And here’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for, Josh and Katelin’s wedding album. The virtual album, of course.

As always, click on this cover to get to the album itself. Once there, click on the edge of the album to go forward and backward, or click and hold for the fancy page turning effect. It may take a few minutes to load if you have slow internet. If you are having issues, you can also try the html version, without the page turning effect.

We didn’t have a great deal of time to hit all the spots in Dawson Creek that Josh and Katelin wanted to get to, but we kept things moving, and we actually managed to get wedding photographs of them at all the locations they were planning. And I gotta tell you that when I posted the photos on Facebook, they were extremely well received, and not just by Josh and Katelin and friends, but by a bunch of my photographer friends, too.

A lot of that has to do with the setting; a grey overcast January day in Dawson Creek doesn’t seem conducive to taking great wedding pictures, but you’d be wrong. Admittedly, subject matter here counts for a lot (cute couple), but there’s just something to be said for that whole white on white (on white, as the cape and dress were slightly different shades of white) look. Oh, sure, it would have been a different story if it had been -40, but outside of slightly frozen fingers (easily solved with a new pair of Minnesota Mittens), it was a great experience.

So, um, if any of you out there are planning on getting married in winter next year (in Dawson Creek, Fort St. John, Grande Prairie or even down in Cuba), do let me know, because I’m loving the look of these winter weddings. (I know the look of a winter wedding in Cuba is a bit different, but I’m pretty sure I’d manage…)

Here’s a slideshow featuring many of my favourite shots. You’ll see most of the shots I posted earlier, plus a whole bunch of new shots, too. Enjoy.

A couple weeks ago, the temperature dipped to down round -40 C. I sent an email to Josh saying that if it stayed like that, he’d be the one having to warm up the frozen batteries under his arms.

Fortunately, the weather was a lot warmer last Saturday when he and Katelin got married at Bethel Pentecostal Church in Dawson Creek. There was a fine mist of ice rain as I was driving in, which turned to snow just in time for the wedding.

We did most of the shots outside, and while it wasn’t -40, it was still quite cold. Cold enough that the metal camera body caused my fingers to get numb very quickly. Cold enough so that the batteries in my flash wouldn’t recycle fast enough to make it useful. Cold enough that one camera just decided to stop working all together.

But despite all that, Josh and Katelin and the rest of the party were oh-so photogenic and we got lots of great shots. Maybe not quite as many as I would have got if it were a little warmer, but enough to capture a really good sense of their special day without anyone getting frostbite.

Here’s some of my favourites. Click on more to see all the photos.

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Teenage boy in a giant bunny suit. I mean really, how much better does it get?

Yes, I have had some stunning brides this year, which made it really easy to take beautiful pictures, but really hard to chose. But here are my favourites, as of today.

As I may or may not have mentioned here, I went down and shot a couple weddings in Southern Alberta. I posted images from Olivia and Jody’s wedding a few days ago. Now Mark over at Unique Images Photography, whom I second shot for a couple weddings, has posted images from the first wedding here.

I’ve had a bit of a photo-crush on Mark for a while, so it was fun to actually get together and shoot with him. Interesting fact; he’s shorter than he looks in pictures….

He let me use his D700, too. While it’s always a bit of a challenge using new gear for the first time, I gotta say that’s a pretty nice camera. If I wasn’t so ensconced in the Canon line (and wasn’t so enamoured with the 7D), I might have to jump ship….

As you may or may not know, Eye For Detail’s usual second photographer is down in Medicine Hat. He does occasionally drum up work for us down there, and so it was we loaded up the car and took off for southeastern Alberta.

We left Tumbler Ridge, where it had snowed not two days before. By the time we got to Calgary, the temperature was above 30 C, and still rising. Colette, who packed for winter weather, was sweltering.

The wedding itself was in a beautiful old church, and we wandered about the Hat, taking pictures here and there. I love my mountains, but there’s something to be said for the starkness of the landscape around there, too.

I’m hoping Darin will send some images that he took, as he took more than I did, but for now, here’s a few of my favs.