Hoodoo Yoga

About 3 weeks ago my friend and I took a little trip out to Drumheller and decided to take some fun photos of her doing some yoga posed on top of the hoodoo's. The landscape there is really quite amazing and I totally take advantage of the surroundings that we have here in Calgary. If I drive an hour west I'm in the middle of the mountains and if I drive an hour east I'm in the middle of the desert with hoodoo's everywhere! Anyway it was a little chilly but Kathryn is a trooper! Not one peep about how cold she was and didn't even groan when I said just hold that chair pose a little longer! :) Kathryn and I completed a 30 day challenge at the end of February and I wanted to document this accomplishment for her in a fun way. Here are a couple of my favorites.

Laura Maternity

So finally after one weekend of a blizzard, the joys of living in Calgary, we were able to convince mother nature to allow us a small window in which to shoot this awesome soon to be amazing family. Sam and Laura brought their 'A' game this day and she def knew how to work the camera! I loved capturing this special time for them. Here are a few of my favorites.




Laura had her makeup done my Mac and they did a fantastic job, her eyes popped in every photo!

Laura sneek peek

I couldn't wait to post this one!



You aren't going to want to miss this post.

Leo

I can not tell you how excited I was for this session! I was asked to photograph Leo when he was just 3 weeks old and now a year later. I love this family! It really is special when you are able to capture a families growth through out the years, and he is such a cute little guy who has football in his future!!

Thank you so much Dawn and Gary for asking me to come back, these are the moments that make me love my job!

Exciting times!!

Have you ever been so excited about something that when it actually comes time to do it you don't want to because then it will be over? Almost like a good book, you are mad when you come to the last page because you really don't want to be finished, well this weekend is kind of the beginning of my season and I am pumped! I don't want to spill the beans yet on what I'm doing but my camera is going to be in my hands for the rest of the weekend!

I promise that you are going to want to come back to check out what I have done, what I am doing and what I'm going to do! This year is really very exciting, I have some really amazing clients and I have actually booked some time for myself to do things for me! I know that is totally unheard of but I have friends that are going to be keeping me accountable and you will not want to miss that either :) I know the suspense is probably killing you!

For now you will just have to make due with this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghy4D98fNsw&feature=player_embedded

Above is our video that we made for a contest while we were in Vegas, the prizes that we could have won were really quite amazing. We didn't win but we have this awesome video and 5 days of memories of running around like crazy people in crazy french costumes!

Matt & Bonnie

FINALLY!! Matt & Bonnie have been together now for 6 years and they couldn't have met in a cuter way. Matt and Bonnie were both going to school in Calgary and Matt volunteered for "Safe Walk", now "safe walk" is a student operation within the school. They make sure that you get to your destination safely during the evening hours, and the rest is history!

I was not the official photographer so these are just a few of my leisure photos from their day!





This guy was awesome, he made hats, flower baskets, pretty much anything. You will see later on in the photos that he made a special hat.



























I loved the sheets!









Bonnie & Matt had a tea ceremony later on in the day, just before dinner, where they served tea to everyone. I love experiencing different cultures and it was so nice to see part of Bonnie's culture integrated into the day.






Bonnie's best friend from High School!

Yoga on the Beach

So while we were in Cuba, I wanted to do a little photo shoot with me doing some yoga poses on the beach. This was probably the part of the trip that I was most excited for. As some of you already know last month I did a 30 day yoga challenge and was really impressed with some of the results that I had seen and super happy with actually finishing! So I wanted to somehow document this milestone in my life and what better way than doing some shots on the beach in Cuba! I asked Mark to take some photos at sunset as I wanted to get some silhouette shots too. I had so much fun doing this and love most of the pictures, it is really hard looking at them as I am so critical of myself. I didn't even think about how hard it would be to actually balance on the sandy beach, especially with a pretty strong wind and you couldn't really focus on one spot in the distance because nothing was still everything was moving which totally threw my balance off. Something I'm going to have to work on. ;)

Anyway here are some of the photos from our little project in Cuba

Sneek Peek - Yoga on the Beach

Just a sneek peek of some yoga on the Beach, more to come very soon!

Jelara & Josh

Jelara and Josh are such a cute couple, and are so clearly in love! They have 2 of the cutest bulldogs, Lilly and Bailey, that brought their 'A' game to the shoot and def rocked it.

I had such a great afternoon with them and really can't wait until their wedding! Calgary's weather was really quite nice for a early March day. Here are a couple of my favorites: