A bunch of friends and I hit up Bowyer Island for a coming-to-the-end-of-summer dinner party. The first annual Bowyer Island Barefoot Formal was a smashing success. I took a couple shots on my Fuji Instax instant camera.

Kara Lang, an amazingly talented soccer player who plays for the Canadian women’s Olympic and World Cup soccer team, as well as the Vancouver Whitecaps, came to me to get some photos taken for her personal website last week. We wandered around Acadia Beach, part of Wreck Beach, and I tried to avoid getting naked people in the backgrounds of my pictures (I had some success). She was an amazing person to have the opportunity to photograph, I think her personality and beauty come through in the photos. It was one of the easiest, funnest shoots I’ve had in a while.

I was up in Whistler shooting Crankworx this past Saturday for the Globe & Mail. Huge crowds, a massive party, and some epic mountain biking.

I couldn’t have asked for anything more from Peter & Erin’s wedding. Great weather, a fantastic couple, amazing friends, and a perfect venue at the UBC Boathouse in Richmond. Taking photos of these two was so fluid and natural I had a heck of a job editing through the thousands of photos, just to find my favourites. There are so many! Congrats Erin and Pete, I consider myself lucky to have the two of you as friends.

On Saturday I cruised back to Vancouver from a short two-day holiday down in Washinton state to photograph the Terminal City Rollergirls Championship Bout for The Globe & Mail. It was an action-packed night, was fun to photograph and looked like the crowd had a great time. The photos were for the front of The Globe’s BC Section yesterday.

Amrit and Serban are my kind of people. When we were brainstorming ideas of where to shoot engagement pictures, they asked if it would be possible to do the photos on top of the Chief in Squamish. I believe my reply was “Heck yes!” As a guy who likes to get up there and hike the Chief at least once every couple of weeks, I was ecstatic to kick myself out of bed bright and early and ride my motorcycle up from Vancouver on the Sea-to-Sky highway on a bright and beautiful Monday morning. Coming down into Squamish and seeing the beautiful dawn light coming through behind that big hunk of granite, I knew it was going to be a great day. Here are the photos, thanks you two for being such an awesome couple and a pleasure to spend time with!

I can say that judging by the bills I have had with the new tax, we in BC are definitely paying a lot more to eat out these days. (As if this province needed to get any more expensive.) I still don’t understand how Colin Hansen and the BC Libs can try to tell people we are saving money.

August 3, 2010 – Vancouver, BC – Perry Bourpoulas, owner of the Slocan Restaurant in Vancouver, says business is down since the introduction of the HST. A month after the HST was introduced a BC Restaurant Association survey says its members report a 10% drop in business. Photo by Brett Beadle for The Globe and Mail

I got up early on Monday morning last week and got rewarded with some nice light to shoot near Lynn Canyon in North Vancouver.  Shot with my 35mm 1.4 and a 45mm TS-E.  Two of my all-time favourite lenses.

Read the piece in the Globe & Mail here: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/after-dropping-50-lbs-chef-anthony-sedlak-cant-stop-hitting-the-road/article1659913/


Celebrity chef Anthony Sedlak (foreground) and his friend and business partner Bryan Kelly ride through the Seymour Demonstration Forest in North Vancouver on Monday morning.

I was out photographing the Pride Parade for the Globe & Mail yesterday. Some shots:

My friends Tony + Robyn were married in a beautiful outdoor ceremony in rural New Jersey. I was overjoyed to be able to fly out and photograph their day. Good people, good weather, good times. My kind of day.