I’m Baaaa-ack!

It will take me awhile to get caught up as I had minimal internet access while I was away. More minimal than I imagined actually! If you are waiting for something from me, don’t worry, it will happen as soon as possible! Hopefully, I’ll feel more caught up by the end of the week! Glad to be back!!! Can’t wait to share some of my Saskatchewan stuff!!!

Comment Contest!!!!!!!!!!!

I’ve been away…I’m still away. I’m writing this post from a guest house in Saskatchewan. How weird is that? We’ve been having fun…beaching, farming, shooting(and not just at the crows!!!!). I had a fabulous family shoot in Saskatoon and one this morning, so I’ll have lots of images to share when I return, but none today as I have no photoshop access. But I did want to write and tell you about a new contest I’m having this month! This is the last month of the first year of my business, so I want to take time to thank all the people who have helped me along the way. Today is the launch of a monthlong contest to thank the musicians who have so graciously allowed me to use their music on my website and in my slideshows. They are two fabulous children’s artists:

Johnny Bregar and Renee and Jeremy

If you have kids, you’ll want to run out and get some of their tunes! Seriously. They’re fabulous. So, to help you do just that, I’m having a comment contest. For every comment you leave in the month of August, I’ll enter your name in a draw for a $50 i-tunes gift card. Here’s the catch…well, maybe not the catch, but the rules–no spamming, no meanspirited comments(this is a family rated blog afterall), and let’s limit our comments to one a day. I am just hoping that whoever is lucky enough to win this tunage spends it on independent artists in the spirit of artists supporting other artists. And, because I have no images to post…a song from Youtube…

Friday’s Favorites

Here we are at Friday again! And, today at noon, I am officially on vacation until August 5th. I know that I still have some galleries to get up and, as I’ve already said, I promise to get them up asap once we are home. I wish I could say that I am off to some exotic land, but alas, we have rented a house near Greenwater Lake in Saskatchewan to be near a fabulously beautiful lake and close enough to our family reunion. It will be a nice break, but the metropolitan girl in me is looking forward to a city trip real soon. I was trying to convince Bob that we should go to New York the first weekend in December to see the tree in Rockefeller and he reminded me that we had in fact been there before(and relatively recently). I said, yes, but NOT at Christmas time I have a while yet to convince him. Maybe if I could line me up some work while I was there…hmmm…

 So, this week I had two very flattering things happen to me. Well, at least I thought they were flattering. The first was a photographer I know in Toronto, Kerry Ould, listed me in a post as one of her inspirations. That, in itself, is extremely flattering, but I almost cried when I saw who else she listed. SERIOUSLY—Tara Whitney and Jinky. SERIOUSLY…Kerry, I am beyond flattered, but REALLY…they are my inspiration!!! What a treat to just be listed in the same blog post as them! Wow! Second, was a little bit quieter, but still gave me a tiny bit of glee…Andrea Hanki commented on an image of mine in flickr. Flickr. Do you all flickr? I do(but I must admit that I am not good at any sort of message board type thing…I’m just on there). And, this week, Andrea Hanki commented on an image of mine. Seriously. She liked it. And, it’s an image that I really liked(this part is important). If you don’t know who she is, well, you’ll be surprised to know that she is an Edmonton wedding photographer(man, you guys have it so good up there–Jesh AND Andrea…not to mention a few others like Shaun, but I’ll save him for another day). So, today she is my blog to check out…Pink Sugar. Man, it’s as good as the cotton candy I had at Calaway park yesterday…better Thanks Andrea.

 And, a couple of images…

My loves and an image for one of them. Jack desperately wanted me to take this dragonfly image. I am SO NOT a macro photographer, but I have a macro lens at my disposal, so I’ve been playing around with it a bit. I just thought the dragonfly was uber cool.

 So, yes…vacation. I’ll have email access, but that’s it. Maybe cell phone access. If you want to book at my current session fee price, you must do so before August 1st. After that, there will be no exceptions(do I sound like a hard ass?). I may just post from Saskatchewan, but I don’t think that there will be any images because I couldn’t stand to look at one straight out of my camera on my blog(no editing–ALL my images are edited). I may post my new collections, but I might just wait until I can get home and do them justice. I guess we’ll see. For sure, I’ll be on here on August 1st announcing my first contest of the month….you know you want it August will be a fun month!