Avery’s mom Kate and I had been emailing for a while about this session. When she first emailed me she told me that she loved the Daydream sessions and wanted to do one with her daughter. I sent her a bunch of ideas and links to some inspiration boards on Pinterest and she decided a picnic would be perfect for Avery. So I started a new pinboard for “Avery’s Picnic” and Kate went at it collecting and crafting all kinds of things for the session. Kate, Rob and Avery showed up at the session with an SUV filled with pretties for the session…antique tray, mason jars of berries, cupcakes, flowers, blankets and pillows galore! My very favorite thing Kate brought along was the GORGEOUS fabric garland she made to hang in the trees! It was so beautiful with strips of pink, white and min colored fabric and even a few strands of sequined trim thrown in. LOVE!
Lucky for us we had a GORGEOUS evening for the session, it was warm and sunny and perfect for a picnic in the middle of nowhere! The sun danced and sparkled off the grass in the open space beside us (have I mentioned I LOVE shooting at the end of the day??) giving Avery lots of room to run around when she needed a break or just needed some time to be playful with mom and dad. Avery charmed the camera with her big eyes and ever so sweet personality! She was such a super star and we were able to hold her attention for ALL the fun we had planned!
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Well this shoot was a long time in the making, after a couple of rain dates in July we finally had a beautiful night for this shoot in late August. Tracy packed up their picnic basket for her little family and we all head out to Birds Hill Park for some fun at the beach!! Doesn’t Jack look he was just made to be on the beach? That blonde hair, those blue eyes and his sun kissed skin (he has more colour than I do!), a very cute little beach boy!
I LOVE the family images from this session, so much fun and colour and LIFE! I love a playful family session with upside down kiddos, spinning, cuddling, shoulder rides….i’ll take it all! All of that made it very hard to narrow down this blog post….so i’m posting LOTS. Enjoy!!!
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I am never really fully prepared for the magic that awaits me at my sessions with these three little dolls. Susanne (mom) and I usually email all year long with pictures of inspiration that we find, but we change our mind multiple times and I never know what to expect until it’s right there in front of me. And every year I say “this is my new favourite”. This is my new favourite. For reals.
Susanne set up this little hideaway right in the comfort of their own yard and filled the space with towers of books, flowers, blankets, pillows….so much goodness I bet the girls would have stayed and played out there for hours…I know I would have, although I might have had an iPad instead of a book, he he. The warm fall colours make me so happy to welcome this season change! Sets like this are what I dreamt about shooting when I was dreaming about becoming a photographer. To take a little peek into the imagination of a child and capture some of those daydreams. Susanne always sends me the most lovely thank-you notes after she sees the first glimpse of her photos and really I owe her all the thanks because every shoot I get to collaborate on with her I live out a little bit more of my dream.
I’m BIG on song lyrics….all my friends can probably tell you about a time they were driving somewhere with me and I stopped the conversation and said to them “don’t you just love these lyrics?” My love for song lyrics has extended to my blog post titles, you may or may not have noticed that all my blog titles come from song lyrics and the lyrics I chose for this post are from one of my very favourite songs. Whole Wide World by Mindy Gledhill is also the song I chose for my “Meet Becky” video on the site because I LOVE the lyrics, they speak to me – they remind me to set big goals, try new things, take a chance – dream, dream, dream! I’ve photographed these little girls for five years now and I’ve watched them grow and turn into little ladies, and this song is my wish for them. Each of them have such special gifts and I hope they never give up on their dreams! I have a painting by the artist Natalie in my guest room, I’ve watched Myla get up and sing in front of the church so brave and so confident and sweet little Emily put together her outfit for the second part of this shoot like a rockstar! (future stylist like her mom??) You three little ladies great things ahead of you 🙂
I could have shot this set for hours and hours and hours! It’s hard to hold myself back, but kids don’t have the attention span for pictures that might be required for that 🙂 So I pulled myself away from the set because we still had more goodness to shoot after this and I didn’t want to run out of light! YES, you read right…there is more to come!! A little country bike ride as the sun went down! Until then ENJOY these sweet little girls as they invite out into their little hideaway…..
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I LOVE the innocence of children and I am always so entertained buy the ones I get to photograph. One of the sweet things about kids is that they really view the world as their oyster! Mom and dad tell them they can be ANYTHING and they believe it. I love asking kids what they want to be when they grow up – an astronaut, a teacher, a mom, the girl who scoops the ice-cream at the store down the street, Dolly Parton, a ballerina – one of those answers was mine when I was five. Yes, I wanted to be Dolly Parton and a few years after that I wanted to be Barbara Walters (I was obsessed with 20/20), I was a big dreamer! Every now and then I would enter the land of make believe with a box and “My First Sony” and I would read the news to my mom from inside my “TV”. I didn’t quite make it to 20/20 but I did get to work for the local radio station when I was in university and broadcast from all the little fairs and festivals across Manitoba. It was kind of like a dream come true to work with a real microphone 🙂
Today, lets visit Kenzies land of make believe where this little lady is a star ballerina…..never stop dreaming Kenzie!!! If you can dream it, you can do it <3
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