Ring shot

As you may, or may not know, my hubby and I are moving. We recently celebrated our anniversary with a photo session with Morgan Marriott of Creative Bliss Photography. You can see our photo session at www.creativeblissphotography.blogspot.com. I was going to do a blog post about it because although I didn't take the photos I felt it would be nice to highlight another amateur photographer's work. (Plus Morgan is a frequent WSG client.) Unfortunately, I am so insanely busy I just don't have the time to. :( Maybe later.

Anyways, so we had our photo session. And at our session we had a few photos with our jerseys. And now we're moving. So... our house is in a state of organized chaos. Last night I was relaxing (actually I was trying to get my hand working.... I have a flaring case of carpel tunnel I think...Complicated by photo editing.) and I noticed Shaun's jersey sitting on the side of the couch. So, I took the oppertunity to take a ring shot that I've never seen but couldn't believe I hadn't thought of it. I've taken photos of a flames jersey and a dog, a flames jersey and a baby, but never a flames jersey and wedding rings.... well now I have!

Practice makes.....

Practice makes.... well not perfect. I bought a manual lens from a fellow photographer and have been practising with it between photo edits. What's so hard about this lens you ask? It has the ability to have a very very small focus spot, blurring everything no matter how close to the subject. Take the photo above for example. My focus was on the flower head, but the depth of field is so shallow on this shot that not even the whole flower is clear. So it's a toughie.

Happy Canada Day

Happy Canada Day!

....So I know this post is late. I've been behind on the times lately and I apologize profusely. Work has been very busy. And my "real life" has been even busier. So since this is a part time thing, something had to give.

I am currently working like a fiend juggling packing, work, and editing a bunch of photos. As you may know, May/June was a very busy photo month for me and to be fair to my family I have tried very hard to not be a photo zombie...especially with the stat holidays. (Photo zombie definition: when you have eyes only for your camera or computer because you are editing.) Don't worry, I haven't forgotten about you and I am working to have your photos done as soon as possible.

In the mean time, while I am trying to get my external memory to connect to my photo editing programs so I can continue editing, I figured I shot attempt at a Canada Day post. I did have this post for the Canada day long weekend, but unfortunately it seems in my busy photo zombie stat, I forgot to actually click "publish post." So the lovely, well written blog post I had was lost.

Canada Day my hubby took our little family (him, me and our chocolate lab Hartigan) to a man made pond just outside of Calgary that we like to go to. Hartigan used to be terrified of water but as he has matured he's come to love it. Before, he would through himself down on the ground when you brought him within 10 ft. of water. Now it's tough to get him out!

The pond is glacier fed. This gives it a gorgeous blue colour.

Walking around the pond....

Hartigan at a distance.

"Oh hai!"

Swim swim swim

Getting sleepy

Shaun took away the stick that Hartigan found and he didn't seem to care for that... so he shook his fur as hard as he could in Shaun's direction :p

"Please please please throw the stick..."

Newborn :: Jackson

As busy as I've been with "real life" lately, I couldn't resist blogging about a session I had today. This little fellow came two weeks early, but it's clear that his mom and dad have loved him long before his birth. Here are some of my favourites!

Baby :: Aria

In May I blogged about my mother's day session with Jennifer and her daugher and mother. I felt so blessed to be asked to photograph the three generations of her family. I returned this month to photograph Jennifer, her husband Vishal and the darling little girl, Aria! You can see Jenn + Vishal's maternity session from last year by clicking here. And you can see their mother's day session by clicking here.

Child :: Ryan

One of the things I really enjoy about my job is when families call me back for 2nd session. Since I've been shooting under the WSG banner for over a year now I seem to be getting a lot of year-later-photo phone calls lately. When it comes to kidlet shoots, I get to see how much they have grown. I really enjoy that part. For some reason, I get a big kick out of it. Ryan is one of these cases. You can see his first session by clicking here. As a viewer/reader you might get a kick out of how much this little charmer has changed but still managed to stay the same.