical stuff, these photos are awesome! The lighting (exposure and levels), colors, B&W conversion, location, person interaction, and composition are just awesome! Your subject/background separation is superb, whether by colors, contrast, or depth of field. Your photos are my inspiration! Keep up the good work!
Yep, all the stars were aligned for you here. All the comments so far are completely spot on. Everything about these is fantastical. You can grasp the connection you two shared in these images. Man, Sean, when you’ve got it, you’ve really got it!! Oh, and how do you ALWAYS get that perfect overcast light? Seriously.
I don’t know Kayleen but I bet if I met her she’d be warm, loving, exuberant, talkative. We’d click. I feel like I’m clicking with her just from these photos. Great work, Sean!! FTR, I want to borrow her blouse.
Fabulous shoot, Sean!!! I can feel your excitement with this session. The location is great and now I want to go to Newfoundland Labrador – it’s beautiful! Kayleen has such a great style too! (4th & 5th for my faves!)
These are gorgeous Sean! You’ve really captured the essence of a very beautiful, stylish and fun woman. I love her clothes!! The blouse, the jeans, the jacket, the sweater… all so cool! And I LOVE Stevesten. What a great location. It has a wonderful Maritimes feel to it that is so great. Oh, and I adore the Newfoundland commercial you linked to. Soooooooo good. Love it. And how incredibly coincidental – I’m shooting a family in Stevesten on Saturday. You’ve got to email me with some of these locations because they’re awesome. (Although I’m shooting a single mom and her three boys all under 7, so it’s sure to be a gong show and nowhere near as perfect as these!) Technically… excellent work. But you always nail the technical side so I’m not saying anything new. Way to go Sean!
So cute Sean !! I have been so inspired by that Newfoundland Tourism video too! It made me want to go there so badly … and take cute pics of cute people there of course :) Loved the relaxed vibe of the photos and how comfortable she is in front of the camera! I am sure you had something to do with that :)
This is pretty cute. Believe me. The other day I stopped by Catherine’s place to drop off the images from Jacob’s shoot and I thought I’d time it so Jacob would be having his nap and I could snap just a few more images of her adorable little one fast asleep, all cuted up (Yep, new word… cute-ed). Jacob must’ve sensed me on the bus rocketing down their street, because about five minutes before I arrived.. Catherine text me to say Jacob was wide awake!
Well, I couldn’t just walk in, hand over the images, and walk out like maybe a lot of normal people would’ve done. Catherine & I chatted about life, about their trip back to the Netherlands upcoming in a few weeks to join Efran. I’d give Jacob the odd little tickle, and he’d grab onto my finger and not want to let go with his entire little hand. The changes in him in just the couple weeks are unbelievable! These young, eager ones sure moving forth quickly, and as always, with complete and utter cuteness. Then, about three minutes after I left – Jacob was back asleep. …Sneaky little bugger.
Insane! Too cute for words! OMG! :D
I love babies, maybe after this I will try to take baby photos, legal or illegal not important. (cough cough)
But all these photos really made me smile. :)))
#3 is my fav. I don’t know why but his hand just tooooo cute! :)
Noooooo way!!! :D I’m falling in love! He is totally adorable, cute, sweet, lovable! Look at those beautiful big eyes. And he so knows how to pose! In the last one he looks totally professional! :D
Catherine Santos
my jacob is so happy!just too bad his nap was over when you came and you wanted to take a picture while he was sleeping right? but then this turned out nice and he was so happy to see you haha!Thanks again Sean! loving jacob!
I could write a million and one things to fill this space about Sylvia & Parag, but I know not all of you have the attention span for a long winded love story like I do ;) Sylvia & I have been e-mailing for a good few weeks, and every bloody time she writes to me she (subconsciously?) mentions how she’s in a different country than where she last wrote from.
It’s at this point during this blog post that I would like to mention how there is nothing more annoying than to see someone living the life you want to live when you’re not living it. I’m only kidding you a little bit, Sylvia.
And so, let’s kick off 2010 with just a little romance – because I get the feeling this is the year for it in my life. Sylvia & Parag met over in Geneva, Switzerland and in the following months and years ensued many weekend breaks of sunrises in the mountains of Europe, weekend breaks to just about every European city I only dream of sharing with my soulmate, and really… every other activity you could imagine in… every other country around the world you could imagine. It sounds as though the only thing left for them may be the Trans-Mongolian-Express railway, and if you talk to Parag about it – 10 days on a train across barren Mongolia, Russia – and just perhaps mainland Europe seems like it’s a bit of stretch for now. Which is a fabulous thing, because if you two manage that journey before I do – I’m going to be extremely upset for years to come.
Sylvia & Parag, there is nothing more perfect than what you two share together, and the absolute fairytale that you two have lived in your life with one another thus far could be the most surreal love story I’ve known to date. I had a blast hanging out with you, and very nearly wetting myself laughing so hard inside Granville Island Market Place within the first five minutes we met!
I was so looking forward to teaching Sylvia the robot, but alas, I forgot my tripod & remote trigger – and we had to have photos so… Parag did the honours, and did them awfully well I might add!
So adorable! I love the ones of them running, and the ring shot too. :) Fabulous. Oh, and the puddle shot. I still haven’t been able to successfully do one of those yet. Huh.
What a beautiful, beautiful set of photos!!! I love them! Especially the black and white one of their silhouette – that one is STUNNING! You never fail to amaze me with your images. Beautifully done.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! I LOVE THESE. LOVE THEM. I was just going to email you to see how the e-sess went, but I can see it went awesome. You rock. I can’t even tell you which is my favourite because I love each one more than the next. I’ve shot at Granville Island a bunch of times and never found some of those great spots that you did. And you’re always so creative with your posing and set ups. I’m inspired for my wedding tomorrow! Excellent work Sean!
I LOVE these!!! Some of my favs I’ve seen you post!!! Every single image is so beautiful– crisp, great color, energetic and romantic! you also found some really cool places to shoot!! love it!!! your 2010 is off with a bang! woo hooooo!!! :D
Oh Sean!! They are travelers, huh? :) Well, then shooting their e-session on the very first day of the year managed to obtain for yourself love and travels for the entire year! :D It’s a sign! ;) Love the tunnel one and the reds and the blues and also the robot! :))Amazing shots, I give you that! Favorite one is the reflection one… Magic!
Oh, and a Happy New Year full of love and travels and fun!
These are so good, Sean! The colors are so vibrant! Faves have to be 8354, 8239, and that one with the red wall and the hill….so cool! Oh and that robot series is too stinkin’ cute! Fabulous!! :)
No one liked this post, it looks like! Seriously, they are wonderful in every. single. way. Boy, your compositions and angles, colors and clarity are so intriguing. Love how you capture beauty and connection in such a clean, simple, yet thoughtful way. Pure JOY!
[...] together. The Chavarker family actually is from the Bay Area down in the States, but were up for Sylvia & Parag’s wedding the very next day. We got up nice and early to meet for the morning, 10a IS early [...]
Life is for the joy of life, isn’t it? To experience joy, to live joy, to discover joy and to be that which is joy. As I was about to meet Mandy outside Yaletown Skytrain station, I sent her a text just as I arrived outside… “Blue jeans, blue coat & terrible hair.” So when she text back and said “Ditto on the hair”, I knew two things – she was more than likely a liar, and that we were going to laugh. A lot.
Despite her flat out lying to me before we’d even met, I couldn’t help but to love every second of this shoot. It was like getting together with an old friend you’d hadn’t seen in a few months, and picking up right where you last left off. If you’re here with a spare moment, I encourage you to go take a peek at her wonderful blog where there’s maybe one of the sweetest series of photographs I’ve ever seen. Seriously… right here. Go ;)
Love these!! You guys totally shot outside Science World! :) :) :) I LOVE the first one. Haha, she looks so mischievous. Did you know that she saw me on the Skytrain on her way home after this? YEAH, small world.
Holy Sh** Sean!!!!!!! You weren’t kidding me that you were up to something AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!! These are absolutely beautiful!!!!!!!!! Her eyes!!! OMG!!! and just the skin tones…so warm and just exquisite. Seriously, can you take my picture? WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!! I think #s 1, 4, & 6 are my favorites. Your BW tones = PERFECTION! :D
GORGEOUS Sean!!!!!! These are some of my favourite shots of yours yet. You’ve completely captured the beauty of your subject. Wow. Okay… now it’s settled. I’m going to beg you to take my picture next time we get together and perhaps I’ll look this good. Not likely, sigh, but a girl can hope, right??? (Or maybe you don’t want to hang out again with an old lady who can still kick your butt at Where’s Waldo?) And that text about your hair. LOL. Your hair is great!! Where is that purple tiled wall? Love it. And as long as I’m rambling… is this your new lens? It may be cold outside, but you’re certainly bringing the heat with that thing!
wow sean…. she is stunning! and i adore these so much – such clarity, variety, and the colour is divine! (as are the black and whites!!) :) beautiful work!!!!!!!!
Who-hooo… That’s a “terrible” hair alright! :)) She is beautiful and so sweet! Wonderful series my friend! I mean, come on… how can a girl look like that? :)) Amazing photos, and I can’t just pick only one as favorite! Love the light, the colors, the angles, her eyes… the hair… :D
she was indeed a liar! ;) her hair looks great in these photos! :)
and the last one is the best. my fav :)
Catherine Santos
love the 7657 and 7911..loving and enjoying every photographs as always..shes beautiful!if she doesnt like her hair,can we switch bec her heair is gorgeous!love the wavy!
I get it with the hair and I apologize! :) Sean…you are AMAZING and you better believe you are headed for something fan-fricken-tastic. I am honored to be a part of your blog and hope that we can collaborate on something, anything, soon.
ah, she is a liar her hair is FAB! lol! i wish my hair would look so good more often ;) these photos are stunning! i especially love the black and whites and the ones of her in front to of the purple wall! so timeless and classic! great work as always sean!!!
What a sweet engagement story! Love this shoot, Sean. Of course, she is beautiful and you captured her perfectly. Thanks for incorporating my favorite color (purple -even that shade!) into your shoot. Much appreciated, thanks. :)
These are amazing, Sean! And ok, she is so gorgeous it must be really easy to take amazing photos, but still! :D I LOVE the posing! The one where she’s sitting on two benches.. and I love those first two purple wall shots, perfect composition & expressions! One of my favourites from you ever! And 7881 with the out of focus bench, amazing! These are so creative, I love it! I don’t know how you do it, take a break from shooting and then come up with something like this?! And you have such great locations in Vancouver, too.. oh I miss it! Did you miss my essay comments? :P
are you freaking kidding me!!! alllllllllllllllll of these are stunning!!! your clarity blows me away and your bxw’s? how do you do that!? I LOVE your posing and the purple wall series……ADORABLE!!! She is GORGEOUS!! and your work is crazy good!;) Ps. I have been a blog “peeker” for a while…..my bff Christina G sent me your way…..your work is just beautiful….i always enjoy peeking~!
Sean these are amazing! Mandy and your photography are both so beautiful :) I hope one day I get to work with you to get some photos for my website. Maybe one day… lol
[...] my picture before and b) I didn’t know what to wear or how to do my hair. There’s a cute thread of comments on his blog about the hair…It seems my stress was for nothing. He made every shutter click count in this [...]
With a real Winter. I fall in love with real Winter moments. It’s beautiful when it snows, and spirits are lifted beyond where they often are. (Unless you’re at the airport re-booking passengers because we’ve cancelled their flights) But for the most part, everything just feels even more pleasant in the snow, and I love feeling pleasant.
And then it was all washed away in less than a day of 8 degrees and rain. Gross.
Happy winter! We haven’t had much snow here yet but I hope to get out and photograph it when it comes. Hope you’re enjoying the lights and sounds of the season.
Wow what beautiful photos :) Glad to see you’re enjoying winter :) I find it so hard to enjoy it when it’s SOOO cold and we have NOO snow, so consider yourself lucky :) :) haha.
I was wondering and hoping you would share some shots of the snow that you had talked about. The first image looks like something out of a winter wonderland! Hope the weather blesses you with more snow soon. :)
Aww.. Well I’m glad someone enjoys the snow :D lol. All of ours has been rained away but our forcast from Sunday-Thursday looks like pure snow. Crossing fingers for a white Christmas! ps- SOOOO jealous about your ISO. Darn you and your good camera! lol
The first image is magical! I can’t really relate, but I love the feeling of that image. That may be the end of the love affair though, I would probably DIE in cold weather. Below 40. True story.
awww love the first image so much! reminds me of when i lived in boston and the first time it snowed there! beautiful!! ps your mom and lucy are so cute too!!
Single digits will pretty much wash away any pleasant feelings. Yuck. Your mom IS so cute. Good for you for getting out in the snow for some lovely wintery images. I want MORE from you!
Catherine Santos
absolutely beautiful snow shot!the night shot is so gorgeous,the dog too
I LOVE the snow too – but I live in the desert where we barely ever see snow :( so I’m living vicariously through your gorgeous photos!! Love that first one with the lights {ahhh Christmas lights … another one of my loves}! Beautiful images once again!
This girl has such brilliant style, I love it. Love it, love it, love it. Today we were supposed to spend some time together, take a few photos and perhaps have some dinner downtown to top things off, and I thought that if we were going to be downtown anyway – I’d love to pick up one or two more scarves for my beautiful Winter wardrobe. Fast forward 5:30pm on Robson Street – Sheeta & I are dancing in and out of stores like it’s nobodys business! Less than an hour later, this photoshoot has transformed itself into yet another shopping spree (and apparently this blog post has now too), so let’s just say I’m a little excited about some new fashions now sitting at the end of my bed!
Love this girl though. Sheeta & I just click… we just get one another and are both incredibly weird! Hah! Lots of frost on the ground in Vancouver and freezing temperatures outside – so really, who can blame me for wanting to add another scarf or two. Plus a few other things I couldn’t resist. So here goes my first real edits on my Mac… in other words, who knows of and/or is using an excellent colour calibration tool for your Mac? Please!
You know, sometimes I think it’s the light…but then I think it’s the subject. She is just sort of radiant, you know? I love those first two – gorgeous. Oh, and I use the Spyder (I think Spyder 3 but can’t actually remember) on my iMac. Good luck.
How perfect are those black and white’s! So warm and yummy. And I love the composition of the one where she is sitting in I believe the road? Love it! Look at you rock these edits out on your Mac!
These are gorgeous Sean … so creative and I love every single one of them and she is just a doll! You are awesome – your images stunning! Thanks for sharing your incredible talent, you KNOW I love looking!
I always think you can tell when a photographer really “clicks” with a client / person they photography – it just SHOWS. And not even in technical talent, there’s just more creativity and more passion put into the images. It’s a really beautiful thing.
Lovelove this set. Wish we lived closer so we could shopping spree together too!!!
Oh and PS – I second the Spyder 3 calibration! (Your new mac shouldn’t need much calibrating but it’s a really smart thing to do/have first thing.)
What a lovely treat this morning. :) Definitely looks and sounds like you two had a wonderful time and connected. The images are fabulous. Image 2 and the pair in image 6 are my favorite. Yay for shopping sprees and beautiful inspiration.
:):) You two braved the cold to take some AWESOME pictures! (Did Sheeta cut her bangs? It looks different than last time…) Winter sunlight is just too glorious.
PS. Share any tips you get regarding calibration? :):)
love these!! you got the most amazing, ethereal lens flare! how do you do that? i also love the great DOF in the shot by the fence! these are great, and it sounds like you guys had a blast taking them ;)
I’m totally wanting my next shoot to turn into a shopping spree! Sounds super fun! ;) This girl is beautiful and has got some great style! Just love it! Such a beautiful job!!!
Love this session, Sean! The sun flare is perfect and I think your colors look real good too. #7308= my fave! And I agree with everyone else about how fun a shopping spree sounds!
wowwww :) beautiful photos. i LOVE the sun flare ones. she just looks so peaceful :) sorry i’ve been ignoring the blog world lately :( :( .. in a week i’ll be back to my constantly commenting good old self.
Great shots! I have been checking out your work for quite some time and just wanted to let you know that I really enjoy your stuff!!! Amazing! Love her name and she is too cute!
All these photos are so beautiful!
My favs are #3rd and #5th from bottom.
I love your editing skills too. =)
Thanks for visiting my blog. Have a nice day!
Wow, she does have amazing style…Equally as amazing as your photographic skill! Love these Sean. Especially love the 4 & 5th down, in the woods. The lighting is perfect.
Because of that gorgeous & intuitive thing, this blog post has taken me well over a few hours to even get to this stage of writing it. I finally got mine, and I’ve named her Senija. And don’t tell me you haven’t named your beautiful material things either! Seriously, Macbook Pro = love of my life.
So since just about every single one of you persuasive little buggers have bothered me for more photos of my incredibly serene & beautiful new bedroom, I have a few more for you, though missing from my walls are an abundance of prints which will be coming soon! Please tell me how off my post-processing looks because I’ve decided to move to Aperture (which I am loving so far!) but there are some pretty new-feeling differences to Lightroom. And don’t even get me started on trying to use Photoshop on a Mac. Hah! I’ll get it right sooner or later, but let me know! I think I pulled back the recovery way too much in a lot of these? And I think my walls are a lot more icer bluer than in the photos! Hah!
Ok I think I need to resubscribe to your blog because somethings gone wrong with my google reader I think … anyways .. hello beautiful macbook pro – we have twins!! they’re so beautiful. I thank god everyday for the beautiful macbook pro :) :) :) .. I LOVE your room!!! So beautiful :)!!!
Your new lovely is the best addition you’ll ever make to your family. Beware, she will keep you up late, cause you to stop reading books or socialize face to face and when away from her you will wonder every single minute what she safely waiting for you. She’ll suck away all of your free time, but it’s hard not to love her. Room looks great, love the colour choices.
Sir, just HOW many travel books to you own?! And Senija is a pretty name. Oh, and you totally strike me as someone whose hangers would all match. Tsk ;D
Catherine Santos
SENIJA! love the curtain,clock and your jackets haha!awesome!
Sean, Senija is a thing of beauty …. and so is your room !!! The colour is just stunning and I am a fan of your post processing :) I just ordered an iMac and can’t wait to get my hands on a Mac Book Pro as well !! Looking forward to joining the club ;)
Congratulations on your new baby!! She’s absolutely gorgeous! So clever how those keys light up! Very cool clock too and I like that light on the wall over your bed! Oooh, and the infamous closet! ;) Hahah!!
Wow! You’re room is looking awesome! I love the blue. I’m guessing it’s your fav color. lol. I wish we had Ikea here!! You’ve just inspired me to do something with our apartment. Haven’t done any change in the decor since we moved in a year ago. :S
Oh MAN. I LOVE my MBPro – did you get the one with the fancy mousepad? I assume so. LOVVVVVVE that. Your room looks FANTASTIC. You have great style with a camera and in your house!
Nov. 14… the last time you posted. Did it in fact happen? Did the overwhelming sexiness of Senija overtake you and you’ve become incapacitated with pure euphoria that you are in no condition to blog or even make contact with the outside world? Your blog audience misses you.
How did I let this post get past me!? This space looks so calm and relaxing, I love it. Having just moved, I’m hoping to create the same feel in our place. Wish me luck! All the best. :D
I have some very exciting news! And it is even more exciting if you have been close to me for the past few years… Are you ready? I may find a great deal of joy in socialising! I know! I told you it was exciting! I love getting to know people, and I especially love those people who flow that same ridiculous energy I do! Sherry, definitely does. She’s certainly someone who can keep pace with my randomness & laughter outbursts! She’s got an awful lot of energy for a girl who’s in her final year of university studying nothing to do with photography, but Sherry, thanks for getting together today despite the fact you were up at 07:30 (because apparently not everyone has the luxury of sleeping til noon).
First, I love the new banner!! These are some great photos…definitely playful! My favorites are 4th and 7th ones down. Gorgeous location and I love that sunset.
Hey sweet cheeks! (O: Sherry is a total doll and you always do such an amazing job of capturing an individuals personality. LOVE Sherry popping through all of the bright green leaves and ALL of the shots with the fall leaves. Way to go baby!
Catherine Santos
so nice fall again..sweet face!great photos and the sunset!
How did I miss this post?!? I was like hmm .. Sean hasn’t updated in a while, and then checked and here it is!! haha. Firstly, the photos are awesome. My favorites are the first, third, and fifth! Great work, great colors, loving it! Oh, and I’m also loving your pretty little follow me button .. aren’t they cute?? haha.
I love the one of her on the park bench…down to the very last detail. I love how her feet are turned in and her hands are clasped. There is a certain shy sweetness and simplicity about that picture. Beautiful.
I’m with Alex. This post didn’t update in Google Reader. Hmmmm… It’s wonderful though. She looks beautiful. I just love all the colors and how they pop and contrast. What a fab location… looks so serene.
Life is a funny thing. While I was single working at the airport about two years ago, our crew would always come up on our breaks to the area just outside domestic departures to chain smoke themselves into a grave, and I had to get my two packs of second hand smoke in a day so I happily obliged. Night after night, I’d look across the doorway and there was this cute girl standing in her CMA uniform alone. Never a word spoken, never a move made. After a couple of months, I finally left that company behind and disappeared from the airport life for some time until eventually I found my way back to a small little company – CMA. The very same company that cute girl was working for. So about another year passed before her & I actually spent any time together talking really at work or outside of work, until recently and now have found a close friendship. Oddly enough, it wasn’t until we were sitting having dinner together after this shoot that I realised just what had happened in the way we stumbled into one another after a desire launched, literally, years ago. And about that, we laughed, and laughed, and laughed, and got mildly embarrassed while having a delicious sushi dinner.
Love the rainbow on her hair on the first picture! And those two where is the river[???] behind her. Beautiful portraits! She is such a cutie!! :) Wonderful delicious light and loooove the flares! Woohoo love the post! :D
Catherine Santos
love the 13th and her eye lashes..hey i always see this girl..
Sean, you’re awesome. Short and sweet. The first photo is insane and I love the ones of her in the grass. What a sweet story too. I really enjoyed reading :)
It’s so good to see you back shooting portraits! These are exquisite! I have to say that my favorites are 6929 and 6940 (love all the lines). You captured some awesome flare! You can even see your reflection in her eyes… Very cool!
Paige
Scrony nice photos! great light! p.s i want my money for all that second hand smoke :)
I love, love the rainbow flare that traces her hairline in that first photo. Magical. And to say she’s was a cute girl is an understatement. What a beauty. The depth in the one on the wooden floor boards is outstanding.
I work at the airport. I’m one of those guys you see way down on the ground running around your aircraft making sure your bag & cargo arrive safely with you. I drive those funny looking machines in impossible spaces pulling up to multi-million dollar aircraft. I’m one of those guys, but as people find out I do a little of that job and have been for some time, they often say “Well you are, but you aren’t really one of those guys. You aren’t like that.” …And it’s true really, it’s not the sort of work you see a delicate, romantic souled photographer involved in. In fact, is there a more odd mix around?
And since I started at the airport a few years ago full-time, I’d take my camera with me everyday just in case there was that one special aircraft coming in, or some extraordinary sky. So while now when I go in for my few days every month at the airport, I rarely bring my camera. Without a doubt since I returned home from Helsinki about three weeks ago, I’ve had any inspiration escape me completely – I left the house for work on Monday, and when I got about a minute from the house I had the irressistable urge to turn back and grab my camera. If you know me at all, I always give into any inspired action, so I turned back, threw my camera in my bag and marched off to work…
It’s an extraordinarily powerful universe when you open yourself up to listening…
Go chase your inspiration!! :D
Love the third one, what a beautiful sky! Look at that cloud. And the light is so beautiful!
The skies opening above that Lufthansa plane is terrific!!
Beautiful! I guess it doesn’t really matter where you work if you can find beauty in everything around you! :)
Keep listening to that still, calm voice inside, it will take you everywhere you want to go. You experience the most amazing skies there. Your captures are astounding.
Wow. I am completely blown away!! The last two are my favorites for sure. Would definitely look awesome as a canvas print ;) lol. Great job! You’re making me want to apply for a job at the airport now! Hahaha.
Wow! What beautiful skies!! I love the 4th one and the last two. I agree with Caits…it does look as if the heavens are about to open up. I also love the first one how it looks the plane is flying right in to the light. Beautiful!
paige
I have said it a million times the port has the nicest skies, sunsets and sunrises outta anywhere. And i never get sick of watching a plane take off right into it.
Oh man, I love photos of clouds. I think they’re pretty awesome. I will always try to get a window seat on the plane (if it’s not at night time), and I’m that weirdo with her forehead pressed to the glass, trying to take photos of all sorts of cloud formations. :D
Soooo….is this post about coming to Michigan this weekend? Because it sounds like it to me. Better hurry, the butternut squash soup and the chocolate chip cookies are quickly disappearing! :D
I looked at that first photo over and over and each time I saw something different. That last picture is amazing. So tranquil. You have a way of putting words and photos together to truly emit feeling.
you {amaze} me!!! looking at the reflection picture, I think…there is no way that I could capture that. It is beautiful. the words ~ beautiful! If I could be anything else, I would want to be a bird flying over you watching your magic! btw, i need to write back to your email ~ just been so dang busy!
Michelle’s post just the other day had inspired in me something extraordinary I hadn’t really experienced before… it was an odd, immediate flowing of thought directly to me, and I scrambled to my computer to… write a little of it, which reading back upon it doesn’t make very much sense to me had I not known I wrote it in the moment. The one thing that stays most clear of my thought is along the lines of… How could we possibly assume that something is going wrong with our planet Earth when it, of all things, is the greatest, most powerful, incredibly expansive & undeniably diverse creation any of us have ever known. Earth is always bringing itself into perfect alignment as our platform for the magnificent creation we are all here joyously taking part of! Earth just is the well being that always abounds, and I wouldn’t ever expect that to change. Here we are as humans finding more things to fuss & worry about with so much talk about negative impact on our planet, when change is inevitable because nothing will ever stand still!
So, I’ve dug up a little photography I’ve gone about over the last few years and included just a small fraction of my appreciation for our planet.
A glorious Hawaiin sunset on the magnificent beaches of Ka'anappali
In my early days of cloud appreciation, I explored the remote Lofoten Islands through the dark of Winter in Norway
What could be more down to Earth than sleeping in a hotel purely of ice from the Torne River at ICE HOTEL, Jukkäsjarvi. …Twice.
And of course, I don’t think there’s anything more mystical or surreal than watching the Aurora Borealis dance for hours at a time in complete & utter silence in the middle of nowhere somewhere between the Norwegian coast & the Finnish border with Kjetil.
Oh Sean, love, love, love the 2nd image of the flower foliage thing. Your landscape work is so amazing. I am so jealous of your travels and your 2nd stay at the Ice Hotel, which I saw on the Travel Channel! :-) You’re awesome!
Wow!!! All of these are amazing, but that second shot is just mind blowing. I have always wanted to take a picture like that! I tell my friends all the time .. for some reason (i know its cliche) its the number one photo I HAVE to take and perfect before I die :P Amazing photos :)
Catherine Santos
these are all phenomenal sean!the 2nd one so perfect!
Astounding! You are so right in your thoughts and words. You are blessed my friend, to travel and see what you have and even more so, to have the eye and skill to capture all the unfathomable beauty that surrounds us. KUDOS! •••
Oh I remember that Hawaiian sunset! Love those sunrays.. I have a far worse photo from the exact same spot! :P Joo, these are all just amazing, not that you need to hear that from me.. Love the Aurora and the mountains!
Let’s see …. my favorites are: #2,4 (is that a reflection of the cloud in the water??), 9….ah you know what?…. I love them all…every single one of them is just ridiculously breathtaking.
When looking at your photos, yes, I can say all is well! You are an amazing photographer! A true inspiration for me and for others as well. Stunning photos! Amazed by the snowy mountains! And I see even the Ice hotel we talked about! Really really impressive! :)
Wonderful emotional post! Keep it up Sean!
AWESOME. I can’t believe you’ve stayed at the ice hotel TWICE! :O And the Aurora Borealis! Gorgeous. Haha, these might convince me to travel north in the future!!
Wow. Seriously, wow. The first shot blew my mind and the last shot makes me all warm and fuzzy inside thinking about how awesome the world is. You’ve traveled some awesome places and it makes me a bit jealous as I’m staring at four walls (painted an ugly colour). Beautiful thoughts and thanks for sharing.
SERIOUSLY STOP!!! your killing me with the awesomeness!!! Ok thats it IM packing my bags and and my Eskimo outfit and visting middle of knowwhere um.. by the Norwegian coast somewhere! Dang Sean!
Wow! I am undoubtedly inspired!
Seeing the northern lights is one of the things to see at the top of my life list…
Hope one day when I see them I can capture them half as well as you have.
Awesome work!
Just one last short & simple post from Helsinki before we leave this magnificent city behind for probably… at least a month, anyway. On my last night, Anna & I made our way to the ferry dock for a final visit to Suomenlinna for sunset, which has become quite the recurring theme with my visits to Helsinki, but never repetitive in feelings & appreciation.
Thinking up my next little jolt overseas to anywhere Lufthansa or Air Canada flies for probably mid-November for a few weeks, so all my blog-stalkers in hiding, now would seem an appropriate time to come forward with an e-mail shouting some suggestions! The front runners… Norway, Romania or Iran. Let’s hear it!
Alex, this photograph – for you. Clearly thinking of you while I was taking it!
Go to Hungary! It’s beautiful and Luftansa will get you as far as Frankfurt. From there it’s just a short flight to Budapest. I can even hook you up with all the must-see sights and a few Hungarian swear words if you’re so inclined! haha. Oh, and I almost forgot… the Helsinki pics are GORGEOUS… as usual!!!! The blowing grasses one especially is completely yummy. And I LOVE the “ooops shot” of the leg. Or was it an ooops? Regardless, there’s something so mushy and beautiful about it. Wow. Thanks for sharing!
The title image is so fitting. I love the sunset photos and the last one is great too. I do really like the one with Anna’s hand in focus and blurry leg. Lovely work, Sean!
Awesome, Sean. My favorite is the one above the mitten image – love that tall grass. And then I love the mitten image. All so crisp and clean! Makes me want to book a flight. And just to totally even things out, place one vote in the Iran column for me. I figure if it is even an option for you, then go for it. But the other places would be awesome too! This is fun, it’s like “Choose Your Own Adventure” for your readers. Ever read those books?
Hahahahahahaha. Your door photo and comment made me laugh hahaha. I’m glad our love for doors has finally gone public haha ;). I’m loving these photos Sean! My favorites are the first three and the last three – LOVE them :) Awesome awesome awesome. Keep it up :) :)
Susan Norman
I love the variety of skies! They must never paint over the art/graffiti of that door! If you go anywhere in mid Nov it must be to join me in India on my adventures thru the 22nd!
Alex Cadar
Hi Sean,
Alex from North Van here :) If you decide to go to Romania please write me a line before so I can get back to you with a couple of tips about what to do, what to see and generally how life goes there…
Hope that when you will be back in the Lower Mainland we will finally get a chance to chat…
That folks, is a hail storm. I walked right through it to the metro station from the dock.
I love to live my life based on the most simple pleasures. I just enjoy open spaces, I love unusual cloud formations and watching them change while they fly overhead. I love vivid colours – I don’t care if it’s a dilapidated wall, the sky, or an open landscape seemingly entirely inaccessible to anyone else on the planet, or maybe it was just that wind detering them from coming. Suomenlinna is all of these things for me, especially during the Autumn. The weather was cool, most certainly crisp and entirely unpredictable. The day ended with an awesome hail storm, and a bucket full of images – most of which aren’t here. Yet. But many favourites are, so enjoy!
Oh wow. I loooove these!!! I’m sure you know which ones are my favorites… all the doors :) haha. Especially the 6th to last!!!! :) I love doors. You know this already. But that 5th to last one .. wowwww! Beautiful. :) Loving it!
I can practically feel the warmth of the sunshine in these images. Considering it is snowing right now as I type, these make me feel all warm inside. You are so blessed to see these divine locations, skies and colors where you are. Keep them coming!!
Whoa! Such a huge difference between the sky in the morning and the afternoon! I love the brightly coloured buildings. We need more of those in Vancouver.
Oh, such beauty!!! Loved the photos with Anna! Wonderful!!:)
And that one with the tunnel?? AMAZING! Stunning! Do you think I can have more words??
The second one from the bottom, looks like a dream house! :D
Beautiful colors!
Nina
Simply love #5692! You take breath-taking photos of nature and you always manage to top yourself. Beautiful work, Sean :)
Oh, I don’t even know how to pick a favorite here, but I will try. I love the one under the flare image – the sky with the flag fluttering in the wind. I love your travel photos!
Sean these are beautiful shots, You make me want to travel more!! Ahhhhh I guess that will haveto wait till the kidos get much much bigger, LOL Looking at these makes me feel like im traveling though, thank you!
Married with every last ounce of energy & excitement that exclamation mark brings! When Anna & I met Jaana & Pekka for their engagement session on Suomenlinna, and had a wonderful evening together chatting, laughing, joking… I knew when I said at the end of the night that I was sorry I wouldn’t be around for their wedding in October that I was lying. I wasn’t sure how on Earth I’d get back to Finland for a wedding four hours North of Helsinki, but I knew it was going to happen. And about two weeks before their day, I’d found a flight.
As I was putting together this blog post, clicking between photos, inserting them into the post, it felt as though I could’ve wrote a story for each one of them because all through their day, they were always making sure everyone else was well and it just seemed like the most perfect unfolding. Like that hour break we had after the formals when she had an entire lunch delivered to my hotel room, despite stuffing our faces silly at breakfast not much earlier. Jaana & Pekka are just the perfect pair together, and their entire world of families, friends, and strangers they rendezvous with all know it.
Married on the 3rd! Cute!
While Anna was over with the girls, I got to hang out with Pekka and shoot a few getting ready images of he & his best man which I really enjoyed! Nice change of pace, and another first for me!
Guys, I love you for this. It was SO cold, and you two were awesome about it!
You captured them so beautifully :). I love that last shot, and the red door you used in the photos above, so beautiful! And I love the ones of them by the orangey-red tree :) Great work, Sean!
Yes, I think this is definitely your best wedding work to date & that title image is my favourite ever! Did you have a title image in mind while you shot it.. :D I LOVE the groom getting ready photos, some of my favourite wedding photos from you ever, especially the one where Pekka is tying his shoelaces and the shirt&vest shot! Amazing details too, but I already told you that.. Thanks for rocking the OCF!
Fantastic, Sean! I love the shot of the dress and it’s so refreshing to see the tux hanging and the groom getting ready! I love 6282, the brides reaction in 6370, and 6450 is just too cute! They are an adorable couple!
Perfect in every way. The light airiness to these is magnetic. Your skills and vision just keep on inspiring me every time. Don’t know how you do what you do, but just keep doing it! •••
Catherine Santos
the wedding dress is hangin in there so cool!i love all these so nice
These are all amazing Sean! So hard to pick favorites. I’ve got to say that the skin tones are just so creamy and every shot is so crisp and clear! Beautiful!!
Stunning! It seems you have captured a most beautiful story. And your words are a pleasure to read. Love them! I believe you will truly have one happy bride and groom. :)
These are amazingly stunning as always! You’re extremely gifted with capturing that special moment. Beautiful post the bride and groom must be ecstatic with these beautiful images!
you, seriously, are AMAZING. your work just blows my mind. The clarity is unmatched and completely makes me wonder “how’d you do that”!!!! I seriously hope to figure it out some day!!! This is so fun to view your pics! Will continue to look forward to your posts!
Sometimes it’s fun to just be together with that special someone in your life, it’s nice to just be. I thought about getting lazy and just titling this somewhat like many of my other couple shoots… ‘iida & ville | engagement that isn’t really an engagement and ville probably doesn’t want the pressure of thinking about engagement even though iida can dream it up in her mind’, but I had a hard time finding an image that would accompany all that – so, I told it very simply like it is. Just them, in their beingness together, completely.
On a side note, this about tipped my Finnglish to the absolute maximum – but thank goodness for Anna‘s translation skills! Yaahoooo!
I think I like the longer title better though! But I guess this is fine too.. I really like that photo on the bench with the wall of leaves behind them. And that title image is another favourite! I’m actually liking these photos and this shoot more and more every time I see them. Both yours and my photos. I really like that last one too, not a huge fan of the tilt usually but in the right place it looks really good! Anyway, these are too good, FUB.
Very nice session, i like all photos
My fav are number 1 – i love DOF on it :) and phtoto where they standing between two carriages (4 from the bottom)
Beautiful locations and couple- what great style! I absolutely love the first shot and the 6th from the bottom where she is in the foreground looking all sassy! :-)
Thank you for your kind comment. I’m so glad you found me … I have loved looking through your blog. What incredible images you create – total inspiration – I love them all!! Your photos are so crisp and clean … just stunning! I’ll be back often!!
I’m loving the first paragraph – beingness :) :) Very nice :) haha. What an adorable couple, you did a great job – what a beautiful location!!! Keep it up Sean!!
These are beautiful, Sean. So crisp and what a neat location. I love the title of the post too. My favorite is #5548…the way they look at one another, so, so in love. Ahh, I want that.
This set is amazing. I love the locations – that fall colored wall with the leaves is so beautiful and the photo with the blue train behind the couple – fantastic!! And your photos are so clear. I wish I could achieve this kind of sharp focus. Wow.
I’m not sure how you came across my work but your comment on my blog is so flattering. I think I’m kinda shocked :)
Looking forward to seeing more of your work!
Oh and I love the layout of your site.
Anja & Heikki are a lovely young couple, and I could write as many pleasant things about them as I could about their friend’s Volkswagen which I now want more than my Macbook Pro. Maybe. We had a great time photographing their ceremony here in Helsinki and quick bridals just outside the church after. Congratulations you two!
I love these photos :) They are so clear and crystal sharp and beautiful and ahhh :) they make me smile. Great work – as usual. I love the one with the Volkswagen :)
I love #5349! Just perfect colour, contrast & composition! Love the one in front of the bus too and that close-up shot you got on the corner.. it’s so nice to see the different perspectives always, from our shoots together. The last one is one of my favourites too, because it’s just makes the church look waaaay bigger than it actually was! Great work, PB!
Hey, when you are going to buy that VW we can make road-trips around Europe! :D
How big is that church, now? Wow, looks amazing! Looooooooove the last one! And her shoes! :|
Be still my beating heart… the VW is such a dream. These images are SO incredibly sharp. I know we’ve chatted about your glass, but seriously, you never miss and your clarity blows me away. Awesome work.
It didn’t at all matter for what day we booked tickets for the ferry over to Tallinn because the forecast is entirely useless this time of the year here. Well, it’s not that it’s useless – it’s just that the weather is constantly changing, it just doesn’t stay still. So Wednesday it was, and as we pulled into port, it was raining insanely hard to the point I didn’t want to get off the ship. By the time the bridge docked, the sun was out in full. And it carried on like that for the entire afternoon, so there was a fine balance of dodging into alleys & hiding the camera to purposely getting lost in the old town.
I will say everything about today was perfect. Everything. Every little detail. Every fine ounce of creativity that flowed, and still is flowing, re-discovering the coffee house from two months ago, rendezvousing with so many right people, appreciating magnificent displays from mother nature and everything in between. See, the wonderful thing about life is as something is active within me – it follows me where ever I go, and with a little fine tuning, all those things are wanted & deliberate. What is more perfect than that?
If only this photo actually did the sky justice. Geeeeez!
One of my favourite images from the road this year. Smell, taste, feel – it’s all right there in my hot chocolate.
Fortunately, this was the payoff of winds that blew me down the deck on my feet & near freezing temperatures.
Cute little video inside my favouritest cafe on the planet! Think I heard them say they were from Nova Scotia!
SEAN OH MY GOD – I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE THESE!!! Wow :) wow. wow. wow. wow. wow. Amazing :) Greattttt shots! I’m in love with each and every on of them.
I spent quite a bit of time in Tallinn (and all around eastern europe) and had such a blast. Definitely one of my favorite places to have visited. You’ve captured the vibe of the city and its architecture beautifully!!!
Yeah, like you knew I had a thing for doors and empty streets and peaceful cities! :D Amazing photos. Whaaaa, and the sky!!! Did you pay for that?? How much? It is impressive! God’s miracles!
“And I am gonna call this one Hankie [??] too!!” God, that is hilarious! Lock at Anna’s face! :))
Catherine Santos
green doors are gorgeous,the video..soft hair of anna..soooo great photos sean love the red mug too!
Really? What is your life all about that you get to travel to all these amazing places and photograph all these incredible sites? Do you know how blessed you are? I’m drooling. Seriously.
Oh my gosh!! You take the best travel pictures, ever. The color, clarity, textures, patterns, everything. Just perfect! My faves are #5837 & #5860. Oh and that little pastry and the hot chocolate look absolutely delicious! Cute video too!
She’s Slovenian. He’s Finnish. She moved to Finland for studies. They found one another, they fell in love. A couple moves South from the North, and they’re living happily ever after as we all dream.
Nina & Jyri are adorable, just… unbelievably cute together that it makes my stomach weak. After one of the photographs, I just had to say out loud “You two are so cute together that it’s almost disgusting!” Nina replies – “I hope that’s not a bad thing!” …It can never be a bad thing. I enjoyed this session more than words can say!
Beautiful! Simply beautiful! The first one should be on their wedding album cover. Love the one of them with half their faces in that blueish thing! :D So funny!
tanja
wonderful pictures of two wonderful people! i’m so glad i “talked them into” getting a photographer for their wedding:)
Emily
Absolutely beautiful. Breathtaking really. So natural, elegant & adorable.
I really love those photos on the blue wall where you got the way closer perspective, one of my favourites from you ever and all of these really! The first three too, such great light & contrast! And I love those ring photos but I like my behind the scenes photo better!
Aw I love the one where they are peeping out from the cutout wall… what a fantastic photo. I hope they blow it up and frame it :)
Nina
Just can’t stop looking at these photos – they are simply amazing! :))) It’ll be very difficult to select a limited amount of photos for our wedding album. You and Anna did an absolutely beautiful job!
On Wednesday, I left sunny, warm Vancouver for Helsinki. I arrived in much better time this go – less than 17 hours as opposed to the 48 hours it took the last time between Helsinki & Vancouver, so already – we’re off to a much better start! The single biggest problem was however, and still is in fact, that I left Vancouver and it was a delicious 25°C, and clearly it slipped my mind I was heading to Scandinavia as I packed. Arrive Helsinki – it’s a cool 14°C, which isn’t half bad. So Anna meets me at Helsinki’s Vantaa Airport just past 6pm where we grab a bus back to her place, literally throw my backpack on her living room floor, change, and go right back out the door to the train station where we caught a train North to Tampere for a bridal shoot at 09:00 the next morning! We arrived in Tampere, and it was like 5°C – no jacket, no gloves. Got up the next morning for the shoot and the clock in Tampere reads 6.6°C… Nice. Thanks. So essentially, I flew half way around the world – completely changed seasons, and had a bridal shoot 15 hours after touching down in Finland with no appropriate clothing. Oh yeah, and it’s supposed to snow Thursday. Wooooo!
So let’s get onto Riikka & Henri! Whenever Anna e-mails me about upcoming shoots, I can never keep track of everything she has planned but when she told me Riikka & Henri had plans for a bundle of balloons – it locked into my memory like candy to my shopping cart! Tampere feels like much more of an industrial city than anywhere else I’ve been in Finland, but it seriously has a great vibe & some extremely photogenic locations! Enjoy!
Oh, pleaaaaaseeee, she wears nothing besides that dress with short sleeves and you complain?? :D [*ducking to avoid Sean's shoes being throw at her]
I already seen the photos on Anna’s blog and they are so so beautiful!
God, mister you have such crisp tones in these photos and you seemed to capture their love so beautiful! [*throwing her shoes after Sean this time if he ever thinks bad about his photos]
I love how she looks like a porcelain doll on the third one from the bottom! You both nailed this session!
These are AWESOME!! Sorry to hear you had such a problem with the weather :( :( But it must’ve been worth it for theses AMAZING photos! I LOVE the use of the balloons – awesome! Great work Sean!!!
Eeeeeeeeek! I love this!!! What a wonderful session Sean. Everything about it is SO cool. And I’m not just talking about the 6.6 degrees Celsius. The dress, her hair, her hat, his clothes, the balloons… Cool. Cool. Cool.
Now that woman has one wicked sense of fashion — luv her hair, her lipstick and especially her dress! The balloons are an awesome touch — whose idea? Positively brilliant!
Sigh. I’m sick of amazing and incredible and perfection. Are there any other words that mean more than those that I can throw out there to you? Whatever they may be, that’s what these images are.
When Jamie e-mailed me a few nights before I was to leave for my cruise up to Alaska and asked if I was interested in shooting Michelle & Mitch’s wedding with her – it was like asking a kid, or me, if I wanted to go on a shopping spree in a candy store! The only problem was I’d have to, once again, get up at some ungodly hour of 6am to be off the ship & ready to go by 7:30am instead of enjoying a nice relaxed breakfast without butterflies in my stomach at 10:30am. All that being said, we have a wonderful day of unfolding and it was the fastest 13 hours I’ve ever spent ‘working’, that is for sure!
First look! So cute!
Shoes!
Fabulous details!
If you remotely enjoyed these, take a quick peek over to Jamie’s set here, which are absolutely stellar! And just because she wanted me to let all of you know that her career in the making is actually to re-create Christian rap…
Asshole. That photo that was on Jamie’s blog is AMAZING, I love it! These are all soo good and if you’re going to say anything else I’ll beat you up with the pillow! I love those detail shots, whenever I shoot a wedding with you I’m not even gonna bother shooting those because yours are way better & so much more creative. Love the kiss on the cheek portraits too, great background for it!
Wow Sean! You command that lens! These are all so wonderful as usual. I LOVE the reflection of the bride and groom. And I love the way you are able to capture moments so unposed like we shouldn’t be watching.
Being around kids these days so long, the first thing I have to mention is HOW cuuuute these ones are! :D oh, the kissing on the cheek is so so sweet! I love the one with the bride and groom in the garden, with that iron door so much!
I know the work of Jamie, she really is talented, you are right!
But if you can manage to say something wrong about YOUR work, I might kick you together with Anna, you know?!
Beautiful beautiful wedding!
Sean, ummm fabulous!! Love, love, love, love, love the details shots! So amazing. Love pretty much everything about this set! So cool that you got to shoot with Jamie. Uh, is the videographer that I see on Jamie’s blog shooting video with a MkII???
I don’t know what to write, Sean… another glowing review of your amazing talents. I don’t get it. Your clarity and color (white balance) are always spot on. Another question: do you set a custom white balance or deal with it after the fact? It’s always perfect. This looks like a gorgeous wedding and a seriously beautiful couple. I’m loving the details montage. Awesome work!! •••
Love this series of photos.. you got some really fabulous shots! My faves are 4222 & 4228 and the one of the entire bridal party. Great detail shots too!
Our last few days was a total mixed bag as far as scenery, weather & adventures go. After I spent a couple of hours on the deck watching for any Aurora activity after leaving Juneau, we arrived in Skagway the following morning to a lot of fog, a lot of low cloud and about 6,000 cruise ship tourists in a town of 800 people. Thankfully, we stepped off the tourist trail 15 minutes and had the entire mountains to ourselves.
The next solid day and a half at sea was spent rocking around at the mercy of the Pacific Ocean. We missed our call at Ketchikan with gale force 11 winds – hurricane force winds! While there were a lot of people taking part in the whole sea sickness idea, I found the entire experience exhilarating! To me, there was nothing more exciting than watching from the windows, and from our balcony, the waves crash up against the front of the ship sending us up high to come crashing back down again! I was in love with every single moment of it! Except when the winds were gusting the 110 km/h and I couldn’t physically push our balcony door open! Hah!
While some of you have probably seen enough of Alaska from me to last a lifetime, I still haven’t and I know I’ll be back, probably next year, and the year after that, and the year after that. Thank you for the complete abundance of blog love for this entire series, it makes it all the sweeter to me! When we docked at 7am Saturday morning, I rushed off to second shoot a wedding with Jamie Delainey which is all prepared and will be surfacing on my blog here in a couple days!
We're docked in Skagway!
Scott & I opted not for any organized tours in Skagway, and explored the area through some solid hiking up to a region of lakes…
Sad sight leaving those Arctic waters for the Pacific again.
Let me tell you, the waters might not look like much here – but they were in fact pretty violent out there!
The Diamond Princess we were following home turning around!
your work reminds me of Shawn Reeders. Have you seen his work? Another man with some serious talent. It just doesn’t matter if you are taking pictures of…. people, mountains, landscapes, details, you just rock it out with that camera!
Yeah, I don’t know how you’ve narrowed down these images for post! They are all just so breathtaking… and that word really doesn’t do them justice. Are those cloud reflection images for real? And that circle reflection in the second to last image? You just capture the most amazing views and compositions. I’m floored once again.
Sigh. I love all of these. Beautiful work. Although I’m so corny… the really simple one of the handrail made my heart skip a beat. Such great memories I have from working on the ship!! I couldn’t possibly pick a favourite shot in this post. They’re all so terrific. The (fisheye?) in the forest with the sun flare is excellent. And I love the one of the two people and the dock. Wonderful composition. One thing though… that water was NOT ROUGH. Haha. Try sailing across the North Atlantic or in the Gulf of Tehuantepec (otherwise know as the birthplace of hurricanes). Yikes. 20-30 foot swells is rough. Sorry friend! ;-)
OKay, seriously…NOT. FAIR. I have extremely way too many favorites. I love the ones where you really can’t tell the top from the bottom because of the beautiful reflections. The sun, the flare, the clouds, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! GORGEOUS!!
Oh-oh! Overload of stunning images!! You should post a warning before your post, dear! I am so so so determined to get to Alaska as soon as possible!
The 0505 is … well… how to put this… I want it on my wall!
And I consider moving there someday! ;;)
What an amazing experience you were able to embark on. The trees….the snow….the glaciers….and the water. Wow! I can only imagine what was going through your mind as you clicked away on your camera. Stunning….just stunning.
This was the 5:30am morning. I go on an Alaskan cruise for a vacation, and over the period of a week, I don’t think I’ve ever accumulated such little sleep in my life. Except that one week last year at the airport where I worked a 36.5 hour shift which turned out to be 101 hours in 7 days, but that’s a whole other story! I’m all about depriving myself of everything comfortable for nature, but not for throwing your 70lb bags inside of 737s! So again, my alarm was set, and I eventually stumbled out of bed to answer the knock at our door for our breakfast. Enjoyed that, and then spent just about the remainder of the day out on our balcony, and out on the top deck.
It’s really hard to bring words into this series of images that can even… remotely come close to giving you a sense of how overwhelmingly beautiful it is up there in Glacier Bay, and the whole of Alaska for that matter. It’s really, really surreal – and I think that’s the only way to say it, so hopefully my images speak a little stronger. If that day solidified one thing for me, it’s that one of my next stops in life is going to be Antarctica.
A few seconds before it happened, a huge thunder erupts from the glacier and what follows is the calving seen in the centre of the frame here. Totally the wrong lens in this moment, but incredible all the same!
Someday…
For all you camera officionados out there… MarkII, ISO 12800 in moonlight. You decide ;)
Well these just keep getting better and better! Ha!! I’m in love with #5 (0303)…The lighting, the ripples in the water…it’s just so calm and serene. PERFECT!!! Oh and the moonlight picture is pretty sweet!
I don’t know what voodoo you do, but your images are just so deliciously real and clear and fantastically gorgeous in their simplicity. Your lenses are crystal clear and these pictures you made are beyond beautiful. Just love your perspective.
Paige
i never understood why soo many people go up to alaska for these cruises ………now i know why. Breathtaking photos sean :)
Gorgeous images! My brother lives in Alaska and we’re supposed to visit this year and these pictures make me that much more excited to go! Your love for travel and the world is contagious :)
Sean… WTF. I seriously hate you right now. I’ve spent the last 5 days in bed knowing that I would have a lot of Bloglines to come back to.
But seriously. ARGH! Anger!
Alaska!
A place I have ALWAYS wanted to go to. Especially since it is so accessible here from Vancouver.
I am SO SO mad at you.
That being said, your photos are gloriously beautiful. I am so jealous. Soooo nice. It must be hard to capture all that natural beauty with a camera and a lens… but somehow you do it.
Too many amazing photos here, way too many!! I should just do this in person in about 12 hours or so! I love those blues!! The two photos in the beginning… but the third one really took my breath away, those mountains! Number 4 was an instant fave when I first saw this! :D Oh forget it, I’ll do this in person, otherwise this comment will take a page or so!
You can probably imagine setting the alarm on your phone for 6am after going to bed past midnight. And you can probably imagine the feeling you awaken to when the alarm starts to chime out of your phone at exactly 06:00am. While it wasn’t at all like that. I gently reached over and turned my Nokia over to stop the alarm, and very slowly as my eyes started to take in some of the morning light pouring in through our windows, I managed to squint hard enough at the balcony to see a beautiful teal colour hitting the white ceiling.
Not long after, room service arrived with an abundance of fresh fruit, baking, juices & everything delicious imaginable at our door, and we, for not the first, or the last time, enjoyed breakfast in bed calling out icebergs floating by our ship on our way up Tracey Arm. And so, until it felt ‘unscenic’ enough for at least 15 minutes so I could get washed – I’d hop from bed, into my robe over my jimjams, out onto the balcony staring off into Alaska looking probably just a little dumbfounded, breath-taken, and perhaps just a little overly excited…
Yeah… probably the best view I've ever had while enjoying breakfast.
Stole my toque!
Docked in Juneau!
When we tied up in Juneau at just past 2pm, I knew I wanted another taste of icebergs. I had to have more, and I didn’t want to wait until we explored Glacier Bay back on M/S Zuiderdam in 48 hours. I couldn’t wait that long. I didn’t want to pay the $3 for a bus ride the few hundred metres into town, so I dragged all five of us by foot into Juneau. Somewhere along the way, we ran into a little booth selling every tour imaginable at every price imaginable. “Bus to Mendenhall Glacier – $7 each way”. Done. I didn’t need to see anymore, no one needed to say anymore – I wanted to go. Now.
Got off the bus and into the visitor centre area with the other 83,275 people who arrived off a cruise ship in Juneau today. We walked the paved path out to the fenced photo spot. Grand, as you can imagine. Saw a group of people (specs) off in the distance standing near the waterfall.
Sean: “Surely, there must be a way to get out there. Has to be.”
Scott (brother): “Probably. And don’t call me Shirley.” (Hah! Airplane reference! Anyone?!)
So wouldn’t you know it, off to the side of this paved path along the way is an unmarked trail leading in the direction I wanted to go – closer to the glacier. Without a moment of hesitation, we jumped on it. Rode the trail out for 10-20 minutes, and were right out there. Glacier straight ahead. Waterfall crashing down to the right. Not another sodding tourist for miles.
Believe me, if you had to listen to our bus driver talk the entire twenty minutes to the glacier – you'd have that face on too. Haha, my brother!
Look at the size. It's astounding. Look at my brother on the far right. AHH…
WOWWWWWW!!!! … These are amazing! The world is such a beautiful place :):) I love the one of your brothers face when on the bus haha priceless. Great work :) And I LOVE the 4th to last one :) So cute :) great job!
If I could comment on each indidual picture I would ;) Ah! Your family looks like adorable. What a wonderful experience for you all to share. I am glad to hear you explored the unmarked trail. Those usually are the best! What an incredible site at the end. Wow!
I am very sorry, but this time I cannot pick a favorite! :| Impossible! I kept looking at them all day long and they are more beautiful with every look! You really are blessed to see that, and we are too to see these amazing places through your eyes! And yeah, I would have been for sure as breath-taking and starring at that as you were!
OH. MY. GOD!!!!!! These are absolutely, positively, BREATHTAKING! The water, the ice, I just love them all, Sean! Looks like you had a great time. Haha and your brother on the bus… Too funny!
Hi Sean! Terrific images. I used to work on a cruise ship so I love to see wonderful photography from a shipboard perspective. I don’t know what it is, but I especially love the second-to-last shot. It really takes me back to living on board. And btw – thanks for stopping by my blog!
Yay! I’ve been to the Mendenhall Glacier too! I have no idea where my pictures from the trip are now so it’s all a distant memory – until now! Thank you for sharing these, Sean. They are all stellar and dreamlike.
I’ve looked at all of your Alaska posts a million times already! (Again, Google Analytics?? :P) One of the places I’ve always wanted to go to.. and your photos and reading about the Abraham cruise really don’t help at all! These are just amazing, AMAZING scenery & photos! I love those floating ice photos, can’t believe how blue it is! And those two bus photos are also favourites! And I really love all the family photos you’ve taken too, in all these posts… too cute!
So last, last Saturday I literally dropped everything, got on board M/S Zuiderdam with Holland America and cruised up the inside passage to some incredible scenery, untouched waters, and cute towns leaving behind my phone, internet connection and just about all else. Heading North, so much of the breathtaking scenery was back toward the coast and thus, on the right side of the ship – which just happened to be where our suite was with the 100sq ft balcony. As much as I love sitting on our balcony with room service & a good book, there is something far more exhilarating about having the wind send chills down my spine on the top deck leaning over the railing breathing in every last bit of fresh air while feeling as though we were sailing through the ends of the Earth.
Good-bye Vancouver!
Good morning, day number two! (Mum had an inside cabin, so she rather loved our oversized balcony…)
Waaaayy out of focus, but it's one of my favourites.
I literally ran out of the formal dinner downstairs to get to the deck as I had a feeling in my stomach about the sky out there. Woah.
If you’ve been reading for some time, you know I’m obsessed with nearly all 542 images from this trip – so I do just have to break this into a four part series, because I just can’t narrow anything down. I can’t. Honestly. I was up til 2:30am this morning just trying to figure how to organize these posts while keeping each of them under 130 images, and I’m still not sure it’s sorted.
Amazing skies and trees and water! I love the one of whomever it is wrapped up in a blanket. I’m not sure if this helps satisfy my desire to go back to Alaska or if it makes it worse… Can’t wait to see more. :D
I can’t comment now ’cause I packed my bags and am leaving for Alaska! Okei maybe quickly… Those last three photos are making me cry because that’s how much I love mountains & paired with those amazing skies, it’s just breath-taking! These are all just amazing but love that phone & 9782. I want that one on my wall, okei? Okei!
These are AWESOME! I can’t believe the sky in the last ones and I would’ve ran as fast as I could to catch that shot too so I know how you feel haha. Can’t wait to see the rest :)
Jealous. Disconnecting from everything techno sounds absolutely divine. How blessed are you to take such a relaxing breather and take in the majesty of this planet. Loving the landscapes. There’s also something about that orange phone… i like it!
Wow. Wow. and Wow. Have I mentioned, Wow? Just to be on the open water like that… Heaven. Beautiful cloudscapes and scenery. #9832 & #9860 my absolute favorites.
Well, that’s stunning. Still can’t quite figure it out how you manage to do this, but the photos are sooooo “alive” [?] I’ve always wanted to go on a ship cruise [more than just few hours really] so this looks dreamy to me right now! And seeing that… THAT… Oh my! Thanks for sharing this amazing place with us all!
Hugs!
Oh my GOODNESS! I can see why you want all 500 and some pictures on your wall. Beautiful. Incredible. It amazes that such beautiful places in this world exisist. So glad you were able to capture them. I can also “feel” the sunset through your pictures! Incredible Sean!
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They may be the cutest couple in the world, and she just happens to be my mother. I don’t ever remember seeing my mum more happy, more content, and more expansive than at the place she is now in her life. As for George, well, he’s just the most gentle man I may have ever known, and it feels like such a blessing to have him in our home as part of our family. Although let’s be honest, I do miss it when I had the place to myself on the weekends because mum was over at his place from Friday after work until Monday morning.
It’s hard to really… describe how their wedding day went because it just… happened so fast, and everything came together in perfect time and the most perfect way. Every single detail these two drew up and put together was beyond worthwhile, and it felt like the most romantic, personal, and charming wedding to date. Thank you mum, thank you George, and thank you all of our family for flying in and taking time out of your busy lives to share this with us all. It was so special.
And just to throw it out there, I don’t think I’ve ever been this nervous about a blog post. Or nervous period. Well, except for yesterday morning at breakfast on the cruise ship. Mum, George, Sue & Scott – you hear me.
I’ve been checking your blog every five minutes for the past week for these photos! Did you see that on Google Analytics? Love these!! They are SO cute together & you look very nice in a tie, too! ;) Love the light in that collage #11 and the photo of George on the bed with the guys! And the shoe shot, there better be more in my email ASAP. Or else we cannot be friends. Looks like it was a very beautiful day & you’ve captured it so well, as usual. Congratulations Shelley & George!
Wow, the shots are fantastic and so beautiful!! I’m sure your mom must be so pleased and feeling very lucky to have you as a son. I LOVE the ones of him getting ready :) He looks so happy and proud :) .. and I love the one of them at the alter, and the two black and white ones following. They look so 10000% happy :). Congratulations to them! And to you for creating such great shots!
Oh by the way when I was reading the intro bit I thought the expansive bit said expensive .. and I was like ??? that makes no sense hahaha. But then I realised … I read wrong haha.
Great work as usual!
They sure are the cutest couple!! You can definitely feel the emotion in these photos. They just scream happy! I love the ones with your mum and her nieces(?) and the bride and groom up at the alter.. Love her bouquet too. Haha and George having a drink before hand. Great captures, as always. Congrats to Shelley & George!
Ah, like Anna said, I was looking forward to see these photos!! :D
“Mum &son photos” = cuteness overdose! :D Love it!
Your mother is so beautiful and love love her dress and hair band!
They look so happy together and they make such beautiful couple!
Oh, and the little ladies are adorable!!! :D
Congratulations on having such beautiful family!
Sean, your mom is so beautiful! Congrats on the new addition to your family! :-) I love all of the shots- especially the getting ready shots of the guys. They look so genuinely happy in every single photo!
Just beautiful! Your mum looks stunning. And the one of her ironing her dress…to cute!
Mum
Sean, they’re wonderful. It’s amazing to me how you are able to focus on one aspect of an event, but manage to capture the mood of the entire affair — I love it, and I love the preamble at the beginning, and I love you — Thank you!
gorgeous Sean. I have so many favorites… the shoe shot, the peek in the door at your mom and the little ones, the black and white of your mum and new hubby walking, and of course “the dip”
these are lovely! I can’t believe you were nervous about this post. You are so talented! And the 1st one, LOVE LOVE. you’re so cute! (O: I’m sure your family is so proud of you.
Sean!!!!!! This is awesome!!! Your mum and her new hubby are smokin hot and what a fabulous gift to be able to capture your mum’s new marraige with your eyes and camera! Lovely images!!
Oh, Sean. These are beyond fabulous! You had nothing to be nervous about. They simply ROCK!!!! What a beautiful couple. I’m sure they are so please with the images. And… you are such a cutie there with your funky tie photographing your mom. Sigh!!!
That is why the blog posts started off slightly slow while in Helsinki… how was I supposed to work when all she wanted was love. I couldn’t possibly say no to that could I? Adorable & enlightening though, I love cats, and Anna’s cat – Mimi. Or at least that’s what I grew to call her after becoming only very slightly annoyed at the finicky Finnish pronunciation.
I know, another video, but this one is for sure the cutest I’ve ever taken. I promise.
I’m not a cat lover( I heart dogs) BUT these are too cute and it makes me wanna snuggle with one for a few. That’s just the problem though.. they never want to snuggle. (O:
Sean.. are you on facebook? Can’t find you!
You nailed this post!! :D Exactly what I needed tonight after a looong day at work! CAT LOVE!
Gosh, I sooo love cats, mine especially, they are totally awesome!
Love these photos, very beautiful focus and colors! And the 6th one is my total fav! [you start counting too! :D] Love the eyes! Oh, that look!!! :D
Here, kitty kitty kitty!!
Oh my, those colors!! And look at the stars. Who’d knew we live under such a beautiful sky? Do you happen to know what is that constellation that shows up in almost all your photos? [in the last photo it is on the left] Stunning and such peaceful photos.
Well done Sean!
Seriously beautiful. Seriously gorgeous. Seriously swooning. These are just amazing Sean. What a thing to expereince.
Sean, you could do this 365 days a year and I would come back here every day to see this! No need for comparisons on my part–these are all spectacular.
Just stunning Sean! Love these photos!
soooooooo beautiful !
jeeez sean, you’re killing me with these amazing images!
Absolutely amazing. I’m so intrigued by these photos…the colors are just beautiful. I really love the first image too. Great looking sky!
Are you serious?
PS. I want #12 on my bedroom wall.
Less dramatic? Pshaw! These are amazing. I love the lights coming up from the ground and the perspective you get from these images with some trees and other earthly happenings included. I was going to include the numbers of my favorites here but then it looked like a math book. Gorgeous, Sean. The other thing is … what an amazing amount of dedication for you to be out there each night photographing this splendor. Awesome. Oh…and I’m ready for a photo of your tent.
WOW … #12 & #13 …. soooo beautiful!!! Oh geez, who am I kidding … they are all amazing!
Absolutely totally incredibly AMAZING!
It’s only fair that someone who appreciates nature gets to experience such beauty so frequently.
Holy wow… I wish I could see those one day. Beautiful. What an amazing experience.
Omigosh. I’m so behind in reading blogs. Haha, over 2 weeks, I’ve accumulated over 900 unread entries. CAN’T PASS THIS UP! Freaking gorgeous images! ARGH.
alright, now I’m just knocked out! love them all!
WOW! amazing shots…my favorite is # 6 and 13!
Holy HANNAH of gorgeousness. Holy crap. I can’t even imagine viewing it in person. Jaw dropping.