3 months is defiantly not easy to photograph as one would think it is. At 3 months babies are strong and not as pose able as a fresh 10 day old baby, but they can give you amazing eye contact!  I am a total sucker for big eyed babies!

Look at the yummy back wrinkles!!

Showing off his muscles and stong he is!

Hunter and is beautiful momma!

And Hunter with his proud daddy!

{It was a pleasure to finally meet you guys. I am so glad the momma is feeling better! }

YIKES…..

As I am typing this, Gisele may be welcoming a brand new baby brother or sister into her world. Congratulations Gisele, I just know you are going to be an amazing big sister : )

 She is a big fan of sesame street and all of the characters especially Grover, Bert and Ernie.  I just love her expression just before and after her daddy brings out his Grover puppet.

It’s like she is saying….what’s that?  I have seen that before, I know I have…..Wait a minute is that Grover? IT IS GROVER!!! AAAHHH (that’s my translation….Gisele’s would be a mixture of french and english since she is currently learning both.)

Gisele is also a huge fan of singing songs and nursery rhymes. She knows all of the words and motions to the “itsy bitsy spider” and “twinkle twinkle little star”.  She is quite the little performer : )

{thank you Helene and Ian for introducing me to Gisele. I had a great time during her session. Congratulations on your soon to be new arrival, I can’t wait to meet him or her when the wee-one arrives.}

His parents wanted their little guy to have an unique and strong name and I think Atticus suits this calm and content little guy to a tee.

I just love his little feet.

Cute and calm, just hanging out in his twiggy basket.

You can really see how tiny he really is when he is laying on top of this chair.

{Thank you for coming out to see me. I hope it was worth the travel.}

Isn’t she gorgeous! Look at her chub already.

This pose was inspired by her older sister and I think it turned out amazingly.

And the beautiful momma.

{thank you for coming out in the snow to see me. I am so thrilled with how the images turned out. Thanks big sister A for being such a great helper and inspiring me with the hand shot. I hope the images are everything you wanted and more.}

So, I am once again doing a month long recap of the happenings at Blue Frame, instead of giving sneak peeks.

The end of April and the begining of May brought tones of bellies and babies to the studio.  (here is just a sampling of the bellies and babies I had the great pleasure in photographing.)

This couples super cute baby arrived about one week after our belly session. Scaring the bejeebers out of her parents!! (I know it would scare the bejeebers out of me!)

 But I am happy to say all is well, and the wee little Aleigh is doing fine. (her sneak peek will come soon, I promise.)

{I am so thrilled to hear that Aleigh arrived safe and sound, even if it was way earlier than expected.}

This momma-to-be is from the NWT. She travelled 16 hours to come and see me….How cool is that!

I was really hoping that I would get to meet her little guy, but travelling that far with a brand new wee-one can be challenging and frightening all at the same time.

Inspiration for the scarf blowing in the wind from the one and only Carrie Sandoval from Captured by Carrie.

{Thank you for visiting me Amy. I am so glad you found me. I would love to meet the little guy down the road.  The love you and William share with eachother is so beautiful and real.}

The little guy in this momma’s tummy didn’t stop moving. All thoughout her pregancy, the little guy inside moved non-stop!  Her doctors worried that he might arrive early like his big sister did, but he held on tight and arrived about 2 weeks before his scheduled arrival.

{Kim and Liam, your family so beautiful. Thank you for giving me the oppertunity to share in these special moments with you.  I feel truly honoured.}

This beautiful couple also had a little guy! April and May were just chalked full of little guys.

It’s so magical meeting couples who have been together since they were very young. 

All of the patience and hard work paid off, your little guy is a breath of fresh air! 

{Erin and Chris, you guys are amazing. Little Noah is also quite amazing if I do say so myself! Thank you for seeking me out. I hope your sessions were exactly what you were looking for and more.}

Now I am going to present what seems to be the only little girl who came to visit me since my last entry. (Little girls are very rare some months.) 

This sweet little gal has one of the prettiest names…Summer.

She was an amazing little model. She was content and peaceful other than frowing her eye brows at me for pretty much the entire session. (No matter what I did, she kept on frowing her eye brows together –so I dubbed her the super serious baby.)

{An early congrats to Summer’s mom and dad on their up coming wedding. I hope it’s everything you ever dreamed of and more.}

So, we are going to share what has been going on the past month…..

We have cute little Ella, who is the little peanut of the stunning mama in the previous blog post.

One of my favourite daddy daughter images of the year so far!

 {thank you for being so wonderful and patient. I knew if we could just hold on, magic would happen.}

Little Man Jack was so flexible and content, it blew my mind. Thank to daddy for helping me produce one of my other favourite daddy and baby poses of the year!

{Thank you Jack’s mama and dad for allowing me to play!}

A BIG shout out to Kristen Cook from Australia for being my inspiration during Jack’s shoot.

I would also like to welcome little miss Emma to the blog. She was a dream poser.

and stretcher : )

{thank you Meg and Dan for allowing me the pleasure to photograph sweet Emma.}

Last but certainly not least, miss Dienne.

{Thank you Rachel and Darwin for bringing your sweet little girl to me. She was probably one of the most content newborns I have ever had the pleasure to photograph!}

There are two more newborns to be shared…but we are going to save them for another day. There are also a couple of bellies that need to be unveiled and one uber cute 6 month old that also needs to make a return visit to the blog.

Until next time….take care. (I promise, it won’t be another month before I share again!)

But I HAD to share images from this session.

Janelle, is one of the most easy going, relaxed momma-to-be that I have ever met. She is also one of the most stunning women I have had the oppertunity to photograph.  She was up for anything – and that is one of the best attitudes to have when your getting your maternity portraits taken. 

Her super cute honey, was also a great pleasure to work with.

I know that they are both going to be amazing parents.

Nothing is more beautiful than the shape and form of a pregnant woman.

One of my new favourite couple’s shot. I think they just look so adorable together : )

{thank you Janelle for being so amazing. Thank you to Adam for being so caring and attentive.  It was a great pleasure to photograph your maternity session and to photograph little Ella! I can’t wait to share her images with you guys.}

I have been interested in photography for as long as I can remember. I remember playing with this old 110 film camera I had sitting in my toybox for hours on end. I remember opening up the back and watching the shutter open and close as clicked the button. I also remember always wanting to take pictures with my parents camera on vacation. It didn’t matter what the subject was or who the subject was, I just wanted to take pictures.

In junior high and high school my friends and I would dress up, do our hair and make up and take black and white photographs of eachother outside. Some of my favourite images of myself are the ones my friends and I took when we were just playing around being kids.

In high school, I took my first offical photography course. Where I learned how to load my own film, develop my own film and to create my own prints through the enlarger and chemicals. It was an amazing process. There is nothing like seeing your first printed images emerge through the chemicals –with nothing but a dull red light to guide you along the way.  It was while attending this photography class I got my first taste of the photography bug that would soon become my career.

After high school I was pretty unsure what I wanted to do. I loved photography, but never really thought about it as a career. I knew that I wanted to do something with kids, but didn’t really know what avenue to take. 

It wasn’t until I met,  the man who I would later marry, that I decided to take the plunge and see where photography could take me. I enrolled into a program at Nait to upgrade my high school marks….cause only going to photography class and phys-ed really didn’t allow my other marks to be all that competitive in a very competitive program to get into –Nait’s Photography Technology program.

Once in was in the program, I honestly thought that I would become a wedding photgrapher who photographed kids on the side. I never would have thought that I would want to specialize in just photographing maternity and babies because no one specialized back then.  But one event changed my life and career plans forever…

A couple weeks after graduating from my Nait, my dad passed away. He had been sick for a long time, and it was expected to happen one day, but not when it did. Even if you know one day it’s going to happen, you are never ready for when it actually happens.  Did I mention, that the day he went into the hospital was almost 4 months to the day, that I was getting married.

Not having my daddy at my wedding was excruciating. All of the wedding photos I had in mind were of me and my daddy. (cause I knew that deep down, he wasn’t going to be around for very much longer…but I never thought that he wouldn’t make it to the wedding.)

Being a wedding photographer at the time, really killed me. I had the hardest time photographing the bride getting ready at their parents house, the bride and the dad before the wedding, and the bride walking down the aisle with her dad. The daddy and daughter dance was the absolute hardest. (cause everyone always seemed to play the song I was going to use for my dance…with my daddy.)

I thought that my feelings of resentment would go away and photographing a wedding would become easier, but it didn’t. I photographed my last wedding in November of 2008.

It was a hard decision financially to stop taking weddings, but I know deep down inside it was for the best. I wasn’t able to give my clients what I believed they deserved out of a great wedding photographer.

January 2009 I moved to a new studio location and decided to specialize in just maternity and babies. Photographing these special moments in my clients life, didn’t make me feel like I lost out on something. Photographing these moments filled me with joy and excitement not just for my clients and their lifes ahead, but for myself and my future. I know that one day I will experience the same joy and happiness that my clients are feeling in the moments I capture for them. I never walk away from a session, feeling down or feeling like I missed out on something….. like I felt photographing weddings.

Capturing moments and connections with people is what drew me to photography in the first place.  Having the ability to freeze time is the most amazing ability. 

Being able to share memories from one generation to the next is by far the greatest things in the whole world. Years from now parents can show their now 5 year old or 10 year old or 18 year old photographs of that child as a newborn –how cool is that? 

People can look back at themselves at the moment just before their baby arrived and see themselves as just a couple who were about to embark on one of the greatest  journeys in life – raising a child.  Remembering the unconditional love they felt for this tiny little being from the moment they found out they were expecting.  Feeling with their hearts on their sleeves the dreams and hopes for their unborn child’s future.

Capturing these moments….these memories….these feelings…… is why I am a photographer.

She was a pure delight to work with. She posed like a veteran supermodel at 6 days old.

Her daddy owns and operates Velocity Cycle . A local bike shop here in Edmonton. 

In his showroom he has on display a old style bicycle complete with front basket and since bicycles play a such important role in their lives, we had to incorporate it into Stella’s session. (I couldn’t resist!)

 Look how tiny she is in the basket!

You can’t deny it, she is beautiful

{thank you to Kristina and Calvin!  I seriously could have kept her.  She was so amazing, and so beautiful. I can’t wait to share the rest of her images with you.}