Hi, I’m Taylor, a wedding photographer out of Kitchener - Waterloo Ontario - about an hour from Toronto, and beside me is my beautiful girlfriend, Kate.
My wedding photography leaves a lot of the traditional attitude and heavy posing at the door.
To keep myself fresh, I only take on a limited number of weddings per year. So get in touch with me as soon as you’ve set a date, 2010 is booking up fast.
April 17, 2009 - 8:25 amBecky Sloan - Hi Taylor, beautiful work as always! Keep up the fantastic work!!!
April 17, 2009 - 8:52 amLindsey - So excited to have you photograph our wedding! It's been amazing to see the growth in your work over the past year, glad we got you when we did!
April 17, 2009 - 9:22 amTaylor Jackson - Thanks so much Becky and Lindsey! I'm so excited for both of your weddings. And you two just might be my most loyal blog-followers - your fruit baskets are in the mail :)
April 17, 2009 - 11:07 amJordan - Taylor is one of the most calm, confident people I've ever met. I've done 4 shoots with the guy over 3 years and he surpasses himself time and time again. Whenever I get hitched, I'm calling him.
April 17, 2009 - 11:08 amLil - I'm pre-booking you for my wedding. Say sometime in 2012? Gotta find a boy first.
April 17, 2009 - 11:20 amAndy - I'm totally dragging you and the girlfriend to Morocco when I get hitched. Seriously.
April 17, 2009 - 11:28 amAmber Claire - Ooo spiffy new layout! I like.
April 17, 2009 - 11:30 amTami El Sombati - Love your pictures, you're insanely talented. Best!
April 17, 2009 - 11:56 amTaylor Jackson - Thanks for the kind words everyone :)
April 17, 2009 - 12:00 pmRichard Harbridge - I notice you didn't go with SharePoint for your blog engine. Looks great though. :)
April 17, 2009 - 12:15 pmJess - Love the blog -- just came across it the other day. It's great to see a local photographer doing the things you're doing. Keep up the great work.
April 17, 2009 - 12:19 pmJamie Valladares - You have a great consistent style, and a beautiful eye for storytelling!
April 18, 2009 - 11:14 amJessieB - How am I just finding out about you now?! Had no idea such talent existed in Kitchener. Incoming email..
April 19, 2009 - 11:11 amJai - LOVE your photos!!!
April 20, 2009 - 3:01 pmNikki Rae - I really like your wedding stuff, but I really really really like your travel photos. Let me know if you're ever out in the Vancouver area
April 20, 2009 - 5:52 pmRichard deSol - Hey Taylor, great meeting you last week. Your photography is wonderful, best of luck in the future!
-Richard
May 20, 2009 - 2:54 pmLaura - Hey Taylor! Can't wait for you to photograph our wedding in a couple of months! So excited! I KNOW we chose the right person! :)
June 8, 2009 - 6:00 pmBrad J - Taylor, we LOVE what you've posted! We Can't Wait to see the rest of them!!!!!!!
Great Job!
June 30, 2009 - 2:47 pmBrooke - You guys are friggin amazing!!! We had so many compliments about the "photo booth" at our wedding and there is no doubt there there will be many about our wedding photos...can't wait to see them! Kate thanks for doing our make-up. Taylor - best photographer ever!
Tammy and Travis were married in this past weekend in Dunnville Ontario. Their reception was at The Grand Olympia in Hamilton / Stoney Creek. Kate came with me to take photos, and place detail items artistically (shoes, rings, etc - she’s REALLY good at it.)
Here are a few photos and a slideshow from the day:
Reading her wedding present from Trav
Flower Girl
Here’s a little slideshow - some of the photos in here are Kate’s!
June 22, 2009 - 8:34 pmAlexandria Pominvill - Absolutely stunning photographs as always Taylor!
June 30, 2009 - 8:31 amshannon Gregory - You captured the most amazing pictures. I really like your non traditional style.
June 30, 2009 - 11:00 amPat and Marg Gregory - Your photos turned a day full of rain and quickly altered plans into something magical for our kids and families. Thanks so much!
June 30, 2009 - 12:47 pmSharon Pitts - Your Photos are awesome!!!!! It looks like the wedding was planned to be indoors all along. What great shots of everyone.
I grew up in Cambridge, where I played (travel) hockey for 10…or 14 years, or something ridiculous like that. Go Hespeler Shamrocks.
Last weekend I photographed the wedding of a fellow Hespeler hockey player, and there were so many people I haven’t seen in years.
I also met a new friend, Marj. Here’s a story for you:
Marj is a friend of Ms. P, a teacher at The Voila Institute of Hair Design in Kitchener, and she’s been to my site once or twice -she also knows Robyn, one of my Trash the Dress brides. Earlier in the week she went in to get her hair cut, and say hi - and guess who cut her hair? Kate! So Marj tried to hook Kate up with her son, but Kate said she has already found a keeper (me!). Marj goes home with the ‘I swear I’ve seen this girl before’ thought in her head, and checks out my website. Sure enough, the girl that cut her hair is one of the models in my Ladybug fashion set. She finds out that I’m photographing the wedding, she comes to say hi, and this story unfolds.
That was better than The Hills, no?
Ashley and Ryan are both from Stratford, but decided to come out to Waterloo for their engagement photos. I didn’t even have to tell them about the petting zoo in Waterloo Park (that just so happens to feature goats, llamas, and mini horses)
They were fresh off their Stag and Doe weekend (which put the venue slightly past capacity) and ready for some engagement photos. Here are my favorites
Last week my friend Candice asked me to help out with a shoot. She’s a hair stylist/makeup artist/photographer, and had a girl by the name of Danielle Todd down in KW for some photos.
June 15, 2009 - 5:09 pmMarj Meiers - Stunning! Absolutely stunning! It should be in a magazine!! Nice to have met you the other day at Dan & Marilyn's wedding, I can't wait to see their photo's...p.s. tell Kate I said "hi"
Today at noon, I headed out to Waterloo park for a few quick shots with my new friend, Logan. Logan is the perfect kid to photograph - he wouldn’t take his eyes off of me. Oh, and he had this suave little cool-guy smile. This is the best way I can describe his smile: Picture he’s just hanging out on a picnic table in front of a milkshake stand circa 1960, in a leather jacket of course. He’s looking the other direction, but he hears a noise - while he turns his head, a girl in a bright red dress enters his peripheral vision. He knows she wants to talk to him, and as soon as their eyes lock he lets out a bit of a smile. Just small, and warm, as to say hello without words.
If you follow my blog, you’ll notice that I end up in Las Vegas quite often. (6 times since November I think) It’s just been random chance.
Things I’ve learned about Vegas:
The guys that hand out flyers on Las Vegas Blvd will never leave you alone. If you’ve been there, you know what kind of flyers they hand out.
The hotel room bathrooms at Ceasar’s Palace DO NOT HAVE A DOOR. But they have a phone beside the toilet, and TV infront of the mirror. I suppose this balances out.
Bally’s is probably the best place to stay if you want a good room for $35 bucks a night. They’re nicer than the Holiday Inn, and dirt cheap. Oh, and in a great location.
Fremont Street is hilarious, and contains approx. 25% of the U.S. tye dyed shirt population.
THE GOLDEN NUGGET HAS A WATER SLIDE THAT GOES THROUGH A SHARK TANK. This is awesome.
The airport has free wireless and slot machines - as well as sketchy 80s style mirrored ceilings.
You can drink on the street.
It’s hot.
Really hot.
Air Canada’s 30 Rock Episodes are way behind (they currently only go to season 2, episode 8 -)
The pools sometimes contain 1 part water to 1 part tanning oil.
There are way too many high end clothing shops there.
Check out the photographer in Ceasar’s Palace shops. You’ll want to buy his shots for every wall in your house.
Anyways - this trip I took every single photo with a fisheye. Why? Because I think it’s funny - and to my knowledge no one else in the world has been dumb enough to try something like this.
Here are a few photos:
Takeoff in Toronto
Clouds.
Hotel rooms look much bigger with a fisheye (Paris)
Poolside at Paris
Paris wants to convince you that it’s always daytime out.
June 17, 2009 - 6:54 pmNataschia - Great collection of wide shots lol-I've only been once-great place to visit-if only for a few days! Good to meet you today-see you at the next WNP!
June 20, 2009 - 6:08 pmBlythe - These are awesome! I'm now inspired to seriously check out these fisheye's. Really cool shots!
So here begins the story. It started out as a simple engagement session in Waterloo, and then we found two large, sealed bottles of alcohol under some shrubs. We are all completely baffled to how these bottles of alcohol ended up under these bushes. They didn’t appear to be concealed, just placed labels up, under some greenery on Erb St right in front of the police station. *shrug*
Oh, and the keys got locked in the Hummer. Not pointing any fingers. CAA was called, and eventually saved the day.
We’ll start with the serious shots, and go from there.
And that’s all for serious shots. Here’s the rest
The discovery.
The product shot.
Smiles only.
Their brand new Ikea living room.
Random facts about their new Hummer:
The doors will probably lock if you get out while the keys are in (pictured above)
The windshield is pretty flat, and will attract a lot of dead bugs on the 401
I’m back from Vegas! (again) It was a great trip. First I flew to Houston to meet up with Marathon Oil for some corporate stuff. But I’ll get into that on a later post.
Here’s some shots from Brooke and Hrag’s engagement session in Waterloo. They’re getting married at The Pines in Cambridge just a few weeks from now - AND THEY’RE HAVING FIREWORKS. I’m very excited to say the least.
They brought the youngin’ along for the journey - he likes candy.
Now I’m off to photograph a Sunday wedding in Waterloo at Starlight with my good friend Scott Williams.
Hi, I’m Taylor, a wedding photographer out of Kitchener - Waterloo Ontario - about an hour from Toronto, and beside me is my beautiful girlfriend, Kate.
by Taylor Jackson
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