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June 8, 2009

Turtle, Softball & Fun Fair: Toronto Family Photographer

Filed under: Animals,Children,Life,Out & About,Project Love — Holly @ 1:17 pm

We actually had a beautiful night for softball last week, and as we passed a local park, on the way to the game, I saw my neighbour out with his turtle, Rusty, so stopped and grabbed some very quick shots:

Then we continued on our way…

Though had to pause for a moment to tie up our shoes…

Then we were flying down the stairs to the game:

Only a few more games left. I brought the Canon 24–70 mm f2.8L lens for a change rather then my usual Canon 70–200 f2.8L IS lens:

This past weekend was the yearly ‘Fun Fair’ at my son’s school, so here’s a few shots from the day. Noah volunteered for the dunk tank, his sister and her friend from school hit the button to dunk him:

Afterward he dried off:

Rebecca also took a turn in the dunk tank, but I missed the big event, BOO!

This was really funny! Aiden Orange, who was recently on The Ellen Show, was performing at the school Fun Fair! The kids and I just recently saw the episode, I didn’t recognize him until he started the lawnmower trick! The BIG dream of my Project Love event is to photograph Ellen & Portia for their upcoming one year anniversary on August 16th. You can see the youtube video about my quest here. Or read more about the Toronto part of Project Love here.

Here’s a shot of the lawnmower trick:

The Fun Fair was a fabulous success, and the weather was perfect this year! Once the fair is done I just know that the end of the school year will be here before we know it!

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May 27, 2009

Beach Shoot: Toronto Natural Light Photography

Filed under: Animals,Friends,Life,Out & About — Holly @ 6:20 pm

Had an AWESOME evening out with some follow photographers. Met up with Leigh, Nicole (Leigh’s friend/assistant) and Rebecca, and did some shooting on the beach before going for dinner.

Captured this shot of Leigh as we sat for a few minutes, upon our arrival, discussing our plan of ‘action’. I started out shooting with the Canon 24–70 mm f2.8L lens:

As we wandered down the beach we spotted this adorable puppy named “Trooper”, so CUTE!

This shot made me wish that I had brought along my Canon 70–200 f2.8L IS lens so I could have really zoomed in on him as he ran, unfortunately I left that lens at home (it’s rather heavy!), so had to crop in the frame for this image (but still, so CUTE! Look at those ears!):

Eventually Trooper had to go home, sniff, but we were not lonely for long as we came upon these cuties, who were obviously ready for their close-ups:

I really like this shot, angle, shallow depth of field, beautiful dog:

Like this one very much too!

Then we turned our attention to photographing each other, you can see Rebecca’s ‘bump’ in this shot, believe she said she’s just over three months along…her daughter will have a sibling soon to play with! I have switched over the Canon 85 f1.2L lens for the next shots:

We were enjoying the backlight, perfect light!

Caught a few more of Leigh:

And Nicole! I can’t believe this is the only shot I captured of you! Holding up the reflector! I’m going to capture your beautiful blue eyes next time…maybe I’ll bring the Canon 100 mm f2.8 macro lens! 😉

Whoa! Serious backlight! LOVE!

Then we brought out the good stuff, bubbles from Germany! (And now I know where to find them too!!!)

After all the fun of shooting we finished up with a FAB meal at “The Nose” (Gio Rana’s Really Really Nice Restaurant, 1220 Queen St. E.), the food is amazing! Think we’ll be going back there on our next outing as well! The restaurant has these amazing large images throughout the restaurant, very cool!

Looking forward to our next get-together Leigh, Rebecca and Nicole!

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May 16, 2009

Mother’s Day: Toronto Family Photographer

Filed under: Animals,Children,Family Pet Photography,Life,Out & About,The Natural World — Holly @ 5:59 pm

Last Sunday the kids and I went over to my mother’s for lunch and a nice visit for Mother’s Day. Met this beautiful cat a few doors down from my mother’s house.

(Equipment Used: All shots in this blog post were taken with my beloved Canon 85 f1.2L lens.)

A shot of Simon hanging out on the sofa:

A few shots of Mylo, who was hiding upstairs away from the kids:

Poor, sweet Simon has a horrible condition called Syringomyelia, which is currently causing him to drag one of his paws, so my mother puts on a protective bootie before he goes out for a walk:

Rebecca’s checks out her little tree across the street from my mother’s house. She received this little tree as a sapling from the Montessori school she attended, upon graduation from SK:

Noah enjoys running with Simon, we are off to the park to have a bit of a break before dessert:

Some beautiful red tulips on the way to the park:

Rebecca up top on the Summerhill Reservoir near my mother’s home:

Noah enjoyed throwing Simon’s kong for him:

My mother is always so stylish! Doesn’t she looks beautiful in her blue outfit?

Noah awaits Simon’s return with the kong to throw it again for him:

Love the out-of-focus dandelions in this shot:

Noah brought ‘Mr. Bill’ with him for the outing to my mother’s and the park:

All that running around, you built up a thirst!

We came upon Mylo on the say home:

One last shot of Noah holding Simon just inside my mother’s house:

Hope all the mother’s out there had a wonderful mother’s day!

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May 9, 2009

First Softball Game of the Year

Filed under: Animals,Children,Life,Out & About,The Natural World — Holly @ 3:11 pm

It was the first softball game of the year this past week, so off we went to the local park.

(See “My Camera Equipment” in footer section for links/more information on camera equipment used.)

Caught this shot of Rebecca’s funky shoes and bag before we left the house, shot with the Canon 85 f1.2L lens:

Captured some spring tulips, while they’re still around, on the way to the game, shot with the Canon 85 f1.2L lens:

Once we arrived at the game I switched to the Canon 70–200 f2.8L IS lens for the increase focal length, Noah waits for his turn at bat:

Receives some instruction:

It’s a hit!

Yeah! Made it to base!

While Noah was busy playing softball, Rebecca played with the younger brother of one of Noah’s friends, they were playing ‘catch’:

William had a great time!

Another shot of Rebecca’s funky shoes:

Switched back to the Canon 85 f1.2L lens for the walk home, to captured some more flower shots…

…and then I saw this beautiful cat in a neighbours yard:

Such beautiful blue eyes! Wish we could have a cat, alas allergies prevent it at the moment:

That’s all for now, will be making a BIG announcement on this blog later today!

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April 19, 2009

Yonge Street, St. Lawrence Market & Guildwood Park

Filed under: Animals,Children,Life,Out & About — Holly @ 6:31 pm

A bit of catch up with some recent shots today. All were taken with my beloved Canon 85 f1.2L lens, really thinking I need to give some of my other lenses some loving next time I go out!

Noah, under the same bridge as before:

We stopped in at a local shop to pick up some fish for dinner, caught Noah in some nice window light:

Paused long enough for me to capture this shot:

Then off he ran ahead of me to the Spotted Zebra (same store we visited in the previous blog posting):

And he added two more rubber frogs to his collection:

Then, on the weekend, we went down to the St. Lawrence Market:

Noah discovered the joy of pigeon chasing:

One of the MANY pigeons:

Rebecca enjoys some chocolate milk as part of her afternoon snack:

Noah got a lot of exercise running after the pigeons:

At one point one flew up onto a light:

He kept an eye on it:

And tried to coax it down:

Now, just let me assure everyone NO PIGEONS were harmed! He didn’t get that close to them, even though it looks like he did!

Think I will have to do a family or couple shoot down at the market, it’s a rather cool location, with some older buildings that would be fun for backgrounds too.

After hanging out at the St. Lawrence Market until almost closing time (BTW, in case you didn’t know, some of the stores have a big sell off at the end of day Saturday), we went to Guildwood Park, which I’ve never been to before. Boy, I sure wish I could bottle this kids’ energy! As you can see Noah was still running and jumping!

Here he was triumphed from throwing a rock or stick, I’m not sure what his goal was!

I saw a bit of a rise in the path and had him run back and jump, but he only did it once so this what the best image I captured:

Just when the kids decided that they had had enough, and wanted to go home, they then decided to start digging in the dirt, we didn’t leave for another 15–20 minutes:

Love this smily shot of Rebecca, even though something (sun flare? object in front of lens?) distorted it a bit in the middle, love the backlighting:

On the way back to the car Noah let out a real, out-of-control, laugh, love it!

Noah was ready for bed EARLY that night, after all that exercise and fresh air I can’t say I was surprised! 🙂

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