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Monthly Archives: September 2010

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Free Desktop Wallpaper for October 2010

This months background wallpaper image comes from Carburn Park in Calgary. The trees in the Calgary area are at the peak of the fall colors right now and they are very beautiful. I’ve been spending lots of time at the park lately doing family and children’s portraits so I’ve had plenty of time to watch in awe as the colors have changed. The ponds at the park have been completely still every morning and I’ve wanted to capture it for awhile. I finally had a chance to create a beautiful landscape image that I hope you'll enjoy as much as I do! Please let me know if there are any other formats or sizes you would like to see. Download To install the images as your desktop background, simply click on the link below depending on the file resolution you would like to use, then right-click on the larger image and select “Set as Desktop Background...”. Enjoy.

2016-01-19T09:07:02-07:00By |Wallpaper|

Family Portrait Session

I was honored to be invited to create some family and individual portraits for some old friends. They asked me for studio style portraits of their youngest child to match some images they already had of their older child, and also some indoor and outdoor portraits of the entire family. I have a portable studio (including backdrops and lighting gear) that I can set up anywhere, so we turned their living room into a photography studio! I made portraits of both of the children individually and with their parents, and then the whole family together against a black background. The black background is very dramatic images and I really love black and white images created against it. After finishing up inside we went outside to take advantage of a beautiful fall day in Calgary. They live in a prime location adjacent to a very scenic "green" space. I have to put green in quotes because, although the session was completed in early September, the fall colors had already fully arrived. The weather was fantastic and the scenery was perfect to make some lovely fall portraits of the family! I love doing this kind of session where there's lots of variety and the images are all very different. It was a very fun session and it was great hang out with my friends! On a related note... Fast forward only a couple of weeks later to today and the fall colors are already peaking. If you're thinking about getting some fall portraits made this year I would really recommend that you book your session soon. The nice weather is supposed to hold for a little while longer, but the leaves will only stay on the trees [...]

2010-09-29T23:41:24-06:00By |Lifestyle, Studio|

Another Greeting Card Example

I've been working on some images from a recent family portrait session, and also creating some new Christmas Card designs at the same time. It was a natural fit to test some of the images from the portrait session with the new greeting card design. I liked it so much I just had to show it off. What do you think? This was such fun session and I have lots of images to go through. I'm very excited by lots of them and it's been very hard to pick my favorites! For more information about purchasing greeting cards, please see my recent Photo Greeting Card Product Showcase post.

2010-09-20T23:12:13-06:00By |Product|

Product Showcase – Photo Greeting Cards

NOTE - This article originally appeared in the September Newsletter. Custom Designed Photo Greeting Cards While I have made a few minor tweaks to my packages and pricing over the summer months, I really haven't made any major changes in quite a while. I have started a review of the products and services that I offer and it immediately came clear that I need to offer a wider variety of print products, including cards and gifts, albums, and even framed and matted images. I can certainly provide all of these things now, and I have been doing so on request, but I know that many people would prefer to have some easily accessible information about what is available and at what cost. Because I have a number of new products that I'm planning to roll out, I thought I would feature some of them in the newsletter. This month I'm going to showcase a few of the greeting card designs that I have made recently. This is of particular interest right now because my show special at the Calgary Moms Trade Fair this weekend is a bonus set of 20 custom greeting cards to be included with any portrait session booked by the end of the month. Greeting cards may be purchased with images from any portrait session and they are available as flat or folded cards. The flat cards are beautifully printed on professional quality photographic paper with a Lustre finish, while the folded cards are a press printed on card stock. Several papers and finishes are available. Mailing envelopes are included with every card. Pricing and Delivery Times Flat cards are available in sets of 10 for $40, 25 for $75, or 50 [...]

2011-05-22T23:11:06-06:00By |Prices, Product|

Slideshow – Trash the Dress at 10,000 Feet

A Fusion video slideshow of photography and video from an adventurous Trash-the-Dress wedding photoshoot at the top of Cirque Peak in Banff National Park in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. The hike to Helen Lake is 16km (10 miles) up to the summit at 10,000 feet. It was a wonderful day in the mountains and the photoshoot was incredible.

2011-05-05T13:39:43-06:00By |Trash the Dress|