Night Scenes

Tonight I wanted to play with a new softbox I purchased this week and I really love it.  If you are interested in an evening light session, these are the types of images that I will be trying to capture for you.

This type of session is suited to families with children over the age of 5 or 6 as it is later in the evening and younger children usually don't last very long.  Also, we have to work rather quickly because the light is fading rapidly and the older children are better able to hold a pose so that we can capture everything quickly.

We shot these images between 7:15pm and 8:15pm tonight.

If you think you might like to have an evening session, give me a call or send me an email.

Leah
416-574-8991
info@forevermoments.ca

Fall Family Portraits - Special

Yesterday evening I sent out an email to my clients letting them know about a Fall Portrait Special I am offering in October.  Actually, after years of procrastinating about putting some type of newsletter together, it was my first "mailing".  I am one of those people who don't like too much email where I am one of many in the To: box.  That is always in the back of my mind so my thought was to put something together only when necessary so that I don't bother people with things they didn't ask for.   I decided that this year I wanted to be more organized about capturing family portraits in the park with the beautiful fall colours as the backdrop and to do that, I had to get on top of things now.  I put together a simple sheet to show what colours I have captured on various dates and jumped right over my procrastination block (okay, after week of thinking about it), and hit send.  Well, I was a bit surprized at how quickly people started emailing me with date requests.  This is exciting and now I just pray for nice weather which is the only real down side to planning portraits outside.

October is already a busy month for Birthday's in our family, plus this year I have the honour of photographing the students of Milton Community Nursery School.  My kids both went there and it was such a wonderful place with the best teachers around that I just didn't want to let go of my connection there.  I was so excited when I was chosen to photograph the students this year.  If you have been looking for a Nursery School or will be, you must check them out at www.miltoncommunitynurseryschool.ca.  So I need to be very organized about how I schedule sessions this fall but this is something I really wanted to do and I am pleased that I just did it.

If you are interested in a Fall Portrait for a beautiful piece of art for your home that is of the people you love, contact me to grab a time on one of the 3 dates I have available. 

Park sessions will be offered on Saturday October 9th, Saturday October 16th and Sunday October 24th.  There are 6 sessions each day.  A small deposit of $25 is requested to hold your date and time.  This amount will be applied to the session fee of $149 and you will also receive a $25 print credit to use when you place your print order after the session images have been presented to you.

Well, I plan on enjoying what is left of the summer break and then my life will be come more organized once the kids are in school.  I may have one more trip to Wonderland left in me!

Leah

Can you believe it?

Mrs. L is having her 3rd baby!  Yes, her 3rd and she looks fantastic.  She only has 3 weeks to go until she meets this little one.  She came to the session with a few ideas and cute clothing options that were fantastic.  I just loved shooting her and the camera just loves her!

I was so excited to see little Miss. M and when I opened the door I had to stop and stare for a moment.  Now 3 years old, I could still see that beautiful baby face that I photographed when she was nearly 6 months.  She was coming to introduce me to her new little brother who reminded me of her a lot.  Here is what she looked like when I first met her.

 

Such a little doll.  I love the left hand slightly reaching out like a real fairly princess.

Now she has this beautiful baby brother and she is a very sweet older sister.

 

Such a little doll.  I love the left hand slightly reaching out like a real fairly princess.

And look at this little ball of joy!  It was so great to see everyone and catch up on how everyone is doing.

When I was going through the images I realized that Little M had been in this tutu before!  I didn't even realize when we put her in it for fun.

Little Boys

I love the inspiration and the challenge that each new child brings to me.  Each child has a unique personality that becomes my source of energy that determines for how I will capture who they are and ultimately what we will end up getting out of the session.  This mom was an inspiration all by herself.  Two boys, aged 3 and 2 who were full of energy and playfulness, and a newborn brother, not even 2 weeks old.  I thought I was doing well with 2 children - 16 months apart.  I see now that I had no idea.

The Firefighter and his family...6 months later

Do you remember this stunning couple?  I couldn't wait to see Baby A sitting up and moving all around.  What a doll with the most captivating blue eyes!  She is such a happy baby and it was wonderful to catch up with them and see how everyone is doing.  I love my job!

That was quick.

This lovely family was back for the return visit within a couple of weeks.  The baby had arrived and he joins his brother in making mom and dad very proud parents.  Congratulations everyone!

8 1/2 months!

When this beautiful mom called me about a maternity session, I was worried when she told me that she was 8 1/2 months pregnant.  That is usually getting to a point where mom's are getting uncomfortable and some (like myself) really are retaining water.

When I saw Mrs. A, I had to remind myself that she was so far along.  We shot these images on June 14th and just over  a week later she went into labour and had another little boy and I am very excited to meet him later this week.

 

New Borns are so amazing.

I have the greatest job.  I personally am finished with the baby making process but I get to hold and cuddle newborns all the time.  This little darling was 6 days old!  What a doll.

I am always amazed when siblings look so much alike and these 3 cuties were clearly related.  All are very close in age and looking through their baby photos it was clear that they all carried the same gene pool. 

Big Brother was not quite as interested in participating in the family session which had mom pulling out every trick she had.  I found out that he liked animals so I thought I might be able to win him over by telling him I had a dog.  His eyes lit up and he wanted to know where it was.  I usually keep the dog away from the studio.  I think the sound of the lights sometimes bother him.  I went to get our 13 year old Shih Tzu and big brother was off.  Getting him back was now the problem.  We did manage to get him back for a couple of snaps of the shutter but that was it.  Our dog had a companion for the rest of their visit.