Welcome to Art Studio 21 Photography!

Location, location, location!!

Work with an expert to determine the location that best reflects you for your wedding photographs!

As an experienced wedding photographer, I think Victoria, BC is one of the world’s most beautiful cities for wedding photography.

· Victoria is on the ocean

· It is called the ‘City of Gardens’

· Victoria has unique architecture to serve as a wonderful backdrop for wedding photographs

I like to utilize these three elements in all of our wedding photography commissions, if possible, going to two or three locations on our client’s wedding day.

Ocean Locations

· Dallas Road, and areas around Gonzales Bay are some of our favourite places to take couples.  There are secluded bays with sandy beaches, and there are rock outcroppings for dramatic wedding images showing a huge expanse of blue sky and ocean.

· Ogden Point Breakwater which protects Victoria harbour, and is great location to incorporate ocean and architecture elements into wedding photographs.

· In the Western Communities, my favourite beach is Albert Head Lagoon.  The water and sky always seems to be a perfect blue, and we have created terrific wedding images here.

· Albert Head Lagoon is within easy driving distance of Olympic View Golf Course, Hatley Castle, and Bear Mountain.

Flowers and Gardens

· The Legislature Buildings (with the Premier’s Rose Garden), Beacon Hill Park, Saxe Point, The Lieutenant Governor’s House, and many local parks throughout Victoria.

· St. Ann’s is a premier indoor wedding ceremony and photography location.

· Hatley Castle is simply majestic.

· I personally like the Premier’s Rose Garden, The Lieutenant Governor’s House, and Hatley Castle, because I combine flowers and greenery with architectural elements into unforgettable wedding photographs.

Many of these places require permits or permission for wedding photography, so be sure to check with your photographer!  We can arrange these permits for our wedding clients and provide you with more information.

The Architectural Romance of Victoria

Although Victoria is a relatively young city, it has some unique, trendy, and powerful architecture that create a “Metro” or ‘Urban” feel to wedding photographs.

· One of our signature wedding images was taken at The Legislature Buildings, where there are many opportunities to create fantastic images.

· We also love to photograph our bridal clients in downtown Victoria around Chinatown, and the Pandora/Johnson street areas.

· There are many historic buildings, some ‘urban feel’ graffiti, and cool building facades in Victoria that give us an opportunity to create wonderful wedding images.

· Sometimes we like to take a few photographs in a trendy coffee shop and let our bride and groom rest their feet!

Some of our wedding photography clients want something different than clanking glasses at their reception when guests want them to kiss.  Have you thought about a kissing bell?  They make a neat keepsake for the guests, and are elegant and fun!  Perhaps the guest will need to ring the bell and show a kissing example before the bride and groom kiss?  Fun for the reception and a great photography opportunity!

Here is a link to one site with kissing bell favours here –> http://www.americanbridal.com/minsilbel.html

Victoria has many incredible locations for stunning wedding images, and one of our favorite locations is downtown Victoria, and Chinatown.  I knew this image was a keeper when we shot it– everything just fell into place for us.  We then used a few Photoshop tricks to pull out the reds, and focus the image on our bride and groom.  Hope you enjoy the image as much as we do!

Brandon and Bri’s wedding in Cowichan Bay last year was a huge amount of fun.  Their wedding was at the Waterfront Grand, and we took most of the wedding photographs in the village of Cowichan Bay, and inside the hotel.  At the Udder Guy’s Ice Cream shop Bri and Brandon even got free ice cream cones!  We created some great wedding photographs at the pier, at Hecate Park, and inside the hotel.  It was a very fun wedding and the images were terrific!  We love to go on location to different and unique places to create images that capture the happiness and love of our client’s wedding day!

One of our clients last year had personalized Jones’ Soda Bottles at their reception.  It was a huge hit!  They took photographs of themselves (something I can help you with) and had the Jones’ Soda company produce bottles with their custom lables.  Todd and Jennifer photographs were of all of the places they had been together, and it was a great keepsake that their guests loved.

Visit Jones Soda Company for more information–>http://www.jonessoda.com/

Dear David and Yasuko,

Thank you both so very much for everything.  The photographs are fantastic, and so much fun.  So many of the shots are unique, and have definitely captured the story of our day!  We already knew this, BUT you are truly the best.

With sincere appreciation and thanks,

Sheila and Clemens

I love the job you guys did on the headshots!  Thanks so much to you and your wife for a very professional job.  We will have to book the others sometime soon, but I’m still trying to catch my breath.

Beverly Pausche

Communications Coordinator

Te’mexw Treaty Association

Hi David,

How are you doing?  Well, I just have to tell you, I love it, love it, love it and just love it.  We are so very happy with the images you have taken of our very special day.  Thank you to you and Yasuko for being such a magical part of our wedding.  The DVD, slideshow and album.  How wonderful, it is above and beyond all of our expectations.  You are both wonderful, many, many thanks!
Alex and Dan

David,

I just wanted to comment again on how much we LOVE all of the wedding photographs.  You and Yasuko did a PHENOMENAL job!  I think I have spent 10 of the last 20 hours just looking them over and over and over! 

It was such a pleasure to work with you, and we’ll see you again in the future for other ‘big events’ that need photographing!

All the best,

Carly and Ben

Dear David,

I want to let you know that my experience with Art Studio 21 Photography exceeded my expectations.

As a professional who supports many businesses in creating great customer relationships I appreciated being in the hands of a true professional photographer.

From the booking through the shoot, through to the retouching and mailing of the final headshot images, I was very impressed.

I was particularly impressed with your confidence and your skill during the photo shoot. Your knowledge of what is needed to obtain a truly great headshot, and to help your subject understand what you are doing was a great experience.

I am extremely happy with the final product and know that these images will support me in marketing my business successfully.

Keep up the excellent work,

Clemens