Hello! Magazine Photo Shoot

This past weekend the Men's Eight showed up at the Empress Hotel, (best hotel in Victoria) for a suave photo shoot. HELLO! Magazine had approached Rowing Canada's marketing department about doing a 2 page spread pertaining to a pre-olympic issue and build up.
I was surprised at just how much time, money and effort went into this on their part. The clothes and stylist flew in from Toronto. The photographer and makeup girls were from Vancouver and the location had been pre-scouted a couple weeks ago. All that for a 2-page spread!

Upon arrival to the "Bengal Lounge" in the hotel we were greeted to a huge rack of clothes, shoes, ties & belts. Thank god there was a stylist deciding what we would be wearing. All of the clothes have yet to arrive in stores so this was mini preview of what was going to be "in" this summer. A couple of the guys dress pretty well....but for the most part we are just your normal dressers so this was different for sure!
I like the look that Kyle ended up with which she called "nerd/sheik". Basically and argyle sweater vest and white dress shoes, he wasn't too sure, but I thought he looked good!

Anyway, once we got our clothes on we sat in the makeup chair for about 10mins getting all kinds of crap put on our faces. No wonder ladies take longer than us in the bathroom!

The photo itself was done in front of a fireplace and had us all looking pretty sharp. Funny thing too was making sure there was room in the middle of us all for the "seam" in the magazine, something that didn't cross my mind but the pro's there knew to make sure it didn't land on one of our faces.

The whole thing took about 2.5 hours and was a good time for sure. It will be in either the July or August issue so make sure to grab it while at your local convenience store this summer!!!