Category Archives: Photography

A Connection – March 31st 2009

It is so cute watching them together now that Samuel is a little more aware of Thomas. And now that Thomas is not always trying to get Samuel away from his toys. Every now and again I see a small preview of what I hope will be a wonderful relationship between these two boys.

All the better to eat you with – March 30th, 2009

I know it’s a terrible photo. Samuel looks a little freakish and the light is missing from his eyes so they look like cavernous holes in the middle of his head…

…but seriously, check out those enormous teeth!

Watching and Waiting – March 29th, 2009

This is Samuel’s favourite place to be now that the sun has finally come out. It buys me at least 10 minutes while he keeps himself occupied watching whatever is happening out in the front yard. Of course if that something happens to be his Daddy and brother playing, contentedness soon turns to frustration and then anger until we let him out to play. Samuel sure knows how to get his point across.

Davis Family Session

I was so thrilled with my first family photo session that I relished the opportunity to do it again. Of course I was nervous. What if the first time was a fluke? What if I lucked out with an extremely photogenic family? What if I really can’t success without that fabulous green chair?

Yes, I was nervous and conditions were less than ideal (Hail (yes, hail) and a toddler who ran out of patience), but I realized that what I love about taking photos is the ability to capture the moment – not the perfect smily photo, but images that reflect real life.

I am just so happy with the moments I managed to capture for this family – complete with the surly 3 year old.

This is quite possibly my favourite…

And this one is a close second. One of those moments where I walked outside, turned around, and there was the photo. I was being pounded by hail, but it was definitely worth it.

And then the hail stopped just long enough for me to catch a photo of little Iver sitting up for the very first time. I hope they always remember that moment when they look at the photo.

I did manage to get a couple of smiles.

And of course at this time of the year you have to make the most of the cherry blossoms.

Thank you Davis family for letting me capture these moments and for giving me the opportunity to photograph some adorable baby blue eyes.

Spring Break Continues – March 27th, 2009

The final day of Spring Break and it was a busy day in the Ishida house. Kei took the day off work to look after our kids and a couple of others – Liam is around the same age as Thomas and Zoe is two weeks older than Samuel. That’s two toddler and two kids. I worked from home so I could help when necessary.

It was a fun, if busy, day. My working at home meant Kei could take some of the kids out while the others were sleeping (bless Samuel for his long naps). It also meant I could practice my photography on someone else’s kids.

I am just so inspired by photography lately and I love the results I am getting with my camera. It helps that I had two adorable kids to practice on. I mean, check out this handsome guy.

And the beautiful eyes on this one.

Samuel was playing a little hard to get. (FYI – I had difficulty coming to terms with the fact that Kei didn’t get Samuel out of his pajamas all day while Zoe was dressed in a cute little outfit).

Oh yeah, and Thomas was there too.

And finally here’s Kei as the Manny (coming soon to a theatre near you).

He gained a lot of credit from the daycare mums for this photo, but he’s been talking about using a nanny to help during the next daycare vacation. I think he has support from some of the other parents as well. It was a busy, but fun week andI didn’t realize looking after other people’s kids could be so much fun, but he may be onto something with the nanny idea.

Because I need a little Spring right now

I am feeling blah! The weather sucks, work has been challenging and Samuel threw up on me today. I just need a teeny tiny little bit of Spring to keep me going. Just a smidgen of sunshine, a little bit of warmth.

At least I can control the amount of Spring on my blog.

A Milestone – March 19th, 2009

OK I finally got the photo I was looking for, but I had to work for it. It seems my innocent little boy has finally caught onto the fact the thing in front of my face 75% of the time is actually taking photos. And those photos are important to Mummy which means we should make the process as difficult as possible. It’s a good thing I just started taking photos of other people’s kids. They are definitely more cooperative when it’s a relative stranger behind the camera.

Here are the warm up shots. I have a billion of them.

Signs of Spring – March 18th, 2009

Buds blooming and sunny days which means playing outside. I feel like we’ve been in hibernation, leaving the house only to go to work and daycare. Our neighbours adopted a little boy from Vietnam 6 months ago and I just the other day saw him up close for the first time. True story. I guess we’re not that close to our neighbors…