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Can't take any credit for this amazing photo by Syx. It's really really good to be home. Happy new year!

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Womp womp.

A Lot of Learning Left

So what I learned about shooting weddings: you sweat your ass off running all over the place to try to get the shot, not wanting to miss a second. It was another great learning experience and really reinforced that I have a lot more learning to do. I walked away with a lot more usable shots that the first wedding so we'll consider it a win. And I know the clients considered it a win too, so that's all that matters. This is one of my favorite shots from this time around.

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Pretending to be a professional, looking like I'm doing a good job. Rebecca and Rob's wedding. What a beautiful family, what a fantastic day!

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Miss Panda in the snow in Nan and Pop's backyard

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This is what your bathtub looks like when you have kids.

Lens: John S
Film: Ina's 1969

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Guess what we got for Christmas?!?!

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I can't even believe I'm posting this. It's sad to admit this is what I look like most mornings.

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Checking out the location for a wedding we're shooting in Harrow at Sprucewood Shores winery. In the barrel room. Test test test.

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Testing testing. 1.2.3. Shooting Eric in his environment, always the lighting tester. Half way through set up.

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After an evening in at the Hilton and too much champagne, a hangover breakfast at the Flying Saucer was in order. The last time we were here we split the Honeymooner's Special.

Lens:Kaimal Mark II
Film: Ina's 1969

Another Hipstamatic.

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Niagara Falls Hilton. Honeymooners!

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We all do a really great fish face. Wedding celebrations!

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Another great iphone shot. Using a panorama app called 360. Pedicures with my Mother in Law getting ready for the party on Saturday night!

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Learning the family cabbage roll recipe. Syx's aunt Janice, cousin Tania and my mother in law. A great group of ladies to spend the afternoon rolling cabbage with. We rolled hundreds for our Ontario wedding reception.

Photo by Syx. Edited by me. More lessons in Lightroom with my husband on a lazy sort of afternoon.

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When you have a toddler, every trip out becomes an ordeal. You pack diapers, snacks, and you have to make sure you have a sippy cup and you have to make sure you bring something to keep them entertained. We have a really big camera and sometimes it's a really big hassle to lug it out every time. I often find myself thankful for my iphone - it actually takes decent photos and I even have a photoshop app!

favorite things

One of the reasons I love taking photos is because my husband looks at me like this when I have a camera in my hand.

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Lunches with Oma Langemann. Photo by Syx.

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More snow. Look at Hanna's face. She is a button!
Hipstamatic.

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Hipstamatic - John S lens, Kodot XGrizzled film. Snow. A lot of it!

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Hotel room in Windsor! Parents night out.

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Friday night out in Leamington - Jose's Noodle Factory makes a mean ceasar.

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$10 hoodie!

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Just driving around Leamington.

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A BIG FAT FAIL!!!!!!!!
Getting ready for vacation/working like a mad woman.

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I really love this shot. Taken with my iphone, converted to black and white and cranked the exposure and contrast to really make those shadow lines pop. This even inspired my husband, the real photographer, to take a similar shot.

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Another fail, so here's another portrait by someone else. This amazing family portrait was taken by Joe McNally while he was in town teaching a workshop for VPW. So brilliantly beautiful. It was such an honor to have him shoot us.

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Barely there. Hurry up vacation!!!

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IS IT CHRISTMAS VACATION YET?!?!?!?

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I failed again. So here's another portrait of me by someone else. An acquaintance we met during the Tattoo Project made this for us as wedding present. Thanks Ken!

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I totally failed today, so instead here's an illustration my amazingly talented friend Phanie made of us as Pandas. I'm going to use it in the header of my other blog.

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Another work day. This is what Sundays are like on my ward. I may poke my eye out with a pen.

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Back to work. This is my whiteboard. By my whiteboard, I mean MY whiteboard. You should've seen the mess of it before I took over and made it so beautiful and neat. I'm a little OCD in case you hadn't noticed.

I stepped up the iphone photos a bit and downloaded Hipstamatic - John S lens and Kodot XGrizzled film.

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Okay, so I totally failed on Day 63. I'm honestly surprised that I made it this long before I slipped up. BUT even though this shot was taken with my iphone I opened up Photoshop for the first time and was coached through using an adjustment layer for black&white and curves. I even used a s curve for contrast. WHOoooOOOoooOOoo.

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SNOW DAY!! It was really hard to take a picture of myself because of the lens I was using so here's one of Hanna and Syx. The snow threw my exposure off and made everything too dark so I had to use the exposure compensation tool to compensate. Apparently your camera wants to make everything 18% gray. Who knew? Another good lesson. I really need to focus on my focus. It bums me out when it's just a BIT off in an otherwise pretty good shot!

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I do a really great fish face.

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I love taking pictures in this mirror.

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Portrait of a mole - Pt 2. The chin mole. This mole is the bane of my existence and I seriously don't know why I haven't had it chopped off already.

So far the only photo editing I've done is cropping in Lightroom. On this file though I actually played with some of the contrast and brightness. Not very exciting but now that I'm getting comfortable navigating Lightroom I'm starting to explore all different things it can do. It's a step in the right direction!

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We had the pleasure of having a family portrait taken by Joe Mcnally today. This is a lighting test that I loved.

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Vain mirror photo of my hair. Because it takes two hours to do this and can only be bothered to do it about once a year.

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Thank you for coming to our wedding! xabazillion

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Rainy day animal friends.

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Voyeurism.

not really 53/365 but.....

Joe McNally demo at the Planetarium. Amazing photographer, absolutely inspiring. Need to learn flash. Need to learn studio lighting. He has the best stories about lighting the most interesting things and scenarios and has this way of making the most complicated set ups make perfect sense. Check out his blog. He's in town right now doing a workshop with VPW and Syx is out tonight (and has been all day) assisting him with a shoot.

It's hard to believe that the last time he was in town I was just pregnant with Hanna P. He took this beautiful portrait of the 'three' of us as a demo during his workshop last time around.

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Long legs, fish feet.
Wow. Note to self - pedicure.

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From C to A.. just. like. that. Bye bye breast milk, bye bye breasts. Bye bye beautiful cleavage.

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Arts and crafts at Vancouver Aquarium. Two hours later she pulled all the letters off and threw them in the cake batter.

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fuh fuh fuh fuh frazzled.

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A portrait of a mole.