...he asked, following with a blank stare.  

I didn't really have an answer ready.  I stumbled through a few half-formed explanations.

"Well, I mean, it's a long day of shooting.  And I'll spend hours editing the photos; I take thousands per wedding so it takes awhi...

It is definitely not every day that I get to shoot portraits, much less wedding portraits, on top of a mountain. 

I remember a couple of years ago when my buddy Heath and I drove to the top of Mt. Woodside discussing how awesome it would be to shoot a wedding party with...

 With fingers crossed, I checked the weather every day for 2 weeks leading up to this March wedding.  We had ambitious plans for photos, but springtime in Chilliwack can be dicey.  Thankfully, sun shone all day and we raced around town to check all the boxes: downtown...

What defines a snapshot?  Why do I care?  As someone completely saturated in photography, I am constantly, sub-consciously, critiquing photos everywhere I go: composition, focus, technique, lighting, whatever.  It can be distracting.  And it's unnecessary.  What makes...