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Vancouver Wedding Photographer | Gastown Engagement Photography

Cole & Jakob — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:00:51 +0000

Holly and Phillip are an engaged couple from Abbottsford who will be getting married in the first week of April. We had the opportunity to do their engagement shoot over the weekend, and finally meeting them was awesome.

As we mentioned in an earlier teaser post, Holly and Phillip won a contest that we had put on in December. Basically, the contest was for a free wedding photography package and to win, all a couple or their friends had to do was Tweet a message on Twitter and boom, you were entered to win our services.

Low and behold, Holly and Phillip won. And as part of their winnings was an engagement shoot. So, we met up on a drizzly morning in Gastown, took some pictures, and here’s the result.

See you two in a few weeks!

Oh yeah – and you know that Free Engagement Shoot we’re offering to couples who book with us before April 15th? Well, this is a taste of what the results of those free shoots would be! So, if you need a photographer still, fire us over an email!

Vancouver Wedding Photographer | A Stanley Park Wedding

Cole & Jakob — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:00:54 +0000

So wedding season in Vancouver officially kicked off for us, and it was an unexpected wedding at that. Long story short (very short), this couple had a very short time frame to work with and needed a last minute photographer (or two). So, while we normally aren’t huge fans of super short weddings (this was about 2 hours) we couldn’t resist the opportunity to fire up some wedding pictures.

The wedding was pretty wicked in the end though. There were about 25 or so people and it was a real intimate affair at the Fish House in Stanley Park. Another cool thing about the wedding (for us) was we had free range to do as we please to get the best pictures. The couple was comfortable with us doing that, which was great considering we had just met them that morning!

Anyways, here you go. Wedding photography Nordica-style on a cloudy day in Stanley Park!

Engagement Shoot | Free Wedding Photography Winners

Cole & Jakob — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:45:29 +0000

If you haven’t followed Nordica Photography, then there’s a good chance you missed our free wedding photography contest that we had back in December. Basically, we had a contest where you Tweeted something and boom – you were entered to win our services at your wedding!

Well included with the winning package was an engagement shoot, which we did yesterday with the winning couple, Holly and Phillip. Their wedding is coming up in a few weeks, so we’re really looking forward to it!

For today though, here’s a single frame from our time together in and around Gastown yesterday. The pictures turned out great and you two were fantastic, HollyÂ and Phillip! See you in a couple weeks!

Stanley Park Wedding | Teaser

Cole & Jakob — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:56:58 +0000

On Wednesday we had no weddings planned for Friday. On Friday we had a wedding. It was a nice surprise!

So the location was just beside the Fish House in Stanley Park, and it was a beautiful, beautiful affair. The couple was gorgeous and everything fell into place – even the weather!

To be honest though, it wasn’t really a typical wedding day for us. The reason why is it was super short (like 2 hours) and we were in and our like a fiddler’s elbow.

Anyways, we have an ocean of pictures to wade through, so for now we’ll just pop up these two as teasers. We will put up the full meal-deal another day…

Vancouver Wedding Photography | Lauri & Mikaela

Cole & Jakob — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:20:13 +0000

Vancouver weddings are sort of popping up here and there for us, but that doesn’t change the fact that we have had quite a few international inquiries as well! This is great, and we can’t emphasize enough that we have no problems traveling for weddings. Destination wedding photographers? Sure!

This has been a week of archiving as you can see, and we pulled another cool wedding out from last season. And sticking with the destination theme, we’ll show you one that was done in Finland.

The couples names were Lauri and Mikaela. Enjoy.

Garden Wedding |Â Vancouver Wedding Photography

Cole & Jakob — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:16:46 +0000

We decided to dig into the archives today and pull up a wedding from last year. We’ve been getting more and more interest lately for weddings, so heck why not show off some stuff!

This wedding wasn’t done in Vancouver, rather in Sweden last year in the fall. The name of the city was a lil’ol place called Stockholm and the couples name was Kajsa and Martin, and we really like the results!

So here you go! Some more Nordica Wedding Photography to feast your eyeballs ons!

The Free Photography Phenomena | Vancouver Wedding Photographers

Cole & Jakob — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:26:21 +0000

So a revelation has happened since we started Nordica: The number of times we are asked to do stuff for free! That’s all well and good, and if it is for something like a charity, then game on.

But it’s an interesting phenomena how every once in a while, people think that photographers should give away their services at no charge. We’re not complaining here, but it’s an interesting observation that we thought we would share. Especially considering the hours and hours photographers (at least us) spend on pictures after a shoot.

Craigslist is a great example of this. People actually have posted “Wanted: Free Wedding Photographers“.Â Isn’t that mind boggling? Imagine asking to get your car repaired for free. Or something like that. People would laugh at you.

Anyways, we saw this little cartoon and the timing was sort of ironic because we found this at the same time as we were talking about this topic.

Wedding Coffee Table Books | Vancouver Wedding Photographers

Cole & Jakob — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:54:03 +0000

Wedding photography is a funny thing because there are two different sides of the same coin involved with job: The wedding day photography itself, and then the hours of work in front of a computer after the wedding day.

Luckily for us, we love both sides of the coin.

So, one part of the ‘staring at the computer’ process that we especially enjoy after weddings is the design part, and more specifically designing wedding books.

This is something we offer all couples we shoot for, and we strongly encourage them to get these customize made little suckers. Looking at pictures of yourself in an awesome coffee table book is something special!

Wedding books are also great for showing your family and friends afterwards, and they’re just a nice and tangible way to hold your memories. After all, you’re not always going to have a laptop kicking around to show off your sexy wedding photos!

So here’s an example. This is Sanna and Jan, a Finnish couple, and a few snapshots of their wedding coffee table book.

Fall Wedding | Sanna & Jan | Vancouver Wedding Photographer

Cole & Jakob — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:00:54 +0000

Vancouver Wedding Photographer

Nordica Photography areÂ Vancouver Wedding Photographers, but we work worldwide. Sanna and Jan’s wedding was held in Finland a few months back and youâ€™ll probably recognize them if youâ€™ve had a gander at ourÂ wedding portfolio.

We shot their wedding before the Nordica Photography blog was born, so we havenâ€™t had all of their pictures on the site yet. So here goes, Sanna and Jan’s wedding day.

Valentine’s Day Portraits | Vancouver Wedding Photographer

Cole & Jakob — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:00:48 +0000

There’s still time to book your Vancouver Valentine’s Day Portraits with Nordica Photography. $300 ($50 of which is donated to Breast Cancer Research), a one hour Photo Session with two Photographers. Read more here!

Just to give a very brief feel for what you can expect from these portrait shoots, Mr Jakob Granqvist tortured Madame Therese Larsson and I for a while and came up with these (I as in Cole :) ). I’m not a fan of having my picture being taken, but sacrificed my sanity for the sake of this blog post, and also for the sake of my lovely girlfriend Therese (Brownie points! Yes!).

Really though, we are jumping out of our skin hoping to do more of these types of shoots. Working with couples like this is a great way to not only hone our skills and get us geared up for being the best Vancouver Wedding Photographer duo we can be, but also it’s a cool gift for Valentines Day. When was the last time you gave a Valentines Day Portrait Shoot away to your loved one? Maybe not ever! So, feel free to fire us over a message and let’s make it happen!

Here are a few pics to get your wheels turning!