The BBQ goes into the evening

Back in early August, I had a chance to catch up with Amber Mortensen of the supremely cool fashion blog Painfully Hip at Aaron’s rooftop BBQ party where everyone got also got to meet her adorable beagle, Buckley, who is the source of the current wave of beaglemania sweeping the nation. Well, ok, sweeping over Claudia. But look at this face:

Buckley, up close

Try to resist that face. Exactly, you can’t.

Beagle aside, Amber asked me to do some fashion photography for her blog meetup with the lovely Gen and Zoe of Loaded Bow at Chill Winston, a restaurant and lounge in Vancouver’s historic gastown. The shoot was a complete pleasure as the kind folks at Chill Winston let us push furniture around and take over a small  corner at the front and Amber brought a small treasure trove of clothes for Gen and Zoe to try out. Here are some of the shots and here’s the link to my flickr set:

Gen and Zoe in their first outfits

Amber getting Gen ready, like a hummingbird she is.

Amber gets Zoe ready while Gen lurks.

Amber and Painfully Hip was recently profiled in the current issue of N.E.E.T. Magazine which also has a feature on the Autum 2009 Dear Creatures collection that’s pretty freaking awesome. I love the vintage girl scout approach which manages to be cute while retaining a sense of adventure and camp fire sing-a-longs:

so, so pretty.

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Zombies looooove the Red Cross

I spent a good chunk of last weekend on the set of a short zombie movie called Hell of a Wedding as the stills photographer and backup boom mic operator. The filming went well and it was really fun hanging out with a pack of zombies for hours on end. I was amazed at the skills of the makeup artists who did an incredible job of bloodying up the actors and kept them looking like they were freshly rotting.

zombies raid the craft table

As a photographer, it was a great opportunity to photograph a lot of people in makeup and all the actors were great models. There’s something about the zombie makeup that makes the most mundane things expressive or at least contradictory and each person brought something different and awesome.

There's an app for that

I posted all of the original photos to my flickr account and separated out the ones that I processed. Which meant that I didn’t have time to process any photos from the actual wedding I photographed for Melissa Gobby and Richard Perron back on August 15th. It’s so like zombies to get in the way. Hell of a Wedding was written and directed by George Somerwill with Knesha Yu on camera and produced by Liz Cairns.