Welcome to Eye for Detail!

Here you can find out more about us and look at some of our favourite photos. Almost all the photos you see were taken by me, Trent Ernst. Some were taken by my talented second shooter, Darin Clisby, and a few were taken by my wife, Colette. If the photos were taken by someone else other than me, I will tell you.

Feel free to look around and make comments. We appreciate your feedback.

Eye For Detail Photography focus is on wedding and portrait photography. We are located in Tumbler Ridge, BC but serves Dawson Creek, Fort St. John, Chetwynd, Hudson’s Hope, Prince George and into Alberta, shooting weddings as far away as Edmonton and Calgary, but generally focusing on the Grande Prairie area. If you’re looking for creative, unique images, look no further.

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If you are interested in booking us for your wedding,  graduation or portrait session, you can call us at 250-219-8215 or send us an email.

To find out more about us, visit the About us page.

Days are getting longer and warmer, children are out on bikes and families are taking time to enjoy the fresh air. Eye for Detail is itching to get outside and take some photos! So we’re having a TEN by TEN photo blitz! For the entire month of May we have created an outdoor photo opportunity that is simply a breeze.

TEN By TEN Sessions include TEN minutes of photography and TEN online proofs available in under TEN days. The cost? Only TEN bucks!

Take ten minutes out of your day to come outside and enjoy the fresh air, meet us anywhere in Tumbler Ridge, and get some outdoor images just for the fun of it. Sessions are available after 5pm or on weekends, book your session in advance or just phone and see if we are free. Looking for some great mother’s day photos? Book a TEN by TEN Session the first week of May and we’ll have any prints you want ready for gifts.

While Kerry and Wayne’s wedding day was beautiful outside, it was still the middle of winter, so after our brief outdoor shoot, we moved on to the George Dawson Inn, where we met up with the mothers of the couple, as well as their infant grandson. This was one of a very few weddings I’ve shot where we’ve done the formals before the ceremony, which was a good thing in this case, because the sun sets early in the middle of winter.

Hey, everyone, especially all you figure skating parents. We have finally got all the photos from the “A Night at the Movies” Figure Skating carnival uploaded. You can see them all here.

Just a note. While you are able to order them directly, the shipping on one photo from the States is quite high. We are going to be placing an order in the next few weeks, so, if you don’t mind waiting, just contact us, tell us what photo you want and at what size, and we’ll add it to our order.

There are two numbers for each photo. At the top of the page is a position number: Photo X of 70. This number can change. Below the photo is the image number (_MG_4024). This is the number that we want.

Also note that some images won’t crop very well to certain sizes. The images with the frames are sized to print to an 8X10 or 4X5 ratio, while the others are typically at a 2X3 ratio (4X6, 8X12, 20X30, etc), but we’ll warn you if a picture won’t crop well to the size you’re interested in.

You couldn’t ask for a better day to get married in the winter. Fresh snow, but not too much, and a beautiful blue, nigh-cloudless day.

Even so, Kerry and Wayne didn’t want to spend a lot of time outside; rather, they wanted to get on to the George Dawson Inn, where the wedding was to be held, and where their family and friends awaited.

Family was a big theme in this wedding. While Kerry and Wayne are newlywed, they have been together for over a decade. Their now-adult children and spouses were the best men and women, and their two granddaughters were the flower girls. (The third grandchild, a four-month-old boy, was deemed a little too young to be the ring bearer).

These are the first shots from the first part of the wedding.

Some photographers get so excited when one of their photos is published in a magazine.

Here at Eye For Detail we said to ourselves “go big or go home”, so instead of getting published in a magazine, we published a magazine.

Of course, once you have a magazine, you need people to read the magazine. Which is where you come in. You see, this magazine happens to be one of those fancy internet magazines that you can download and read on your computer or iPad, or….(by fancy we mean it’s a pdf. Okay, so that’s not really fancy. But it’s sorta fancy.) And in order to read it, all you have to do is click this link. Go on. It’s free! And there’s a special coupon in there, somewhere.

We had a whole bunch of people this year at the Food Bank Fundraiser, probably twice as many as last year. All together, we raised over $1250 for the food bank, which wouldn’t have been possible without these people.

Here’s a handful of our favourite shots.

With snow in the air and dusting the ground, and the Christmas decorations going up, everyone is starting to think about Christmas! One of the most wonderful gifts is the gift of yourself;  time shared with friends and family is what the holidays are all about. If you are thinking about loved ones near and far this Christmas and wanting to give them something personal, Eye for Detail is working hard at making your wish come true.

Want a winter shoot? Book a session in the next twelve days until December 1st in order to have your images chosen and received in time for Christmas! Looking for something from a past shoot in canvas, or as a gift item, or maybe some Christmas Cards check out our christmas ordering deadlines below.

Christmas Cards: Order by December 1st

Canvas, Accordion books and framed prints: December 7th

Prints, Tiles, Mugs and DVD slideshows: December 10th.

I mentioned the motorcycle, right? Well, Tamara’s uncle also had some classic gear, including the goggles and helmet, which Tamara was more than willing to don and get some photos on the bike.

Speaking of Tamara’s uncle, that’s him, and his three daughters in the picture with Tamara. One of Tamara’s cousins also wanted some pictures on her dad’s motorbike, but was a little worried about revealing a little too much to the world, as she was wearing a rather short skirt. “All I can see is headlight,” I assured her.

I’m hoping someday to snag her again, along with the cool helmet and goggles, and do another shoot. But I’m thinking that might have to wait until spring….

Last year I had the honour of documenting the Hawkes children in every season. Every season except fall, which by the time we did the session (in late October) the leaves had fallen off the trees and it was…yep, snowing. That’s the north for you, fall falls quick around here and you gotta get it while you can. We made do with some leaves I gathered under sheltered areas, some dead fallen branches I dried snow off of and well, loads of pumpkins to finish it off. Mom was happy, kids had fun and the seasons were a complete set.

Well this year Jen was on the ball and ready with her whole family for a real fall shoot outdoors. We met at one of our favourite fall locations near the stables, where there are paths, trees, tall grasses and yep horses. Jen’s goal was to have a wide variety of images of her children for a wall collage to complete her set and finally have every season in her home. These are some of my favourite shots of the two children.