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April 20, 2010

Alice the Cat Update: Toronto Cat Photography

Filed under: Alice the Cat,Animals,Family Pet Photography — Tags: Canon, cat, Lensbaby, lenses, pet, pet photography, photographer, photography, Toronto — Holly @ 3:24 pm

I have been taking photos of Alice over the last few weeks, so now it’s time to play “blog image catch-up” with them! Hope you enjoy! 🙂

Alice loves hanging out on the window ledge in the living room, watching the world go by: (Equipment Used: Shot with the Canon EOS-1D MarkIV and the Canon 24–70 mm f2.8L lens.)

A couple of more window shots, and then a few where she was just hanging out on my bed. (All shot with the Canon EOS-1D MarkIV. Top two with the Canon 24–70 mm f2.8L lens, bottom left with the Canon 100 mm f2.8 macro lens and the bottom right with the Canon 85 f1.2L lens.)

Love this shot of her, with her beautiful tail curled around her as she snoozes on the shelf in my home office. (Shot with the Canon EOS-1D MarkIV, Canon 24–70 mm f2.8L lens and the Canon 580EX II Speedlite.)

With the beautiful weather having arrived in Toronto, I decided it was time to introduce Alice to our deck. Right now she is still a bit nervous/skittish of being on the deck, but we have a harness/leash for her when she starts to get more adventurous! (Shot with the Canon EOS-1D MarkIV, and first/last images with the Canon 85 f1.2L lens, middle two with the Canon 24–70 mm f2.8L lens.)

(Shot with the Canon EOS-1D MarkIV and the Canon 24–70 mm f2.8L lens.)

The following four images were shot with the Canon EOS-1D MarkIV, and the Lensbaby Composer with the Lensbaby Close-Up (Macro) Kit (+4) installed:
Alice-lensbaby_w:macro-collage.jpg

The following four images were shot with the Canon EOS-1D MarkIV, and the Lensbaby Composer (no macro attachment). Interesting to me how much more pronounced the lensbaby affect is on these images vs. the images above with the macro attachment:

Will have a link to share, related to my pet photography, in the next day or two. Will post some more recent shots of Alice then too! 🙂

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March 18, 2010

My (10th) Birthday Boy: Toronto Family Photography

Filed under: Alice the Cat,Children,Food,Life — Tags: Canon, cat, family pet photography, family photographer, family photography, lenses, pet photography, Toronto, Toronto Family Photographer, Toronto Family Photography — Holly @ 5:05 pm

Can’t believe that my youngest turned 10 this month!

(Equipment Used: Birthday images were shot with the Canon EOS-1D MarkIV and the Canon 85 f1.2L lens.)

We celebrated with a special treat on the actual day:
Noah, the birthday boy

Then my family came this past weekend for cake:

(Alice images were shot with the Canon EOS-1D MarkIV and the Canon 24–70 mm f2.8L lens.)

A few shots of Alice to finish up this quick blog update. Alice sat right by the window for the first image. The last two show her new perch in the house that Rebecca and Noah can’t stand. I only managed to captured these two before Noah whisked her off, afraid she would fall, lol!

Tomorrow I’m off to photograph the adorable Miles again, this time with his two older sisters. Watch for the sneak peek soon! Will also be posting the delicious images from the March EatSavvy shoot! Yum!

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February 26, 2010

The (half) Birthday Girl: Toronto Family Pet Photography

Filed under: Alice the Cat,Family Pet Photography,Life — Tags: Canon, cat, family pet photography, lenses, pet, pet photography, photography, portrait, Toronto, Toronto Pet Photographer, Toronto Pet Photography, Toronto Portrait Photography — Holly @ 11:47 am

Funny how you mark the months before the first birthday. Alice turned six months old yesterday, no longer a kitten (sniff), but a beautiful young cat.

(Equipment Used: The following were captured with the Canon EOS-1D MarkIV and the Canon 85 f1.2L lens, all but the first image were shot with the Canon 580EX II Speedlite as well.)

Captured yesterday, a grooming session on my printer:

The following were all captured on Wednesday, when Alice decided she wanted to hang out on a crowded shelf (covered rad) in my home office. She seemed to be asking me to clear her a spot:

Which I did, for her comfort, and also to avoid items crashing to the floor as she crowded her way into ‘her spot’, lol:

(The previous storyboard was created from a fab tool called the moirai compositor, which I read about on the amazing Tara Whitney’s blog. Will use it for blogging but also for coffee table books, w00t!)

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February 23, 2010

Winter Storm: Toronto Family Photographer

Filed under: Alice the Cat,Life — Tags: Canon, cat, lenses, storm, winter — Holly @ 11:38 am

Toronto’s first storm of the season, such as it was, wasn’t much of anything, but still a lot more then we’ve received all season!

(Equipment Used: All of the following, with the exception of the last photo which was shot with older equipment in 2007, were shot with the Canon EOS-1D MarkIV and the Canon 24–70 mm f2.8L lens.)

Alice watches her first winter storm out the back kitchen window:

Passers by on Avenue Road:

Here’s an image from January 2007 which I don’t think I every posted on my blog, and thought I’d share. Hoping for more wintery weather later in the week when I’ll have more time to try and capture some interesting shots from my home office window: