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  • Grab a cup of coffee and get comfortable!!! This is my personal online journal featuring images from my favorite sessions, as well as, my very own life ;) I can't wait for you to get to know me!! If you leave a comment or two, then I can get to know you a bit as well!

    Enjoy!

    The fabulous picture of me was taken by the lovely Miss Tara Whitney!
    Dana is proud to be NAPCP Child Photographer of the Year.

All The Way From Fort McMurray

******CANVAS CONTEST CAN BE FOUND IF YOU SCROLL DOWN*******

Wow! I can’t believe how crazy this canvas contest is! I’m sorry to interrupt, but I have to continue with my blog posts or I will fall desperately behind. So, scroll down and vote for your fave! This family deserves a big sneak peek. They met me in Edmonton this past weekend. They came all the way from Fort McMurray! Wow! No pressure or anything. Thank goodness we had lovely weather. Fall is coming. I can feel it.

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Okay…I love this guys hair…and his little impish expressions. That’s what he is…a little imp. What is an imp anyways? If you look in wikipedia surely his image will be there!!!
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Okay…what’s not to love?
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Again…I loved that the dad knealt down.  It’s funny because this is a very popular location for Edmonton photographers. I just thought we’d play in the weeds, but the kids LOVED the slanted concrete under the overpass. I think they were disappointed to walk away from it!
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okay…everyone can sigh here…love LOVE crazy love it!
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Even though this family is not very serious, I still managed to capture some sweet moments.
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A new try at processing. Isn’t she beautiful?
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And, I love his silly expression. I love how he blends into the bright summer sky. But, I especially love his mom’s blue toe nail polish. Fabulous! Thanks for a splendid Edmonton morning!!

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Canvas Contest!!!!

EDITED TO ADD: You have to scroll all the way down to the poll and vote there. I think some people are clicking on the image–that will not add a vote and I have no way of tracking that, so please help your friends out and scroll down to the poll!!! Thanks:)

Okay…so here it is…my first anniversary contest. My absolute favorite way to display images is on canvas. Here are ten images I wish I’d seen on canvas–so, let’s pick one of them and do it! That’s right, the winning subject receives a canvas(with the long side being 20″) of the winning image! I’ll leave up the poll for one week…okay, so there is one rule–play fair. That means no spamming people. One vote per day. I have my ways of tracking this so, don’t break this rule. On September 1st, I will close the poll at 9am. I’ll announce the winner later that day.

It was super hard to pick 10 images from the past year, so I enlisted some help(thanks to my peeps for helping me choose)…here they are in order:

#1) This girl is a true beauty…every image of her is a treat–but this one is my fave! Someone once said it looked like the cover of a country album;)

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#2) This image just screams family to me…(if you haven’t been following my blog for the whole year, you might not know that this is my logo designer and her family…we’ll see them again this fall!)

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#3) My favorite silhouette at Lake Louise this past March…

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#4) Black and whites look sooooo nice on canvas. This one would look fabulous;)How gorgeous are these girls?

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#5) Some bright fun color with one of my favorite families!!!

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#6) I love this image. Just love it…baby safe in his family’s arms

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#7) Mom and dad were married at Teatro…I think their sweet little girl looks like a european baby;)Like she’s out of a French movie. Seriously.

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#8) okay…so I feel a little bit guilty just putting up this one because he has two gorgeous brothers but my peeps overwhelmingly wanted me to include it. I hope that his family forgives me…he is soooo gorgeous. I could swim in his brown eyes.

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#9) Okay, so this is Bob’s choice. No one has seen this image yet. I just took it. But Bob thinks this is my best session ever(won’t their mom be happy to hear this?) and insisted I include a tractor image.

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#10) This one is totally 100% for me. From the birth I captured. It will always be a special image to me.

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So, here is the poll. This is the first time I have set one of these up. I guess we’ll see how it works!

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***okay…so there has been some not so fair play going on…I told you guys I can monitor this sort of thing. Since it wasn’t the people in the image, I am not going to disqualify them, but I am going to subtract 31 votes from #5. Even though I can’t ACTUALLY subtract them…I guess we’ll see the final totals on the final day. Play fair people.

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Friday’s Favorites

I keep missing Fridays….hmmm…maybe this was too ambitious. Forgive me if I miss a Friday here or there…life can get busy. Soooo busy that summer might slip by hardly noticed and we might just find ourselves madly shopping for school clothes already. How did that happen?

 Two things today that I would like to share with you. One is not a blog, but an online journal that I found interesting. The images are especially compelling to me and drew me right into the story. http://www.dayswithmyfather.com/ 

The other thing I want to share today is a blog–a blog–yay! Actually, I quite enjoy this blog and come to find out in Seattle that Tara enjoys it as well. Since this week has been kind of a Tara week, I have decided to share it with you all. http://www.bobbiandmike.com/blog/ I must confess that I am sure at one time or another I looked at their website, but–not for awhile. Their blog is AWESOME though. Their most recent post with the minigolf and video game loving groom was right up my alley.

One other thing–I’ve been on an itunes spending spree lately. Wanna go on one? Don’t forget my comment contest–winner gets a $50 gift card to do just that!!! Later skaters!!!

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Calgary’s Summer is Melting Away

…faster than these ice cream cones!!!! We went for lunch and a walk about the Saskatoon Farm the other day with our friends. Good old summertime fun!!! I love how these images look like stills out of an old movie! I’m sad that summer is slipping away…

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Jack in there with the girls;)Yes, his hair really is that long. Thank goodness it’s curly;)Enjoy the last few lazy, hazy summer days!!!

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Calgary Photographer on the Streets of Seattle

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So, one of the moms who was gracious enough to bring her children out for the workshop had three of the most beautiful children I’d ever seen. A slight disclaimer here as someone told me that I say this about all children I have ever met, but honestly, look at these kids! Man, they are sooooooooo beautiful!
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And, this one…well, he’s a bundle of character which is a trait I LOVE;)
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The youngest of the three of them was soooooo sweet, sooooo precious, soooooo hard to capture in the giant crowd of the workshop, but I have this series of her and her mom that I am in love with. I put one in my blog header and I’m posting one here. I hope these look okay despite my monitor issues. Oh! And, I was told by my roommate that I was much too quiet on the last post and had to tell everyone that I was like that kid on the disneyland commercial on Friday night after learning that Tara was the guest speaker. You know ‘I’m toooooo excited to sleep!!!!!’. Well, my response to that is that I was trying to appear all cool and collected and not the bumbling mess that I truly was! I feel blessed to have met the two photographers I admire most(Jinky and Tara in case you aren’t a regular reader) thanks to the wonderfully talented and wonderfully generous, Cheryl Muhr. I am shaking my head in disbelief at my good fortune. Truly.

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