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June 21, 2008

Last Day of School and Off to Camp

Filed under: Children,Life,Out & About — Holly @ 6:15 pm

It was my daughter’s last day of school yesterday as she went off to camp today in Alberta (for 10 days!!!).

So yesterday I focused on getting some nice shots of her:

Don’t you just love those movable walkways at the airport?

Here she was laughing at her brother, who kept goofing around with her…I think he’s going to miss her. I know I will.

After a bit of a teary goodbye, I dragged Noah over to this spot as I knew the bokeh would be cool:

Airports are rather cool places to shoot in!

Here’s that walkway again!

Being a ‘bit’ of a goof! lol

So many cool backgrounds when you are shooting with a wide aperture!

I expect the next 10 days will go by quickly for her, and for me, but I sure do look forward to her return home!

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June 17, 2008

Toronto Family Photography Session

Filed under: Children,Family Photography — Tags: Children, family photographer, family photography, kids, portrait, Toronto, Toronto Family Photographer, Toronto Family Photography, Toronto Portrait Photography — Holly @ 12:33 pm

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

I love the background in this shot:

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! 🙂

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June 15, 2008

Saturday, Out and About, In the Park, Out to Dinner!

Filed under: Children,Friends,Life,Out & About — Holly @ 6:03 pm

While Noah was off with a friend at an event, Rebecca and I ran some errands on our own.

Caught this shot as we waited for our lunch to arrive:

Noah had a great time at his event and came home with a wonderfully painted face! So once a friend of mine arrived we all headed over to the park:

Oh, yes, one of the things we purchased yesterday was a hair colouring product (a mousse that, apparently, will wash out after 8–10 hair washes…I guess we’ll see!)

Rebecca was thrilled to colour her hair!

Depending on the light her hair has a very different tone to it, here is it darker and much more sophisticated.

Caught some shots of Noah on the swing:

Some shots of Rebecca with lovely bokeh in the background:

This shot is very reminiscent of these series of shots, from my old blog.

This one makes me think of Oliver Twist (“Please sir, can I have some more…?)

Showing off our latest treasure:

Then we decided we were ready for dinner, so we walked up Yonge Street to Terroni, here Noah was busy drinking some water and asked his sister to just ‘wait’ a second…

I think he looks like a very cute little mouse nibbling his bread! lol

Uh, bet you can’t guess what he choose to have for dinner?? 😉

Looking a bit concerned…no idea why!

A quiet moment:

Rebecca on the way home:

Noah on the way home (he’s lost quite a bit of his face make-up from eating his dinner):

It ended up being a very nice day, and the weather was perfect too!

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June 10, 2008

Sunday, in the Park

Filed under: Animals,Children,Life,Out & About — Holly @ 1:10 pm

We waited until about 4 pm to head to the park on Sunday, hoping it had cooled down just a bit which, thankfully, it had!

Noah, shot wide open to maximize the bokeh:

Rebecca, and more bokeh!

The kids found some left over water balloons from the Fun Fair on Saturday, here Noah is running from his sister, who’s trying to throw a balloon at him:

It was all fun and games until his big sister did something silly by emptying a whole water balloon on him, he was not happy 🙁 (and she immediately regretted it as then he didn’t want to play anymore!)

Then she proposed that he empty a balloon over top of his head, he took her up on that!

And he was happy again!

Before we headed home we met Tucker! What a cutie!

And then, luckily, we got home before the weather turned! I can’t say I enjoy the crazy weather systems that come along with the heat and humidity!

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June 5, 2008

New School, Kitten Season & Digging in the Dirt

Filed under: Animals,Children,Life,Out & About — Holly @ 8:49 pm

My daughter and I went to meet with the principal of her new school today, here’s a shot on the way:

I would have liked a catchlight in her eyes, but there are no windows in the hallway! But I love the out-of-focus background in the shot…so I uploaded it just for that!

A shot taken inside one of the classrooms:

On the way home we visited a local vet who had kittens in his window. Did you know there is such a thing as ‘kitten season’? (I found that out one year when I asked the vet why he didn’t always have kittens in his window…and he said it wasn’t the season for kittens!)

We liked this one the most: