David + Mike (brothers) portrait session

Update June 13

--Where the streets have no name by U2

I have just posted the images from the Dave+Mike Photo-session! They turned out outrageously amazing and I would like to thank the both of them for being some of the greatest models I ever worked with!

Thanks Dave and Mike!

So what do you do when you want to make a portrait session "FUN!"? Well, one way to go about it is to follow the general and universally valid recipe for fun, which is as follows:

FUN!=(Starbucks + friends)^2

Which is exactly what we did. We were three friends, three cups of Starbucks, two of which models, one camera and a lot of fun!

The brothers are bonding: in Dave's words, "Good times, good times"
Dave: "Do you still have coffee in yours?"
Mike: "You bet!"

Dave walking @Uptown Waterloo Market Square by The Shops

The old Seagram Distillery makes a fabulous backdrop. Thank you Waterloo City Hall for not tearing down this lovely old building!

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*tired sigh* WOW! I just got home a few minutes ago from an awesomely amazing portraits session with my friend David and his brother Mike. I've known David for about half a year now, through my friend Daniel and today I got to meet his brother Mike as well. Let me tell you, they're twins and they look totally alike, speak totally alike and ...well they don't act totally alike, although they are both very likable, equally alike haha.

David just finished Conestoga college and is starting his own business in website design, while Mike is volunteering with the Waterloo Regional Police while studying at the University of Guelph. As you will notice in the photos, Dave is the more quiet one, while Mike is the hyper and sporty(er) one, I say sportier because Dave isn't exactly non-sporty either, they both do more running than I do reading posts online.

The initial idea was for me to shoot a session with David only, his intention being to hand some photographs to his agent and eventually get himself into modeling and perhaps acting. David's brother being around, we ended up shooting more of a family portraits session than anything else. It was great fun though! At one point Mike and Dave thought it would be funny if they were to jump over each other, taking turns; of course I could not let that opportunity go and quickly went into position, recording the moment for future generations to enjoy.

I believe the highlight of the day might have been when David saw the previews of the photos on my laptop and liked the ones of him and Mike so much that he got the idea of printing some out for his parents, as a random gift. It's awesome when unexpected joys pop up randomly throughout the day like that.

Oh, and of course, we had Starbucks! A fun afternoon demands Starbucks, of course any fun-loving person in the world can second that ...mmm white chocolate mocha. Enough talk, here's some photographs to enjoy!