Meet the wonderful W Family! I honestly don’t know how I luck out with such nice clients and well behaved sweet kids!

Here’s a shot of the youngest, Harrison, at the piano, I just LOVE this shot! He’s such a cutie!

Also love this candid I caught of the four kids together, playing thumb wars and rock, paper, scissors! You can see that the younger ones just love their older siblings!

Young Jacob, look at those beautiful blue eyes!

Harrison, such a character he is!

Adore this moment between mom and Jacob, so sweet!

Mom and Harrison just came down the slide in the backyard together, I just adore this shot also! Love the moment that I caught.

Can’t tell that Kyle and Kristen are brother and sister, eh? They both have the most amazing eyes!

Dad and Jacob in the kitchen, so sweet:

Just look at those cool eyes!

Ok, does this not look like a family in an advert? So cute and so perfect! I just adore the stance of Harrison and Jacob in the front, and Jack (the sweet, sweet dog!) is perfectly posed as well!

Thank you so much Patricia and Wayne! It was wonderful to meet you and your children!

This was another large (extended family) shoot, and what a wonderfully nice family!

Justine, on the left below, found me online and the family hired me to photograph kids, parents and grandparents.

Here is Chloe, with her mom and grandmother, love this shot of the three generations!:

Chloe and her brother Kelly, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this moment!

Kelly is going to be a heartbreaker when he grows up! Beautiful boy! Such a sparkle in his eyes!

Love this moment caught between mother and daughter:

This is Justine’s beautiful sister, Vanessa with her son Max in the background:

Love the soulful look Max is giving the camera, brother Noah is in the background:

How could I resist showing you a close-up of Noah and his beautiful eyes? I couldn’t!

Love this moment between Vanessa’s daughter, Julie, with her mom and dad:

Even though Julie is not terribly happy in this shot, I still love it! Love the bracelets, the shiny black boots, and the look that is so much a three year old!

There were SO many shots that I could have shared from this session, it was so hard to pick which ones to post! But these are definitely some of my favourites. Thank you for finding me online Justine! It was so wonderful to meet and photograph you and your family!

You may remember beautiful Maeve from a newborn session I did back in January, hasn’t she grown!

Check out those blue eyes!

She is just as sweet as she was when she was a newborn, she reminds me so much of my daughter as she’s just a happy baby!

Love this shot of the older siblings, Rhys and Kylie, as it reminds me of the upside down shot I did of them at the January session:

Love how Rhys is holding Maeve’s hand in this shot:

LOVE this shot of Maeve with big sister Kylie in the background! Maeve was just fascinated by her big sister’s shoes!

Love this shot of Mom and Dad in the background, they’re so cute!

Then the kids joined in!

Mom and Dad were so smart to book again now that Maeve is sitting, as babies change so much in the first year! And now they’ll have beautiful images to look back on and to remember this time in their family’s life! I look forward to catching many more images as your family continues to grow Christa and Kelly!

This was a large family shoot! The four siblings are planning something special for their parent’s 50th in August.

I had a great time shooting the children on their own. First up was Helena, who helped me find the ‘light’ in the backyard. I love the background in this first shot:

Love this shot, love the stray hair coming across her face, she has fabulous hair!

Charlie was a bit of a tough cookie, but I love this serious shot of him:

Charlie’s older brother Ben, love the sparkle in his eyes!

Love this serious shot of Pearce. Like me he is more comfortable behind the camera then in front of it. (I can relate Pearce!)

Pearce’s older sister Madeleine, doesn’t she have the most amazing eyes? Love how the background colours match her eyes too.

She is gorgeous in black and white too!

Love this shot of Claire, another beautiful red head with curls!

Love the contrasting green in the background against the red curls of Claire’s hair:

Claire’s older sister Grace. Love the serious direct look she’s giving me in this shot:

Gotta love a twinkle in the eyes!

Love this moment of ‘just the boys’!

And here are all the parents!

We were fortunate to be able to work around the weather! (I sure hope that settles down as summer begins!)

Thanks to everyone for being such good sports and putting up with the long shoot that was necessary to capture everyone!

Nate made his arrival, almost right on his due date too! (You may remember mom’s maternity session.)

We started up the gas fireplace to make Nate cozy, and hopefully sleepy! (Well, that part didn’t really work! lol)

Shiki, who was nervous of the camera during the maternity session, wasn’t nervous at all this time! I love this shot of her! She’s so cute!

Nate, almost falling asleep….

Love this one of Nate ‘drunk’ on momma’s milk! (I caught him as he was being burped!)

At the end I was able to capture a quiet moment between Mom, Dad and newborn Nate:

Tracey and Jeff, thanks for being so patient as we tried to wait out Nate getting sleepy…of course newborns have their own ideas and schedules, as all parents know!

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Tracey and Jeff (and Shiki) are expecting their first baby in April.

Shiki was a bit nervous of the camera, so I had to shoot fast once we got her into position:

The mom and dad to be:

Tracey with the current ‘baby’ of the family:

Tracey silhouetted in the doorway of the baby’s bedroom:

I hope Shiki will remember me when I return for the newborn shoot!

Thank you Tracey and Jeff! It was wonderful to spend the time with you and Shiki. I look forward, as I’m sure you do, to Nate’s arrival in April!

They came all the way from Switzerland, for a brief visit with family (and to get married!), and in between all that we had a wonderful session in a downtown hotel room.

Baby Maddy was a sweetheart and had the most amazing blue eyes!

Mom, Dad and baby:

We had great light from the large windows for our session:

The windows made for wonderful catch-lights in Maddy’s beautiful blue eyes:

Mom and Dad have gorgeous eyes too!

Thanks Stephanie and Roar! I hope your wedding went well today! I will send you a link to your private online gallery soon!

Well, after 508 votes we have the top three images of 2007 as chosen by you! It was a bit of a nail bitter, between 2nd and 3rd place, as it kept going back and forth between the two. Here are the results.

With 147 votes (29%), the winner of a 24″ x 20″ print is:

Image #9

Yeah! Congratulations to the T-Family!

And in 2nd place, winning a 16″ x 20″ print (after racking up some last minutes votes), with 99 votes (19%) is:

Image #1

And in 3rd place, winning an 11″ x 14″ print, with 88 votes (17%) is:

Image #2

Congratulations to all our winners! I will be contacting you over the next few days about your winning image.

And we have one more winner, as picked randomly by my daughter, Jane van Alphen, has won a free photography session from Holly Sisson Photography. Congratulations Jane! I will also be contacting you to discuss your session.

Thank you to everyone for helping me pick the top three images from family/couple sessions I’ve conducted over the last year. For present/future clients I will be running a contest like this again in the future, so keep an eye on my blog!

Thank you again for participating in my contest!