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Welcome to Popik Photography's Blog

Welcome to my blog!  You can visit my main site by clicking here!

I am a Grande Prairie based photographer also working out of the Edmonton area.

In my portfolio, i try to capture the regular, everyday the moments of community life, from the mundane to the profound. My most favorite work focuses maternity photography, newborn photography, child photography, family photography, wedding photography and couple photography.

I hope you enjoy the contents of my blog and my website and I look forward to comments, and future relationships and being involced in your everyday moments!

Candice Popik
Popik Photography

Small Town – BIG CHURCH!

AS I drove into McLennan, Alberta for this wedding, I approached a cathedral located in the middle of nowhere – this beautiful church (Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist) built in 1949.  The bride and groom looked so amazing and so happy – you could tell they had waited so patiently for this day.  Surrounded by all their friends and family, the said their vows, exchanged their rings, and walked out full of smiles.  We took advantage of the surroundings in McLennan, such as the local pond at the campground, wheat fields and a relatives house full of trees and old vehicles!

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Precious Newborn

So a long time client of mine, and one of my most favorite Makeup Artists (brides/ladies looking for an amazing makeup artist – she is the one – Angelina Lang), well, she just had a baby boy!   And I had the honour of photographing him at 10 days old, so precious and small.  I also did her maternity photos in June.  Seems like yesterday I was just there photographing her pregnancy and newborn baby girl who is now over 2 years old.  I’ve had fun photographing and watching her grow up and can’t wait to be a part of documenting this baby boy’s precious life too!

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July 31 wedding in Grande Prairie

So much fun!  After one Lisa and Korey wedding I got a Lisa and Cory wedding the weekend after!  Just like the first couple – this couple was amazing and so in love.  Their friends and family sang and played acoustic music for the ceremony and the formals took place a dear friend of ours beautiful yard and the bridal party was chauffeured around in a huge custom trailer!!!!  The theme was peacocks and Dar from Dar’s Decorating outdid herself again creating a beautiful scene out at 5 mile hall!   Check out this sneak peek and enjoy!! Thanks to second shooter Lukasz Herba for joining me on this one!

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R O O Y Couture Shoot

Well I decided to stay up and edit a few for you all to see since I am headed on holidays….  This day took forever to prepare for but so worth it in the end.  Our lovely model Victoria went through hair, makeup, nails and dress fittings as one dress wasn’t even finished being created when the day began!!  And what a talented team I had!  Chelsea Campagna for hair, Charity Hudak from Esteemed Essence for makeup,  Nails by Deanne Thompson, Photographer Heather Ballek and of course the most talented Lani Van Rooyen from ROOY Couture.

Enjoy!

July 24th, 2010 – Vintage Garden at its best

This wonderful couple I had the pleasure of documenting their day (and their engagement photos a few months back).  So in love, they themed their wedding as a Vintage Garden, full of old fashioned candies, feathers for the girls hair, mustaches for all the men, antique frames , moss, apocotharies filled with earthly goods – even the bouquets were fill of amazing spelling herbs, ivies, poppy seeds and more!  Lana Milner Weddings did an incredible Job with the planning of this event that took place at the University of Alberta Campus, first at the Convocation Hall and finishing up at the Faculty Club. Designer Linda Lindemann created a gorgeous vintage dresser and frames for the props/set for the wedding and as usualy SWISH flowers outdid themselves on the bouquets – It truly was amazing.  Sarah Kumar from The Painted Cake.  The wedding was followed up with a Day after session at Fort Edmonton Park!

Here is a really BIG sneak peek to tie you all over!

Korey and Lisa Cleland - Photos are the most important part of the wedding according to myself. Lisa and I(Korey) met Candice through her friend, who was our wedding coordinator (Lana Milner) about two years ago and viewed her web site. We fell in love with her past work and hired her right away. The true effect did not take effect until June(two months before the wedding) when we got our engagement photos done. When we got out photos back we were blown away to the point of tears. There is something that is breath taking about each photo that I can not put into words. We loved the engagements so much that we decided to add day after photos. Candice is so friendly, professional, and down to earth. My wife and I fell in love with her and her work instanly. On July 24, 2010 We got married and on July 25 was our day after photos in Edmonton. Within 24 hrs of the wedding we had 38 photos from the day before and photos just taken hours before. I can go on and on about how much we love Candice and the photos that she creates. No doubt in my mind we made a great choice in Candice, and when the time comes to get materity photos done I will only call one person. Thank you Candice for all your hard work, words can not say how happy we are.August 4, 2010 - 12:41 am

Anne Nason - You are brilliant, I enjoy looking at your site over and over. Some people see the world with their eyes and some people see the world with their heart. Your work speaks volumes!August 23, 2010 - 4:05 pm