The following were taken on the 23rd and 24th of July. The babies continue to grow, and as you can see the largest is really getting his feathers in. It probably won’t be long until he leaves the nest.

Here you can see the difference between the youngest, on the right, and the eldest, in the middle.

You can see how much the feathers have come in, they are growing fast!

I love this shot of youngest and oldest chest to chest, you can really see the difference in their developmentL

The eldest almost looks like he’s got the whole nest to himself in this shot! The little nest is getting quite crowded:

Thought this was a bit of a funny shot, as the babies are all facing the wrong way, and not towards their mother, but they could obviously sense that she was there!

If you enjoy these images keep watching the blog! I will be posting more in the days to come….

Back in late June I happened to notice that we had new neighbours, a robin had built a nest in a tree right in front of our house. Frankly I was questioning this mother bird’s ability to mother as I don’t think she could have picked a more unstable tree if she tried! This evergreen tree makes me think of the sad little christmas tree in “A Charlie Brown Christmas”. It is quite droopy and seems to be anchored to the house, allowing it to remain upright.

Nevertheless, shortly after we noticed the nest we saw a beautiful blue egg, followed by three more.

Well, last week the babies hatched! We are not sure what happened to the fourth egg as there are only three babies. They are growing very fast with the first images taken last Thursday and the last of the images take yesterday.

Here the father hovers over the nest:

One baby looks for food:

It’s hard to see in this image, but there is one baby behind the front one, and then the beak of the third to the right:

A bit of a mumble jumble of babies:

Time to have a nap (this shot, and the next six, were taken on the 20th):

They have grown so much in only three days!

Mom arrives:

They’re still hungry!

And in between feedings they nap:

The father looks on from a nearby tree:

A closer macro shot:

I had to wait for quite a while, very quietly, to frame this shot:

They look rather alien like to me…what do you think?

They are now stretching quite far out of the nest in search of food from their parents, so much larger then when they were born ~6 or so days ago:

The three babies really fill up the little nest now:

This one is the smallest of the three, and looking for more food to catch up to the siblings:

Snoozing:

Looking for food, but not making too much of an effort at it:

Check back soon as I will continue to chronicle the babies growth, until they leave the nest (which will probably be soon given the fast growth!), I should have some new images in the next few days.

Some shots from a commercial shoot I did for SavvyMom last month. This is for their new online newsletter, EatSavvy. EatSavvy will be published once a month, and I had a great time doing the shoot. The idea behind the EatSavvy publication is ‘One meal, four ways’, while you have the ingredients on hand you can prepare a family meal, a meal for a toddler, a dinner party version and then plan ahead and freeze a meal for another day. What a great idea! Click here to learn more. (I’m a HUGE fan of SavvyMom and the idea behind their product, and it’s wonderful to work for a company of women who are all SavvyMoms too!)

It was fun to shoot something a little different then I usually shoot, and I look forward to the monthly photography sessions! (If you’re a mom, sign-up and Get Savvy!)

As promised yesterday, here’s another blog post.

I did some shooting down in the Distillery District recently, so thought I would share a few images. Please let me know if you’d like to do a family/couple/pet photography session here, I think it would be a fabulous location!

For a change we tried shooting in the harsh sunlight to see how it would turn out, we then used this same location later in the day as well:

What a difference a few hours makes in the lighting! These images, taken later in the day, have a much softer quality both in the light and the colour.

Hmmmm, yet another week’s worth of images…I really need to try to build some time into the week to upload on a more regular basis! Well, I do have some more images to upload, so I will aim to do that in the next day or two…certainly before the end of the week in any case!

The kids and I had an errand to run up at Yonge and St. Clair the other day, so had a quick bite of some sushi (actually Noah passed on the sushi, and had McD’s instead! Crazy kid! lol).

I decided to throw the Lensbaby G3 on the camera, but forgot that I had the star shaped aperture disk installed, which explains the star shaped bokeh!

With this shot I realized I had the star shaped aperture disk installed…kind of hard to miss in this one!

And in this one too!

Then I switched back to the regular round disk:

Back to my fav 85:

Shot this one of my sister in very low light conditions, gotta love a fast aperture for that!

Diane is a really old friend of my sister’s and mine from high school days. I haven’t seen her in about 23 years or so! And she’s just as beautiful as she was back then!

Shot wide open under an overpass:

Just out and about on the street somewhere:

Ran into this good looking kitty in a back alley on the way home. Managed to get a few shots before he became much too interested in just saying hello and jumped off the car to visit with us.

That’s all for today…more to follow tomorrow!

Went out for some night shooting in the Distillery District with some fellow photographers this weekend. The rules were simple, focus on composition and include people in every shot. The low light was challenging, slow shutter speeds and it was hard for the camera to focus automatically in such low light, but it was a beautiful night to be out and it was fun! Enjoy!

Well, I haven’t had much of a chance to update my blog since my daughter went away…and now she’s home again! So, in chronological order, here’s the last week and a bit.

Noah and I passed the time well, and spent a lot of time at the park:

On his last day of weekly tennis lessons, we managed to get to the park before the wading pool was emptied, we didn’t exactly have our swimsuit on, but that didn’t stop us from joining in on the fun!

Love the bokeh in the next two shots, such a summery feel to the images as well:

Yeah! Rebecca is home and happy!!!

She came with me to pick up her brother from camp, they bonded on the way home:

On Canada Day we went to the park, since the wading pool was open for the day. A low key day to recover from the long travel day (for Rebecca) the day before:

Noah very much enjoyed the water!

As did Rebecca:

After Rebecca got out, and was lying on her towel beside me drying off, she suddenly exclaimed that she saw a bunny across the school yard, and took off. Sure enough this little guy was over by the school, among the plants:

And even more surprising this ‘little’ guy was over on the grass, all by himself, just sitting there, and not moving. Rebecca sat with this one for a long time, but didn’t touch him (or her), through I know she was very tempted to because he’s so cute!

To give you an idea of just how small this bunny was, those are my daughter’s hands on either side. Another mom almost stepped on him!

After she sat with him for over an hour she came back to the wading pool:

As did Noah:

LOVE the bokeh in this shot! So cool when shot wide open:

A rare caught moment between brother and sister:

We then went home for a few hours, had dinner, and came back as sometimes they have fireworks in the park (but they didn’t seem to this year). As we were starting to head out of the park, to go home for the night, we saw the bunnies again! I’m pretty sure this is the tiny one from the grass:

Who then went into a flower bed, and just sat by the wall and didn’t move (again!). Perfectly camouflaged, you probably wouldn’t even notice if you weren’t looking for a bunny!

We went to take a look at the other flower bed (which is full of foliage, so a better hiding place for bunnies), and two bunnies came out and then ran back in! I don’t know where all these little guys are coming from, or, as Noah says “Where their Mudder is”, but I guess we’ll be hunting for bunnies the next time we make it over to the park…will post updates if we see them again!