Lifestyle | Brianna

This is my second session with Brianna. (You can see the first by clicking here.) Like her last session, this was one was to commemorate her achievement of a very important title in her youth group organization, Job's Daughters.

Job's Daughters (or Jobies) is a youth group for young women between the ages of 10-20 who are related to a Mason. (Shriner, Mason, Knight Templar. You can find out more about Masons by clicking here.) Jobies is an organization where girls learn life long skills like public speaking, etiquette and business meeting skills. The group provides a sort of comradery and friendship, so much so that some girls are so close with one another that they identify themselves as family on facebook! They have fun events like sleepovers, movie nights and picnics. They also have a serious side to their activities, like fundraising for local (and international) charities, volunteering at public events and competing in competitions on a provincial and international level.

You can learn more about Job's Daughters at http://www.iojd.org/ or about Alberta Job's Daughters at http://www.iojd.ca/

Last March Brianna competed in the Alberta provincial Pageant competition. The winner of this pageant gets to travel around the province representing the organization to not only it's members but the the general public. The competition tests the contestants knowledge of the organization among other key elements. Brianna won the title of Miss Alberta Job's Daughters in March 2011. In August she competed in the international equivalent, the Miss International Job's Daughters. And she won!

In the months following her crowning, Brianna has travelled to several countries and been home for only a few days or weeks if she's lucky. I was so happy when she said she wanted to take time out of her very busy schedule to have a second photo session with me. Here are just a few from her session yesterday.

The winner of the International pageant can be from any of the countries in which the youth group is active. Job's Daughters currently has members in Canada, the USA, Brazil, the Phillipines and Australia. In the first 30 or so years of the history of the pageant, only a handful of Canadians won the title. In 2005 I was privileged enough to win the International Pageant. (That's right, I was a member of Jobies. How else would I know so much about it? :) Feel free to ask me any questions if you are interested in joining or know someone who might be!) Since then, Canada has had the honour of having 3 of their Misses win the pageant. And they have all been from Alberta!

So where am I going with this you wonder?

This is the part where it pays to photograph what you know. You get ideas that regular photographers might not.

Believe it or not, many folks from the other countries actually think that Canada is a icy winter wonderland all of the time. Even with 4 Misses from Canada, there are some that don't realize we get to enjoy summer and don't have to wear winter jackets all year long. I thought it might be fun to play up the Canuck stereo type. Here are a few shots we took outdoors.

Brianna was SUCH a trooper. It was at least -15 out and she even took her jacket off for some shots!