B2 Photography | Winnipeg, MB

When your kids are as cute as all the kids you see here on the B2 Blog that gives you bragging rights!  And what better way to show off your cute kids with a B2 Book from your photo session! Gorgeous books with thick pages that lay flat when you have the book open, so you don’t loose any of the picture from one of those silly seams in the middle of the book!

This book for Jack incorporated Tracy’s maternity shoot and Jack’s newborn photos and it was 10 x 10 inches with LOTS of room for photos!

Hey everyone, just a little note to let you know I will be away from my computer this week *GASP* and won’t be answering any emails.  If you do send me something i’ll respond after I get back on June 25.  THANKS!

Just a note to let everyone know my summer/fall calendar is booked!  Winter will be open for booking at the end of the summer.

And because no post is complete without a picture here’s a peek at an e-session this weekend!

Those of you that have visited my contact page or have inquired about weddings lately know that I have not been booking any weddings for next wedding season.  I know some of you have been curious why….but wonder no more!!!  Introducing….

JACK AND RUBY PHOTOGRAPHY

Jack and Ruby has been a labour of love for Kara and myself for the past year, we are so excited to be working together to tell the your love stories in pictures!  For all wedding inquiries please visit the Jack and Ruby Photography site for more information.  AND for beautiful pictures of people in love…visit the Jack and Ruby Photography site too!! 

This weekend, my gal pal Erika and I planned to go out and take some photos.  Chris, aka my husband, aka Radtke Studios just got a new camera so he decided to come along and get some video footage too, so it turned into a fun outing for a whole bunch of us.  At one point in the day I was taking pictures of Erika and Chris was beside her filming and she looks at his camera and says “this is where it all started….” and right she was…it all started with a camera, a roll of film and me and Erika in a field somewhere.

My very first job was at IGA in Winkler working in the photo lab and lucky for me working in the lab got me great discounts on cameras.   One day I decided “I should buy a camera, me and Erika could have some serious fun with one” so in 2001 I bought my first SLR film camera!  As soon as I got it Erika and I bought a couple rolls of film and went out on our first little photo-shoot.  I dropped the photos off at the lab and when I got to work the next week the girl who printed my photos asked me to take her wedding pictures!  I had shot 2 rolls of film and this girl trusted me to take her wedding photos…perhaps she was crazy…and perhaps I was too for saying yes….but I did and the rest is history.

In the beginning years, I would study Seventeen magazines looking for inspiration in ads and editorials.  Then I would drag Erika out with me and we’d spend a whole day practicing, learning about composition and taking two rolls of film and hording those frames for the best shots we could come up with.  Then we’d develop those pictures, critique them and find all the things we needed to improve on…..”we need to really start getting closer, filling up the whole frame”….and then the next shoot we’d concentrate on close ups.  Things were so different when you were limited to only as many frames as the film could hold.  We took so much care setting up each shot and it really taught us so much about getting a great shot!  Years later we still love going on those self-indulgent photoshoots where we spend hours together taking pictures of each other and get giddy about finding beautiful light or capturing the shot.

More to come of Erika but here’s just one that I luuuuuve.

Thanks to my uber talented husband Erika and I now have a memory of how crazy we look while we’re taking pictures of each other.  In all seriousness, I LOVE this video, it really does capture how much fun me and Erika have on our little outings.  I wouldn’t trade the memories I have of our little outings for anything!   I love our photo dates so much!!

You’ll notice a few extra faces in the video….keep your eyes open for guest appearances by Erika’s brother Carl and her fiance Malcolm.  AND if you watch really closely you might catch a reflection of Chris somewhere too!  Oh ya….and there was also a gopher or some kind of wildlife! lol.

All you brides that haven’t booked a videographer yet, what are you waiting for?  Don’t you want a whole bunch of fun little movies like this of your wedding day?!  Head on over to Radtke Studios and tell Chris his wife sent you

So excited we’re 9 hours away from the weekend!  And I bet these two will be so excited when their sneak peek comes on Monday!

What a BEAUTIFUL weekend!  I feel like summer is already here!  But the lack of leaves on the trees would suggest otherwise…but that will change soon enough, I see buds out there!!  This weekend was jam packed with photo sessions so there will be plenty of good stuff to come on the blog this week!

DONT FORGET to enter the Girls are a Girls Best Friend photography contest!  If you entered last year and didn’t win, don’t be afraid to try again this year!  It just might be your year!  Scroll down two posts for all the details or check out our group on Facebook!

With temperatures still well below zero Spring and Summer seem like ages away, but we know that eventually the sunshine and warm weather will be here!  This is just a note to remind you to think and plan ahead for your photoshoots!  April is BOOKED! I have limited availability in May (1 spot), June is BOOKED and July is BOOKED as well!   Things are even filling up for the ever so popular month of September!   UPDATE:  I am currently booked for the remainder of the summer with limited spots open in September and October.

And here’s looking back to the amazing year that 2009 was!  This is just small sampling of some of the people i’ve had in front of the camera.

Thanks to my most amazing clients, and all the blog fans who come and so kindly leave comments, praise and encouragement for me to keep on pickin’ up that camera!

Hope everyone is enjoying their long weekend!  I had a couple fun shoots this weekend and will blog them next week…but for now here’s a peak at one of them.  More to come next week!