SOPHIE!!

My oh my! It was SO hard to narrow these pictures down to just a few. I felt like in order to really share Sophie's personality, I needed to keep adding more and more.

Sophie is Geordies niece and I am always so glad when I get asked for a formal session. You'd think I would have Sophie and her sister Olivia plastered all over my blog, but when we are together, we just kinda hang out. It's so great to live close by and be able to watch these sisters grow like beanstalks AND they're just SO cute!

While I was doing some blog surfing the other day - because I am on the child photography train- I came across a great article, about investing in Custom Portraiture and Custom Photography in General- Check it out HERE. I also found out that one of the guys that Geordie was fishing with, his wife, Dana Pugh, is also a photographer, I am always pumped to know more people in the craft. I love her children's work. Check her cool Blog out HERE

Road Trippin'

I have been on a great solo adventure this past week. Geordie and I headed to Cranbrook last friday for a friends wedding. As we were driving these BIG rain clouds were piling up above us, and we were worried about a soggy night in the tent that night and a soggy day for our friends' wedding. Luckily, it was just a soggy night in the tent and the clouds parted and our friends had a spectacular wedding day!

After the wedding, Geord took off on a great fishing adventure with his Dad and Brother in Saskatchewan and I turned my car west and headed to Rossland, Keremeos, Penticton, Salmon Arm and Golden for some visiting and mountain bike riding.



The craziest of the rain clouds that we saw!




I was pretty excited to visit my cousin Roger on his farm. Roger and his girlfriend Justine are learning to farm and will eventually take over this organic garlic farm in Cawston, BC. It was the highlight of my trip to spend some time with them and see what new path they are on. They put me right to work and I weeded potatoes and onions. Needless to say, I had a very sore back the next day.






Quinn is Justines son and boy does he have it good. Fresh food all the time and a lot of space to play in!


They planted some marigolds amoungst their onion crop and I thought the looked so pretty. Roger also told me they help keep the soil nematods away, some kind of bad bug.


Here's a sneak preview into some macro work I have been working on.

Mireille Stettler Designs

* NOTE: Over Blogging Ahead!

Mireille Stettler is my best friend, we met in our late teens when Mireille joined the Cross Country Ski Team that I was a part of and our friendship grew out of long ski trips and traveling adventures. Mireille is a recent graduate of the Fashion Institute of Design in New York City, she graduated with honors and has a portfolio collection that makes my mouth water. I have been begging her for a long time to let me photograph her dresses and it just so happened that it all came together last week when she and her boyfriend, Gabor, made the trek to Brooks, Alberta to catch the local rodeo.

I called Erika, a friend in town and asked if she would model for us and she happily (and thankfully for us!) agreed. We could not have found a better person to do the job, she fit everything perfectly and while she has never modeled before, we think she truly is a natural - don't you!







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Mireille REALLY wanted to photograph this dress with horses, and I was not getting my hopes up. While we were waiting for a train to come (the train image is my favorite) a couple horses strutted over from their big pasture, it was as if they had gotten the memo.

It's raining, it's pouring....

We have had a LOT of rain lately - Have I mentioned that yet?!?! I don't really mind it because I know that just around the corner is the dry months and the prairie turns to dust. The rain is setting us up with some great greenery for the rest of the summer.
An extra bonus is that the skies produce these brilliant rain clouds. I was driving home from a great portraiture session in Lethbridge this afternoon and had to pull over and grab a shot of what was headed right for me. Isn't it beautiful!

The Dyck Family

I was lucky enough to get a call from the Pam and Tom Dyck last week to take their family portraits. It has been raining in Brooks a LOT lately so we made a loose plan to get together and as luck would have it the weather held and we were granted a beautiful day. I was pretty excited too because we have great family friends in Canmore, Bert and Marilynn Dyck and I got to photograph their family at Christmas AND these families are all related - as in Uncles, Son's, Cousin's Kids... there is always a 6 degree's of separation.




When I arrived at their place, which is a little ways out of town, Pam gave me a quick tour of the yard, it was a visual heaven, great barns, fences and tree's everywhere. I was pretty excited to get started. I asked if they had an old truck, and Tom said "yeah, but it's a piece of junk" as we rounded the corner to where it was, I was greeted by this beat up read beast. It was perfect.



Alexandria, Caitlin and Ryan were great models, they jumped pretty high for me, and in uniform height, I was impressed!