Dina+Ramsey are hosting a three-day wedding party for family and friends here in Istanbul. Today was day one - a boat cruise on the Bosphorus Straight. Photographer Steve Simon is assisting me here. He and I encountered student protests on our way to the party. Then Eric Clapton's tour manager asked me if I could "please go away" when he saw me with my gear standing in the lobby of the hotel just as Clapton and Steve Winwood were about to board a boat for their concert tonight. Who knows what tomorrow will bring. The dinner party is themed 1001 Arabian Nights.
I am here in Istanbul, Turkey for a three-day wedding celebration beginning Sunday night. Should be a spectacular affair. Here are a few quick pics on arrival. Stay tuned.
It's been a year since I began working with the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Committee on its commemorative book project. In the end there are three books to show for all the hard work. The last one hit store shelves today. It is a hard cover 400-page tome with the entire story of the Games beginning to end. My work is featured throughout, but many of the best sports photographers in the world are in here as well. The incredible team I was a part of reinvented the genre for all three books and now every Olympic Games to follow will look at these pieces as the benchmark. So so proud to have been a small part of that team and for this historic time for Canada. There were many naysayers along the way, and the monetary costs will be substantial for years to come. However, overall, it was worth it and Canadians should walk a little taller in the world knowing we hosted one hell of a party. If you're interested all three books can be found at a really good price on amazon.ca as well as most other booksellers. The books are called Osiyam, A Path of Northern Lights, and With Glowing Hearts.
The road-worthy Sutton family in Agassiz, British Columbia.
Here are a few more rounding out Friday's Cabo wedding. Rick got a money clip from Sharon onto which the infamous Finding Nemo line was engraved. The fun of hosting an event like this with your own beach-front villa is that the craziness can continue unabated well into the night. And it did.