Friday, January 1, 2010 Love
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!
Thursday, October 8, 2009 Love
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!
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 Love
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!
