Favourite Moments | Puff Puff Pass
Puff, puff, pass.
I think one of the best things a photographer can be is unbiased. After all, unlike other forms of art, photographers most capture what already exists.
It’s not that photographers don’t have the ability to create something new, or inspiring, or unseen by the naked eye, because tricks, and lighting, and special effects and techniques can all do that – but there is something really beautiful about also just finding the beauty in something that already exists.
When this bride and groom approached us to shoot their engagement sessions, one of the groom’s concerns was being made to look like someone other than who he was – like a chump standing in a garden full of flowers looking off in the distance with his love. For some people – they’d love that, but for him, it wasn’t him.
When I asked him what he wanted to do, he said “I just wanna smoke a joint, because that’s what we do. It’s us.”
Our response? “Then you should definitely smoke a joint together.”
Part of documenting couple really well is releasing your expectations about what their relationship “could” or “should” look like. When you do this you often come back with something even better than you could dream up. Which is why this picture of these two smoking some weed together is one of our favourite moments from the year.
Thanks for stopping by our blog! We are Brad and Kendra Coupland. We are a couple of award-winning Vancouver wedding photographers who travel across Canada documenting weddings and love stories from coast to coast. We have also shot destination weddings around the globe, and our photographic travels have taken us France, to Indonesia, to Cuba, to Barbados and all across North America. We have been ranked as two of the Top Twenty Wedding Photographers in Canada by the Professional Wedding Photographers of Canada, have won awards from the prestigious Fearless Photographers Association, we have been the recipient of the Couple’s Choice Award from Wedding Wire a whopping 5 times, and recently were a two time finalist at the 2015 BC Wedding Awards. We are now booking for 2017, but still have a limited amount of space available for 2016 weddings. If you’d like to learn more about our services and products don’t be shy to inquire. You can reach us by clicking the contact button above, or emailing us at info@lovetreephotography.ca. We look forward to hearing from you!