Rachel Boekel Photography Blog

S and C were the winners of a engagement session giveaway last year and I was so excited when they booked me for their wedding.
S & C wanted a winter wedding in the mountains and were married at Rafter Six Ranch near Canmore. We were so lucky
with a picture perfect day and even snuck into...

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A blog post you ask? An actual blog post with more than 2 pictures?
It’s here!
My 2nd last wedding of 2009.
I have to say that my last two 2009 weddings were both the coldest events that I have ever photographed.
I may have wondered if I would come out of them with all my fingers in-tact. (Lucky...

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I’m back!
Happy New Year everyone.
It felt so good to have a break – a real break. No emailing, no phone, no editing and now I feel so…. refreshed.
2010 is off and running already and I am happily sprinting along with it. I have the energy and the legs.
We did it all over the holidays. We...

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Remember on Saturday when I said I was heading out in -20C to photograph a wedding?
It was actually more like minus one hundred degrees celsius!! I’m serious. It was that cold. I had ice form on the back of my camera.
Raise your hand if you have had ice form from your breath on your LCD panel?
It...

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I love these weddings. I find that out here in Brooks, Alberta I get to photograph real weddings.
The kind of weddings that celebrate the history of the area and the area itself. Maybe you’ve already seen their sneak?
Bryan and his groomsmen all wore jeans and cowboy hats and we went so far as to do...

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I have been in an editing vortex all day.
I can barely see the screen anymore, my eyes are bulging and probably red. Happily  red though because it means
that there are a lot of people out there with galleries to look at and now this blog post to share.
You might remember Dominique and Jaime from their...

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Max & Michelle are marvelous. I posted a sneak peak forever ago and said that this was one of my favorite weddings of the year.
It really was. I only spent a few hours photographing them but sincerely, the love and respect and humour that poured out of these two and
their family and friends was overflowing....

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August 1, 2009
Yep, that’s how behind I am. But, just so you know, I’m a machine right now and won’t stop till I drop.
In the meanwhile….
Mitchell is my cousin and I couldn’t be happier that he found Melody. These two are crazy about each other. with a capital C.
Melody is originally from the Philippines and I loved...

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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I love photographing people in their home element.
Katie and Bryan were married at the Patricia Hall on Saturday had their reception at the Duchess Hall and we did their photos everywhere in between.
I had bragged to a few people before the wedding about how lucky I...

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It snowed. It froze. It was October 9th. It wasn’t supposed to freeze or snow.
When I talked to Dominique the day before the wedding she said, “Nothing I can do about it.” It snowed and snowed and snowed.
Let me tell you, it was the most beautiful October 9th that I have ever seen and Dominique...

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