Hello,
My name is Paul Lamontagne. I am the owner of Champlain Photo and Vermont Sports Images.  Below are my credentials as a photographer and why I feel I'm qualified to shoot your wedding,  portrait or sporting event.

I have worked in the photo business since 1984. I started by working at the first "one hour" photo lab in the Burlington area and have continued to work at a photo lab since. I recently (spring 2003) opened my own photo lab and studio called Champlain photo in South Burlington. It is a full service photo lab with a complete professional digital studio. 

In 2002 I started an online high school sports photo web site called Vermont sports images.com.  On that web site I shoot thousands of photos of local athletes and post them for students and parent to enjoy. I feel that my constant interaction with high school athletes helps when it's senior portrait time. 

Over the past 20 years along with working in a lab I have pursued sports/journalism photography as well as wedding photography. I have spent time working on the sidelines of NFL and Major League Baseball games and I currently work for several newspapers including The St Albans Messenger, Colchester Sun, Essex Reporter, and Milton Independent. My photos have appeared in these newspapers as well as the Burlington Free Press, The Addison Independent, Bennington Banner, and Brattleboro Reformer. Just recently (December 2004) I helped launch a new magazine geared towards high school athletics called Varsity New England. My photos are featured prominently inside as well as on the cover.

I have photographed over a hundred weddings over the last 20 years and I continue to enjoy it. Being a sports photographer at heart I have always felt the same energy at a wedding as I do at a big sporting event. I feel like my sports photo background has given me a knack for capturing key moments that happen during a wedding. I also feel that wedding photography has received a big boost with the latest advances in digital photography. The flexibility and security of digital photography is ideal for capturing a wedding and at Champlain photo I strive to take full advantage of that.

I consider myself a no nonsense person and I try my best to eliminate some of the usual gimmicks and hassles associated with studio and wedding photography. I won't force you to buy packages that you don't want and I won't keep ownership of your negatives just so I can charge you outrageous prices when you want reprints. My goal is to bring you high quality professional portraits and wedding photos at an affordable price. I consider myself flexible and do not have a big ego which means I am always open to new ideas. If you have ideas that you think will help make your wedding or studio photos better then I'm more than willing to listen. My goal is to work with you so that in the end you have photos that match your expectations.

Thanks for your time and I look forward to working with you in the future.

-Paul Lamontagne