A Mom's Christmas Gift

I recently got a call to do some "overdue" grad photos. The Myers kids had all graduated from high school, but they had never gotten around to getting some nice formal grad photos done. So better late than never, and their mom couldn't think of anything better for the holidays than nice portraits of the most important people in her life...her kids!

Lights, Camels, Monkies, and Cookies

Saturday was the opening night of Airdrie's Festival of Lights. I was certainly delighted that most of the opening ceremonies were happening in a heated tent this year! Last year was -30 or so, and I wasn't sure that my fingers were ever going to thaw out!! LOL.

As we waited for Santa to arrive, some carollers sang for us.

Santa arrived and he and Alioops (Here's the Scoop mascot) threw the switch for the lights to be turned on.

As soon as the lights were on, fireworks blasted through the night sky.

Bundled up!!

Lots of hot chocolate....yummy!

There was an artist there doing free caricature sketches. He's going to be on site every Tuesday night. Check out the resemblance in his drawing to the lady posing.....AMAZING!!! I must get one done.

Yup, there was a monkey there.

And always a favorite, Cleaver the camel was back for another season of camel rides.

Cookie decorating in the activity tent.

There is a new train this year, sponsored by Vesta properties. It's so great to see Vesta's involvement in the community. Vesta built our home and we love it!!

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.

Industrial Shoot- Vitreous

Today was definitely a change of scenery from my regular wedding and portrait shoots. I was at Vitreous, a glass recycling company, shooting a bit of industrial work. And lucky me got to wear safety glasses and ear plugs! Thanks Pat Cashion for disrupting your work environment a bit for the pics.

Will

I was delighted to photograph Will Janzen and his parents a week ago. I shot Andrea and Steve's wedding in 2004, and it's always great when clients return for other special times in their lives! Will did amazing in the shoot. I usually expect the little ones to be rather squirmy or scared of the lights, but Will was a natural 4 month old model :)

Album Design

Just two more weddings for 2007 to go and what an amazing season it has been.

Well, it is definitely album design time of year!! I thought I'd share a digital collage book that I put together for Andrea and Rene. I just started doing these flush mount collage books this year and they have definitely been taking over the traditional matted books that I also do. Each of these pages are 2 page spreads with the gutter of the book going right down the middle.
Enjoy!