I am so excited to share a little sneak peek of the first images of Jasmine and Charan's formal engagement. Jasmine looked beyond gorgeous and Charan must have stepped right out of a magazine. Their big wedding day is on Saturday. Stay tuned for more to come in the next few days.
Lots to post but I haven't had time to edit all the session I had lately. Here is just one from last week. Boys will be boys. Blue and bright red tongues, loved it.
...we all need a little bit of color and cheering up. One of my new plants in my garden. Full in bloom and so pretty with the raindrops.
In 2008 I photographed this couple's wedding. Now they are expecting their first child. Can't wait to meet the little person in a few weeks time. Congratulations!
When we left for Australia, ages ago it feels like, I had some last minute sessions scheduled before we left. This little fellow had his 9 months pictures taken. Full of smiles and so handsome.
Last year's Christmas present to myself was an entire lensbaby lineup of different lenses. Just the names of the lenses make your mouth water: Plastic Optic, Pinhole, Double Glass Optic, Fish Eye, Single Glass Optic. Art has been reborn with the coming of the Lensbaby and the continuous improvement of their products. My garden has some nice tulips right now, so I had to play around. The perfect tulip pictures (I am still not quite there yet) will make big canvases in my house. My walls are screaming for something, so that is my mission this spring: produce photography art for my walls. I hope my friend Lisa is reading this because she wanted to redecorate my sad bare walls some time ago.
Check out the website of Lensbaby. I pretty much have the entire line up of lenses including the macro attachments which come in handy for closeups of flowers. The only one missing is the composer, and oh, I am so tempted to add that to my wishlist as well.
This was fern I spotted in Beacon Hill Park. I love the softness of it.
So here we are, end of February and Mother Nature decided to give us just a bit more of winter. This weekend we went hiking, sunshine, blue sky, nice and crisp. And today, we are all waking up to a huge amount of snow. And that snow is dang heavy, I just shovelled out there. Before I cleared the path though, I walked around and took some pictures. Just too pretty not to.
Oh, and did I mention it is recycling day today.
This is our cherry tree in front of our house. Just starting to get ready for spring.
A quick impromptu session yesterday late afternoon.
A little bit of color on a Saturday. I wanted to do this for a long time, bubbly water, fruit slices and some nice natural light. The blue sky in the background added to the overall color scheme. I used my Canon 5DMarkII combined with the 100mm Macro lens. Images 2 and 3: I set up a wine glass on a window sill, direct sunlight coming through the glass, the background is the blue sky (I was inside for the setup). I shot from below to get the bubbles underneath the fruit slices. Images 1 and 4 were shot from above. Setup: a piece of white paper on the floor, a shallow glass dish filled with bubbly water over the fruit slices. Hours of fun.
A totally random post today. My mother visited last year and showed off her beautiful Pandora bracelet. For all of you who do not know what that is, essentially a charm bracelet: according to Pandora's little booklet wording: beautifully hand-finished charms made in sterling silver and 14K gold with genuine gemstones. They can be put together on a silver or gold chain, or a fabric or leather string.
And beautiful they are. I really like them and buying these charms can get highly addictive, and costly. So then a Michael Hill flyer came into our house listing similar charms and beads. Different colors and oh so pretty. Needless to say, I purchased a few more charms. They were about the same price as the Pandora charms.
So last week we window shopped in Oak Bay, on Estevan Road, and went from Buddy's Toys to the next door store which carries pretty much everything that is pretty. And I found more charms. This time, by DaVinci. Never heard of it, but really pretty colors, lots of bling, and so much more affordable. That really made my day. I selected four pretty beads and put them on my Pandora leather necklace. If you look at the pictures below, the top two pictures show my Pandora leather bracelet with Pandora and Michael Hill charms, and the pictures below show my leather necklace with the 4 DaVinci charms. The charm with the little perl is a Michael Hill charm. So mix and match, and save money. If you want to find out more about DaVinci, here is the link. As a price comparison, here is Pandora. Needless to say, DaVinci would not be genuine gold or silver, but still, I think it looks very pretty combined with all the other charms and it is not as expensive.
As parents we all know how quickly our children change day in and day out. Most noticeable are the changes from a newborn to a 3months, 6 months, 9 months and 12 months old. Today I finished up two books with sessions taken during these stages. The little curled up baby is all of a sudden a curious little person wanting to explore everything in sight.
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So precious, just six weeks old.
We went to see the Christmas Trees at the Empress last weekend. I love this yearly event and I always admire all the beautiful displays. I took my lensbaby along to take some pictures. For all of you who don't know what a lensbaby is, here is a link to the manufacturer's website. If I had more time, I would play a lot more with it. That will go on my new year's resolution list I think.
Araxa, directed by Petra Kixmoeller and Timothy Gosley of Merlin's Sun Home Theatre, is a musical starring 13 young students from Ecole Margaret Jenkins School. I had the pleasure documenting their first performance today. Timothy and Petra offer a variety of camps and workshops for children aged 9 to 12 to experience theatre and puppet making. If you are interested, they are currently accepting bookings for their March Break Day Camp in 2011. For further information, please contact Tim or Petra at 250.598.7488 or email timgosley@telus.net
We had a mini session during the cold snap. Very very fast because we were all so cold.
Now that all the snow is gone and only little dirty flecks of white grey remind us of the winter wonderland, I look at the pictures I took during those few days. I actually had a beach session on one of those really cold days. I have yet to edit the images but here is one I took for myself during that session. The low sun was shining directly into her face and her cheeks were all flushed from the cold. So pretty.
After this amazing blizzard yesterday, striking blue skies and leftover of crisp white snow. I took my camera along during a morning walk along Dallas Road. The high winds swept lots of logs onto the beach.
It feels like yesterday that I took her newborn pictures. And look at her now, the world is there to be explored. Soon she will be racing around with her big sister. Happy Birthday, E.!
The perfect age to photograph, so sweet. Full of energy and cuteness.
Two sessions today with very beautiful and fun girls. More to come later.
With Christmas just around the corner, it is time to think about the annual Christmas card. One of my favorite families to photograph humoured me and brought out their modern looking couch which looked great against their Victorian style beautiful home.
I had the opportunity to shoot some images for Fairway Market. We went to their Quadra Location which is a huge store, nice bright and open. Lots of interesting Asian Food, a great deli with all sorts of yummy food, a small cafeteria, and so much more. The images will be used for their new upcoming website. Here are a few images from our morning at Fairway.
A fun afternoon with a fun family.
I had a session this morning with two very cute kids. In the process of downloading I found this image. Her eyes are just so striking, I had to share. Amazing!
"Every child is an artist. The trick is how to remain an artist once we grow up." -Picasso
I found this quote in the spring issue of the 4Cats Arts Magazine. If you haven't picked up an issue, they are available at the 4Cats in Oak Bay. Last week I took some pictures for their upcoming winter issue. I had six very fun models who were excited to create a beautiful winter scenery on a wood canvas.
I thought I post a quick note about the September it has been for me. First of, my apologies to all the families who are still waiting for their edited pictures. I am almost caught up and will make sure everything gets done this month. I am involved in a very interesting and challenging project and hope to post about that very soon. So please check back for that. My wedding season is over for this year and I can now focus on album design which I have neglected over the past months. Tomorrow I will do some more work for the 4Cats Arts Academy. More to come on that as well. I found some very cool templates to design smaller calendars which will make wonderful gifts for grandparents. Don't forget, Christmas is just around the corner and if you want some images for Christmas cards, please let me know in time. My October is booking fast right now. Shooting time is pretty much over in November. The grey skies will be with us for a while, unless we get some wonderful crisp snow which makes for amazing pictures. So if you want some last minute fall pictures, please contact me to book a session. That is all for now and no post should be without a picture. Here is one from yesterday's family session.
Food and kids, the best combo ever. Kim wanted images for her new business and website, called "Dedicated to Delicious". She will be teaching adult and children cooking classes. What a wonderful idea. Here are just a few images from our first session. I will post her website once it goes live.
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