My Crazy May!

The rest of the month of May flew by so quickly for me.  The main reason is that I was booked with grads, a baby, families and was running a few different directions with my kids!  I decided to do a slideshow of some of the images I created the past 4 weeks.  The song I chose doesn't really go with the theme of the pictures but it pretty much sums up the way the past month has been for me!  Enjoy!

 A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of photographing this couple's wedding in Coronation.  It was a cool spring day but thank goodness the rain and snow held off. 
 The wedding party was very easy going and eager to do whatever we suggested.  As you can tell by some of the images we always have fun with our weddings and try to keep everyone relaxed and ready for the fun to continue throughout the picture taking. Most of my pictures start out with me posing them but they always seem to turn into something totally different which I love. 
 This part of my job is what has totally surprised myself.  I usually always need to have things planned out (though, most of the time last minute).  I used to lay awake the night before my photo sessions, weddings, etc.  thinking and fretting about how I was going to pose people, where I was going to pose them, the weather, etc.  I have since learned to trust my creativity to come to me as I am in the moment.  Now, I quite often go into a photo session having no idea what I am going to do (which totally freaks out my assistant, Shawna! But she is learning to just go with the flow and follow my lead) It all seems to turn out in the end, I continue to surprise myself when I get my images home and into my computer to look through.  This is where the second half of my creativeness comes out.  I love "playing" with the images and seeing what I can do with them.
 I absolutely love what I do and love being a wife and mom to my 3 wonderful children.  Sometimes it is unbelieveably hard and there are sacrifices that I make with my work and my family.  It is because of my kids that I am where I am today.  They were my inspiration and photographing them gave me so much joy and brought out my creativity,  a whole new part of me that I never really let out before. I just had to share it with everyone else. 
 I have a very busy couple of months ahead.  This week I have 3 grads and a newborn baby to photograph, my kids dance, ball and soccer to run with.  I'll try and keep this blog updated as much as I can!
 Now here are some images from the wedding a couple of weeks ago...

My Little Dancer

Yesterday was Dance picture day for the Dance Academy in Consort.  This is Kiera's first year of dance and she loves it so much.  Shawna and I took Kiera and Danica over at the studio before we took them into town for their other pictures.  We are both wanting to do a keepsake book of their first year of dance so we needed quite a few pictures.
This is a collage of Danica, I just love this series of images I captured while she was giggling! Too cute...

Now here are a couple of Kiera, she spotted the flowers as soon as we arrived at the studio. They went so well with her outfit (and she insisted on having them in her picture). Less than 2 weeks and these little dancers will be performing on the stage for the first time, I don't know who is more excited...them or the moms!

Girls in Tutus

 These are some of my favorite images from my Tutus for Girls mini sessions this past Tuesday.  I had 8 little girls and they were all very cooperative and loved having their pictures taken. 
 I had Jeri from "Pretty Baby" make me some tutus in a variety of colors and she also supplied the handmade flowers and barrettes. (You can find Pretty Baby on Facebook)   Each mom got to choose the color of tutu and a matching headband and flower.  The complete outfit was adorable.
 At the end of each session the mom's were able sit down with Shawna to view and choose their favorites for their 8x10 collage as well as a complimentary Pretty Baby hair accessory.
  $10 from each session was also donated to Shanna Bishell and Sophie Robinson for The Ride to Conquer Cancer.  Shanna was also there to help with the little munchkins.  Thanks Shanna, your help was appreciated!
 A special thank you to all the little princesses and their mommies for having me photograph them on Tuesday it was tons of fun!!! 

A Fun Filled Afternoon!

 This afternoon my assistant, Shawna met me at the studio to set up for the Tutus for Girls, Boys in Crates Session tomorrow.  She brought her daughter, Danica who is the same age as my youngest daughter, Kiera.
We decided to let the little girls have some fun and dress up in the tutus.  So of course we had to take some pictures! 
  I started by taking a few of Danica...

I set my camera down for a minute to get something and this is what I came back to...

It was just too cute for words! Thank goodness I had my back up camera with me and was able to capture this moment that I can't wait to share with these girls again when they are grown up.  Now I have to post one of the images through the eyes of Kiera...

After I retrieved my camera from my 4 year old,  I was able to take a few more of Danica.  Here are some of my favorites...

Then I took some of Kiera, before you see them you must know that she pretty much posed herself and the expressions on her face were all her, she knows how to work the camera ( gee, I wonder why? It's like she gets her picture taken all the time or something) and they say the youngest child of the family has the fewest pictures, well not in this family!  A year and a half til she is in school full time so we still have a lot of "Mommy and Me" days ahead!

Well since Kiera got to take picture of Danica,  Danica wanted to take some of Kiera...

And this is what was captured through the eyes of Danica...

As you can see we had tons of fun and so did our little rock stars. 

Tomorrow I have 9 little ones that will be dancing around the studio in tutus.  Stay tuned...

After a couple of weeks with no new posts I thought I'd share one of the projects I've been working on.  I'm off to a dance festival on Red Deer with Cassidy for a few days and very much looking forward to the Tutus for Girls, Boys in Crates session next Tuesday.