Jaime Vedres {Photography} – Lethbridge Photographer

Its official, I have excluded myself from the “pro”-tography crowd that keeps growing and hustling our city. Keeping it Legit.

This is a quick time lapse of my grandparents first photo album. The photo album starts in April 1957 with my grandparents going to their high school prom together. The album ends 10 years later in April 1967 with their first home, and two kids!

I was unable to blog any of these photos until the ArtsBridge publication was out. Here are some of the photos I wanted to share.

SAAG Interior Top Floor

John Savil, Architect

Interior of the Post Office Clocktower

Interior view of all four faces of the Clock Tower

Clock Tower Exterior

Just received my new packaging in the mail a few days ago.

I remember visiting my grandma Harding quite often when I was younger. We would frequently help out at grandma and grandpa’s store on main street Taber. Grandma ran a flower shop on one side, and grandpa ran a sporting goods store on the other side. Their store was a kids treasure hunting paradise! You could find all sorts of things in the back of their store, antique toys, planes, scuba gear, old trophies, 50’s radios, you name it. It was more like discovering cool stuff in an attic of someones house then a store to me. Just blow the dust off, and it was something new to play with.

Growing up, I would still visiting grandma’s store. Instead of rummaging around in grandpa’s stuff and searching for treasure, I would help my grandma on the flower side, and ask for a few left over flowers to give to pretty girls. As long as I helped cut, and design, she would always let me take some back to Lethbridge.

Older we get, the less we seem to spend with our relatives. Its been quite some time since I’ve gone out to visit, and help out the grand folks.

My grandma just turned 75, and has been diagnosed with advanced stages of cancer through her lungs and bowels. Thanksgiving weekend, family from Calgary, Lethbridge, and Idaho came to visit. As her birthday present, we all pitched in to clean her house. It was good to have everyone together, finding treasures again in their home, old photos, radios, books and keep sakes from over the years. Just wish I was able to record all the stories I haven’t heard.

After a long day, Sabrina was cleaning out some of her old boxes she hadn’t gone through since we moved. At the bottom she found a small bag, with worry dolls inside. She told me someone gave them to her as a gift back in junior high. Before bed you are suppose to place one of your worries and dolls under your pillow for a care free nights sleep. With the ups and downs, the stressful days, and the good days, It’s all about being able to keep that positive perspective. Maybe these little dolls help throw the positive perspective back into play.

Here’s another shot from my photoshoot with Kelsey and Alex. Still working on processing all these shots out for them, but here’s one I had to throw on the blog. Lots of flare, lots of dust, and lots of reflected light.

After shooting a wedding all day, we came out of the reception, and saw the stars more clearly then I had seen them all summer!

Just woke up in a hostel room at Castle Mountain after a long day of shooting yesterday. Litisha and Rob got married in Waterton on the “Miss Waterton” boat as it cruised down towards the Montana side of the lake. We shot photos of the ceremony on the boat, in muscle cars driving up to Cameron Lake, in a Canoe, on docks, beaches, rope swings, and ended up here at Castle Mountain for the reception. Beautiful weather, beautiful wedding. Excited to share what we shot, so here are two frames I quickly processed.