Maternity :: Monica

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Just a sneak peak from Monica's maternity session this evening. I am so excited to be invited back to photograph the arrival of the twins!! Good luck you guys!

Birthday :: Jordan

Happy Birthday Jordan! I was thrilled when this handsome little fellow's mom asked me to photograph his fourth birthday party. Like any young boy he has great aspirations for growing up: he wants to be a firefighter. So the entire birthday had a fire fighting theme, including a visit from a real life fire fighter! (I don't know who enjoyed that part more, the kids or the moms! Haha!) It was a great afternoon and I felt so fortunate to be asked to help this wonderful family celebrate this milestone.

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Family :: Swadling

I've decided to try a new way of doing sneak peaks. I'm not sure how long this idea will last but we'll see!

Sneak peaks are one of the things I really pride myself on being able to provide. I hate waiting to see what kind of photos someone has taken of me so I always try to get a sneak peak up as soon as possible. Usually it's within 48 hours. But, as my editing skills increase, it takes more time for me to edit each photo - even if it doesn't look like it my post processing process has doubled in time in the last 8 months. This becomes a problem when people except a nice indepth sneak peak, like the ones clients have come to expect. 20 photos has gone from 1 hour of editing to much longer.

Anyways, above is a sneak peak from the Swadling's session this morning. They were a very nice family and I felt privileged to be able to take their family portraits. Feel free to click on the photo to see a larger version of it.

Summer Flowers

While wandering around the park while waiting for my session with Lisa, Justin & Madison (see previous post) I snapped a bunch of shots of flowers. I haven't had much time lately but made special time to post these. There may or may not be more later. I took more shots, it just takes time to throw them into the story boards.

The template for these boards were actually made by someone else, which I found online ages ago. The website name isn't coming to me unfortunately... But there are lots of sites out there that offer all sorts of templates for free. Lately I've been experimenting with my one. With these ones, I tweaked them (background, font, photos obviously) but the concept of the board was actually someone else's. Fun fact: these are currently the wallpaper for my desktop. That's what I orginally made them for. :)

Life :: Lisa, Justin & Madison

A few months ago I held a contest to celebrate 150 fans on the WSG's facebook page. Lisa was was the winner of that contest. And then this month, she and her hubby Justin celebrated their anniversary. I was very happy to oblige when she asked that she use her prize, one free session, to celebrate the milestone. I absolutely adore their entire family and had a great afternoon with them. Here are some of my favourites from her session....

Newborn :: James

Baby James is eight days old... and he is absolutely cute as button. I was very excited when his mom Addie emailed me to ask me to photograph his newborn session. (Truth be told, I get excited about any shoot, but especially when there's little fresh babies involved. It's the girl in me coming out I guess.) Here are a bunch of my favourites from the session. You can see more on the facebook album at www.facebook.com/wishingstargallery Congratulations to Addie & Steve!

Barely a week old and he's already got an OMG face.

Big yawn!

Bigger yawn!

So sleepy...

On a semi related note, I viewed the blog on a different computer than the ones I normally used and realized that when I select the "large" option for photos that get gritty, stretched and overall they look crummy. I'm working to fix this.... So you'll just have to bare with me as I experiment!