Sadie was such an angel and I loved photographing her and I have been wanting to post more from her session for a while, but its been crazy busy and only getting around to posting the last few of this baby girl today. Here is a link to the first sneak peek of Sadie. http://mphphotography.net/blog/2009/11/5-days-old/

and a couple of birth announcements that I made for her…

I so loved photographing this family and I really loved the location too, can’t wait to go back there again when the weather is a bit warmer.

I posted a few sneak peeks for them a while back http://mphphotography.net/blog/2009/11/to-the-islands/ but been meaning to show more shots from my session with Beth and her beautiful family, so here they are.

Amy emailed me and was excited that she referred her friend to me and she told me to expect her friend to contact me soon and that Justine did.

Justine wanted to do a shoot with her and her hubby and daughter and wanted her brother and sister in law and their daughter to do a session as well so we booked it and they were here bright and early and ready to begin. It was such a nice shoot, both are sweet families with the prettiest lil girls. They were so easy to work with and it pretty much took no time at all and we were done.

Thanks for coming out everyone, it was wonderful to meet you all and again I’m so impressed on how organized you all are. It was a fun shoot and I hope you enjoy your sneak peeks.

I love taking pics of kids, I love getting down to their level and playing with them, and talking with them, and laughing with them and I know they are going to run around and want to be silly and I indulge that. I let them lead and take my time with them and usually by the end of the session, we got some great shots and I made a new little friend as well.

My kids are not that easy. They should know how to pose, and smile properly, and sit properly and behave and smile on cue, instead all they want to do is chase each other which always causes them to run into the backdrop or the reflector. It pretty much turns into a long drawn out drama with one crying and the other not sitting still and I usually end up bribing them as nothing else seems to work, and even bribery doesn’t always work.

So again I tortured myself and brought out everything for a shoot with my youngest, as he’s the hardest and I thought by doing him alone it may be easier. I was so wrong!!! Even though he promised to smile and be nice for the pics and got dressed and as soon as I asked him to sit down, that was it, he didn’t want to sit, didn’t want to smile, gave all kinds of silly faces and he just wanted to do what he wanted which didn’t sit well with me.

With every little bit of patience I had, I took as many shots as I could and I managed to come up with a couple of cute shots, which you’ll see below. This session took so long that my eldest came back from school and the studio was still  up  and he let me take just a handful before becoming so silly that I knew the session was officially done.

And this is what I go through, every time I try to do a shoot with them. So much for a nice Christmas card to send out to people this year,lol.

and this is the face that I mostly got.

and one of George

What can I say about Krystal, she’s the sweetest thing and not to mention beautiful, the camera loved her and we had the most awesome time together. I have SO many images that I love from this session, so you’ll be seeing more posts with Krystal in them soon. This is sneak peek #2, but if you would like to look at sneak peek #1, then go here http://mphphotography.net/blog/2009/11/red-angel/

Krystal, you rock girl!!!! Not only have a gained a new client, but a new friend, can’t wait to do it again hon!!

I’ve known Cheryl for a while now, we have been part of the same Toronto mom group and she always told me she wanted to do a session with me and it just never happened til now.

I was so excited to finally get to do a session with her and her family,  and the weather was nice, well,  ok, it was a bit cold, but manageable and I knew we would have a lovely time and we did. They have the cutest lil girls and although the oldest was a bit shy at first, I think the red wings and wand that i gave her to wear helped a little, actually alot, as she didn’t want to take them off after that,lol.

I have been meaning to put up these sneak peek for days but just haven’t been able too and so without any further delay, here are your sneak peeks Cheryl! Thanks hon, and I hope to be done editing the rest of your photos soon.

I never expected November to be so busy and I thought things would be slowing down, but I think this has been one of my most busiest month’s this year.  I am so behind and have so many posts that I wanted to blog about and time is slipping away through my fingers and there is such a long list of things to do still.

I have yet to post about my session with Deborah, who warned me that she, and I quote ” look like hell right now” so I was expecting, well, actually don’t know what I was expecting but it wasn’t good,lol. Then when my assistant and I arrived to this quaint little cottage like home, we were stunned and in shock at how lovely this lady actually is. I was pleasantly surprised and it was such a beautiful day and we had a lovely time, and I have to say I LOVED her home, she rocks at decorating!

Thanks Deborah, it was alot of fun.

She said she was a bit shy but I had her doing stuff today that made her anything but shy.

Had a very fun day with Krystal, we went out and played in this lovely weather and got some great shots in the process.

She’s a young lil thang, and adorably cute and so sweet and kind, and we got along great, we laughed and talked and really had a great time. I pretty much forced her to climb hills and get into bushes, wear wings and run around, and we even went to a railfroad track all for the sake of the shot. I ended up getting attacked, not by bugs or anything, but by spurs, they were stuck all over my pants, well worth it though,lol.

I have so many images that I love from this shoot and can’t wait to share more with you, but for now here’s a few.

Thanks for hiring me Krystal, I really can’t wait til we do it again.

OMGoodness, warm and cuddly and soft and that smell, that newborn smell, I was in heaven!

I had the sweet pleasure of meeting Miss Sadie today, 5 days young, and the tiniest lil thing, oh so cute and adorable and I just wanted to hold her all day, forget the pictures,lol.

After I finally let her go,lol, we began and I could have spent the whole day there, she was just sooo cute. I think its almost time for another one for us, lol. I said almost……

So here are more than a few sneak peeks cuz I just couldn’t wait.

I have 2 more sessions this weekend and am busy busy busy editing, ordering, wrapping but I promise to try to update the blog, just bare with me during this busy time.

She walked into the room, and I thought ” I have to photograph her” she’s just one of those beautiful people that you would love to photograph, and then we were introduced at my friends’ house where a bunch of us get together every so often. We are all part of group of ladies called natural mothering and we all have so much fun. Beth is new to the group, she moved to Toronto with her family from New Jersey just this past spring, so this was her first time at one of our get togethers. We hit it off right away and even though I was exhausted from the day’s festivities as I had just finished photographing the thanksgiving day special with 8 families, I was so glad I went and gabbed with the girls, and let’s not forget the yummy food too. It was a great night, talked to some old friends, and even got to meet some new ones too.

To my happy surprise Beth contacted me shortly after she saw some of the pics from the Thanksgiving day special and wanted to do a shoot, which made me so happy. Then she said she wanted pics with the skyline of Toronto in the background…… one thought came immediately to mind, the islands, and that’s when I got really excited.

I have always wanted to shoot there, we have 3 of them, centre island, ward’s island and Hanlan’s point, here is a bit about the islands if you want know more http://www.toronto.ca/parks/island/#about . Unfortunately after September they close down Centre Island for the winter and so we are left with Ward’s adn Hanlan’s point. Ward’s has a better view of the skyline so we opt’d for there.

I thought we were going on the nice ferries but instead for winter they bring out the ugly ones, you know, just a barge with barriers so you don’t fall over. I so wanted to take pictures of them inside the ferry and instead, we got a slab of rock that floats,lol. Didn’t even bring out the camer going over. Once there we found a cute little beach right beside the docks. It was a bit cool, and greyish out but happy that it wasn’t raining or freezing. A cute little kitty came by to welcome us to the island and the girls were smitten. It was such a cute little thing, and I almost wanted to take him or her home with me.

We had a lovely time, and I really enjoyed photographing all of them, beautiful family and I hope they enjoy their sneak peeks.

Thanks so much Beth, it was such a fun day and I look forward to doing another session with you again. Like we talked about, centre island next time, May would be a perfect time for that.