CONGRATULATIONS Erin Rae!!!

Well we have a winner Erin Rae was "crowned" the winner of Manitoba's Next Top Model, congratulations! And a huge thank you to all the girls that entered the contest... I hope you all had as much fun as I did doing the shoots you guys are all great!

The Top 10 Finalists

Alright here we go... this what everyone has been waiting for ... the top 10 finalist for Manitoba's Next Top Model. You can place your vote for your favorite contestant on the right side... voting will be stopped as of Sept 10 at midnight. Make sure you send your friends and family over to place their votes.

For those of you that follow the blog faithfully you will notice that this post will remain at the top of the page for the next month but I will continue to post new images and stories below.

Good luck to everyone... this is gonna be a tough one... you are all beautiful!

Polls are closed

The polls are closed for voting on Manitoba's Next Top Model... it was definitely a close race, but after more then 2500 votes we have a winner... but you'll have wait till Saturday afternoon at the Block Party in downtown Morden to find out.
Thanks to everyone for making this event such a success... a special thanks to all the girls that entered and the top 10... you guys were all so much fun to work with. Stay tuned for the results :)

Where did it all start...

I'm often asked how I got into photography, or where the interest started... well I stopped in at my parents place tonight and my Dad said he had to show me a photo that he had done earlier today... I couldn't believe the shot when I saw it... an absolutely beautiful image of a humming bird that he had captured in their backyard. So to everyone that's curious where it all started and how I got into photography... DAD would be the answer ... great shot Dad, I love you.

Agasizz Power Sports

A while back I did a photo shoot for Agassiz Power Sports... not the norm for us... no white wedding dress, just black chain grease and the smell of dirt bikes running... what a blast! The first part of the shoot started in the shop where we basically brought in our portable studio and did a shoot with some snowmobile gear... yes middle of summer and we were shooting snowmobile gear. Here are a couple of shots... thanks to Lori of Agassiz Power Sports for passing these on to me.



I think it was probably around 30 degrees Celsius the day we shot these photos outside... all I can say is I'm glad I was wearing shorts :-)



This was our "studio" for the shoot... below is the result of the image we got for them... a great shot!!




From here we went out to one of the employees own private race track...





Now just in case any of you thought that photography was always an easy job and you didn't get dirty doing it... well here are a couple of shots to prove you wrong... to get some of these shots we have to be right down in the action to get the shot you need...



Doing this gets you some really cool results ...



This last picture shows you what most people don't ever see, and that's the shower of dirt and debris that rained down onto me just after Mike passed by me and out of the shot, I literally had mud running out of my hair when I had a shower after the shoot... I loved it... anything for a photo!!!

Marina - WOW

Last week I had the privilege of photographing Marina... she is absolutely amazing to work with. She told me before we started that she had never been in a professional shoot before and the she wasn't the model type... well I say she's the model type!! We ended up with well over 1700 shots from our session. I wish I could share all of them with you but there are just too many to show them all.

Corn & Apple Rides

This was the first year that Kai, our daughter, was old enough to really enjoy the rides at the Corn & Apple festival, and well let me tell you she really really enjoyed the rides. Here's a couple of shots of her as we were going down the super slide together... love you Peanut!

Crazy Grads = Cool Shots

I photographed a group of friends for grad, these ladies were crazy they told me about this old house they wanted to go to which turned into a little adventure of it's own as we ended up exploring the entire house and getting some really cool shot in it. Then there was the scaling of the side of a building just to get into a window for no real particular reason other than to just do it :) and the entire shoot ended up on top of a business in downtown Morden... I'm glad there were no cops around the night we did this one ... here's a few shots of the adventure... and the beautiful ladies that made it all happen. Congratulations guys!

Corn and Apple Festival

This is always a crazy weekend for me. I have a display set up at the corn and apple festival and I'm going out to shoot a wedding in Winnipeg on Saturday. So if anyone is trying reach me this weekend your best bet will be email or text. And if you don't know what do this weekend head on down to the corn and apple festival...always a good time.
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Steve Hiebert
Personal Expressions Photography
Website: www.personalexpressions.ca
Blog: www.personalexpressionsphotography.blogspot.com

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Future Competition

I just posted some shots from Melanie & Todd's wedding this weekend, and I had to post a few more that I got of the flower girl, Naomi. I had just finished doing a shot of the couple and I looked beside me and noticed Naomi setting up to do her own photo, she was concentrating on capturing just the right moment....



And of course after the shot she had to show me her work...




And the result of all that concentration and hard work...



Good job Naomi... keep it up.

Melanie & Todd

Saturday was yet another beautiful but very warm day, and exactly what Melanie and Todd wanted for their wedding day. We were up at Seven Sisters Dam and Whitemouth Falls for these photos. We had all sorts of plans for shooting down below the dam on some of the great rocks that were there but those plans changed as we showed up and the dam was open and water was rushing through the area we were going to shoot. Despite this "set back" we had a blast shooting and got some amazing photos. Congratulations guys.

Laura & Tim

Laura & Tim was the second wedding for weekend and another perfect day. The day started out with a beautiful ceremony in the morning followed by an afternoon photo session. Tim had his two brothers in the wedding party... I guess it doesn't matter how old they get they will still be brothers and that means they well be getting into trouble... what a great shot though.







The day ended at The Gates with a small reception for family and friends. Congratulations guys.