Holly Sisson Photography

May 30, 2011

Out & About, Catch-Up Blog Posting: Toronto Family Photographer

This is a big catch-up blog posting, as I haven’t posted for a while!

I recently went downtown to Queen Street West with my daughter, and we found this adorable fascinator in a downstairs store on Queen Street for just $15, where almost the exact same thing was selling for $30 a half block away! It was an awesome shop, we will certainly visit again soon:

Rebecca fascinator

 

Rebecca headshot fascinator

A few shots out and about in the Queen Street West alleyways:

R queen st collage

A few weeks ago we were at the Summerhill Reservoir, and we met Gordon, who looks very much like a Golden Retriever I grew up with:

Gordon the dog

More shots of Gordon, and, yes, Noah ended up with very wet feet! Rebecca brought along her book:

Mothers day 2011 collage

I went on a photo walk with Toronto Photo Walks this past Saturday, lots of animals!

Dog in park

Met this cat on the way home:

Cat on front lawn

The beautiful long haired cat was sitting in the front window of a home on route. The shot of the bowls was from inside a Buddhist Temple via Doors Open:

PhotoWalk animals collage

Dandelions everywhere!

Dandelions collage

I also took quite a few shots with my iPhone, but need a few more days to do something creative with them! They’ll show up soon! 🙂

(Equipment used: Canon EOS-1D MarkIV (new version of this camera is the Canon EOS-1D X Digital), Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM Telephoto Zoom Lens, and the Canon 85 f1.2L lens)

April 27, 2011

Costa Rica iPhoneography

Filed under: Animals,iPhone,Life,Out & About,Textured,The Natural World — Tags: , — Holly @ 1:57 pm

Here are some iPhoneography shots (and a few older shots at the end) from my recent trip to Costa Rica. You can see my Canon photography shots, from this trip, in this post (or just scroll down further on the page). All of the following were shot and processed on the iPhone 4.

This one is a combination of two previously processed images, playing with a few new apps:

The World Within

When I departed Toronto it was a snowy cold day, the plane had to be de-iced:

Snowy Departure Collage

In flight, to and from Costa Rica. The last image is from a short haul flight within Costa Rica.

Flying to Costa Rica Collage

Surfers on the beach in Costa Rica:

Surfs Up

Surfer beach

Loved the beaches:

Flying to a Distant Shore

And love the critters on the beach even more!

You Had Me at Hello

SeaCreaturesCollage

Scenic shots:

Scenic Costa Rica Collage

Playing with the Tiny Planet app on the iPhone:

TinyPlanet costarica collage

Round Round We Go

And to finish up, a few older iPhone shots that I didn’t have a chance to post before:

Dark Reflection

Oldershots

April 12, 2011

Costa Rica: Photography Tour

Filed under: Animals,Life,The Natural World — Tags: , , , — Holly @ 1:07 pm

I recently traveled to Costa Rica to attend a photography tour with some friends. The tour was run by Natural Exposures, and it was wonderful! Relaxing and fun, lots of photo opportunities. I will post some iPhone photography from the trip once I have a chance to process some more of the images, in the meantime the following were all taken with my Canon 1DMkIV.

Beautiful beach sunset:
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Critters on the beach:
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The silly dogs were from a lunch stop on a travel day, the rest were all taken at the Tiskita Lodge:
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Ah, the beach, loved it!
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The following were taken at the Osa Sanctuary:
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Various birds from the trip:
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Found this curled fern at our first hotel, and never found it again, unfortunately!
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Few more sunsets:
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March 9, 2011

More of Finnegan & a Birthday Celebration: Toronto Pet & Family Photography

My family was coming over to celebrate Noah’s birthday, so Finnegan came along too!

Finnegan at the window, you can really see his beautiful blue eyes, which are just like his half-sister Alice’s:

Finn at window

Alice was keeping a close eye on Finn, and Finn was keeping an eye on Alice as well:

Finn Alice collage

Finn loves Alice’s toy, much more so then Alice does actually!

Finn alices toy collage

Natural light brings out those beautiful blue eyes!

Finn floor

Then it was cake time for the birthday boy:

Noah bday collage

Meanwhile Finn had a big snooze…

Finn snoozing

February 2, 2011

Snow Day: Toronto Family Photographer

Yea! Snow day in Toronto! There hasn’t been a snow day in Toronto since 1999, Rebecca wasn’t even in school then! So my kids made the most of it, inviting friends over for a snowball fight! It was the girls against the boys, here’s how it played out:

Noah arms himself with snowballs, ready to attack:

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Rebecca came forward to negotiate the terms on the snowball fight, they decided that the winner would be whomever took the other’s fort. Then the girls approached, and the fight began!

Snowball fight collage1

The girls quickly retreated to their corner, and just as quickly retreated from their corner, the boys won!

Snowball fight collage2

Back to the house we went for hot chocolate, rice krispies squares and xbox kinect. And that was the end of their snow day, hope they enjoyed it as it could be years before they have another one!

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