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Christmas is my most favorite time of year. I love the chilliness, the snuggles in cozy blankets, the running around going from one party to another, the searches for the perfect presents, the excitement in people’s eyes when they see the first snow fall, and the anticipation for a great family day.  And so far Christmas time has been that and so much more.

In between all of the spirit of Christmas, I’ve been shooting and editing like crazy for the Holiday season.  I’ve been editing one of my favorite sessions and came across this image and it took my breath away.

Isn’t she stunning?!

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Oh, and I’m in love with my 35mm 1.4 lens…love it!

Vancouver Portrait Photography: Kelly 2.0

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I love this girl, seriously love her!

After a morning of edits and reading we decided to get together to enjoy the sun.  We met at a park that neither of us had ever been to but it didn’t matter, we just enjoyed hanging out with each other; and while we walked and talked about Gossip Girl and ANTM I searched for some awesome light for us to play in.  Through some bushes and past a skate park we found ourselves at a picnic table and walla….I found the perfect light!

I had so much fun with this session.  I kept us in one spot and I just moved around trying to find different angles and light sources.  Who would have thought that cement would be a great reflector?  These photos are some of my favorite photos to date…the light, the bokeh, the colour, and of course my beautiful model!

Say hello to my beautiful friend Kelly!

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Isn’t she cute?!

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She has amazing style too!

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The many faces of Kelly.

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This is the picnic table.

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Probably for all the same reasons why I love the others, I love this photo too.  It isn’t in focus, but I find it really artsy.

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Portrait Photography: Kelly

I had hoped to update my blog with photos and interesting tid bits of information while we were away, but our traveling laptop is pretty much only good for checking email and writing documents; not editing photos.  So sadly enough I had to go with out.

Once we arrived back in Vancouver I quickly came to the realization that summer is slowly giving way to fall.  There is a part of me is hoping it’s all a lie and that the sun will continue to shine with it’s hot intensity and longer days, but the other side of me is excited for sweaters, boots, gray clouds, and nights spent cuddled on the couch.  While I was thinking of the leaves slowly changing colours and the fleeting light I realized that I had a session sitting in my ‘digital darkroom’ that I never got a chance to finish editing.

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These last three are my top favorite I think.   Although I do love the first one just as much.

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This is one of my best friends Kelly, and I love her to pieces and love that she is always up for anything.

For those of you who are thinking of booking a session but are afraid that the fall and winter isn’t a good time for portraits, think again!  The skies are dramatic, nature is colourful, and you get to layer like you’ve never layered before!

Snippets

As soon as I just ran in the door from my yoga work out with my jelly-like legs and arms and my mind a little too relaxed to focus, I ran smack right into a very untidy house. After spending an hour de-stressing and relaxing I knew it would be too hard to concentrate on the work that I wanted to get done.  So I blasted my itunes and ran around our house quickly picking things up and putting things away.  Thankfully after 2 songs I am back in my relaxed mode and can conquer the work in front of me.  I find editing photos relaxing, and thank goodness for that, cause I have a bunch to do!  How do people do this so quickly?!!

Here is a little sneak peek at the sessions I’ve been working on:

Duke

The other day I spent the day with my awesome friend Kelly.  She recently added some bangs to her hairstyle and every time I look at her I think she looks like a hotter and sexier version of Kim Cattrall from Sex and the City.

We ran around the city trying on wedding dresses and bridesmaids dresses, and then went back to her house to pick up her dog Duke to head up to SFU for a mini photo shoot so that I could learn how to use the camera a little more.  I think we were fully expecting to get kicked off campus for having such a huge dog up there, but surprisingly nothing happened.

We started off in the underground parking because it was raining so bad, and also since neither one of us knew the campus very well, we felt the safest there.

Duke loves Kelly, maybe just a little too much!

Eventually we got a little braver to look for the graduation auditorium which I knew was outside and covered.  Once we got there however, we saw that fog had rolled unto the campus, so we had to think of creative ways to capture Kelly and Dukes awesome relationship!

Walking around with a dog up there was quite amusing.  There were a bunch of ESL groups who seemed terrified of sweet Duke (seriously, I don’t think he could hurt a fly), but instead of staying away from him they would make the ’tisk tisk’ sound you would make to call a dog over while shaking their head!  Oh the amount of times I would laugh out loud cause it just looked so funny!  I know I’m horrible!

I had fun crawling all over the ground trying to get the photos that I wanted and also realized how ’soft’ my core actually is!  This last photo I knew would be something that Kelly would love to have.  Like me, she is a lover of shoes and she also loves her dog!

Kelly and Duke thanks for being so awesome!  Can’t wait to do it again, and I hope you find a photo to give to Kevin so that he can take it to work and always see his two special loves!

My first Model

Driving down the Oregon Coast Hwy relaxing in the passenger seat Adam and I talked about simple things like the weather, or what we’d have for dinner back at the camp site, or if there was enough wind to go windsurfing, we passed by a bright red barn.  My head whipped around as we sped past it, and even though it was just a glimpse of the building I couldn’t get it out of my mind.

The rest of the drive back to the camp ground all I could think of was the red barn and how much I needed to go back there.  Adam was jabbering on about how I should go windsurfing and how we needed to check the wind, but my mind was else where.  We checked the wind – it was dead.  “Good” I thought, “I wasn’t interested anyway.  I want that barn!”  Eventually Adam tuned in that my mind was else where.  I told him about the red barn, and how I wanted to go back.

I wanted to take photos of it, with someone in front of it.  Initially I wanted to ask my windsurfing instructor to be my model, but Adam thought it wasn’t a very good idea since we didn’t know her that well. I very shyly asked Adam to be my model and thankfully he was more then happy to be my first model!

Thanks Babes for being my first model!