BEAUTIFUL BLUE EYES

I sometimes find myself struggling while on my way to family sessions, I can feel my hands start to shake and any ounce of creativity in me starts to slowly seep out and I get there feeling like I did in high school when I had a big test that I didn't really study for ( I say that because I spend a lot of time on the internet looking at images for insperation) I always have great ideas for sessions and then I am like a deer in headlights when I get there, doubting that I really have what it takes to do this, I tend to scan a home quickly to take note of all their framed prints and get an idea of what they think is good photography....this house had a beautiful canvas of a perfect newborn on the wall as soon as you walk in!!! I worried the entire time I was there and all the way home that I hadn't gotten anything good enough and then I downloaded this image and I thought if this is the only good image it was worth it! He is so beautiful!

Thanks for having me Amy! You have a wonderful family!
 

AUSTIN - CALGARY CHILDREN PHOTOGRAPHER

Austin was my first shoot of the year, I went over and met with him and his family on January 3rd to get some head shots for some potential modeling he may be doing this year.  At only four years old Austin is super cute and smart! I honestly thought he was in Kindergarten when we started chatting and he laughed and told me no he's only in preschool.  We took a few photos of him alone and then his brother and sister joined us for a few shots of them together...these boys have some amazing blue eyes!!

Hope you enjoy this little peek Karyn!

THE HARVIE AND KRAMP KIDS

We love going home to the island to see our niece and nephew, we love them soooo very much and miss them everyday, they are so very very cute and sweet!

Nannie tries so hard to get good photos of the kids together and it never really pans out..they are a hard bunch to make sit still, but bribed with gummie bears they will do almost anything....and we almost got them all looking and smiling!! Now a new baby with arrive in a few weeks and we will start the process all over again!!

I wanted to blog some of our christmas photos, but this computer is giving me a run for my money and not doing anything I want it to..so doesn't look like christmas photos will make the blog this year!

The fourth photo is Oliver, you can tell by the lack of smile ;) it was taken in Brock's truck at the ferry terminal in Vancouver around 7am when it was still very dark, the light on his face is from one lamp on the roof of brock's truck! I LOVE IT!

THE REAL DEAL - CALGARY FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHER

I photographed the Hassman's this afternoon..we really wanted to take this shoot outside and had actually rebooked it for this weekend in hopes that we would be out of the deep freeze of last weekend, apparently I have ticked off Mother Nature because she is keeping all the good weather for the days I am not booked and brining out her worst for the days that I am!!
I had sooo many good ideas for this shoot for outside, I was briming with inspiration and creativness, but alas it had to be moved indoors due to the -28 temp. today!
Everett and Max were super cute and  for the most part happy to have me there...we did struggle to get some great family pics, but Holly stayed relaxed and kept laughing saying "these are real family photos".  When I left I laughed and said "yup these are the real deal!!" but once I got home to download and backup I was overjoyed to find some awesome images!!!  I am so excited to post these for Holly to see!!

I hope you will love them Holly, I really do!

And finally my two most loved of the session....they really don't get more real than this! I LOVE that Holly is holding Everett's bottle in the first one!

BOYS WILL BE BOYS! - CALGARY PHOTOGRAPHER

These two's picture is probably right beside the definition of "boy" in the dictionary! Busy Busy Busy and Oh so adorable they are!
These guys Mom runs the bootcamp that Oliver and I have been going to since the summer ( http://www.fitnesswithkids.ca/ ) Erin is awesome...she works you hard, even harder on the days she can tell you are slacking! But my arm and leg muscles are thanking her!  Since the summer we have been trying to set up a shoot for her family...this has proven to be difficult with both of us running very busy schedules and before we knew it we were working around busy schedules, naps, illness, and the evasive sun!  Wednesday we decided to power through the fog and huge snow flakes that decided to start falling but hours before our session (don't even talk to me about the beautiful sun and warmth that were out on Thursday at 3:30!!)
So I made my way over to Erin's fighting through bad drivers and even worse roads (yes Dad and Brock there are worse drivers then me out there believe it or not!) to meet Cooper and Jack! Jack thought it would be best if he just watched me take photos, but didn't take him long to warm up and give me some great smiles while telling me everything he knows about everything and a very special gift he wants from Santa!  Cooper fresh off a nap was harder, he didn't like me much as I kept taking his soother away! But he still gave me a smile or two, between his daily exercise routine of jumping from couch to couch and running from living room to front entrance!

Have you ever seen two cuter Brothers than this....

If you have ever had me photograph you, you know I LOVE the "stuff" I love to photograph all the details at a party, the tiny hands, toes, belly buttons, shoes, buttons...that is really where my passion in photography is! Not everyone I photograph likes these photos but they are always my coveted images, I even have a section just for them in my portfolio book!!  This one is up there with some of my favs!!

ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL FAMILY - CALGARY PHOTOGRAPHER

I went out to Okotoks this afternoon to meet up with the Barry's.  I love it when I am photographing people that know EXACTLY what they are looking for, it makes everything so easy on me! and Christie knew exactly what she wanted. The first time I talked to Christie about family photos she wanted snow, normally in Calgary this would have been an easy request two days before December first! We are usually up to our waist in snow at this time of year, but it didn't look like that was going to happen for her this year, however, we ended up having such a perfect dusting of snow on the ground for these shots! The only problems with getting exactly what she was looking for were a strong willed soon to be two year old who kept yelling "no!" everytime I came close to him with my camera! Good thing he's so darn cute, and it being a bit chilly and windier then we had thought!  I can't say we ended up getting exactly what we hoped for with these shots but I took a couple hundred and think I came out with a handful of really great ones, which in the end is all that matters!

I had a blast chatting up a storm with you guys this afternoon and taking a couple pictures in between!

This first shot was the very first shot of the day...it was a test shot to check settings!

This last shot was not an easy one to get...Jevyn was well past done having me over, but I think it turned out not too badly....I should post one of the ones before to show the trouble his parents were having trying to get him to sit still...but I am sure anyone who has had photos taken with kids this age can picture in their minds what it must have looked like!

BEAUTIFUL FAMILY..CALGARY PHOTOGRAPHER

I was a little nervous when Marie contacted me to take these photos, they were going to be the biggest group I have done and I was so worried about not getting everyone is focus and not making them pose all silly.  But this family knew what was going on, what they wanted and we banged it out in one of my fastest sessions yet! That could also be due to the number of children in the group...with only one happy baby girl to force into position we were set to get things done!

Thank you so much for having me at you home to photograph you beautiful family, it truly was a very enjoyable session on my end!  Enjoy a quick look at your photos!!

This next one is one of my fav's from the session...I love the way they looked at eachother when I asked them to!

THE SINGH'S

Whew!! These guys made me work this morning!! Three of the most adorable kids ever, but only one was interested in having her photo taken by me....I had to tell them I knew Santa and even that didn't really work too well!  I did get a few good shots....looking for a great family one still..but thought these were pretty cute and hope they are what you wanted Deb!