PHOTO OF THE WEEK #45 - My Ride Warrior

Ben LOVES rides.  The faster and higher the better.  The fact that he always tells me he's afraid of heights makes absolutely no sense! LOL

We get Season's Passes to Canada's Wonderland and a couple of days before the park officially opens, they have a Season's Pass sneak preview night.  We went and Ben had the most amazing time.  In the first 40 minutes, he went on the Leviathan 7 times.  It was awesome for him.  At one point there was a teeny tiny line that had formed.  He said he didn't want to wait and wanted to move on.  I told him that this would be the one and only time where the lines would be this SHORT!!  (The one time he went on the Leviathan last summer, he waited in line for over 2 hours)

In total, he rode various rides at least 24 times that evening within a 4 hour period.  It was kind of crazy!  I'm so glad he had a fun time and didn't have to wait in long lines.  One time, he was even the only person riding the Drop Tower! :)

Here he is having a snack break.

Thanks for looking!

 -- Lisa P.

PERSONAL - HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!! :)

This post is for all of you super awesome women out there who are celebrating Mother's Day and/or remembering those special women who were so important in your lives.

Happy Mother's Day!

And this is a special message for my Mom.  Happy Mother's Day Mom.  We hope you liked the video we made of your surprise birthday party (check your email for the link!).  :)

Yes, she always wears a tiara, 'cause she's just super fancy like that.  heehee ;)

And a Happy Mother's Day to my Mother-in-law as well, from all of us over here in Tottenham.  :)

And here is a special Mother's Day message from Ben.....


Thanks for looking!

 -- Lisa P.

PHOTO OF THE WEEK #44 - Mooooooooose!! :)

So just over a week ago I went on my annual trip to Algonquin Park with friends and Ben to hopefully capture some cool nature images.  Of course, we always hope for a beautiful sunrise, but that didn't happen for us again this year.  But that's ok, because we still got some beautiful shots that day.  :)

And yes.....we did see Moooooooose!!  We also saw a wild turkey, but he ran away faster than we could get the cameras out.  (But we can see those in our backyard, so we weren't too sad that we missed him) I'm always worried that Ben will be disappointed if we don't see any moose, but so far we've been lucky enough.  We saw 3 this time.  In one spot we saw 2 together.  In another, we saw one who was quite happy to stand there enjoying his drink from the stream for a VERY long time.  People came and went and he/she was still drinking, sometimes pausing to look up to see if we were still there gawking.

And here's our moose model posing.  I just love those EARS!!

If you're interested in joining a group on a photo trip, check out Daytripper Photo.  I was first introduced to this type of trip when I joined Bryan and his group of instructors on his Algonquin Sunrise trip a few years back.  No driving and you receive instruction on the way there and back as well as during the trip.  Plus...you get to try out all kinds of lenses that you might not otherwise have the opportunity to try out 'in the field'.  It's a great trip and I highly recommend it.  Be warned that you have to get up VERY early so you can get up to Algonquin and set up in time for the sunrise.  But since you don't have to drive, you can snooze a bit on the way up.  ;)

Now that Ben is old enough to do things like this, it made more sense for me to gather together with a few friends who always enjoy Photography and make it an excuse to get together.  Plus, it's fun to do something photography related with Ben.  He had a blast and said it was his best day ever.  :)  (Although I think that might have now been trumped by the Canada's Wonderland season pass sneak preview night last Friday when he rode the Leviathan 12 (yes TWELVE) times, along with over another dozen times on his favourite rides in a 4 hour period.)

Thanks for looking!

 -- Lisa P.

PHOTO OF THE WEEK #43 - Birthday Cake

This isn't a great technical photo, and for most, it's not even that interesting..... really, it's just a cake.  But, it's here as a 'Photo of the Week' because I was so lucky to be able to take this in person at my Mom's 65th surprise birthday party in BC!!  :)  Woohoo! :)



You can see the little bags of cheezies and the scratch ticket that was at every seat.  Two of her favourite things.  I think she actually scooped my bag of cheezies!! ;)

It was a quick trip, but worth it for sure.

Thanks for looking!

 -- Lisa P.

PHOTO OF THE WEEK #42 - Welcome Little Berkeley

It's so exciting to see my clients' families growing.  This sweet baby girl has a beautiful family that loves her to pieces and is going to have a wonderful life.  :)

Thanks for looking!

 -- Lisa P.

PERSONAL - Happy 65th Birthday!!

So, she will probably want to kill me for posting this, but she's half ways across the country and can't hit me from there, so it's ok.  I'm safe!  ;)

Happy, Happy birthday to my Mom!  She turned 65 today.  :)

This photo is one of my favourites of her and Ben from back in 2006.  HAHA *RASPBERRY!!*

And this one is the most recent one I have of her with my brother, sister and Ben.  It was taken last summer when we went out to BC.

Thanks for looking!

 -- Lisa P.

PHOTO OF THE WEEK #41 - Sushi anyone?

This is definitely not my best image of all time, and it was taken with my phone, but one that has meaning to me.  Of all the things Ben loves to eat, sushi is one of them.  His favourite is cucumber rolls, so on Easter Monday I made him some.  I added avocado and asparagus to some of them as well.  He wasn't too fond of the asparagus, but the avocado was ok.  It's nice when he likes something I like too.  :)

Thanks for looking!

 -- Lisa P.

PHOTO OF THE WEEK #40 - Easter Colouring

When I first asked him if he wanted to colour eggs for Easter this year, he sort of said 'no'.  But....when it came to the Saturday before Easter, he realized that if he didn't colour eggs, the Easter Bunny wouldn't have anything to hide and he wouldn't have any egg hunting to do on Sunday!

Yes, I could have brushed the hair out of his eyes before I took the photo.  Yes, I could have edited the sauce off of his face.  But no.  I didn't do those things.  That wouldn't be my Ben.

Thanks for looking!

 -- Lisa P.

CLIENT SHOOTS - Another session with the Browns

The first quarter of this year was so much busier than I was expecting and I've gotten so behind in blogging and sharing images from sessions with my amazing clients.  So I will be trying to catch up over the next week or so.  There is a lot of catching up to do!

This session was the last of a few I was fortunate to shoot of the Brown Family near the end of 2012.  Here are some of my favourites and some 'outtakes'.

Family fun

Love those faces!

Waiting for everyone to get ready.

This stuff is scratchy.

Hey!  Were you touching my dress?!

The two littlest ones really stole the show at this session.  :)

Thanks for looking!

 -- Lisa P.

PHOTO OF THE WEEK #39 - Granola Bars

The long weekend messed up my sense of timing, so I'm VERY late posting the Photo of the Week photo that I was supposed to post last week.

I love granola bars and so does Ben, so I decided to try and make my own chewy bars.  This first batch turned out pretty good.  I followed a recipe pretty much bang on.  The second batch I made, with my modifications  turned out to be too dry.  I'm pretty sure I know what I did wrong, so I'll be making a new batch this week.

Thanks for looking!  And I hope everyone had a fantastic Easter weekend.  :)

 -- Lisa P.