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NYC Photographica!

John Heil — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:08:39 +0000

So, since I’m heading to NYC again in just over a month, I figured it was probably time I posted some photographs from my last trip to NY! I only posted a few before, so here’s the full meal deal…..better late than never, right? I took a different route with my editing on these and decided to do a mix of cross processing and such….something a little different for this time through NYC Enjoy!

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Hawaii – Part Deux, finally

John Heil — Fri, 28 May 2010 08:36:31 +0000

If there is one thing I’m not so good at these days, it’s posting more of my personal pics. I take pictures everywhere but so many of them never make the light of day on the internet. Most of them are archived away for my own viewings with very good “intentions” to edit and post “ASAP”. Yah, well, my client work always takes priority so a lot of my personal stuff is still waiting to be posted. I really need to keep up on posting some travel pics this year since I’m so lucky to be visiting so many great parts of the world. With that in check, I’ll be posting some travel pics over the next little while from last years trips. I never did get around to posting the second half of my Hawaii photos, so, with no other introduction required, here, is paradise part two!

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Homeward Bound

John Heil — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:39:36 +0000

Well, I’m sitting at the Newark airport waiting to check in and fly home.
It’s been a whirlwind of a trip. I’m feeling kind of emotional thinking about how lucky I am to have done all I have in the last 9 days. And to be heading home to an amazing husband, dog, great friends, and some lots of fantastic work ahead of me. This whole year has been amazing and as my wedding season starts to wind down, I feel so incredibly grateful for all that has come my way.
Life is being really good to me right now and all I can do is smile and get a bit teary. I had such an amazing time over the last 9 days. Seeing my friends in Halifax, shooting such a special wedding, then spending 5 days with Dana NYC….it’s made me feel more appreciative of my life and I wasn’t expecting that. I really love Dana to bits and am so glad we got to do this together. It was all her doing (the NY part) and I’m SO glad she suggested I meet her here. It’s been an amazing time, with an amazing person and I couldn’t have asked for more. Thank you! xoxo

Halifax and NYC bound! Hit me up!

John Heil — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:57:05 +0000

I’m off to Halifax tomorrow to shoot a wedding in Mahone Bay on the beautiful east coast! It’s my first time to Canada’s east coast and I seriously can’t wait to shoot there. I’m so stoked to do up some killer portraits out in that beautiful land of Nova Scotia!

I’ll be in Halifax for 5 days and then I’m off to NYC for 5 days of fun with my good friend Dana. I’m SO SO SO stoked to go back to NYC. It’s been 4 years since I was there with Kristopher and I’ve reeeeeeeeeally been missing it. I freaking love that city so much!!! I’ll be coming back with likely a few hundred gigs of photots once the 10 days is up. Yikes!!

So, that said, if anyone in either place wants to hook up for a little photog session or just for a beer, coffee, chat, drop me a line! Would love to meet some new peeps on the east side!

I’ll leave ya’ with some shots from my last NYC trip…..finally I’ll be there with a proper camera this time!

Toronto was great, but it’s good to be home

John Heil — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 03:51:26 +0000

It’s so nice to be home!

Toronto was great, but I always miss Vancouver after just a few days.

I missed Quincy quite a bit this trip….always so good to see him. He’s sitting on my lap licking my arms and neck as I type. Apparently he missed us too.

Flight home was pretty good, except for the 1/2 hour delay taking off. Apparently something was wrong with reverser in the engine and it had to be fixed before we took off.

Umm, yah good idea.

At least it wasn’t longer than half hour or I would of started to go a little wonky on that plane with 400 people. I had some great reading material for this flight, so that helped! I picked up a SIGNED copy of Kat Von D‘s new book and read the entire thing from front to back on the flight. It’s such a rad book! It’s a mini-autobiography, which includes a bunch of other awesome stuff like a tattoo directory of all her tattoos and the meaning behind them, her biggest inspirations, tons of her personal designs and favorite work….all kinds of stuff. The design and layout of the book is seriously sick. Fantastic attention to detail and strong focus on a unique visual appeal….every single page is a piece of art in itself and I found myself with butterflies turning each page, anticipating what would adorn the following pages. It was that good! You can really tell a lot of time went into creating a book that is so perfectly “Kat”. Her photographer, Lionel Deluy is bloody incredible too. His work just blows me away and is so inspiring. Oh, and I had no idea Jeffree Star was her make-up artist….no wonder she looks so damn good all the time. Anyways….This book just reaffirmed my mild obsession with her. She is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen and her personality and work are both so rad. I’d LOVE to have her to a portrait tattoo of my granz on me someday.

The book:

/Kat Von D tangent

The other book I picked up was The Hot Show Diaries by Joe McNally. Also an awesome read. First 1/3 of the book was a bunch of basics I was already aware of, but that was followed by LOADS of cool uniques on using your small flashes in almost any situation, really showcasing the amazing flexibility of Speedlite. Highly suggest the read!
Ok so back to the trip…..it was fantastic! The awards gala that I went down to attend was absolutely amazing. It was quite a huge production!! So much bigger than I anticipated. I had no idea there would be celebrities there! Theo Tams (Canadian Idol winner) opened the show which was cool. George Stroumboulopoulos was also there which was pretty rad as I love him! He did mini interviews with some of the award recipients throughout the night….but not me!! Kinda thankful for that as I probably would have been a nervous blubbering fool. lol Then at the end of the night, Chantal Kreviazuk performed an 8 song concert – soooooo cool. I really like her and was quite a nice surprise to get to see her play live at such an intimate event. She is quite an amazing singer live that’s for sure. They capped the night off with a suprise gift – a Birks silver watch for all the award winners….again, so awesome! All in all it was a really fabulous event and I’m so honored to have been a part of it and to receive such recognition.

The rest of our trip was good. We spent 2 days visiting with family outside Toronto which was really nice. I haven’t seen the in-laws since our wedding so it was great to catch up again. Was really good to see Kevin and finally meet the new lady too! Heather rocks!! Monday night we got a big group of Toronto friends together for some drinks and catch up time at the Madison Ave Pub. Was an awesome time seeing old friends and making some new ones too. That John Edgar guy is one funny character I tell ya! Had a blast with him and his buddy Taylor Jackson.

Good times all around but I must say I am super glad to be back in Vancouver. I absolutely love my city and it always so good to come back here. The ocean, the mountains, the people, the neighborhood I live in……it’s all so wonderful.

That wraps my travel spurt for a few months. Wedding season is upon us and about to hit me full force so right now is all about finishing up some previous sets and getting some important things in order before I get mad busy. Oh, and taxes. Those darn, dreaded, evil taxes. Must get on that ASAP!!

Ok, I’ll leave you with a few photos from the trip….

New Blog, New Site…and Toronto bound!

John Heil — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 05:59:17 +0000

Happy first day of spring!

Spring time in Vancouver is one of the most amazing times and I love everything about it. But, I’m stoked that summer is on it’s way!

Tthis last month has been quite a whirl-wind of travel, work and preparation for the 2009 wedding season. Time has been of the essence and as a result, I’ve been quite a naughty blogger! Meaning my blogs have been practically non-existant. I promise to change that! Part of the reason for my lack of blogging, is that I’ve been slaving away on my new website and this here new blog. I spent a fair amount of time on the new sites and they’re still not quite complete. I really love the layout though and one of my favorite parts of my new main site is the Client Lounge, where almost all my wedding clients have their own personal page! It’s super rad and so far folks are loving it. ALL the wedding info, photos and slideshow are centralized in one place that can be shared with friends and family…..so awesome!

The other reason for my lack of real blogging is Twitter. Twitter has become my biggest internet addiction since Facebook! It’s about 10 times as addictive though because it’s constantly being updated. It’s all just a bunch of “micro-blogging” from your contacts, in 140 characters or less….mini updates, if you will. It’s super convenient for me because I don’t always have the time for full blog entries, so entering a quick little update every few hours (sometimes much more often than that!), is just too easy. So, if you’re not already tweeting, get with it! Come follow me and we’ll send each other some tweet love.

Tomorrow I am off to Toronto for 5 days and will try to get back on the blog train upon my return! I have many, many great photos to post and am stoked to share some of them on this here new blog.

For now, I’ll leave you with this cool shot I got while in Kauai of my friend Nancy looking over the Waimae Canyon. Taken with my lensbaby.

Calgary trip photos

John Heil — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 06:33:00 +0000

So for those that aren’t already in the know, I’m in Calgary right now! Been here since last Wednesday. The point of my trip was anything but leisure, but I’ve actually managed to fit in a few friend meet ups while here, which has really helped balance out my trip as it has been a bit on the stressfull side. I came down to look after my grandmother while she recovers from a fairly important surgery. The surgery was Thursday, she was supposed to be out Friday, but she’s still in the hospital today and wont out until tomorrow (Monday). Let’s just say things didn’t go as planned and there were quite a few complications. Luckily, she has pulled through some extremely touch and go moments and is now on the road the recovery. *phew* Today was her birthday and sadly, she had to spend it in the hospital….how crappy is that!? Me and my brother took her a little mini-birthday cake along with an enormous bouqet of flowers and balloons. It really helped bring her spirits up.

In between hospital visits, I’ve been filling my time with coffee shops, seeing old buddies and wandering the city shooting some of the things are truly “Calgary” to me. I’m so shocked at how much this city has changed in just a few years. SOOO many buildings are gone, so many neighborhoods completely changed. I figured I’d capture some of the things in this town that really stand out to me and places that really have some history or meaning to me. So, here is a sneak peak. If you want to see the whole gallery from my trip, feel free to check it out here .

This is my highschool….its going to be torn down next year to build a train station!

This is the very first apartment I moved into when I left home at 17!

This is the front of an old hangout called “Michael Angelos” which is now closed down

This +15 was crazy looking….the building it connected to on the left was torn down