Written by Davina Palik. Photographed by Davina Palik & Daniel Kudish.

This engagement session was definitely one for the books. It was tough to schedule in the first place, what with the four of us being really busy right now (we’re off to Bali for a wedding and they’re moving to Spain in a few weeks right after their wedding). When we finally settled on a date, Julia had a bad cold and there was rain in the forecast, but without any other options, we powered through.

Well, we were in for quite a treat. The “rain” turned out to be a pretty crazy storm, complete with amazing skies. Julia and Alex were troopers, getting soaked right at the beginning and letting us take them to the roof of their building while there was lighting striking in the not-so-far-away distance.

I think we proved that neither rain, or hail, or crazy wind would keep us from doing this shoot!

Written by Daniel Kudish. Photographed by Davina Palik & Daniel Kudish.

We always look forward to engagement shoots because they give us the opportunity to photograph in new places. Besides hanging out with our pretty cool clients…
So Shital suggested to do their session at one of the McGill libraries (where she’s working on her Ph.D.). We went into it expecting something big, with long shelves and rows of books, but instead were presented with a small, warm space. There are days where we feel like we have amazing light follow us around, and this was definitely one of them.

Shital & Chet are throwing a big hindu wedding in a month, and even though we expect to be pretty tired (we’ll be coming back from a wedding-trip to Bali), we’re really looking forward to it!

Written & Photographed by Daniel Kudish.

While Davina was away (once more) on a trip to Europe, we finally got some nice weather and I had a chance to schedule Emily & Bobby’s engagement shoot. We had been in touch for several months now, as they originally wanted to do the shoot in the snow – in a way, I’m kind of happy it didn’t happen because shooting in the cold isn’t very fun! Regardless, these two were really great in front of the camera, as I dragged them around downtown for 3hrs, and had them make out on St-Catherine street, in front of lingerie stores, and inside adult movie theaters. I can’t wait to photograph these two in a couple of weeks when they tie the knot!

A big thank you to Richard Pham for coming out to help me on this shoot!

Written by Daniel Kudish. Photographed by Davina Palik & Daniel Kudish.

It’s alway such an honor when other wedding photographers want to get in front of our cameras. Larissa and Trevor, of Ambient Studios in Toronto, contacted us a couple of months ago, but weren’t engaged at the time. During a rock climbing trip in Kentucky a couple of weeks ago, Trevor popped the question, and we were even more excited to be photographing them when we heard the great news! With all four of us being engaged wedding photographers, we had so much to talk about! Sadly we didn’t have a chance to hang out much after the photo session, but we definitely plan to include them in our future travels to Toronto!

Written by Davina Palik. Photography by Davina Palik & Daniel Kudish.

I’ve been rewriting the opening line to this post a few times now because every time I write something, I’m complaining. I’m going to try giving you the facts instead: We were only back for a week before we had to go to Toronto. We had 2 photo sessions, 1 wedding, and were teaching 2 private workshops so we were there for 1 week. We just got back and I leave for Europe next week. I know, boo hoo, right? But it makes me wonder, will I ever be home longer than one week? Ever?

Now that my whining is out of the way, let me introduce you to Jennifer and Jason. They’re getting married in Montreal this summer, but call Toronto home so that’s where we did their photo session. Actually, it was so chilly that we literally did most of their photos right at their house. We joked that they’ll never see their home the same way again. You know, now that we had them making out in their bathtub, in the staircase to the basement, on their kitchen table…