Paula and Carlos are Engaged!

My friends Paula and Carlos are getting married this summer, so I just had to do their engagement shoot!  We went out to Fort Rodd Hill and had so much fun.  I dragged them all over the place and they were such good sports!  Great models too, I had a blast taking their photos! 

Congrats you two!  You make the cutest couple ever and I can't wait to shoot your wedding!!

Rodeo Storyboards

I thought that some of these needed to be seen in sequence so I made up some panos :)

Rodeo!!

I went to the rodeo last month (for the first time shhh!) and had an awesome time!  I had so much fun the first day that I went back for the finals on the third day.  I shot about 300 frames in total!  And, I even got to see my favourite bull rider, Ty Elliott, in person!  (I was super excited about that!  Unfortunately the light turned to poop right before he rode so my shots of him aren't that great.)  Now I'm totally hooked and I want to go to the Calgary Stampede...too bad that's not feasible right now:( 

I hope you like these, there are lots!  I would love some feedback since this was my first time doing this kind of event.

Pausing for a Breather

I've been busy lately!  It's wonderful when I have work, but I think I'm going to take a wee break now that all of my editing for clients is done.  My last shoot was of my friend's dog, Chester.  She needed some conformation shots of him for his stud book.  I've never done anything like that before so it was quite interesting.  Getting him to stand square was a challenge, but I think I got some shots that will work.  Images of him turned away from me while looking back towards me, however, was nearly impossible!  I'll have to re-try those ones another day.  Overall, Chester did really well and he's such a handsome boy!

I still have a ton of my own photos to edit!  Horse photos, camping photos and about 300 rodeo photos!!  Whew!  It's going to take me a while to get through them all.  I am looking forward to the rest of the summer though!  I have an engagement shoot in a few weeks and the wedding in Sept!  So excited!!  (My first solo wedding shoot - no pressure LOL!)  We're going over to Hornby in a couple of weeks too, so I hope I get some good images over there as well:)

Bye for now!  *Deep breath*

Meet Max!

I had the pleasure of photographing Max a couple of weeks ago.  He was so well behaved the entire time!  He stayed awake and happy and even kept facing my camera, such a good model!  He was super handsome too, gorgeous blue eyes and the most amazing reddish/brown hair.  He's going to be a looker for sure!!  I had a heck of a time going through all the frames because liked so many of them...hence all the samples you are getting now!  Enjoy!

Meet Oliver!

My friends Marek and Steph had their second child last month, a beautiful boy named Oliver!  He is quite the charmer and is incredibly handsome:)  He has the most wonderful, full lips (second only to his big sis, Isla, I think)!  I had a great time photographing him and I hope to get some more as he gets older.

Here he is!

Miss Izzy

Since I was home recovering from some dental surgery this past week, I decided to do another photo shoot with Isabelle.  Didn't go as well as I imagined, lots of running laps around the room and fussing about itchy dresses, but I got a few shots that were half decent.  She's really into making silly faces now (in case you can't tell LOL!).

I did a photo shoot with adorable baby Oliver last week and I've almost finished editing, so I'll get those up soon too:)

Spring Is Almost Here

I think that Spring is around the corner (it's hard to tell with all the wind, rain and cool temps), so here are some tulip pics to celebrate!  I got these for my B-Day (thanks Madeline!) and promptly dissected them to do some macro shots, enjoy!