Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

It has been a year full of blessings,  happy times and times of great sadness and heartache.  We are grateful for all the people in our lives.  From loving and supportive family members to new friends, old friends, and the people you meet only once but touch your heart in such a way as to never forget.
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts may the New Year bring you all many blessings and great happiness!   Love the Heintzman Family

My Girl

So Spring has sprung and I now look to the outdoors for beautiful backdrops for my clients.  This morning I brought Anna to help me scout some locations.   Anna is my beautiful, sweet, funny, lovely daughter but she is a high maintenance kinda model....

She starts off beautifully, listening to every instruction I give her...

Gorgeous... I know:)

She loves to twirl but is always aware that she must look at the camera... even when I say not to :)

♥♥♥♥♥

But then we moved along to some different places. I would have loved to explore the above spot a bit more but sadly we HAD to move on cause there was something flying around her.   She gave two lovely ladies passing by the giggles cause she was squealing and flailing her arms around

We climbed MANY, MANY.... MANY stairs to get to this spot,  it was actually the rest spot and the spot where I wasn't going to climb stairs any more :)

 By this time she is done and wants to go home, 10 mins into the shoot... sigh... 

"Just one more Anna",  I plead.   

Anna:  "What is on my shoe!" 

"Ewwwww,  I'm going HOME"!

The END

CELEBRATING OUR GRADUATES, OUR FUTURE!

Last minute Mothers Day gift idea

It's not too late!!!   Gift Certificates are available

PHASES...

A little while ago I was approached by a good friend of ours, Bernard Quilala to help design his new CD cover.  He had a concept in mind and I was very excited to be apart of it!!

It is obviously a composite having about 8 or 9 different Photoshop layers.  I had fun!

His lovely wife put some text to it and the final cover looks like this...

He's so cool!

We were also excited to be a part of the CD release party too!  Brad played keyboards and we prepared by listening to Bernard's amazing voice for many weeks straight, a hardship indeed  ;) (wink)

Our entire little family went to the party

I took pictures....

Did I mention how very cool he is?!?!

 All of the band and singers were so talented especially the keyboard player ♥

Last song of the night Bernard invited up his students from Spotlight Studios  and wouldn't you know,  Sam went up as well... He's so cute ♥   (Anna was on my lap holding on hard lest she be forced to go up on stage as well, she's still a bit shy if you can believe it)

A great time!

To buy Bernard's new CD and you MUST!  go here -  PHASES 

You'll see this image in his CD as well.  Yes you can say AWWWWW

Oh the possibilities...

OK so there is work to be done, laundry (always the laundry) to do, kids to be put to bed (YES!)....

but I had to play.....

I've been working on my photo composite skills.   I found some digital backgrounds on line and thought I'd give it ago.  First came our family Christmas card this year.  Lot's of fun and relatively easy to create believe it or not.  I like snow and the lighter background makes it easy to incorporate images taken with white background

Here now are a few that have proven to be a bit more difficult.  The difficulty lies in the conceptual rather than the actual work.   Lighting the subject for the background is essential to making these somewhat believable which means there has to be a vision first.

I'm hooked! The creative side of my brain is hungry for more!

Thank you to my daughter for her creative input.  I don't tell her how to pose she decides all that.  I just take the pictures :P

Now back to work!

Studio Ghost?!?!

While cleaning up in the studio today, after a most adorable baby shoot,

I noticed a peculiar site...

...can you guess what this might be?

a ghost?

a ghost maybe....

wait a minute....

that's what I thought

What????

Crazy hound!

Love is in the Air

Love Sam....

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

 Love Anna....

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

These are the kids School Valentine's cards :) 

I know I should really let them do their own... maybe one day.  

I can't give them all the fun

I was among the 400 people that stormed the doors of Costco this morning at 10am but I didn't go for the flowers like all those men did :)

This is my valentines treat of choice - Brad has given up trying to figure this out.   

The heart dish was a $1 store treasure Yay!

 Don't get me wrong I still like the sweet stuff too!

 The funniest moment of the morning would have to go to the cool young guy in his big black fancy truck in the parking lot of Safeway blasting Lionel Ritchie's "HELLO".

This is for all the men at Costco this morning and the cool young dude blasting Lionel Ritchie

http://youtu.be/P2-VGDF4y18

Happy Valentine's Day LOVE the Heintzman Family

Just One?!?!?

Every January-ish  I take studio photos of  my kids.  We don't buy the school pictures.... just 'cause.... so I make it a point to do this "formal" sitting at least once a year.  Getting Sam to sit for me is almost impossible, but when he gives me 5 minutes of his time it's usually all I need... ♥

 But then,  which one do I choose?!?!?  Sure you say the first one :)  but all of them are so "him"

This one is for the Grandparents  ♥  :)

Anna usually directs me in how she wants her session to go.   Stay tuned for her post :)

This is how we do birthday parties in Canada!

Two babes born in January, their birthdays fall a week apart.  How to plan parties???  I plan the girl -see previous post "Puppies"- and the hubby plans the boy!  It's a good deal,  I "get" girls :)  I don't "get" boys...

This year Sam turned 9 and what to do??? what to do???   Tobogganing?  Outside?  In Alberta?  Crazy!

But it turned out to be a beautiful morning!   -15C ,  the chosen hill had a week of melting so it was a bit icy but the boys loved it!

boys like stuff like this...

and this...

and this?!?!

really???

OH YEAH!!!!!

That was AWESOME!!!!

Happiness is ....

..... snow in the face???

It was a great morning, no broken bones... or blood :)   It was back to the house for cake and pop!

Um... this is a story.  Anna WAS sitting with the boys until she came to us in tears.  When asked what happened, this was the boys version....

This is what 10 kids looks like in Canada

Cake time....

it wasn't pretty....

sigh

No they are not hugging....

 So when things get out of control what do you do with boys?   Give them Nerf guns of course.  Split them into two groups, cause they like competition and make them shoot at paper cups...

who knew?!?

Brad did a good job I must say ♥.  So here is my creative contribution, the gift bags...

all reasonably appropriate.
I wasn't allowed to put the kleenex in!
 I think all the MOMs would have understood....

Thank you to the parents who gave up a cosy warm, probably quiet Saturday morning to help out with our great group of boys!

I'm liking this LARGE PRINT option in the edit bar.... :P