Recently I photographed clients Carmen and Ingo with their two small children at Jericho Beach in Kitsilano. The first time we worked with them was to photograph their daughter Charlotte. This second occasion was to celebrate a more recent addition to the family - their son Ryan. For all those parents out there that know - what you do for one child, you must do for the other! This family was so much fun to photograph - they are very expressive and the children’s love of the beach made the session a breeze (quite literally). :)Charlotte is one of the most excitable children I have worked with - she laughs very easily. Ryan is quiet and philosophical - if that is possible at a young age. The images below are some of my favorites from the session. �
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July 16th, 2008
Last week we took part in the 5th Annual FIFI Event: Friends Inviting Females Invitational. We are proud to say that we have been supporters and sponsors of this event since its inception 5 years ago.
The Event has given back over $160,000 in the past four years. The money raised has been able to help through research, purchase of much needed medical equipment as well as gentle care with room and board when needed. To everyone involved with FIFI - you have given hope through your generosity and kindness to hundreds of patients and their caregivers in ways you’ll never know.
Congratulations to all of the volunteers, sponsors, golfers and guests for another successful year!
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The principle behind FIFI - Paddy
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Cancer survivors and new to FIFI these ladies really got into the spirit complete with feather boas and a dragon!
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This quirky foursom has attended FIFI since the first year - they are always fun to work with!
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Paddy with right and left hand girls Kathy and Sharon.
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A couple of the FIFI Guys - Angus and Kevin - the muscle behind the operation.
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And then there is us of course - Chelsea and Tanya - as photographed by Corky Evans.
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The fabulous ladies of Spa Divine - we love these ladies - they lift our spirit and rejuvinate our bodies!
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The rest are all ladies who volunteer all year to make the event a success!
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July 16th, 2008
One of the greatest parts of our profession is that many of our clients become our friends. Recently Anik and her daughter Amelia visited and we went to Rocky Point Park so the kids could ride on the swings and play. Alexia didn’t play much - she slept in her stroller. However, Amelia had a splash of a good time in some standing water. The water park was alive with squealing children running a muck when all of a sudden the water came on. Below are several fun images of Amelia �
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July 16th, 2008
You may remember that we photographed Steve and Jen’s wedding back in July 2006.
Almost exactly two years later we again had the privilege of photographing the two of them, but this time with the new addition to the family, their daughter Hayley.
Tanya took some great photographs of their fantastic baby room (Is Tanya jealous of that room? umm, yeah slightly) and both of us did a follow-up shoot over at Rocky Point Park to get some more natural outdoors shots. So of course it was hot and sunny all that week, except the Thursday morning we arranged to do the session. It sprinkled and rained. Sigh - but we adapted. There`s a few places to seek shelter there.
This week’s edition of TV Week is running an 8-page spread of images and a nice story telling of their early adventures in parenting - but you’ll just have to buy the magazine to find out and to see the images.
Here`s the cover so you know which issue to buy 
July 12th, 2008
A recent engagement session we did up at Burnaby Mountain Park (where Horizon’s restaurant is located, up on Burnaby Mountain next to SFU).Jessica really wanted to take advantage of the cherry blossoms that bloomed really well this year, and of course we knew of just the spot (ok, it’s one of dozens, but the park has some really nice majestic views.)
July 3rd, 2008
We met up with Sandra and Rohan at Prospect Point out at Stanley Park on a gorgeous Saturday morning.We grabbed a nice variety of shots of the love birds all in the general vicinity. There is a really nice variety of locations, shots, and angles to chose from there.And here are just a few of the many we took.
July 3rd, 2008
Actually, we’ll include some of their engagement images as well….
Rick and Marlene were married in March, and living in the Tri-Cities area they kept everything local (which was fantastic for us as everything was close by and it was our first wedding since Alexia was born, so being near her was comforting.)
The engagement session was a nice sunny day in February in and around Newport Village, especially in their favourite pub/eatery St. James’s Well. They were gracious enough to let us photograph Rick and Marlene grabbing a quick bite to eat.
The wedding was another rain-free affair, sunny with a few clouds, and a little on the cool side. It’s always nice when the winter weather can cooperate like that.
The ceremony was at St.Clare’s Parish while the reception was held at the always great Westwood Plateau golf course.
May 19th, 2008
Shannon and Keith were actually married back in December, on a rare beautiful sunny day, but boy was it cold.
As in barely above freezing. And Shannon was amazing in dealing with the temperature. We were bundled up with gloves and scarves, and there she was standing out in the frost and snow with bare arms and exposed legs. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…….
The wedding and reception took place at the Whonnock Lake Centre.
May 19th, 2008
Well, 4 months sure ticks along quickly doesn’t it?
Of course we love being parents to our new baby girl, but it’s hard. It’s as hard as everyone tells you. Hard mostly in that it is impossible to get anything done, and that when you have a free moment where she’s sleeping, you’re too tired to do what isn’t getting done.
There’s still so many projects that are just sitting… sigh… including finishing the website to create a Portrait area (our first priority was to get the wedding side of it up and running).
But we have had a couple of weddings this year and a few family portraits that we’d like to post on to this blog. And that will happen real soon….. I’m hopeful for tomorrow. Or maybe Saturday. Well, it’s supposed to be hot and sunny then, so Sunday?
May 16th, 2008
Focused Elegance Photography has morphed into Veridamo Photography.
It took many many many months, but we’ve finally made the change (errr, almost). We have a new name, new logo, new image, new brand, new website, same people and same attitude. And boy are we excited. And tired. But I think that’s cause of the baby.
The FocusedElegance website is still up and running to help out with previous clients and links and google searches etc. But we’ve now got http://www.veridamo.com up and running as our main site. You’ll also notice that the look and feel of this Blog has changed (for you sharp eyed readers it’s actually said Veridamo in the window title for a couple of months now).
There are still a couple of things to sort out. For example this blog is still www.focusedelegance.com/blog. I have to switch it over to the new domain but that’s going to take a bit of work. The second thing is that at the late stages I’ve run into an issue with the new Veridamo website and Mac computers. There’s an issue with this site running in Safari browsers. On some Mac computers the galleries appear to be random and in some machines you can’t even see the galleries. Arrrghhhhh. Hopefully I get this resolved before the wedding season is over 
So for you Mac exclusive users, you’ll have to borrow a PC for a few minutes. So sorry! Trust me, it’s more frustrating for me at the moment….
There’s more to say here, but it’s late and I’ve got a baby in one arm and it takes like forever to type one handed-ish.
Let us know what you think. We’d love the feedback!!
UPDATE: This blog is now officially http://www.veridamo.com/blog. Yeah
January 10th, 2008
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