Winnipeg Wedding Photographers - Photoblog of Winnipeg Photographers Jake + Jess of Kampphotography
Winnipeg Wedding Photographers - Kampphotography
Welcome to kampblog.com
Welcome to the Kampblog! The Kampblog covers the regular day to day
activities of Winnipeg photographers Jake and Jess, who own and operate
Kampphotography.
Kampphotography photographs weddings, portraits (and other things
too) in Winnipeg, and around the world. We love being able to capture
life as it happens, and having boatloads of fun in the process. Please
feel free to leave us some comments, we'd love to hear from you!
The Kampers Random Updates
Random Kampphotography updates from anywhere and everywhere =)
Hey there friends! First post of 2009 time!!!! WOO WOO!!! We are so excited for this coming year, we are ever growing with our business and super, super, excited for some new projects, a few changes, and general awesomeness! Thank you to all our clients, past, present, and future, you all rock our socks, and we couldn’t do any of this without you! =)
The wedding of Andrea and Jay fell just before the new year on the 27th of December. This also happened to be the same day as the funeral for Jess’ mom (see post below) so it left us in a very tough spot. Thankfully we have some of the best friends in the entire world. Our best buddies
Nghia Tran and
Curtis Moore stepped up and offered to fill in for us, and photograph Andrea and Jay’s wedding. We can’t thank you guys enough, you rock! And thank you to Andrea and Jay for being such awesome people, and being so understanding of our situation, you guys will always have a place in our hearts.
So without further ado, lets check out some photo action!!!
To my Mom, my angel now, I’ll miss you more in my life to come, as I do today. I will remember you.
My thoughts will go to my memory of you when I struggle with life’s decisions. All those little questions, what temperature to cook a casserole or what to wear for an occasion, that could be answered in a quick phone call to you, are simple in comparison to the many situations I’ll encounter in the future when I’ll miss you most. I pray that you will be with me to guide me through. I hope that I can raise my own babies up with the same joy, happiness, safety and opportunity that you allowed for us.
With all your heart, mind and body you fought selflessly, to be here, with me, my brothers and our families, and Dad, and we are all grateful. You would be here in flesh if you could, but you will always live on in our memories. Thank you for all you have done, for all you have sacrificed and for all you will continue to give in the lessons you have taught me. I love you and I will remember you.
I’d like to take this opportunity to thanks all those that have helped though these difficult times. Particularly I’d like to thank the many community members of Elie and friends of my Mom’s who have stepped up to help in many different ways, bringing food, sending prayers or just lending an ear to listen. The outpouring of support has been overwhelming and my family is grateful to be a part of such a wonderful community of people.
Thank you also to Nghia Tran and Curtis Moore, fellow Rocktographers, who’ve helped to take my place and cover some weddings for Jake and I. The pictures are gorgeous, but we were confident from the start that your skill and personalities would do us proud. You are truly talented, and wonderful individuals and we are incredibly grateful to be your friends. I’d like to thank Coralee too, who would have made it if she could but had weddings and obligations of her own, thank you for your understanding shoulder and kind hugs.
To our clients, thank you dearly for being the most incredible people…On most days, but especially during these hard times, Jake and I can hardly understand how we could be so fortunate to have somehow attracted the most amazing, unique and compassionate couples available. We are already fortunate with our jobs and to join you on such special days, however, mostly we are thankful for the friendships we have developed with many of you. Thank you for all your understanding.
To my husband, you have truly been a gift more precious than can imagine… I love you and thank you for all that you do for me. I know that we will continue in life reflecting the beautiful relationships and partnerships our parents share with each other.
Approximately 75 percent of ovarian cancer cases are only diagnosed at advanced stages after the cancer has already spread beyond the ovary. Currently, no early and accurate testing is available to properly screen for ovarian cancer. The five-year survival rate for women with this type of cancer hasn’t significantly increased in the past 30 years—a mere 8 percent. My Mom was only 52 years old when she slipped away from us on Sunday, December 21. She was only diagnosed last June/July when actual physical symptoms became apparent. She was taken too quickly.
Research needs to done. PLEASE HELP and make a donation (however small) to the National Ovarian Cancer Association in my mother’s name (Sharon Joyce Dufresne). Leave a comment that you have done so and we’ll make sure to thank you, your studio or your business for the support.
Two days ago we lost an incredible member of our family to cancer. We won’t go into details, but please know if we don’t get back to you right away, this is why.
Hey there friends quite a few things in todays final 2008 post. We gave some photo awesomeness from yesterday’s wedding, a super cool announcement for 2009, as well as just a little Kamper update.
Firstly the Kamper Update - As some of you know one of our family members has been incredibly ill, because of this we have been away from the office for the last little while. It has been a very tough time as of late, so we apologize for slow responses, or if things have been slightly delayed. Being your own bosses is difficult because of course we very much need to keep our clients happy, but at a time like this family has been much more important. You may have noticed we haven’t completed the cans for comments, and that the 12 days of Kamp Store awesomenss have disappeared, but we wanted you to all know why, without going into to much detail. The cans for comments, will be donated as planned early in the near year, and we will also be having some rockin’ new year deals as well.
Also in terms of holiday schedule, we will be away from the office until early 2009 (we also have three weddings between now and then) so we will do our best to get back to everyone as quickly as possible.
Kiera + Carey :: Awesome Wedding Time! - Yesterday was the beautiful winter wedding of Kiera and Carey. The couple had their photo session at the Millennium Center, followed by the ceremony and reception at Bridges Golf Course. Kiera looked absolutely INCREDIBLE in her wedding dress, and of course Carey looked pretty good as well =) The ceremony was light by candles, and an awesome turkey dinner followed. As a surprise to the couple, there was also a beautiful fireworks display (by Archangel) after dinner. Thank you so much for having us guys, you are incredible, beautiful people (inside and out,) and we wish you nothing but the best in the future!!
Photos Have A New Best Friend! - What would happen if a photographer could combine beautiful HD Video and beautiful photographs at the same time? Something we have nicknamed “Phot-e-o” or Photo Video mashed together. As technology has progressed new cameras have made it possible to shoot incredible photos and HD video at the same time! This is something we are really excited about, it makes for an awesome feeling from the day, that flows and just plain ROCKS! This is also something we want to do for clients for pure enjoyment, not as something else you have to pay for. So check out the little one minute teaser video below =)
So as we sign off from the blog until the new year, we want to thank each and everyone of you that visit the blog. We love posting, and we love that you come to visit, and see what we are up to! To our past, current, and future clients, we truly appreciate every single one of you!! You make us want to come to work everyday, to progress our art, and to really push ourselves to do awesome things! We hope you all have an excelled holiday season, and we look forward to an even more incredible 2009!!!!!!
Well a week has passed and the grand total is 74 cans!!! Thanks to all our commenters, you guys are awesome and we love you all! Due to your efforts lots of people will have to opportunity to put something on their table this Christmas season, and in the new year!
Stay tuned we will be going shopping for the cans later this week, and will be posting some photos from the shopping / trip to Winnipeg Harvest!
On a side note, our studio is closed as of the end of this coming Friday. We will reopen soon after the new year, with lots of awesome wedding photos. We have weddings on the 20th, 27th, 31st of December as well as three more in early January, so we’ll have lots of wedding photo goodness coming soon =) We will have access to our email here and there through out the holiday season, so we will try to get back to all inquiries as soon as possible, but as you can images, we’re looking forward to a little R + R with our families.
Today we had some fun with our awesome office neighbours, Elemental Motion Media doing some holiday style photos, in of course, nasty holiday sweaters =) So of course we had to play a little, and this is what we came up with =)
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Hey there friends there is something awesome spreading in the photographic community, Cans for Comments. The idea was started by two awesome photographers out in BC, Chris + Lynn. We have been inspired, and have decided to join them on this awesome campaign!! Starting tomorrow (December 9th, 2008) for every comment we receive on the Kamp Blog for the next 7 (seven) days, we will be donating one can of food to Winnipeg Harvest.
Please pass this info along to everyone you know, the more comments the more we can help the people less fortunate in our community! And please note, comments don’t just have to be on this post, they can be on any post on the blog.
Rock on =)
CANS FOR COMMENTS RUNNING TOTAL BELOW!
Day 2 - 9:00pm :: 39 Cans!
Well we’ve hit the big red GO button, so as soon as the internet catches up, you will be able to see the brand spankin’ new
Kampphotography homepage!! =) We’re super excited to have a new website, nice and fresh, and much more Jake + Jess =)
As some of you may have seen over at the
Rock Blog, our good friends Kris + Nghia just had a beautiful baby boy named Finnley. Yesterday was Finn’s trip home from the hospital, so we tagged along to document the trip, which can be seen in the super cute baby overload video below =)
