Basketball is life!

Basketball is such a huge part of my life, watching, playing, coaching. So right now for me is like Christmas, it is March Madness time!! I love this time of year, from 10 in the morning till 10 at night you have back to back college games on TV. I even skipped my class tonight just to stay at home and watch basketball, I know some of you will think that I'm crazy, but it is soo worth it.
This morning I almost had a heart attack because the team that I picked to go the final four just about lost, and I wouldn't have been the only one upset because Memphis is a heavy favorite in this tournament. Anyway this is a photo blog not a NCAA tournament blog.

The picture below was taken by my fabulous friend who lives in California, she has her own Photography company Terilee Dawn Photography, and she took this photo last time we went down to visit. Yes that is me I hauled my dress all the way down to California and took photos on an outdoor basketball court. I love the photos and they couldn't describe me better.

The Metcalfe's

This family is so special to me, oh the memories that I have growing up with them, our parents were really good friends at the time and I was like an addition to their already large family. Oh the trouble that we would all get into, I actually remember when I was little we were playing hide and go seek in their basement, which at the time was being renovated, and I thought that I picked the best spot. I pulled back this "pink stuff" and hid in between that and the cement wall, if only I knew more about construction at the time. That night ended with a cold shower to wash all the insulation off of my itching body. That is just one of the many stories and adventures that we had, so when I ended up finding one of the girls on facebook I was pretty excited! Then they asked me to do pictures of them for a Christmas gift for their parents, and I just had to get one with me in there too! ;)

From the begining

So it is going to be my goal to post at least one blog a day until I catch everyone up on what I have been doing for the last 6 months. As you get to know me and read my blogs you will soon find out that there is a reason that I did not major in Journalism, so please bare with me :)

The next couple are so amazing! I went to High School with both Kari and Cody, and I now play basketball with Kari. We have such a great time when we get together and when she asked me to do their photos for their upcoming wedding I felt so honored. Kari and Cody are both so easy going and relaxed that when we went out for Engagement shots their attitude made my job so much easier (considering that it was my first EVER shoot).

I can hardly wait for your wedding day, and I'm thankful that I will have a camera in front of my face so that no one will be able to see what a blubbering mess I will be.








I love this image below so much that I have it as an 8x10 on my wall.

Edmonton Seminar

So getting up at 4:30am to drive 3 hours to Edmonton for a full day seminar and then to drive another 3 hours to get home really didn't appeal all that much to me, but I am so glad that I did! I learned so much and am so excited to get going on my list of 148 things!! Rob and Lauren http://www.robnlauren.com/(who are amazing Wedding/Portrait Photographers) were the ones speaking at this seminar put on by the PPOC http://www.ppoc.ca/. I have to say that for their first time speaking to a large group, they did an amazing job. By about half way through the class my brain was full, sorry no more information please I need to process this! I took 8 pages of notes, front and back and I'm sure that I could go and listen to them speak again and still take new information away from the class. My big long day didn't seem so bad when I got home at 9 last night until today, ugh, oh well totally worth it!!

I know that blogs can be boring without a photo so the following picture was taken last May while my husband and I were visiting our friends in California. It was taken totally by accident and is probably one of the best pictures of the two of us.

Up and Running!

Hey!

So I have finally started a blog, I'm very excited about this! I have lots to catch up on with photos, specifically a wedding that I had shot in December at the Dominican AND the Bride and Groom we even willing to get up at 6:30 (which is actually 3:30 Calgary time) to get in the Ocean and do a few more shots. Anyway just wanted to keep everyone interested muahaha.