Girls Night Out, something completely different!

A few weeks ago I met up with a few friends for a hair and make up class. It was awesome getting to learn some new techniques! The night was a blast full of delicious food, an obscene amount of makeup, hair and a TON of photos. Laura (Laura Taylor Photography) was generous enough to let us use her studio that night and finished off the night playing around in the studio. Fun fact - between the 5 of us that were at the class there are 19 kids!
Huge thanks to Amanda Hedley for the class!

Sweet Baby James, my little nerd!

Well, next week my baby turns 1 year old! I can't believe how fast that year went. He's just a little ball of fire and I can't get enough of him! A couple weeks ago we had an awful snowstorm and were stuck in the house. Figured since we weren't going anywhere I might as well take some pictures of my little munchkin. I just love him! Now to decide which one (or ones) to get on canvas for his room... Any suggestions?

"Dance is the song of the body" - Martha Graham

Kim is an insanely talented dancer! After taking a quick peek at the first shot of the day with her I knew things were going to be AWESOME! She totally exceeded my expectations. Being completely out of my element I decided to do a little "research" on dance poses/moves/positions before the shoot. I had my little drawing page with stick people posing all ready to go just hoping that she'd be able to do some of the poses. Kim did them all and more!!














She started dance for fun when she was about 10 years old. After 2 years taking a musical theater/jazz class on Saturdays, she then started at Centre 58 Dance Arts in Calgary where she considers her "real" dancing to have begun. Since grade 7 is considered pretty late to start dancing, her instructors pushed her hard to catch up with the other dancers. She started ballet and pointe, then went on to musical theatre, jazz, tap and competed with her first solo (to Colors of the Wind from Pocahontas).














Her freshman year of university she danced with the BYU Cougarettes, whom she danced with for 3 years. She's performed at Disney World and danced in the Electric Light Parade, worked with NappyTabs a few times (two of my all time favorite choreographers from the show So You Think You Can Dance), taught tap at BYU and has performed with a number of groups and teams.

Kim is now heading off to serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. She will be serving for 18 months in the Utah Salt Lake Temple Square mission. When she has finished serving for the church she plans to return to school. She's working on her dance education major and has 3 semesters left. Hopefully she'll come back and teach here - after seeing the pictures my girls were trying to reenact her moves and both said they wanted to start dance. I'd love for her to teach my girls :)








Thank you Kim for sharing your beautiful talent. I had a great time with you that day and wish you all the best on your mission and as you continue on in school and dance.

Vintage Inspired

I can't tell you how long I've been wanting to do vintage inspired photos. My time finally came and I was ridiculously excited! I have the best friends ever and they're all willing to go along with some of my unusual requests. Thanks girls for the awesome day!! What theme should we do next?

Coming Soon...

A few photos revisited...

I've been learning a lot of things in Photoshop lately and have had a blast going back to some of my favorite photos re-editing them. It's so hard NOT to go back and re-edit ALL the photos. I loved this session, so I picked a few to try out my new "techniques". What do you think?

Just for Fun

It was really fun to try out different lighting for this session. I'm a natural light girl, so it was tricky, but fun using umbrellas and all those other foreign things hahhaha.
I love doing sessions like these. They're just so much fun!! I can't wait for the next one.

Amelia

Amelia is an amazing woman. Seriously superwoman. She has a little boy and twin 1 year old girls (and her hubby's in med school... YIKES). I don't know how she does it. She's beautiful and funny. I love reading her comments on facebook, they literally crack me up. And good choice on the zebra Amelia (you know I'm all for animal prints). Thanks for the great day!

Jenny

Jenny is another beautiful friend of mine and talented photographer.  Here's her site (and on it are a few pics she took of me). She has a beautiful baby boy. She's training for a marathon and I'm so proud of her. Good luck with that Jenny! She was saying she had to buy the lightest shade of foundation at the MAC store... I'd LOVE to be the lightest shade if I could have beautiful, flawless skin like hers!
Thanks for the fun day and smokin' pictures Jenny!