B2 Photography | Winnipeg, MB

I remember the week of Charles and Sara’s wedding checking the forecast periodically through the week…everything was looking great, sunny and 27 degrees said The Weather Network, I should have known that an early week forecast was unreliable but it was so great I wanted to believe it was true!  Then on about Thursday the forecast changed and it said RAIN RAIN RAIN all weekend!  Well the big day came and many many prayers were answered because it didn’t rain one drop on us!!  Charles and Sara were blessed with amazing weather on their wedding day and we made the most of it! I LOVED that Charles and Sara chose to do a “first look” before the ceremony!!  This gave us so much time to spend together taking photos. My favorite way to start the day is sneaking off with just the bride and groom for some photos of just the two of them!!  I found a great little spot on the side of the road on the way to her parents’ house where I took them and then later in the afternoon we headed into the city with the whole wedding party and met up with their families for photos at Red River College.  Charles and Sara were so much fun to spend the day with and their wedding party was so great!  Bringing much laughter along wherever we went, and that was so much appreciated!  CONGRATS Charles and Sara!  Thank-you so much for allowing to be part of your special day!  Hope you two are enjoying newlywed life!

Funny side note:  When I booked this wedding I was in contact with Sara and on one email she cc’d Charles and I recognized his name so I asked her “did your fiance by chance go to high school in Winkler??” Sure enough, it was the Charles that I went to high school with.  So at the wedding I did see some familiar faces, old friends who it had been way too long since I had seen and I even saw a past high school teacher.  Small world!  It’s fun how this business gets you in touch with people you used to see all the time!

Special thanks to Chris for coming along as my second shooter, driver, and the one to hold on to my step ladder so I didn’t fall!  (Yes folks, he takes pictures too!)

On to the pics!  Be sure to check out the slide show at the end of lots o’ wedding fun!

Charles waiting for his bride!

My perspective was of Sara…..

…and Chris’s was of Charles

Great shot above was another one of Chris’s

Love this close up Chris took….such a sweet moment!

Gorgeous girls!!

Sara was SO HAPPY all day!!!  Constant giggling coming from her!

Sara’s Ommie was so adorable.  I had to grab this shot of her during the family photos.

Special moment between Sara and her mom….

Had to throw this one of Matea in too!

Chris got this great shot of all the paparazzi!  I bet Sara’s cheeks hurt at the end of this from smiling!

Baby Jack made his grand entrance into the world on May 14 and I was lucky enough to go and meet him when he was 9 days old!  He is such a sweet little boy, loved and adored by so many people! During his shoot Jack was the perfect amount of sleepy and the perfect amount of awake!  It was so cute at the beginning when his eyes were so heavy and he was oh so comfy in mom and dad’s arms.  Congrats Jamie and Tracy!!  Thank-you for letting come photograph this special time for you guys!  And thanks for keeping Birger outside while I was over

I love baby yawns!

She was gorgeous with a baby belly and now she’s a gorgeous mama!

I love Jack’s nursery!  I want some polka dots like that on my wall!

So I must admit, I’ve fallen a little bit behind on blogging….with good reason, I have a lot of great stuff coming up!!  This is a shoot from a couple weeks ago, the weather had been horrible leading up to this day but things warmed up and cleared up just in time!  The last time we saw these boys on the blog Grant was just a newborn and Dylan was two, after taking a few shots at their home we walked down the street to do Dylan’s favorite thing….throw rocks in the pond  Check out the fun we had!

Check out those gorgeous blue eyes!

And I saved my favorite for the end

These two love birds are tying the knot this weekend!  Last week we went out, on a rather chilly evening for some engagement shots!  It was a blast and I can’t wait to see these two this weekend in their wedding garb!  Pretty sure Sara is going to be stunning!

This weekend, my gal pal Erika and I planned to go out and take some photos.  Chris, aka my husband, aka Radtke Studios just got a new camera so he decided to come along and get some video footage too, so it turned into a fun outing for a whole bunch of us.  At one point in the day I was taking pictures of Erika and Chris was beside her filming and she looks at his camera and says “this is where it all started….” and right she was…it all started with a camera, a roll of film and me and Erika in a field somewhere.

My very first job was at IGA in Winkler working in the photo lab and lucky for me working in the lab got me great discounts on cameras.   One day I decided “I should buy a camera, me and Erika could have some serious fun with one” so in 2001 I bought my first SLR film camera!  As soon as I got it Erika and I bought a couple rolls of film and went out on our first little photo-shoot.  I dropped the photos off at the lab and when I got to work the next week the girl who printed my photos asked me to take her wedding pictures!  I had shot 2 rolls of film and this girl trusted me to take her wedding photos…perhaps she was crazy…and perhaps I was too for saying yes….but I did and the rest is history.

In the beginning years, I would study Seventeen magazines looking for inspiration in ads and editorials.  Then I would drag Erika out with me and we’d spend a whole day practicing, learning about composition and taking two rolls of film and hording those frames for the best shots we could come up with.  Then we’d develop those pictures, critique them and find all the things we needed to improve on…..”we need to really start getting closer, filling up the whole frame”….and then the next shoot we’d concentrate on close ups.  Things were so different when you were limited to only as many frames as the film could hold.  We took so much care setting up each shot and it really taught us so much about getting a great shot!  Years later we still love going on those self-indulgent photoshoots where we spend hours together taking pictures of each other and get giddy about finding beautiful light or capturing the shot.

More to come of Erika but here’s just one that I luuuuuve.

Thanks to my uber talented husband Erika and I now have a memory of how crazy we look while we’re taking pictures of each other.  In all seriousness, I LOVE this video, it really does capture how much fun me and Erika have on our little outings.  I wouldn’t trade the memories I have of our little outings for anything!   I love our photo dates so much!!

You’ll notice a few extra faces in the video….keep your eyes open for guest appearances by Erika’s brother Carl and her fiance Malcolm.  AND if you watch really closely you might catch a reflection of Chris somewhere too!  Oh ya….and there was also a gopher or some kind of wildlife! lol.

All you brides that haven’t booked a videographer yet, what are you waiting for?  Don’t you want a whole bunch of fun little movies like this of your wedding day?!  Head on over to Radtke Studios and tell Chris his wife sent you

I met Audrey about 3 years ago when she was my ballet teacher….as soon as I met her I liked her…she has an infectious, happy personality and it’s impossible not to like this girl!  Plus, she had great taste in music….we danced ballet to Backstreet Boys….hello!! Fantastic!  I was so excited to hear a while back that Audrey got engaged to her boyfriend Jason and even more excited when she asked me to take engagement pictures!  I mean….this was payback, payback for all those painful developpe’s she put me through!  Finally, I was going to be the one giving her orders!  Shoulders back!  Eyes up!  Toes Pointed! Well okay….not quite the toe pointed part. Lol.

All joking aside, I had such a great evening with Audrey and Jason….they are so so sweet together!  When you’re with them you can’t help but see how head over heel in love they are!  It was great to hear about how they met and fell in love as we spent the evening together exploring around Kildonan Park.  And then we finished off the night with some ice cream….what’s better than ice cream?!  Nothing, except maybe cupcakes

from silly to serious in a matter of moments…

So excited we’re 9 hours away from the weekend!  And I bet these two will be so excited when their sneak peek comes on Monday!

Some shots of my most recent session with everyone’s favorite little fashionista!

THANK-YOU to everyone who voted for all the lovely ladies who entered the contest!  It was a close race, we had over 1000 votes and the results changed daily!  I won’t be long winded today and i’ll get right to the good stuff…..the winner is….

Kari and Megan!!

Congrats girls!!!  May 30 can’t come soon enough!  We’re so excited to work with you!!!

Check back in June for the photos!!!

So my sister had a milestone birthday this year….I won’t tell you what milestone though because it’s not polite to tell a woman’s age

Growing up my sister and I had a volatile relationship….one minute we were playing Barbies happily in our “Barbie room” (yes, we had so many we needed a room to house their little world) and the next minute someone was biting someone’s arm (usually it was me doing the biting), then there was usually a storm out leaving someone playing Barbies alone, which was not that much fun so we’d patch things up and by the next day we’d be playing together again.  Years later we don’t bite, hit or scratch each other and we are the best of friends!

Saturday night all my cousins and my sisters best friends went over to her place to celebrate and since it was such a special birthday this year I decided she needed a very special cake!  So I called on Meghan of Meghan’s Cakes & Cookies and asked her to work her magic!  And boy, did she ever!  All of last week I was bugging my sister about the secret cake I had ordered.  I told her it was a cake of a dog….and my sister is terrified of dogs (even more than I am!).  Te he.  But I would never order her a cake of a dog, in reality I ordered her a cake of something I KNEW without a DOUBT that she would love.  Proof that I was so bang-on with this cake was something that she said to me the day before the party “I think if the little girls at the party don’t want to stay with the adults I’ll set up the JEM dvd’s for them to watch in the basement, they’ve never seen her before and all girls should know Jem”.  The wait is over….here is the unbelievable cake!!

“Show-time Synergy!”

Her hair and make-up was SO shimmery!