A Mother/Daughter shoot with a Yukon twist...

As many of you know, we get pretty excited when clients come to us with requests for something a bit unique...Needless to say, we were stoked when we were recently asked to do a mother/daughter shoot with a bit of a Yukon twist...

Cass contacted us to see if we'd be interested in coming out to her parent's local ranch to do a shoot with her, and her mother, and their family horses.  We, however, had no idea just how epic a location we were going to get to work with until we were driving out there...

It was basically photographic heaven-gorgeous yukon skies, amazing animals, and two beautiful and easy going models. Couldn't really have gotten any better...

The only difficult part was the fact that Brianne has a soft spot for horses, and basically didn't want to leave...but we didn't think, however, that the family would necessarily be stoked on a "free live-in photographer" addition to their shoot, so she had to...

Anyways, back to the photos-hope you like them!

GB and BB

Another first for GBP...AIRSOFT!

Airsoft...ever heard of it? Because we sure hadn't until a couple weeks ago, when we were contacted by a new local magazine that's starting up wanting some images of the local group.  Always up for something new, we set up a shoot in our studio, and proceeded to do some "research" on the topic to come up with a game plan (*Read: google search).  

Ok so to explain Airsoft to those of you who don't know much about it...let us refer to the wonderful words of Wikipedia:

"Airsoft is a recreational activity in which participants eliminate opponents by hitting each other with spherical non-metallic pellets launched via replica firearms.

Gameplay varies in style and composition but often range from short-term skirmishes, organized scenarios, military simulations, or historical reenactments. Combat situations on the battlefield often involve the use of common military tactics to achieve objectives set in each game. Participants typically emulate the tactical equipment and accessories used by modern military and police organizations."

Much more eloquent than Brianne's description: "It's like paintball on steroids and it kinda scares me..."

We were, however, introduced shortly after to an enthusiastic and extremely welcoming group of guys who participate in both the local group, as well as groups across Canada.  We learned a lot about the strategy, the equipment (which there are copious amounts of, all of which are very realistic looking), safety gear and the rules/regulations.  By the end of the shoot, Brianne even picked up one of the guns without flinching...this was big...

But onto the photography part...Typically images that involve guns/weaponery can often go two ways: creepy, or cheesy-neither of which we, the magazine, or the guys involved would have wanted.  So we came up with the plan to simply highlight Airsoft for what it is.  We wanted to keep the background simple and non-distracting, and really just highlight the equipment and camo gear used during the games and let that be the focus.  

What we ended up with is certainly something new for us, but we were happy with it.  Check them out and see what you think... The shoot itself turned out to be a great evening and we certainly learned a lot.  And if you want to learn more about Airsoft, contact the local group through their Facebook page -Airsoft Yukon.

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