With sessions like this I can have a basic idea of what I’d like to do, but then just go with it.  It leaves a lot of room for creativity and for molding the shoot to the client’s personality, which I love.

I’m currently working on building my maternity/newborn portfolio, and so have some portfolio pricing in effect – if you know anyone who is expecting in March, April, or May, send them my way for details!  :)

And here is the beautiful-soon-to-be-new-mom, Jennifer: Absolutely gorgeous day: Love these little booties: I stumbled upon this ivy when I took the wrong street to get to Jennifer’s house.  Lucky mistake I say!
So gorgeous. And then, soon-to-be-dad stopped by after work: He’s pretty funny:

Love this one, because it’s an expression I would make:    :D

AND THEY HAVE A BIKE!!  How cool is that.

That’s all for today folks…… back to the craziness that is wedding planning + lots of new stuff in the works for my business planning.  So much to do!  My wedding invitations have to go out in approximately three weeks, meaning I’d better start designing them this week.  :P

Hope you’re all having a great Wednesday!

These were all taken on a cloudy + rainy day in my parents’ backyard.   Jenny and I headed to Value Village for some ‘interesting’ wardrobe inspiration, and found this awesome 80’s hat/veil and old-school nightgown.   (Yes, I do realize how lucky I am to have a sister who will put on somebody’s old night gown and a hat veil just so I can have some fun.)  :D

I was inspired to shoot this after picking up the latest Grace Ormonde – love that magazine!  Here’s the cover shot by Philippe Lee that inspired me to pull out the chair:  HERE.

And here is what I came up with:

Cold, wet, dirty leaves + pretty Jenny = cool shot.

I think hat veils should come back in style.  :P  Did anyone out there (or anyone’s mother) actually wear one of these at their wedding?  I’m curious as to how popular they were…..

Second favourite:

Favourite:

I like this one too.  Very classic.I hope this was proof  enough that all you need for a super fun shoot is some weird old clothing and a willing model.

Get out there and make some pretty pictures!   I hope you’re all having a great Thursday.   :)

So here is my gorgeous little sister, who was willing to have me work my amateur make up and hair skillz on her, and force her to lay down in the cold wet grass.  What a trooper.  Thanks Jens!  :)

Brrr…. it was pretty soaking grass. The two below may be  my favourites.   Again – brrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

These were outside as well,  on a red blanket that happened to be the same shade as the dress.  By this time Jenny couldn’t feel her feet.   (Ooops.)

Fun hey?  I also dressed her up in a white dress and an awesome veil/hat straight out of the 80’s – I’ll post those in a few days.  Hope you’re all having a good Wednesday!

…Plus, I figure if I can’t get in shape now, I’ll be doomed when it comes to losing post baby pounds in a few years.

Anyways, to help me in my quest I  started keeping track of what I eat every day on Caloriecount.com yesterday – it’s pretty cool!  I had a feeling I was eating really really unhealthily, and I was right – yesterday I got a C+.      :(      FAIL.

And I even ate a banana AND and apple yesterday!  These people sure are strict:

In honour of this little quest, today I will blog about some food I love.  And then try to not run out the door to eat it.

1)  Tim Horton’s French Vanilla Cappuccino.  A bit sweet, but tasty.

2) I also love Honey Crullers, (the timbits in particular).

3) Tim Horton’s  breakfast sandwiches – but I don’t eat egg, and I don’t like processed cheese….so I suppose I just like that biscuit.  I love biscuits.

YUM.

4) Dairy Queen Ice Cream Cakes.  This is my little sister blowing out some candles on her 20th birthday a few months ago.  YUM x 100.

Ok enough food – I’m getting junk food cravings and I just had breakfast!   Here’s something I love that has absolutely no calories:  SNOW.  It looks to me like we won’t get any more snow this year though….   :(

It snowed on our annual family Christmas tree hunting day this year!

My nephew read this sign:
….And then proceeded to smell the tree.  Awesome.

And, because you all begged me for another picture of the cutest one year old in the world (well, no one actually begged but I just took the liberty of assuming) here he is!

Okay, back to work for me.  Hope you’re all having a good Tuesday!

Adam’s family is pretty much entirely male.  He has four brothers, and only a handful of female cousins.  (It’s actually quite eerie.)  I really really hope that we have at least one daughter – but right now it doesn’t look so likely.  BUT when our niece was born just over five weeks ago (and everyone went into shock) I saw a little ray of hope that the female gene DOES exist in his family.  :D

And here she is, one week old: And while we’re on the topic, here are some shots I took of our nephews way back in August.
I took all of these summer shots with my old 50mm 1.4, which was having auto focus problems at the time.  These guys are both so fast – it was really hard shooting on manual focus!  It was soon after this I broke down and bought the 50mm 1.2.  So glad I did.  :)

So anyways – aren’t they cute?  (Yes, there IS a right answer to this question.)  :P

Hope you’re all having a great Thursday!