Confidence - getting Racey with Miss R

The other day I photographed my first boudoir session. Funny to be in business this long and not to have done one but it hasn't been on my agenda. When Miss R saw some photos that we did from her friends wedding she decided to give me a call. I let her know that this was a new experience for me and if she trusted me I would give her some tastefully sexy photos. She was up for the challenge and I believe that we got some great photos that fullfill my original intent. I'm sure her boyfriend is going to love his valentines day gift :)

Thanks for calling me Miss R. The shoot was alot of fun and I thank you for your patience with me and my inexperience in this area. I am really honored that you decided choose me to photograph this intimate session.

An Update on the Retouching List:

Weddings:

Ready for pick up:

Jenine & Tim
Destiny & Chris

At the lab:
Shauna & Dave
Jaycee & Bradley

Working on:
Megan & Jordan

Waiting their turn:
Cassandra & Matthew
Kirsten & Art
Lisa & Kevin
Nicole & Jeff
Amberlee & Danan
Cindy & David

Portraits:

Ready for Pick up:

Anne
Carol
Jessica
Wendy
Amanda
Christine

Working On:

Elisha

Additions - Waiting to Hold Hailey

I met up with Holly and Ryan last Friday night to do some belly shots. We were able to photograph Holly and Ryan as they were married last year and it is very exciting to see them adding to their family now. They already know that they are expecting a little girl and her name is going to be Hailey. It shouldn't be too much longer before she makes her arrival into the world - and there are already soo many people looking forward to meeting her. Holly has been having a great pregnancy and it shows in how cute she looks.
Thanks guys for including me in this special moment! I totally enjoyed photographing you guys at this exciting point in your lives. Hopefully I will see you again soon with your new addition.

What a cute Mommy-to-be - love her shirt as it says "baby makes the belly go round" :)

The matching camos are soo Ryan!

Love this tender moment.

Soo many cute pics, they fit perfect into this collage...made up in the colors of Hailey's room...

Top 10 of 2008 - Anticipation

This is the 2nd set in our top 10 of 2008 contest. This week we will have photos from the getting ready part of the wedding day. Thanks for your votes - we look forward to announcing our winners at the end of the contest.

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Love - Tara & Cole

New Year Eve brought us to Tara and Cole's wedding - our final wedding of 2008, New Years Eve and my birthday - we were in for a great day. It was blowing snow and minus 26 but still a great day for a wedding. The girls looked fantastic and the boys looked pretty good too. Everyone kept cozy in the Morinville Catholic Church for the beautiful ceremony in which all the bridesmaids started crying as Tara came up the aisle...it was soo sweet. Then it was off to a friends log house for photos. We were pleased to have such a beautiful location to capture some images for this couple. Finally we took off to the party at Cardiff Hall...and I must say the hall has never looked soo good! They had the place decked out for our New Years Celebration with stars and Christmas lights. With some speeches from friends and family - Tara and Cole's love was celebrated and you could see the two families happily blessing this union. We stayed for the midnight countdown and it was fun to watch the groomsmen shoot off the Kabuki Canons at the stroke of 12. Everyone ushered in the new year with some cheering, kisses, hugs and alot of horns tooting. The party was DJ'd by Puttin' on the Hitz and Greg did a great job keeping the dance floor rocking all night long. Omari and I headed out around 1 am and the party was still going hard.

Thank you Tara and Cole for including us in your wonderful celebration. It has been such a pleasure getting to know the both of you. We hope 2009 brings you many blessings! See you soon to go through the wedding photos...for now here is your sneak peek slideshow...Tara and Cole's Slideshow.

With customized M&M's - the rings and decorations fit together well.

I LOVE this pic of Tara sitting and listening to the readings during the ceremony

After the informal recieving line we went back into the pews for this great shot.

We were heading out to the "formals" when I asked the couple to come back to the front of church for this shot.

The bridal party was alot of fun...with family and friends involved they looked great together.

Top 10 of 2008 - Excitement

So we have decided to run a little contest that will span over the next few weeks. I will do my best to post a new poll every Sunday and at the end of 10 weeks we will have our top 10 photos of 2008. So it is up to you our blog stalkers to vote away and help us determine our winners! The top 10 photos (one in each category) will be enlarged to 8x10 size and given to the couple who's session it is from. We will start the contest with our favorite photos from our "Excitement" category - the engagement sessions.

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Joy - An Exciting time with Elisha

Before the new year I was able to spend a few hours meeting up with Elisha and her family. I had met Elisha for an engagement session awhile ago, since then she married her honey and now they are expecting their first child. How Exciting! It was a pleasure to meet her extended family as we did some family photos and then did some belly shots. I look forward to meeting this little one really soon :)

Love this shot of the whole family.

A siloutte shot is always so fitting during this season of your life - beautiful guys :)

Elisha has such a cute round belly - getting rounder every day at this point.

They took cute e-session pics and now I'm happy to showcase their belly shots

Final update for 2008

Wow are we really nearing the end of 08? Seems like the year just flew by! I am sorry to any anxious people who didn't get their orders in time for Christmas. I did try to accommodate everyone who let me know they were using their photos for gifts and I believe I satisfied all those. So a quick update on the retouching line-up....


Wedding line up:

Ready for pick up
-Jenine & Tim

At the lab:
-Georgina & Phonse

Currently working on:
-Destiny & Chris

Still awaiting their turn:
- Shauna & Dave
- Jaycee & Bradley
- Megan & Jordan
- Cassandra & Matthew
- Kirsten & Art
- Lisa & Kevin
- Nicole & Jeff
- Amberlee & Danan
- Cindy & David

Portrait/Online orders line up:

Ready for pickup...
-Carol
-Marsha
-Anne
-Wendy

working on...
-Amanda

Awaiting their turn
-Michelle
-Kimberly
-Peter

Joy - A merry time with the MacNeil Family

Last weekend Omari and I met up at the lake outside the millwoods golf course for a walk and some family photos. It ended up a pretty decent day considering the season that we are in. It was alot of fun trying to keep up with their little guy - he was so adorable. Here is a peek at a few of our photos with them....

Omari captured this sweet shot as I was setting up a family photo.

aren't they a beautiful couple?!

You can just see his personality in this one

I love capturing the casual moments too.

update again.

We are moved in and even though there is still some renos to do and a few more boxes to upack...it is starting to feel like home :) Thank you to all for your patience during this transition. I know people are anxiously waiting their orders so I will list the line up as it stands right now....

Wedding line up:
Ready for pick up
Jenine & Tim

At the lab:
Kim & Jon
Crissy & Alan
Allison & Glen

Now working on:
Georgina & Phonse

Still awaiting their turn:
- Destiny & Chris
- Shauna & Dave
- Jaycee & Bradley
- Megan & Jordan
- Cassandra & Matthew
- Kirsten & Art
- Lisa & Kevin
- Nicole & Jeff
- Amberlee & Danan
- Cindy & David

Portrait/Online orders line up:
Ready for pickup...
- Brenda

At the lab:
Kelly
Robyn
Candace
Anita

Now working on...
Melissa & Dylan E-book

Awaiting their turn...
- Wendy & Ryan E-book
- Kim
- Robert
- Marsha
- Karen
- Victoria
- Carol
- Kimberly
- Carlin
- Katy
- Anne
- Brenda

The line up...

A reminder that we are moving to northeast edmonton this week so I have to take the week "off". At this point this is where the line up stands. The wedding lineup is pretty much the same as I got about half-way through the current wedding. Thank you again for your patience!

Wedding line up:

Ready for pick up
- Melissa & Marc
- Jenine & Tim
- Angela & Greg
- Bryanne & Tyler

Now working on...
- Kim & Jon

Awaiting their turn...
- Crissy & Alan
- Cassandra & Matthew
- Allison & Glen
- Georgina & Phonse
- Destiny & Chris
- Shauna & Dave
- Jaycee & Bradley
- Megan & Jordan
- Kirsten & Art
- Lisa & Kevin
- Nicole & Jeff
- Amberlee & Danan
- Cindy & David

Portrait/Online orders line up:
Ready for pickup...
- Brenda
- Liesje
- Sandra

Awaiting their turn...
- Kelly
- Jessica & John E-book
- Melissa & Dylan E-book
- Wendy & Ryan E-book
- Robyn
- Candace
- Anita
- Kim
- Robert
- Marsha
- Karen
- Victoria

In Memory of Ida

An angel in the book of life wrote down my baby's birth.
Then whispered as she closed the book,

"Too beautiful for this earth"

Yesterday, baby Ida silently entered the world. Unfortunately she wasn't meant to stay with us. Ida was a beautiful baby girl who is already greatly missed by her family.

In Memory of Isaiah.

Perhaps they are not stars
but rather openings in Heaven
where the love of our lost ones shines down
to let us know they are happy.

- Eskimo Proverb -

On Oct 30, 2008, Isaiah entered and left our world. He was born too early but loved oh so much. Thank you to the family for inviting me to share in the meeting of this little one. These sessions are truly life changing.

The line - up

So it is that time of year again when the wedding and portrait orders have backed up on me. Everyone is wondering where they are in the line-ups so I will try to post the list every couple weeks so you all can see where you are....Thank you all so much for your patience!
This upcoming week I am planning to try and get out alot of the portrait orders as I know many are wanting the prints for Christmas cards and such...of course I'll get to some of the wedding pics too...Just a warning though - I need to take most of the following week off of retouching so as to pack up our house for the big move -

Wedding line up:
Ready for pick up
- Melissa & Marc
- Jenine & Tim
- Angela & Greg

At the lab...
- Bryanne & Tyler

Now working on...
- Kim & Jon

Awaiting their turn...
- Crissy & Alan
- Cassandra & Matthew
- Allison & Glen
- Georgina & Phonse
- Destiny & Chris
- Shauna & Dave
- Jaycee & Bradley
- Megan & Jordan
- Kirsten & Art
- Lisa & Kevin
- Nicole & Jeff
- Amberlee & Danan
- Cindy & David

Portrait/Online orders line up:
Ready for pickup...
- Brenda
- Tara & Cole E-Book

At the lab...
- Tatjana
- Crystal
- Peter

Now working on...
- Wendy

Awaiting their turn...
- Brandi
- Dayna
- Kirk
- Liesje
- Karen
- Davin
- Sandra
- Kelly
- Jessica & John E-book
- Melissa & Dylan E-book
- Wendy & Ryan E-book
- Robyn
- Candace
- Anita
- Kim
- Robert
- Marsha
- Karen
- Victoria

Joy - A Session with the Sahagun Family

I met up with the Sahagun Family at Beaumaris Lake not too long ago. We had some fun as we took a walk around a small portion of the lake. Their youngest loves having her photo taken! She just asked for a photo every couple steps we took LOL. I'm so glad we ended up with some decent weather to go out.

I love this family photo. Aren't they soo cute?!

Another great family photo for the wall.

The kids posed themselves for this one :)

And at the very end we had some fun throwing leaves around - somehow Dad always ended up with the most hitting him! The little ones loved this part the best.

Excitement - Wendy & Ryan

We are now on a little break from weddings - well photographing them anyway - still alot of retouching and album designing to do :) Our final wedding for the season is on new years eve and should be alot of fun!

So this past weekend we still pulled out the equipment and met up with Wendy & Ryan. They are a very sweet couple whom are getting married next year. We took a walk through the Millcreek Ravine and did some engagement photos with them. They brought along their canine kid so we made sure to include her in some pics too.
Can't wait to meet up with you guys to go through your images - I know you are going to love them! Everytime I thought I found my favorite I saw another one...

I could tell I would love this pic when I was taking it - I love the repetition of the angle with their holding hands and the beam.

Another cool shot from Omari - love how he focused on the foreground and the couple is just blurry off in the distance.

Can you see their baby poking around in behind them?

The rim lighting in this shot is so great - as soon as I saw it I wanted to capture it!