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LOVE TO LEARN – Calgary Newborn Photographer

I love to learn.  I am constantly looking how I can improve my images, add to my technical skills and make my business that much more successful.  There are many ways to do this, but one way is to learn from other photographers.  I have admired Angela Weedon’s work for a long time.  Her images are absolutely breathtaking and every time I visited her blog I just melted.  If you take a visit there, you’ll immediately see what I mean.   I was so inspired by her work I asked if she’d be willing to teach me and she agreed to work with me one-on-one!  I was thrilled!  The experience with Angie was second to none.  I felt my images improving with each hour spent with her.  She was so open with all her own experiences, techniques and skills.  Her husband Matt runs the business side of their studio and he was so generous with his thoughts and time and advice as well.  I couldn’t have come away from my time there more inspired, more motivated or more excited.  Thank you Angie and Matt for your time, knowledge and hospitality.  I hope we can meet again someday!!

One of the days I was there we worked with the sweetest little newborn.  She is not only gorgeous she was very cooperative as well (although now I know many more tricks to make them cooperative now!!!)  Here are some of the images I was able to capture in the beautiful natural light in her studio.  Enjoy!

COUSINS – Calgary Child Photographer

Remember this sweet little newborn from late last year?   Well, he brought his two adorable cousins to his next photo shoot.   The goal?  To get a gorgeous shot of three cousins together.  It’s not quite as easy as it sounds with a typical busy boy, a little girl not quite sitting up on her own yet and a 2 month newborn!   In the end we decided to go with a shot from overhead and here is the result!!    The three moms were sisters and we were able to capture lots of mom and child moments too. 

HAPPY NEW YEAR! – Calgary Family Photographer

What better way to start the year than with a blog of great friends and neighbours.  We are lucky enough to have this family live a couple doors down from us.. Hailey and Ashleigh are constantly back and forth between houses with dolls, playdough and fairy outfits.   And who knows what the future holds with Reuben and Sydney — although I’m not sure how close Doug will let Reuben get to their house twelve or thirteen years down the road with their two gorgeous girls.

This shoot was to celebrate little sister Sydney’s first birthday and we also snuck some family photos in — so glad we did!  I know this shoot begs for colour images with the great colours they wore… but I found one I just love in black and white so had to sneak that in at the end!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

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BUSY BOY! – Calgary Child Photography

As a mom of a 22 month old boy, I definitely know how busy these little characters can be.  Callum had me on my toes, no question about it.   The first image is the first one I took of the day and then it seemed that more often than not I was looking at his back then his front!  So I definitely had to include one of these images to share my experience with you!  But so is the life of a busy little boy!!

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FIRST BIRTHDAY! – Calgary Family Photographer

Happy Birthday to this super cute little guy!   After our family shoot, we took some time to celebrate James’ 1st birthday with a yummy Crave cupcake.  I just love this image with his gorgeous face.  And I added another of him so you can see just how gorgeous he is close-up… look at his beautiful eyes!   And his sister is another sweetheart — we took photos of her two years ago for her first birthday, so I’m so happy they came back for her little brother.  She was very into the dollhouse and its family — the photo of her is through the attic window.   The rest of your gallery is coming soon!8294

 

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SWEET BROTHERS – Calgary Child Photography

December!!   Ahhhhhh, did someone say it’s December?!?!   Maybe if I just keep my calendar on the November page, I can avoid having to get on all the December-stuff I have to do.   There’s not really that much that goes on this month, is there?   One thing I know for sure is that there is an almost 4 year old little girl in our home who is very excited about her birthday next week.  I better get on that!   Yikes.  Anyway, let’s talk about these gorgeous brothers I had the pleasure of shooting last month.  (last month.. that’s October, right?!?!?!)   There’s quite a few images in this blog post, but you can see why I would want to show off this cuties!!!   Once again, I have fallen in love.  Aren’t they adorable?   We had such fun staying indoors for the first half of the shoot and then venturing outside to nearby Sandy Beach. 

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AT HOME — Calgary Family Photographer

What a treat photographing this sweetie pie at his home.  His mom owns and runs the fabulous Herringer Kiss Gallery on 11th Avenue SW.  The art in there home is stunning of course and I was so thrilled to be using it as a backdrop to lots of our images.   I love his gorgeous hair against the blues.

I also included one that he took of Mom and Dad — I really like his perspective and definitely think he’s got potential!!  Hmmmmm, I do need an assistant… I may have to sign him up in 20 years or so!   And I love the series of him with the espresso!   Can’t you just hear him yelling out the order in the last shot of the series there?? 

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REAL LIFE! – Calgary Family Photographer

I had soooooooooo much fun at this family’s home.  The moment I entered their home, I felt so welcome.   The mom of these three stunning children is one of those people who you can instantly tell her heart is as big as her smile.   Fabulous conversation led us to making different connections and I left feeling like I had met a new friend.  On the shoot side of things, well admittedly things were a bit on the crazy side and I absolutely love that the craziness, and beauty, of this family could be captured!  I just adore the series of Mom with the kids… hands up for those who can relate to the feeling these images evoke!    I super enjoy these types of lifestyle shoots; pajamas and all! 

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WWWWWWWWINDY!! – Calgary Family Photographer

Wowsers… this was such a windy, windy day.  We actually changed locations to see if we’d be a bit more sheltered here, but as you can see our plan didn’t quite work out!  But the English family were complete troopers and we just had lots of fun instead of worrying about gusts of wind!!   There are lots of favourites with this sweet family, but I definitely love this first one.  I love the clouds and colour but it is the sheer joy on her face as she showed me her dance moves that completes it, of course!  And love how her big brother is in the background.

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ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS – Calgary Child Photographer

It’s always fun for me to decide which images to put on a blog post.  Most times I know immediately which images I want to highlight.  It is often because it is an exact moment combined with its light and composition that just speaks to me or give me goosebumps or makes me get weak tear ducts.  It may be because I treasure the ‘behind the scenes’ of a particular image.   It may be because I want to highlight something different I tried as that is what makes me grow as a photographer.  Lots of reasons behind my choices. 

Every once in a while I think it’s fun to highlight a whole shoot rather than just a few images.  First of all, it’s fun!  And secondly,  it gives you a chance to see what a full gallery of images from a shoot would look like.  So today is one of those days!  And here I introduce a very, very sweet girl.  We visited the farm where her grandmother grew up and it is an absolute treasure!   I could shoot there all day, all week long!  I’m sure there are lots of corners to still discoverand hope I can visit there again someday!  So I’ll let the images do the talking this time… be warned… this girl is gorgeous.

One image to start you off and then click here for the slideshow!

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