The Corpse Bride

Tim Burton is one of my many favorite filmmakers and artists. He is known for his gothic fantasy and horror films such as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and Dark Shadows.

This image was from a collaboration with talented Lucia Pierre from Lume Makeup and Hairstyle and Model-Sarah Horricks. Photography and edited done by myself. Location was at Studio_91

Here’s some photos from the process of in camera to finished and what I used to make the final image.

I hope to do more Tim Burton Photoshoot Projects.

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Studio Portrait Photographer Accreditation

Here is the recent successful submission to the Professional Photographers of Canada (PPOC) for Studio Portrait Photographer Accreditation. I submitted these 10 photos for review by a panel of judges and just recently got the news they had been accepted.

You can also check it out at my YOUTUBE Channel

Thank you to everyone that helped make this possible.

Apple Splashes

Apple Splashes… Red, Yellow and Green.

What’s your favorite? I personally like red and yellow.

Growing up we had lots of apple trees. On the way to school we would pick a fresh one off the tree for our lunches or recess snack.

What I like about the arrangement of these three images is it also looks like a traffic light. These are a part of my Primary Colours Project. Much more to follow!

I’m thinking of getting these printed for our new home. We get the keys March 31. I’ll be painting and decorating the new place.

These are also available for purchase.

"Women of the White Buffalo"

Recently I entered some Images from Project Change #MMIW, a collaborative effort to raise awareness of MMIW from 2019, into a photo challenge called #SilenceNoMore through https://www.facebook.com/womenwhitebuffalo

They are creating an event to feature artwork from across North America to promote their documentary called "Women of the White Buffalo". Click to watch the trailer.

“The Lakota women living on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota are rising up against the forces that continue to suppress them. By preserving and protecting their ancestral values and wisdom, they provide a source of hope to their people. With exclusive access to the lives of 8 women, insight is gained into the experience of modern Indigenous American women living on a reservation.”

I was asked by Natalie Favarloro to include this image titled. "No More Stolen Sisters", a photo of April Eve Medicinespiritdancer.

Make up provided by Deonna Fetzko of Aurora Hair and Makeup Artistry

Here is a link to the event on March 26th

https://discord.com/invite/nftoasis

My image will be available as a NFT.

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VOH Christmas Gifts Available

11 shopping days till Christmas...

Head down to the Emporium on Whyte Ave or go to the online store https://www.sconaemporium.ca/ to get your Christmas gifts.

We have calendars, cards, mouse pads, posters and prints available.

New stock available at the Old Strathcona Arts Emporium

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Visions of Heaphen Photography 2022 Calendar

We’ve included just a few of our favourite images from the past few years.

Thank you so much to everyone who was involved in the making of these images

It was sooo hard to chose only 13 images… We only decided a week ago to put out a calendar and have been under a deadline trying to get it done. Due to the landscape orientation of the photos it was impossible to chose many of my images as most of them use a portrait orientation. For 2023 I will focus on providing landscape edits for the next calendar.

Some of these were entered into the PPOC Alberta Image Competition and won prizes.

Calendars will be sold for $25 and we will donate $5 from the sale of each calendar to the Edmonton Food Bank

If you are interested in a calendar, get your order in soon.

They will also be available at the Old Strathcona Arts Emporium on Whyte Avenue.

Here are the Images in this year’s calendar

Image names are:

We are looking forward to working on more projects for the 2023 Calendar.

My Dad Remembrance Day 2021

My Dad “Gary Almer Crossman” joined the Royal Canadian Airforce March 24th, 1953 in Saint John N.B., six months before his 19th birthday.

Here we assume he was in training camp.

Here he is with his Mom and Dad before going off to serve. Helen and Elmer Crossman

The first picture here is of my dad with his buddy at Long Beach near Tofino, doing KP. The other two images we believe are of him and his mates stationed in France.

Dad rarely talked about his time in the Armed Forces, other than some funny stories about getting in trouble and having to do KP. He peeled a lot of potatoes.

He was born September 6th, 1934

He passed away July 29th, 2021 and I miss him dearly.

2021 PPOC - Alberta Annual Provincial Image Competition

Every year the Alberta chapter of the PPOC puts on an Image Competition for all its members.

There are 22 categories of images to submit. Those images from PPOC members from all over Alberta are judged by a panel of 5 judges.

There are four levels you can be judged at, Not-accepted, Accepted, Merit and Excellence. Think of the top three as bronze, silver and gold.

Judging takes place online where the “Makers’ of the images can watch as judges critique each image. It is a very tough panel and just getting an Accepted is tough to do. Excellence happens very rarely.

I submitted 4 images in four different classes.

They were;

  • Sitar Dance (Portrait Category, Accepted)

  • IT’s the Real Thing (Product Illustration Category, Accepted)

  • Eggs-Ploring Colour (Fine Art Category, Merit)

  • Change (Conceptual Illustration Category, Excellence)

All images accepted or higher are entered into the Alberta Image Salon, this becomes an art show that travels throughout Alberta.

On top of the judging for these levels the same panel also judged the images for “Best in Class” for each category. They also chose for the Pat Eisenbarth Award which is given to the Best in Show.

Last weekend the PPOC had their annual photography convention called “Light Matters”. At the end of the three day convention they had an award show where they revealed the final winners.

The Image Change was unanimously voted Best in Show for the entire competition.

Here is the final image, the certificate and the press release for the award.

Thank you to the Models, Makeup Artists, Designers, Organizers, Sponsors and of course my Hubby Steve for all their effort and talent in making these images.

These images are available to purchase as prints.

Traveling Dress Project

A year ago I submitted my application to participate in the Traveling Dress Project. Thank you to Christy Reynolds Smith and Nina Lugue for your dedication and hard work.

This was the 2021 year for the 7th Annual Traveling Dress Project. This year was their biggest geographical year ever with the dress seeing two provinces in Canada, and traveling from several places in Idaho to two stops in Texas, Wyoming, Michigan, Kentucky, Delaware, New Jersey, and Maine.

“Awards for 2021 will be based in three different ways, which will be different than how we have awarded prizes in the past. We will be awarding Judge's Choice awards for 1st through 3rd place. We will award 1st through 3rd place for the public attendees votes and we will be offering online guests the opportunity to vote for their favorites where we will also award prizes for 1st through 3rd place. This gives more of the Artists an opportunity to have their work recognized depending on the platform”.

2021 Traveling Dress Project Judge's Choice Winner First Place

2021 Traveling Dress Project Judge's Choice Winners

When Hollie saw the image on the top of the page and found out we had won, she screamed so loud her roommates thought she was injured or something. We are Over the Moon on this one. We look forward to the 2022 dress.

Heather Fryer (PPOC) Photography and Editing

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I am a nationally accredited member of PPOC (Professional Photographers of Canada) in Image Manipulation.

FEMALE SINGERS, MUSICIANS ARTISTS

There are so many amazing YEG ladies in rock that we can’t even begin to name them all.

I am a nationally accredited, award winning photographer and digital artist.

I had the pleasure recently of working with a few of them. They came to my home studio where we spent hours trying on costumes, laughing and take photos.

Here are just a few edited photos form these sessions.

We are working on a calendar for 2023 to raise awareness and money for mental health issues. All of us have been impacted by mental health issues in our lives, especially over the last few years. I know Steve and I have had our share of tragedies and sorrows over the last year. We were fortunate enough to have each other along with our family and friends. Not everyone is so lucky.

VOH Photography will be waiving their sessions fees for all Local Female Artists that wish to join in. We will keep on photographing our strong Ladies until our calendar is full. Drop us a line if you want in on this worthwhile project.

Dress up in your own outfit or wear one of ours, try a ball gown with military boots, or jeans and a tank top, go punk, go country, go bohemian, whatever your style is, bring it and we will make you look great.

Bring your favourite gear; guitars, ukuleles, accordion, saxophone, even drums. Whatever you have that says “This Is Me”, bring it and we will have a blast. Change your outfit and lets do it again.

Are you a Female Performer? Do you know one?

Give us a call…

Urban Country Boyz

Hanging out with Jose Jalapeno and Amanda Preston is like the city mouse going to meet the country mouse.

I grew up in Windermere BC. Whenever I head out to visit Amanda and Jose I get lost in the memories of my childhood. I get to leave my busy life behind and just relax.

Jose is the first horse that I’ve met that sits, rears up, bows and many more amazing tricks. I’m in awe watching Amanda work with Jose. I hope to take some in action photos for her next summer.

I took these photos with a mind to put out another calendar. Tough times made it a little difficult this year. I will work on this for next summer when we all will have more time to focus on it.

I took these photos with my Canon 5D MK IV and brought them into photoshop. I changed out the skies, did a color matching removed fences and other objects. I use a fill light when photographing outdoors even during the day. My lights that I use are the Godox AD200, I have three of them with a variety of modifiers.

Alex Cojo is a friend of Amanda’s. She asked if he’d like to pose for a few photos. It was a pleasure meeting and working with him. We got several really good images of him, especially this one of Jose rearing. I really love Alex’s pose. He looks very powerful and confident and matches the same look and feel I get with Jose in this image.

I really enjoyed working with Alex and look forward to working with him again.

Please check out my other work and if you have any questions please send me an email to visionsofheaphen@hotmail.com

C7 - RBY Corvettes

Here are some photos to a project I've been working on. I've been wanting to do a photoshoot with Yellow, Red and Blue C7 Corvettes.

Hoping to work with a variety of other cars to create this series. Camaros, Mustangs and the Corvette C8.

The most common wheel used by painters is based on RYB color system–where red, yellow, and blue are the primary colors.

Mix those colors, and you end up with secondary colors orange, green, and violet.

Combining those results in one of six tertiary colors: red-orange, yellow-orange, yellow-green, blue-green, blue-violet, or red-violet.

Thank you ...

Ken Turner and Heather Ng (Yellow)

Adriano Bossio and Charmaine (Red)

Morris and Melissa Leeson-Stelter (Blue)

Photography and editing Heather Fryer @ Visions of Heaphen

Thank you Steve Fryer for helping.

Before and After Automotive editing

I wanted to share a few of my before and after Automotive Photoshoots and editing. I have been shooting automotive for 5 years now. Many of my shots are just plain photos of cars with minimal editing, some i take to the next level doing composites in Photoshop. Placing the vehicle in locations other than where they were shot. Here are just a few of my images over the last five years. We are working on a YouTube video of my process from beginning to end.

Horsepower for Hope- Photoshoot Offer

We are offering an automotive photo shoot on location in the Edmonton area.

We will donate half of our session fee of $250 to Horsepower for Hope and Kids with Cancer.

You will be provided a personal gallery to view all the edited photos.

You will have an option to purchase social media images. prints and even a magazine of your car.

Custom movie posters are also available at an additional cost.

Heather Fryer is an Award winning, Nationally Accredited Photographer with the Professional Photographers of Canada. Find her on Facebook or Instagram

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Flamenco

The Beautiful Kasda Allen came to our studio in 2019 to do 2 photo shoots on the same day. What an epic shoot!!

We love working with Kasda, she is such a pro and drop dead gorgeous!! The always talented Deonna Fetzko once again provided amazing makeup and hair. Love that curl. Thank you to the wonderful jewelry from Madame Nadine. The paper dress was provided by Michelle Menard.

We talked Kasda’s boyfriend into dressing up as our Flamenco Guitarist. What a trooper!

We had a stellar team. I look forward to working with these amazing talented ladies again.

Dress from designer Michelle Menard Haute Couture

Outstanding Hair and makeup by Deonna Fetzko of Aurora Hair and Makeup Artistry

The lovely Jewelry by Madame Nadine

The stunning nails by Candice Wdowiak.

Austin Saint as the Flamenco Guitarist

Kasda Allen was transcendent as ‘The Dancer’

1926 Studebaker

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History on the Move.

This old classic Black and Red Steam Locomotive made this picture, picture perfect. Why wait for the train when you can bring the train…

The reason these edits took a while, besides life in a pandemic, was I needed to find the inspiration I was looking for. I’ve been wanting to shoot Brian’s classic 1926 Studebaker Big 6 Roadster ever since I first saw it. I didn’t just want to have a snapshot, it needed to be EPIC!! Bryan’s father was just 19 when he first rode in this car in 1950. He found it again in an old pit basement in in Culp, AB. in 1970 and started the restoration after paying only $25 for it.

He did an amazing job.

Thank you Brian for spending a couple of days with us driving around taking photos of your car. The picture with the bridge was taken outside of St. Albert just off Sturgeon Road. Always loved this bridge!

If you are looking for some great photos of your favourite ride drop us a line or check us out at VOH Photography on Facebook or Instagram

Pennywise, Before and After

This blog I want to share more of what my process is when I do my personal projects. This is shot in my home studio, a 11 X 14 room in my basement with 5 strobes. Before on the Left and After on the right. Needless to say there are a few steps in between.

I know another photographer who started off in a basement room with a small window and now she is famous. She inspired me to try it for myself.

One of my favorite Photoshoot Projects was my Christmas with IT (Pennywise) with my good friend and HMUA Deonna Fetzko and one of my favourite models, Sianna Dawn Gray.

My vision for this shoot was to put a twist on Christmas with an iconic dark character. Kind of my version of what Krampus means to Christmas.

This particular edit is Pennywise roaming the halls of a haunted sanitarium on a child’s tricycle. It just seemed to be a perfect fit for this back ground. This was one of ten successful edits I entered for my accreditation for Image Manipulation with the PPOC. I call this one “Ward C'

This edit, I just added a back ground. The black and white tile floor with the wallpaper added ambiance to the image.

I love the background for this one, the abandoned midway and boardwalk are perfect for this creepy clown.

As you can see, this image was done with mom involved. Young Miss L, our young model, is friends with Sianna, our Pennywise model, and saw her get transformed by her mom, our HMUA. Mom got the perfect shot of her daughter and then we brought Sianna in for her shot. Young miss L laughed the whole time and thought Sianna was funny.

Be Careful what you Believe in…

Everyone gets a chance to pose with a Coke bottle at my shoots. It’s just something I like doing. This turned out perfect. Thanks to our good friend Steve for reminding us of the iconic Coca Cola catch phrase.

IT’s perfect…