Nov 29, 2021
Can I tell you a secret? 2021 so far…. 4818 fully edited family and newborn photos. 15,951 fully edited school photos. and….. Less than 200 photos of my own family. (The last one being on Halloween. 😬) Other years, I’ve had 10 times that amount.🙈 A tween in the […]
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Apr 17, 2020
Tell me if you’ve been in this situation….. The moment is amazing. Your kid is being CUTE AF. You must take a photo of this. You run and grab your phone. Your think….this is going to go viral on Instagram. Watch me become F-A-M-O-U-S. You line everything up. You tap the shutter. You look at […]
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Aug 21, 2019
If there’s one thing that I am firmly against in life, it’s saying “CHEESE”. 9 times out 10, cheese results in unnatural, forced smiles and just general silliness that isn’t what I’m after. So, what’s a mama to do, then? When you really want a photo of your kid but you’re getting that weird-serial-stalker face […]
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May 30, 2019
It can be hard. Really hard. To resist the pressure. To not want to be bigger and ‘better’. To not jump on a plane and fly to Iceland because the landscape is amazing and the mist is calling. To not wish for the most beautiful sunset in a flowy wheatfield with a picture-perfect Alberta sky. […]
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Aug 21, 2017
It’s time for another round of Getting To The Final Image, where I break down my thought process for you on how I arrived at the final image that I’m happy with. The why My 2 year old daughter is my constant helper, she always seems to be hugging my calf with her little voice […]
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Mar 2, 2017
The Back Story There are times when the world works in wonderful ways and things come together better than you could have ever imagined. This was one of those times. Over Christmas my family and I were travelling to Maui for vacation. We’ve been to Maui quite a few times over the last few years, […]
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Jan 23, 2017
With traveling over Christmas I missed lat month’s Storyteller’s blog circle, but am excited to get back into and break down this image for you! If you’ve missed past months you can check them out here and then keep clicking through to learn from some pretty awesome storytellers from around the world. Camera: Fuji X100t, which is a […]
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Oct 25, 2016
It’s time again for another entry in the Storytellers blog circle! If you missed last month, you can catch up here. I usually have such a hard time narrowing down images for a blog post, but as soon as I set up this image, I knew instantly it was going to be the image for this […]
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Oct 25, 2015
We were standing there. It was a tiny little alcove in their attic and the light was streaming through the window in the most amazingly beautiful way. Giggles had erupted just moments before when the shower had been secretly turned on by mischievous little hands. Water rained down, spraying out of the tub and onto the floor. The giggles just about […]
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Jun 29, 2015
Slightly worn ivory keys. A calendar marking how many days a new bundle of love has been in her mother’s arms. Remnants of a favourite snack scattered on the floor. Yogurt tubs upcycled to raspberry picking containers – all lined up waiting to be filled to the brim with juicy red fruit. That song that has been […]
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