Allow me to introduce you to the newest member of our family, Alice. She is the sweetest little girl, who came from a wonderful breeder located just outside of Toronto.
Last night she snuggled right in with Rebecca, she loves to lie on our laps and be with us:
Here she is snuggling with Noah:
Watch for many more images to come!
My girl is 13-years-old today, and she received a very special gift from me for the big day. I’ve been dying to give it to her since I picked it up on Friday morning…and I had to wait even longer as she had a sleepover at a friends last night, so didn’t get home until lunch time, but she was so thrilled with her gift:
She was thrilled with the colour of the guitar as well, black being her fave (non) colour. She just re-dyed her hair blue-black…which you may remember from last year when we had a nice mother/daughter lunch out for her birthday.
After lunch her best friend, Jo Kim, came over and came along with us while we ran some errands.
Stopped at Over the Rainbow to check out hats, and for Noah to load up on jujubes:
Noah was my elusive subject for the day, I had to sneak in photos of him:
Almost home, the girls ham it up:
Once home we made “5 Minute Chocolate Mug Cakes“, which you may remember from this post (with the recipe), so Rebecca could blow out some candles (real birthday cake will came in two weeks with a family celebration):
Now it’s time for a special b-day dinner, banana waffles with chocolate chips, a fave! (Equipment Used: All images were shot with the Canon 85 f1.2L lens.)
Some images from my photography workshop in Vermont.
(See “My Camera Equipment” in footer section for links/more information on camera equipment used.)
The first four images were shot with the Lensbaby lens:
Next two photos of pumpkins were shot wide open with the Canon 85 f1.2L lens:
Shot intentionally dark and moody with the Canon 100 mm f2.8 macro lens at f2.8:
The next five images were shot with the Lensbaby lens:
This one was shot with no aperture disk installed, creating extremely shallow depth of field:
Embracing the blur and the pattern of the mushroom:
The instructor of the workshop loaned me his Canon 70–200 f2.8L IS lens, as I did not bring mine. Hoping to get some close-ups of cows and horses before trip is through:
Flying down to Vermont yesterday I had a chance to make fun use of my iPhone camera, completely inspired by Chase Jarvis and his gallery of iPhone photography.
Most of these images were processed on the iPhone with the wonderful “Camera Bag” application. Flying down on a small propeller plane (less then half full), ended up being a ton of fun because of the photographic opportunities, looking forward to the flight home for more shots!
(Stripes in some of the photos are the blades of the propeller that created interesting effects.)
Time for a big catch-up on some recent shots from this summer…which I can’t believe is almost over!
Rebecca did some summer camp programs at the Sewing Studio on Avenue Road. For one of the camps all the girls had their hair and make-up done, so we took a few photos in the driveway next to our house (shot with the Canon 85 f1.2L lens):
Some recent, decent (except for the air bubbles!), latté art:
Got together with my photog friends at Rebecca Woods’ new studio/office. We were playing around with some off-camera flash, but these were taken in existing light. The sunset outside her studio window was too beautiful to not photograph…kind of wished we’d been out and about in the beautiful evening air shooting that night!
(Equipment Used: All of the following were taken with the Canon 50 f1.4 lens and Canon 5D. I thought I’d give it a try as it’s a much lighter option for carrying for extended periods over the Canon EOS-1D MarkIII and Canon 85 f1.2L lens combo, but the result isn’t nearly as good…but decent for the reduced weight of equipment. All of the following images were shot wide open at f1.4.)
Kids and I set off to do some back to school shopping, but first Noah had to buy a new frog:
Can’t beat the bokeh created shooting wide open!
Noah was happy as I treated him to a new Nintendo DS game, which kept him busy while his sister & I shopped:
Again, loving the bokeh:
Rebecca at a shoe shop, shopping for back-to-school shoes (wish I could have found something for Noah…no selection to speak of in the Yonge/Bloor area):
Afterward we had an ice cream break at Summer’s Ice Cream Shop in Yorkville. Especially nice as there was something Noah could have (he usually misses out on ice cream due to his peanut/nut allergy). We puzzled over the bizarrely worded sign in a dry cleaners window next to the ice cream shop:
Last week Rebecca and I went out for lunch and to run some errands. Her newly created sock monkey (made at one of her Sewing Studio camps), Fredrick, accompanied us. I think he’s just the cutest creation!:
On our journey through the Annex we came across some damage from that crazy storm we had last Thursday night:
After running some errands we stopped for lunch at Big Sushi on Bloor:
Loving their sweet potato sushi, just wish they offered a brown rice version:
Bokeh, baby, bokeh!
Loving the backlight of this shot, and the bokeh!
Rebecca is loving her new sunglasses:
Yeah! All caught up!
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