Bryan Morris - Aruba’s Premier Wedding Photographer

I have quite a few great images of Naeem’s class. I’ve repositioned myself and eliminated the battle with the other parents around with cameras to get a shot.

The show was a reenactment on a remix of 4 local kids songs.

A portrait of the fire fighter Naeem.

This little guy is such a showman. He was the MC of the entire show for his class, thus Naeem’s class.  Way before the event while all was getting on stage he got up probably first and started to pace the stage like the MC that he is. Here are a few shots of him. 

These are the ants just getting on stage.

Here is an ants on the attack with a candy.

This is another happy ant. I shake his hand everyday as I get to the school to pick up Naeem. Every fiber of his being exudes adventure in a big way. The teacher certainly earned her wages with him. Cute kid nevertheless.

This is one of the cars making an entry to the city.

Here is the sailor asking the girl in the city to marry him.

The cars moving through the city streets.

The construction team coming on site to build a house.

Construction crew at work.

This is the little fires that came to destroy the house because the MC was playing with matches.

Mikaila having fun on stage.

This little fire really put her heart in her performance, I really enjoyed her.

Firefighters approaching the scene in their firetruck of course.

Firefighters doing what they do best…….Fight fire!

Fires coming under submission to the fire fighters.

After they’ve extinguished the fire they’ve decided that things got hot so they were cooling off the crowd.

Blessings,

Bryan Morris

Arco Iris Kleuter School celebrated 55 years of existence this year. They’ve organized a show to simultaneously celebrate the school’s existence and raise funds to complete the restoration of the playground. They’ve used recycling as a theme of the show. Props were constructed from recycled material.

Shannon Bueno opened the show singing Aruba’s anthem.

This is Ishaq on his way to the stage, notice his vest mad of pop/ beer covers

Kiki ripping up the stage.

OK here, Ishaq disengaged from the show and enjoying the take off of the helium filled balloons they let go.

This is Chloe, another of Ishaq’s classmates.

Ishaq, as soon as he came off the stage.

Blessings,

Bryan Morris

There are great schools here on the island of Aruba, but there are some that succeeds way above the other and Arco Iris Klueter School is definitely one of them. Ishaq and Naeem goes to this kindergarten.

On Friday evening they’ve had the 55 anniversary of the school and ofcourse I was there to cover this. You’ll see more of this later on in the week.

Here is one of Shayenne and Naeem giving the crazy eye. I really like how this looked.

Blessings,

Bryan Morris

I’m often asked by brides if I could convert a few images in B&W and I always respond positively. There are however so many looks to B& W.

Last week shooting a few portraits of my wife in some crazy lighting I’ve decided that these would be great to transform to B&W to portray a few of the different ways I could go.

After dinner we walked out on the hotel strip. With camera still in hand I decided to shoot a couple portraits of Shayenne. The light was even crazier than in the restaurant. I’ve then decided that these would be great to transform to B&W to portray a few different possibilities with B&W.

I just like to push myself to be creative and come up with something cool. This is the way you learn. You have to practice in real life scenarios so when you get yourself in a situation like this you would know how to handle it. As a photographer you should be able to do the job under any circumstance, providing you have the right tools.

I just love shooting with available light, I use flash whenever it’s a real must or I want a different look.

Here are a couple of shots that were created under crazy light and transformed to B&W, different shades of black & white. Enjoy.

Blessings,

Bryan Morris

I was cleaning my camera’s sensor while my wife and kids were playing outside.
I came outside with the camera in hand and they wanted me to make a portrait of them, so here it is.

Blessings,

 
Bryan Morris

Ring, ring…..

“Hello, this is Bryan Morris how may I help you?”

“Hi Mr. Morris…I have a guest here that will like some family portraits taken on the beach later today.

Are you available?”

This is the way I was connected with Family Rolo. Mr & Mrs Rolo have the cutest kids. Upon meeting them at the Aruba Westin Resort one of Starwood Hotels on Palm Beach, Aruba I could see they were very laid back. The day was a bit cloudy but I’ve asured Mrs Rolo that even though she preferred sunset that I would still work around the dark skies and create the best family portraits that I could amidst the circumstances.

Family Rolo consist of Mom (Ann) and Dad (Lou) and two beautiful daughters, Lucia and Antonia.

Lucia and Antonia are two little models. Don’t be surprised within a couple of years you see them on the runway. Mom informed me that Lucia used to model as a baby. She still has it in her as she strikes her pose.

It was an absolute pleasure for me to work with you.

Following is a few images of the shoot.

Blessings,

Bryan Morris

Blessings,

Bryan Morris

I’m constantly on the go and I barely get time to play around.

While editing a wedding today I’ve found this image of Ishaq between the wedding images. This was taken at home the morning after the wedding.

Coming down to the end of the edit I’ve decided to take this image and play a little. This is what I’ve came up with.

You might be sitting there behind your display saying “OMG, he’s mean” He’s not mean, he’s having fun.

Blessings,

Bryan Morris

It has been some time that I haven’t been around.

Since the ailments of my daughter, I was backed up with a few projects which I had to catch up on before I get on to a few busy days. During the few busy days I was really hoping to sneak in a few posts but I came down with a heavy dose of the influenza virus. I think that my immune system was probably being chipped away little by little while I spent that week at the hospital. I’ve never felt this bad except for last summer when I was infected by the Varicella Zoster Virus. That’s just a funky name for chicken pox.

Well yes, it seems as though we’re being followed by a plague, because this time around we’re all sick except for Shaydee. So you know she’s our nurse just as we’ve been a few weeks ago.

Now, enough of my sad stories.

In these past weeks that have seemed to have gone by uneventful, I must say that was not the case. I’ve had a very interesting meeting with Aruba’s registrar, Mr. Cayetano “Betto” Christiaans. This meeting along with some investigation turned up some very interesting information.

I’m currently working on this, I will hint you that it will be a three part series called “To marry or not to marry@ City Hall”

I must also inform you that this year 2008 is a year of festivities, I’ve recently celebrated my 5^th wedding anniversary and the photography business will soon celebrate 5 years as well. So look forward for many specials and even surprises. There’s a lot on the horizon, so keep coming back.

Blessings,

Bryan Morris

My family and I want to express our gratitude to all those that sent emails, after I’ve posted last week that Shaydee was in the hospital. Shaydee was dismissed from the hospital on Sunday and it seemed that her ailment worsened. With a whole lot of love and care she was ushered into Monday where she was much better and on her way to recovery. She reminded her mother that she was promised that they would bake a cake together. My wife was off on Tuesday so they went shopping early in the morning while the boys were at school and came back and started to bake.

Shayenne instructed Shaydee what to do and she followed the instructions to the T.

This is what they came up with. I must say that she’s completely recovered on her second day after she was released.

Blessings,

Bryan Morris

I’ve heard these questions yelling in my mind all week. I know you’ve been wondering? My apologies for not responding to any emails this week. I usually do respond within 24 hours, if not right away as I spend most part of my days behind the computer anyways. I do have a legitimate reason for not responding to any of my emails this week.

It was on Tuesday afternoon my daughter had a slight fever nothing to be alarmed about and she went on her bed. My wife was preparing a soup for the kids, at serving time she went to Shaydee and asked her if she would like to have some soup now. After some silence I heard her say ” Shaydee?, Shaydee? Say something.. by then I knew something was up I got up and met her on the way to the bathroom to put her under the shower, all in a panic attack.

Someone had to remain composed in all this pandemonium going on in the house so I decided that it would’ve been me. I’ve tried with Shaydee while my wife called 911. Shortly after the ambulance came and determined that she has had an epileptic attack and that she must go to the ER. I remained at home on standby as I had the boys with me.

Upon checking her and running a minimal amount of tests on her, they’ve decided to keep her as she had to be under observation and Wednesday she had to do a full scale of tests to determine if there’s any damage to the brain.

Fast forward to Thursday, I’ve then had a long meeting with the doctor and the neurologist and thanks be to God they’ve not determined any damage to the brain.

She contracted a virus that caused an infection in her throat which triggered high fever and caused febrile seizures.

As soon as they can regulate her body temperature she will be dismissed and I can resume to my regularly scheduled programming, which is answer your emails. I’m currently just camping out at the hospital, with no Internet access.

Once again I’m sorry but you should be hearing from me over the weekend.

Blessings,

Bryan Morris