The oh-so-talented Shannon Lepere resides in Thunderbay, Ontario. We found out about her through a mutual friend who used her for a corporate photo shoot and has also partied with her on several occassions :) OG and I wanted to be sure that not only would our photographer be amazing at their craft, but also fun to be around with. After all, it's one of the few people you will hire for your wedding who will be there for most of the day, and often at the most intimate moments.
When we saw her photos online for the first time all those months ago, we immediately knew she was the one we wanted to work with. We had met up with a few local photographers beforehand but most of their work looked the same and just didn't feel like us. We decided that bringing Shannon down for the weekend was definitely worth it!
We love her unique style and sense of "fun" in every photo. Shannon has an amazing eye for detail and use of light, and whatever magic she does in post is exactly what we want for our pics! And meeting her in person last night just confirmed it even further for us that she's going to be fun to work with. She's small in size but her personality's big and full of friendliness and good humour. We talked a bit about the wedding - there are still six months to go, so plenty of time to work out details. But we spent most of the conversation talking about her new hobby: Roller Derby.
Come on, how cool is that?!
So needless to say, our first meeting went really well, and we are really looking forward to being her models in September :)
You can check out her work at either her official website or on Flickr.
Oh! And the reason she was in town was to be with her boyfriend, Jean Paul De Roover, who is doing a music tour around Canada. You can also check out his music video, for which Shannon did the stop motion animation.
Again - too cool.
Photos from Shannon's website and Flickr site.
how fun! i totally agree about clicking with the photog. as a wedding photographer myself, i gotta say, it works both ways! it's always wonderful leaving a client meeting and being ecstatic about shooting their wedding :)
ReplyDeletecongrats on finding your match!!