I’ve been waiting a few months now, since I photographed you growing in your mom’s tummy, it’s finally nice to meet you beautiful! Welcome baby Tianna, I’m looking forward to capturing you with my camera as you grow this year:) Congratulations Celia and Chris!
Sleeping Beauty
Happy in Dad’s hands
February was such an awesome month!! Having the young talented actors from Expressions Film Studio in the studio for portraits made a week of my photographic time a sheer delight! I spent about an hour with each actor, realizing quite quickly, that their confidence and acting abilities were going to to work some magic in creating strong portrait images for them to submit for auditions.
Expressions Film Studio, under the direction of the talented Reena Shah, provides children with professional acting instruction where in they can develop skills of confidence, empowerment and public speaking. I was able to take in a portion of one of their acting classes and observed not only skill development, but how friendships had been developed as well!
Reena is already making plans for the fall session and space is limited! If you are interested in more information or enrolling your child, feel free to give her a call at (204) 223-1596. Check out their blog -just click on the following name- Expressions Film Studio
Stay tuned for Blog Take 2!!! More wonderful actors to come very soon! Enjoy some of the images chosen by them!
Congratulations go out to Taylor, The Manitoba Children’s Museum’s February Star of the Month Winner! I enjoyed my time photographing her at the Museum, capturing an image to be used for her Star of the Month announcement in the Winnipeg Free Press. I found out Taylor is an amazing young volunteer enjoying working alongside her Grandma at a Feral Cat Rescue. Just click on the highlighted words Star of the Month Draw to enter your child into the Museum’s upcoming month’s draw -Your child could have a chance at winning a nice prize package! It was a pleasure photographing you Taylor-keep up the great work rescuing cats!
Wow-You can’t get much better weather wise in a Winnipeg February than +5C!! Yes-Balmy temp’s perfect for a winter outdoor engagement session for Kaley and Joshua at the Forks! A crazy busy day there-I wouldn’t expect anything different considering it was a Saturday and the weather was so nice! I did note however that even amid all the activity and people at the Forks, it was so obvious this couple only had eyes for each other! We spent the first part of the session inside at the Terminals and then the couple laced up their skates for an outdoor skate on the river! We also had a fun opportunity to check out a couple of the unique warming huts the Forks put up this winter along the skating path. Paolo and I so enjoyed the session and are looking forward to photographing the couple in their upcoming wedding at the end of August! Congrats Kaley and Joshua!
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Red River College Campus Wedding #3. The third wedding set-up in a series of 5, I photographed for them this past summer. I have to say I LOVE the building character of the Princess Campus. Its architecture “old meets new” and the colours are eye catching! I just had to have a little fun editing the first image above in an edgy technique to capture some of the unique historical textures and bright modern colours found in its front entrance alone!
This wedding was unique from the others I had photographed in that I was able to capture the wedding ceremony set-up as well. The Campus offer their facilities to weddings ceremonies as well as conferences in such a set-up. It never ceases to amaze me how each wedding reception set-up is unique-with this particular wedding, guests arrived at the Elgin entrance to be greeted by Champagne on ice and glasses surrounded by rose petals! Very nice touch! If you are interested in finding out more about the rentals click on the link, Red River Campus Rentals.
Exciting NEWS! Katherina from A Pawsitive Image and myself from Ebonie Klassen Photography will be joining our time, talents, and skills to bring Extraordinary Pet Photography to our clients throughout various times of the year! Let’s face it, a great pet photo is a combination of a number of elements all coming together at once by at least a couple of people. Katherina and I find ourselves working as a great team on this, one handling the pet, getting them to do what we want for the image, while the other is behind the camera anticipating the pets response and clicking the shutter at just at the right time. We’ll have lots of exciting news about Pet Portrait Days – Special Location Event Days – Show Dog Photography Packages and more coming soon. This years goal-we want to take animal photography to new heights and create spectacular work that no one else is attempting. Don’t worry – we’re still available for our individual work, too!
Please enjoy some images of Kitty the Shih Tzu in show coat we photographed and the end of last year.
The Manitoba Children’s Museum’s “Way off Broadway” dance event was a lot of fun to photograph again this year at the Pantages Theater! The late November, Way off Broadway event, is a fundraiser for the Children’s Museum. Teams of co-workers, social groups and dance groups come together to raise funds for the Museum through pledges. These groups receive some professional dance guidance and get together for the event to perform and be judged by local Celebrities. The groups are evaluated in a number of categories such as Best Costume and Audience Choice. This years contributions raised over $16,000 for the Children’s Museum! I’m always amazed how this city come together to make events like this happen. Jeremy John and Drew Kobub of City T.V. did and amazing job of hosting the event and Bubba B (Hot 103 FM), Tracy Koga(Shaw T.V.) and Heather Steele (Global Television) performed the hard task of judging the talented groups. If you’d like to find out more about the event and how you or a group of your co-workers or friends can participate or if you’d like to check out all the images from the event, just click on this link Way off Broadway . Have to say this years highlights for me were the Lady Gaga group-great costumes, and I loved the flash mob dance concept from the Sobey’s group! Special thanks to Paolo Porquez for his lighting help in the morning and to Tara Craigon who helped photograph the performance in the afternoon.
Above left to right: Drew Kozub (City T.V.), Jeremy John (City T.V.), Heather Steele (Global Television), Bubba B. (Hot 103FM), Tracy Koga(Shaw.TV) a quick pic at the end of the event.
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Above: Image Captured from an Overlook of the beautiful fall leaves in the Ozark Mountains with the Table Rock Dam in the background.
January is a great “Catch up”, “Clean-up” kind of month! After the past crazy business of the last 3 months, It has been very good to relax for a few weeks, catch up on filing, updating the Website, and blogging a little of what went on in the past couple of months.
Some of my clients and friends know a little about my 9 day absence from the photography business at the beginning of November. I ventured out on my new part time job as a tour director for Fehr-Way tours in Winnipeg. I’ve been asked a lot about it, but have had little time to talk about some of the highlights of the trip from Winnipeg, MB, Canada to Branson, MO, U.S.A.. My husband and I spent the trip traveling by Coach with 51 other passengers. It was 9 days of leading the group on shopping excursions, concerts, seeing attractions, taking in the scenic views of the Ozark Mountains and yes… even new eating experiences.
Highlight’s of the trip for me included:
1. Meeting Mary at Kithcart Orchards. We just couldn’t help but be won over by this family business with its home grown produce, their barbwire collection, pecan options and wonderful southern hospitality (Including the drawl).
2. Lambert’s Cafe-(The only home of the throwed rolls.) Yes- and as the name does indicate they do throw home baked rolls across the Cafe at you. (Yes, many had missed) Appetizers are served on a paper towel on the table. I tried some deep fried Okra. (I vegetable I believe-Can’t say I’m a fan.) Note to self – bring Tums along on the next trip down South with all the fried foods!
3. Chinese acrobat show. (Sorry no picture’s allowed)- Amazing juggling!!! Got me thinking about going home and tossing coffee tables around with my legs and catching them with my feet-(NOT!:))
4.Precious Moments Chapel- I remember friends collecting the cute figurines but who knew there were beautiful parks, grounds and an amazing chapel featuring all of this!!! Mind blowing, jaw dropping paintings in the Chapel. And if the art didn’t impress you, the story behind them will melt your heart!
5. Experiencing a Branson traffic jam. How can a town of 11,000 (including the surrounding population) have such crazy traffic jams!!! I think I counted 24 Coaches at one concert. At McFarlains restaurant they actually had a pie called the Traffic Jam. Best thing-the dessert(The pie)was served first before the dinner came out!
6. Silver Dollar City- Visited the Cave. Only 600 stairs. I found out I can still walk 600 stairs in under an hour. This is good.
7. Terry Redlin Art Centre, S.D.- Amazing painter-didn’t know about him before hand-AMAZING Paintings all 3 floors!!!!
I could go on for a while but I’ll let the rest of the pictures tell some of the story! Henry and I are thinking of heading back there in the fall season! I would highly recommend a trip out there at the beginning of November. That time allows you get the best of both words-you still get to experience the breathtaking beautiful fall colours of the Ozarks, as well as having a wonderful introduction to the holiday seasons by taking in the various concerts and visiting Silver Dollar City. Please enjoy some of the quick snapshots I was able to capture on the trip.
Our view from the front of the Coach driving into the Mountains.
Above:The Redlin Art Center in Watertown, SD. Featuring the painted works of Terry Redlin.
Above: Kithcart Orchard Stop along the side of the road.
Above:Visited the Precious Moments Park and Chapel.
Above: Buck Trent Concert Below: Mel Tillis and Daughter
Above: Daniel O’Donnell in concert Below: New South Concert
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Happy New Year! I really can’t believe how quickly this year has flown by ! I love going into a New Year-such a wonderful time for reflection on the past year and a time to create and work on new goals for the up and coming year. I feel so blessed that so much of what I photographed this past year involved friends and family and I’m thankful for all the new clients that I was able to meet. A huge amount of gratitude goes out to the associate photographers who assisted in photographing weddings, events, families and commercial sessions this past year!
I could not go into the New Year without sharing some images of my friend Lisa’s family. It was my last family session before Christmas. Lisa, along with being a good friend, is also one of my longest standing clients. I’ve been photographing the family and the girls over the past few years. I have always enjoyed the sessions together and this year was no different. The girl’s gorgeous white ruffle dresses, and their willingness to be photographed worked together to create some magical images from this year’s session! We met up at the Red River Campus on Princess for the session. Playing with light and locations we had a fun filled hour! I’ve just loved watching these girls grow up to the beautiful young ladies they are! Enjoy a slide show of just a few of the images from the session!
Wishing 2012 holds happy memories for you, much health, happiness, and new opportunities and experiences! Happy New Year!
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Okay-just saying- I thought it was difficult dealing with rumblings in my tummy initiated by inhaling mouthwatering aromas while photographing the delectable dishes during this session, but I’m finding it equally difficult to calm those same rumblings as I’m viewing the images to be posted to this blog! ( Note to self- In the future, post food blogs on a full stomach!LOL!)
As promised, a couple of months back, I’m continuing to show some of the images I’ve photographed of wedding receptions at the Red River Campus on Princess. The images were captured to feature The Campus’s great wedding rental facility. Not only does the Campus offer amazing rental facilities-they provide a wonderful catering service as well! Usually I’m in and out of the Reception room, to photograph before the guests arrive, but for this one I stayed till the food came out to the buffet table to catch on camera, some of the beautifully displayed dishes and desserts offered. ( I was also very impressed and swayed to photograph the colourful candy buffet put together by the Wedding Party on this one! ) Checkout some of the yummy, colourful images! (and yes-I’m off to the kitchen to go satisfy the tummy rumblings!)
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