Welcome!
Written by Bartek on bmkblog – 3:50 pm - | Hello, and welcome to our blog! We are Magda and Bartek, a husband and wife photography team based in Montreal, Canada. We photograph weddings, families, kids and many other crazy ideas anyone throws at us! Our style is bright, fresh, colorful, natural and real. We capture raw moments with a fashion photography twist! Have fun browsing this site using the navigation bar up at the top or using the search option, and we loooove hearing what you think so feel free to leave us a comment below any of the blog posts! We welcome the opportunity to capture your wedding anywhere in the world so if you are interested in chatting, send us an email and we will get back to you at the speed of light (or at least as fast as the internet will let us ;) |
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Wanda + Sam: Wedding!
Written by Magda and Bartek on June 4, 2009 – 9:15 pm - Wanda and Sam met through a bunch of friends at University. They didn’t think much of it until they found out they own the same breed of dog… That’s when things started getting interesting! Wanda really wanted her dog Yuki to play with Sam’s dog Tidus so they arranged that they would meet up for a “first walk in the park”. That walk lasted 5 hours and we’re pretty sure it’s not because the pups needed an extra long walk! Now Tidus and Yuki are completely inseperable and the same goes for Wanda and Sam. We are big time dog lovers, so right away we clicked with these two. Such genuinely nice people…we seriously need more of them on this planet!
The day started off fantastic. The sun was glimpsing into their hotel rooms but during mass, the rain started coming down. Hard. After the beautiful ceremony in the world famous Notre-Dame Basilica of Montreal, we were ready to go outside for some photos but much to our dismay, there was a mini Tsunami ripping sideways through the streets of the old Port!!! How horrible!
BUT! After a little bit of thinking we came up with some awesome alternative indoor locations. The rain let up briefly for the horse drawn carriage ride so at least we got that outdoors, yay! Wanda and Sam did an excellent job at posing for us in all these different indoor locations, giving great variety to the photos. Thank you for the wonderful day… oh and the ah-mazing food! Best of luck to the two of you… When Tidus and Yuki decide to get married you know who to call for pics ;)
The bride is ready to go!
Sam, workin’ it on the streets of Montreal’s Old Port!
Anxiously awaiting his bride to be…
We have NO words for this incredibly beautiful church.
Stunning!
Someone’s happy! ;)
After the ceremony, we finally had time to peacefully take some gorgeous images of the two newlyweds. We started off inside the church…
Then we took a little horse drawn carriage ride!
We quickly hopped out to get away from the crazy rain and went indoors again:
One of our favourites of the day!
The rain let up again for a little so we went back to the Old Port for some more photo opportunities:
And finally, we ended off the shoot in the amazing Hotel Nelligan…
Check out the rest of their happy day below! :)
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Erin + Joey: Wedding!
Written by Magda and Bartek on May 27, 2009 – 7:54 pm - A whole year later, Erin and Joey who we did an awesome e-session for, finally said their vowes and promised to be with eachother forever! Lucky for us we were there to capture their fairy tale day! It was raining pretty much all day but Erin was having none of that. Being the super bubbly and positive person she is, she somehow managed to make everyone forget that the sky was grey and wet and brought excitement and bright smiles to the entire party! It even stopped raining for a little bit so we quickly snapped some photos at Dow’s Lake at the famous tulip festival too. Even though it rained there were a ton of tourists admiring the flowers, but everyone’s cameras quickly turned to these two newlyweds when we arrived! ;)
Erin and Joey, thank you for the fantastic time and we wish you all the best in your new life together!
Watch out…
Stunning!
Joey’s eyes are that blue!
These trees looked like they came straight out of a fairytale…
Ottawa’s Tulip Festival was a beautiful photo opportunity!
Erin & Joey were seriously workin’ it!
After the 1st dance, everyone came out of nowehere and wrapped them! It was so fun!!!
Click play below to check out the rest of the wonderful day! :)
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Erin: You guys did it again!!! The pictures are amazing!!! The Photo’s tell our wedding story exactly like it was PERFECT!!!! I am sooooo thrilled we got photos outdoors, the tulips are the best!! Thanks for your wonderful Pictures of Joey and I on our special day. (May 30, 2009 6:01 pm)
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Deb Pilon: Erin and Joey- these are awesome!the photos are amazing, they truly capture the day! (May 27, 2009 9:44 pm)
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rebeca: WOW! the colors are amazing and the couple is sooooo wonderful Love the red details. Great job!!! Congrats to the couple! (May 27, 2009 9:22 pm)
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Magda G: Hello, beautiful couple. I think we got a bird cage veil thing going on! Congratulations on such a gorgeous day and M and B - such great work. (May 27, 2009 8:51 pm)
Magda + Vlad: Wedding!
Written by Magda and Bartek on May 18, 2009 – 10:01 am - It all started when Mirka (one of our dear friends and biggest fan ;)) had come to us over a year ago and asked us to capture her sister Magda’s wedding. We were ecstatic!!!
The wedding took place in downtown Toronto and the beauty of it was that all of the day’s events were in close proximity to one another. Also, instead of having a dinner reception Magda had the fantastic idea of making a lunch wedding reception, which turned out to be one of the most adorable things we had seen. Her every detail was perfect and fitting to exactly the people they are! It was a beautiful and intimate day that was shared with the closest friends and family…and we had the pleasure of capturing it! :)
Lucky for us, they had reserved a beautiful area in Knox College on the university of Toronto campus for some amazing photo opportunities! We also snuck in a few other “forbidden” areas to us (shhhh! you need a permit for photos on the University campus) ;) Thank you both for a wonderful time down in Toronto and we wish that your future be ah-mazing!!!!
We hope you had a blast in Greece! You deserved it!
The Bird cage veil was just stunning on Magda!
“Goin’ to the chapel and we’re gonna get ma-a-a-rried”
Love just beamed from them all day!
Props to Magda for finding such beautiful locations!
We have NO words…
And the light coming through these windows is just angelic…
Saaaay WHAT? GQ? Vogue? ;)
This beautiful necklace was hand made by her sister, Mirka!
To view the rest of the day…click play below!!! Enjoy :)
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Chiara: Magda and Bartek, wonderful use of the light and of Magda and Vlad’s presence. (May 23, 2009 11:52 am)
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Magda: I can’t believe how funny some of the pics in the slide presentation are! (Magda - PACHY - *wink wink*) :)))) (May 21, 2009 9:13 pm)
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Omar Rustom: Wow…you guys continue to raise your level of work with every wedding you do. I am speechless at how amazing the light always seems to be in all your photography. Bartek and Magda, you are truly my photography idols! Please, keep up the excellent work!! (May 20, 2009 12:25 am)
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Mirka: The photos are absolutely stunning! It warms my heart that my sister’s wedding was captured so beautifully and that your photos are what our memories are made of! I am incredibly happy that our friendship carried us to this very special day! Thank you. (May 19, 2009 8:13 am)
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Magda and Vlad: Magda and Bartek, The photos are fantastic. We watched them many times now and keep realizing, remembering how incredible the day was, how joyous, how much ours and how much shared. You captured it in a way our memories wouldn’t. THANK YOU. (May 18, 2009 9:44 pm)
New Website Launches!
Written by Magda and Bartek on May 14, 2009 – 7:10 am - YAY! We’re sooooo excited! :) After a long period of having www.bmkphotography.com under construction, we finally launched our new portfolio website! Our blog couldn’t be more awesome but we just wanted a place where people unfamiliar with our work could visit to get a quick sense of who we are and what we do. If they like what they see (*crosses fingers*), then they’re welcome to visit our blog to get more juicy information!
Go! Quick! We promise it’s worth it! ;) www.bmkphotography.com
We hope everyone has a fun time browsing the website!!! Thank you all for your support!
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Teny: YEEYYY! I just saw the new website! AWE-SOME! great job! SOOOO EXCITED! (Jun 21, 2009 10:47 pm)
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George & Jackie: Just checked out your site and loved it! Beautiful pics and a really well done site :) (Jun 1, 2009 8:06 pm)
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M-A: The website is great! Love the pic of the couple with the yellow backgroud :) *Raindeers rule!* (May 24, 2009 10:54 pm)
Rebeca & Vince: Engaged!
Written by Magda and Bartek on May 5, 2009 – 7:54 pm - Rebeca and Vince are funny! They told us that they’re shy in front of a camera and that they are a little bit nervous for the photoshoot (99% of couples feel this way at first ). After a bit of convincing words that they’re going to ROCK and have a blast, we started off the photo shoot at downtown Ottawa, and raced with the sun to end off in a field and the beach with the beautiful sunset. Aaaaaand just as we expected Rebeca and Vince oozed confidence and struck poses like true models! We had such a blast with them, and their loved showed in every picture making it thaaat much better! Check out the images below ;)
Thanks for the exciting evening and the strawberry daiquiri… we can’t wait for your wedding! xoxo
You can’t make this stuff up:
Rebeca & Vince randomly break out into dance in public, they are so cute!
“Blue Steel”
Wow… :)
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Rosalie Ghostine: Photos are really great! I could feel that Vince is really in love! I am touched to see my baby brother become a grown-up man, in love! I wish you both this happiness and sparkle in your eyes for eternity… (Jun 4, 2009 12:53 am)
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Gaby: awesome work!! it makes want to take my pictures like that!! Spectacular work. Becks you guys looks beautiful!! Am so happy for u!! all the best!! (May 12, 2009 8:13 pm)
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Hazel: The pictures are BEAUTIFUL!!! The happiness just shines out of both your faces. Photographer(s) did an amazing job, (May 10, 2009 8:02 am)
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chantou: the picture are so beautiful and the photograph do a good work thanx because the couple is so pround of this picture. (May 8, 2009 5:02 pm)
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Roxie: Your work is fenomenal! These engagement photos of my sister and future bro in-law are spectacular. You definately captured “the moments.” They do make a cute couple don’t they?! ;) Can’t wait to meet you guys at the wedding:) It’s gonna be a BLAST. (May 8, 2009 12:53 pm)
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Danielle: Oh wow you guys! Stunning! Bex I am soooo excited for you and your man! What a beautiful way to capture your engagement! (May 8, 2009 10:08 am)
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Natalie: Wow! These photos are amazing … so candid. You guys look so happy and cute together!! (May 7, 2009 6:04 pm)
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Dana Dane: First of all the couple is sooooo cute! Secondly, big ups to the photogs. You guys did an awesome job and helped bring the couples’ joy to all of us. Thanks for sharing Becka! :) (May 6, 2009 8:30 pm)
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Mirka: Absolutely beautiful, as always. (May 6, 2009 8:09 am)
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Rebeca Torres: Wow what can I say?? they look great! Thank you for making us feel comfortable and for allowing us to dance for you :) and for climbing up the tree and what else almost landing on us (ja ja)!!!! Thanks!! (May 5, 2009 9:37 pm)
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Rebeca T: Congratulations on your webpage, it looks fabulous!! How can any one not fall in love with 1. your work 2. your beautiful personalities!!! Much success with all your projects! (May 14, 2009 5:42 am)
Constance Grisley: Hi Bartek, we met yesterday in PhotoService. Oh my God, How beautiful,…..and what a team! Would love to put you as a “link” on my new website (soon to be up and running.) I live in Tremblant,…and I know that your “talent” is needed here! Thank you for spreading your light through photo’s!! Connie…… (Mar 22, 2009 10:00 am)
Shannon and Scott: We absolutely love your photos! (Jan 25, 2009 8:56 pm)
Kenya305: OMG the pictures are gorgeous! Find it hard to fight back the tears. Great job. Congratulations and best of luck to both of you guys. Much love from your favorite cuz in the MIA…. (Jan 24, 2009 4:17 pm)
dejha: i’m at work with writer’s block when i receive asha’s voicemessage to check out the pics on your blog. i’m adoring the technique and admiring the stills, but then i click the video, add some sound, and totally fall in love with this amazing experience that we all shared. thank you for capturing it so beautifully. god bless (Jan 23, 2009 11:46 am)
kashfeah: hello dere…im kashfeah frm Bangladesh…i was just browsin thru da net to find some kool wedding pics and came across da ellora+esben wedding album nd fell in love wid it riteaway!!…den i had a look at all ur oder pics and dey r so freakin awsome!!…u guys simply do a gr8 job!.wish u ppl cud ever come to Bangladesh to take ma wedding pics which is not any soon btw!!…neway..keep doin wht ur doin cuz ur simply gud at it!!! (Nov 23, 2008 1:26 pm)
Minh: I saw you guys at the ADAPT conference and was pretty curious of your quality of work so I checked them out on CG Society and I must say they are awesome photographs! You are definitely the first in my mind if I ever get married. (Sep 27, 2008 5:01 pm)
mac: woo :) finally some pics of the mysterious minds behind the great photos… hehe. i like em, flare it up! (Sep 3, 2008 9:50 pm)
Tim Tab: you guys are my heroes, stinkin’ love your stuff, and your post on the canon photography forum convinced me to switch over to all primes. oh, and btw, do you guys speak french? that’d be swank. (Sep 1, 2008 6:40 pm)
Emily: Stunning images. Keep it up x (Sep 1, 2008 8:58 am)
Jen McDonald: Thanks, Bartek. And thanks for visiting my blog! I really admire your work - from weddings to casual personal photos… I wish all mine could be half as good! (Aug 25, 2008 10:52 pm)
Meshach & Tanemara: Wow really nice portrates I love the contrast of the colors. You both look really good!!! (Aug 12, 2008 1:07 am)
Bartek: Thanks Aimee and everyone! We really appreciate the comments, we take each and every one to heart. Thank you all! :D (Aug 5, 2008 10:56 pm)
Aimee: Beautiful self-portraits guys!! YOu should be MODELS! Seriously. And I love the photos from Ellora & Esben’s wedding…. the colors are just so spectacular! Great job once again BMK! (Aug 5, 2008 10:41 pm)
Monica: Stunning photographs! Very unique and vibrant work. Wish you were here on the westcoast! (Jul 31, 2008 12:32 pm)
Monika: Just saw your site. WOW!!! Love the shots. Natural, fun and just my style. Too bad we’re not getting married.lol Maybe for something else? I will definitely share this with people I know. (Jul 30, 2008 10:19 pm)
Max R.: Your portfolio is refreshing. I get so tired of the traditional approach to portraiture that it is magnificent to see such crisp yet honest work. (May 7, 2008 9:19 pm)
Andrew Janke: Hi, Thanks for the memories of Montreal. We spent nigh on 3 years there and are now back in Oz. Especially like the ones of IKEA and opening the Christmas tree, reminded us of great times in our little condo in the McGill Ghetto. Andrew (May 6, 2008 11:51 pm)
Aga: Cool new blog! I like your fresh and modern approach. Keep up the good work and visit NY soon :) (Apr 21, 2008 9:03 am)
Mike Warren: Wow! You have some awesome stuff on your blog!! Great work! (Apr 15, 2008 4:36 pm)
Marlena i Jacek: Bartek and Magda, your photos blew us away! Are you available to do our wedding photos (August 9th 2008)? Jacek sent you an email. Thanks! (Apr 10, 2008 9:11 pm)
Keny: I love the vintage feel of these. Gorgeous work! (Apr 10, 2008 7:43 pm)
Bartek: @Graham: hahaha, that made me laugh! Lemme know which river you’ll be throwing your stuff into please… (Apr 9, 2008 12:50 pm)
Graham: Amazing work…in fact you make me want to gather up all my gear and throw it in the nearest river. I wanna be you. (Apr 9, 2008 4:31 am)
hs: your photos are absolutely stunning! (Apr 7, 2008 6:51 pm)
Sandy & Steve Daleras: Gorgeous pictures, very natural and very cute couple! (Mar 9, 2008 11:38 am)
Magda: @ Niki : Thanks!!! We had a blast doing them! (Mar 6, 2008 4:57 pm)
Niki: Fabulous shots! so modern and so natural. the photos are like art! (Mar 6, 2008 4:52 pm)
Anthony Melatti: Really nice work!! I love your photojournalistic approach to wedding photography. Keep it up! (Mar 5, 2008 7:58 pm)