Talia's 3rd Birthday Party

I'm finding lately that I really enjoy running around at events, capturing the meaningful moments and the special details.

Back in January, my daughter Talia turned 3. I planned a "Fairy Princess Tea Party" for her and a couple of her little friends, and took pictures of it all.

If you're on my personal facebook, then you may have seen these back then, but I thought they might be worth sharing on here as well. They're another example of a type of event that could be covered with photography.



Talia's Fairy Princess Tea Party
January, 2009

Talia and a doll, before the 'real' guests arrived.


At the end of a treasure hunt around the house, they found their treasure (chocolate coins, bracelets, and crowns) in the chest, along with their own tutus.


I made the tutus & bracelets! I felt so "Martha"! ;)


Each guest had a little bag of "pixie dust" to sprinkle on her cupcake


This one was taken by my husband- one of the rare pictures featuring me :)


Frosting was by far the most popular part of the cupcakes ;)

I have to give credit to No Fuss Fabulous for some of these party ideas- check out their website for more fun ideas! :)

Wanna see Talia's 4th Birthday Party? Click here to check it out! :)
Click here for other party posts.

Flowers

Every once in a while I like to get out and try my hand at nature photography.

My favourite will probably always be photographing people, but I do love nature, and I've found that it's relaxing to me to get out and photograph it.

Here are a couple of shots from our place recently.

This one is from our backyard after we got back from vacation (it's really just a weed that grew with our grass after a couple of weeks without being cut, but I think it's pretty :)



And this is a flower from our front garden. It's a nice shot because you can't see all of the weeds around the flower ;) haha

Variations

When you do a digital session with me, you'll receive a disc including the high resolution digital files of all of your proofs. These images are ready to be printed and have been through basic editing. You are welcome to print them anywhere you would like.

When you order prints through me, they go through some extra editing that may include removal of objects in the photo, blemish removal, etc.

You'll see that on my blog I often post different variations of an image. I do this mostly because I think it's fun :) I will include any variations that I post on my blog, on your disc.

Here is an example of what I'm talking about, from the portrait session that I'm currently editing:

Sierra's Photos ~ Artistic Edits

I mentioned a couple of posts ago, that I wanted to do some more playing with Sierra's photos.

Here are some of the edits that I came up with (in Before/After style), using a bunch of different tools in photoshop as well as textures.

I like both versions of each, for different reasons. But I definitely have a couple of favourites. What do you think?

Butterfly Conservatory

Amanda posted an entry not too long ago about her daughter's trip to Wings of Paradise. This reminded me that I have a bunch of photos from our own trip there this past winter, with a bunch of cousins, aunts, & uncles, in celebration of Ken's Grandma's birthday.

I thought they might be fun to share here. They were some of the first photos I took with my new Canon EOS 5D camera! :)

Butterflies coming out of cuccoons!

A man passing a butterfly to Talia:

The next two are from the Bug Exhibit:

You'll notice I stayed right behind the camera, where I belong!

Sierra is One!

My neice, Sierra, is having her first birthday in July and since my sister and her family are visiting Canada for a couple of weddings, we thought we'd get a little photoshoot in.



You might remember her from her newborn session posted on the blog nearly a year ago.



This time, we loaded the car up with a chair, a helium balloon, and a bassinett, and took off!



After a quick little session due to the one-year-old attention span, we came home for naptime. Thanks to some rainy weather, we ended up experimenting with a makeshift studio in my mom's living room and we ended up with some more cute shots.



I really like this one:



These are just a few of my favourites, but I loved so many of them!

There is some cool processing that I want to do on some of these (and will probably do another post with some of them), but it will have to wait until I catch up on client work. I wanted to get a little preview up for my sister and my mom though, before I get back to work ;)