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Anyone else notice how fast the summer is flying by?  Before you know it, it will be…dare I say it…Christmas!! Yes,  I went there!  I’m thinking in a few more weeks Costco will have it’s Halloween stuff out!!! Argh! I hate the sight of Halloween stuff, cause it means summer is coming to an end, and quickly.  I know it’s an odd comparison, because the time frame just isn’t the same, but how come pregnancy doesn’t fly by!  I remember at 8 months, I was ready to pull an “Ace Ventura” and spit my babies out!  (If you don’t know what I’m referring to, then I’ve probably dated myself, and you need to go out and rent the movie Ace Ventura! Funny movie!)   I was soooo big, I swear I was carrying triplets both pregnancies, but no, just one each time and each time, the closer it got to the due date, the more I felt time just dragging. I never thought the day would come…but it did, and now I look back and I know you want me to say something warm and fuzzy here, like “the time really just flew by and if I could go back and do it all over again, I would savour every moment!”  Ummm….Not gonna happen!  I hated being pregnant.  Pregnancy + me = DISASTER!  Labour…no problem…but pregnancy…YIKES!  Just did not agree with me.  (and sidenote: I would do it all over again, because God has given me two of the most beautiful boys in the world!)

Nikki on the other hand…WOW! I think she should be pregnant all the time!  You know how people say “you’re glowing”, well I was never “glowing” when I was pregnant, but I can honestly say that Nikki is more then glowing, she’s got this beautiful aura surrounding her and her baby and quite frankly, I’m a weeee bit jealous !  I met Nikki on the day of the shoot, although we had emailed back and forth.  I was a little intimidated meeting her, because she’s a model, and from pictures I had seen, I knew she was going to be gorgeous!  And she is!  My anxiety upon meeting Nikki quickly diminished when she opened the door and greeted us with a big smile and hurriedly ushered us in! She had baked us some croissants and wanted us to eat them while they were still warm!  Gorgeous…and NICE! Darn it, I really wanted to dislike this girl!!   Not gonna happen! I love this girl! We chatted and laughed as though we had been friends for years! 

Nikki and her hubby Demetrius are going to make awesome parents.  If Demetrius has his way, baby boy will come into this world, rocking it out on a baby guitar!  Or better yet, maybe the drums! Instant band and you never even have to leave the home to practice!  I can just tell that Baby will be playing a musical instrument before he can probably walk or talk.  I need to make a separate trip to photograph Demetrius on his own with all of his guitars!  What a fun shoot that would be! (hint…hint…)

Nikki’s makeup was done by the incredible Zenah who is a professional makeup artist and has been in the industry for over 15 years! If you need your makeup done, drop me a line and I will get you in touch with her.  Zenah is truly talented in what she does!

Without further ado…the shoot:

See, 8 and a half months pregnant, and absolutely beautiful!

and cause sometimes I can’t decide between colour or black and white…

Time for a quick clothing change…We had to “sneak” some quick photos on this table, cause the security guard in the lobby left the room! 

Introducing Demetrius in black and white…

and in colour…

Nikki rocking it out!!! YOU GO GIRL!

Love this next one…

and as the saying goes…”that’s a wrap!”  Nikki and Demetrius, thank you so much for allowing me into your home and your world for a few hours!  I feel very fortunate to meet such great people in my travels.  I can’t wait for the opportunity to hopefully photograph your newborn!   

There is something about photographing newborns that I just can’t seem to get enough of…I think it’s that baby fresh scent, or how cute they look when asleep,  maybe it’s the fact when they poop, I can pass them off to their parents!!   Who knows!?!

I met Janet…oh maybe 8 years ago now, we played fastball together.  She was a pitcher (and an extremely talented one at that) and I was her catcher (I made her look good! Sorry Janet, had to go there!!)  But really, if you’ve ever been in a catcher/pitcher relationship you have to have good chemistry and bond well with your pitcher/catcher, cause really you make each other look good.  And for as good as I made Janet look, she made me look even better!  We had the opporunity to play on the same team for a few years, and we quickly bonded and became fast friends.  When the chance came for me to play hockey with Janet’s hockey team, I jumped at the chance, and we became defence partners!  She saved my bacon on more then one occasion, and to thank her, I thought it would be funny to skate at her one day, lose an edge, and fall in a heap on top of her! OOOOPS!  I’ll never forget her face as I skated towards her completely out of control!! Umm…We laugh about it now…

Anyhow, I lost my defence partner last year to pregnancy, and as much as I missed her, I couldn’t be happier for her and her hubby!  A month ago, they gave birth to a beautiful baby boy, and as much I told them that “Elaine” as a name works for both a boy and a girl, they decided to call their precious boy, Maxim.  He’s a cutie!! The spitting image of his dad.  I’m wondering if his parents will let me teach him some of my “skating” moves…something tells me NO!    Without further annoying bantering by me, here is the cuteness that is Maxim!

Told you he’s a cutie!!!!

I love this next one…

I kind of love this next one too!!

We tried and tried and tried to get him to fall asleep, but he wanted no part of it!  He was even holding his head up to see what I was doing!

Finally I wore him out with all my stealth photography moves!

The perfect watch dog for Maxim!

Mama and baby

Rockstar!! You go girl!!

The last look he gave me before drifting to sleep…how appropriate!

Thanks for letting me into your home to photograph your beautiful baby!! May he be the first of many more to come!

So…I have a secret, well, it’s not really a secret, as much as I just didn’t mention it yet in my posts.  Mario is my big brother! Yes, that handsome guy in my last post, is my big brother.  He probably doesn’t know it, but he’s one of my greatest heroes.  Ya, ya, I’m about to get all mushy up in your face, so if mush isn’t your thing, stop reading now.  But really, every once in a while, it’s nice to hand out a little mush where deserved. 

Mario did alot for us in the name of “big brotherhood”.  He was always the one to give up his cookie or candy or desert, so me and my other brother could have one and not cry ourselves to sleep cause there was only two left, but three of us kids to share it.  When we walked to school, he had to walk with us to make sure we got there safely, even though I’m sure walking with two kids a few years younger was definitely not seen as “cool”.  When we played “wrestling” in the basement, it was always me and my other brother tag teaming against Mario, (and boy did we kick his BUTT! well…maybe not).   When it was TV watching time, if me or our other brother cried hard enough, we got to watch what we wanted to, and Mario was either stuck watching Charlie’s Angels or Battle of the Planets.    We were supposed to call him “Junior” but somehow we turned it into something that sounded like “Joan” and still does.  When he asked us to stop calling him that we tried our hardest, but it still came out as “Joan”.  Really COOL for him I bet.

He had some crazy ideas and because he was our idol and big brother, we went along with them.   Taking pictures of him in his “inside-out” gold colored-lined trench coat, with his hair up to HERE, doing his Prince moves, cause he was going to be a STAR!  I remember one of his piano recitals and he told my parents that “no”, he was not going to perform Mozart or Bethoven or the likes, instead he was going to perform “Root Beer Rag”.  My parents said “HUH?” and I know most of you just said “huh…what the heck song is that???”  But man he rocked it out.  I miss hearing my brother play piano.  He is one of those people born with a natural talent.  His is playing piano. 

  My brother played that, and it was awesome!  Billy Joel was his piano playing idol, and then he became mine too. 

Anything my brother liked I liked.  It’s how I became a Bruin fan.    I still to this day remember exactly how I became a Bruin fan.  I was about 5 at the time and we as a family were gathered around our TV set.  Montreal was playing Boston.  My parents and my other brother being the Montreal diehard fans that they are, were teasing my brother about being a Bruin fan (I won’t ever fully admit it, but I think Montreal was beating Boston pretty badly at the time!) So, I could still hear Mario cheering on Boston and I remember thinking, I’m not going to let my Big Brother be teased all by himself, so I may have at that moment squeaked out a “Go Boston Go”, not knowing a single darn thing about hockey, cause at the time there was no “Hockey-playing Barbie doll”.  And at that precise moment another hardcore Bruin fan was born, strictly out of defence for my Big Brother!  My brother bit his nails…and sadly, I did too (Thanks for that Big Bro!!) He played piano, and I tried too, but I never got over my fear of performing in front of people. 

So here’s to my big brother, the defender of the little people (me and my other brother, and our toys).  Thanks for always having our backs, and for always being someone we can count on. 

GQing it! I wanted him to wear the gold trench coat…but well I think the 80s called and reclaimed it…

And for something a little different…love it…

I thought I would give you a taste of what’s coming up next.  I had the honour of shooting an engagement shoot for Mario & Tonia the other day.  They’ve been engaged for awhile now. (I won’t say exactly how long!)  For as long as they’ve been together, whether engaged or not, you can tell how in love they are.  That makes my job so much easier.  That’s the point of photography for me, is capturing emotion, capturing the feelings.  Mind you in our photoshoot, we did try some “GQ” posing, cause why not?!?!  But the photos also capture the love.  Here’s just a sneak peak of Tonia…cause isn’t she gorgeous???  Plus she brought a  whole bunch of clothes to change into, and we wanted to get a few outfits in there, but the light was fading quickly…and quite frankly DANG IT WAS COLD!! But more on that later…for now, here’s Tonia.

Tonia’s makeup was done by an incredibly talented up and coming make up artist!  “Z” is her name, and makeup is her game.  Drop me a line if you like what you see and need your makeup done, I will connect you to her!

Told you she is gorgeous!   What a lucky guy you are Mario!!!

And my personal fave…I don’t know who the heck Sasha Fierce is (ask Beyonce) but this is defnitely “Tonia Fierce”…You go girl!!

Stay Tuned for the actual “couple” shots! Yes, sorry boys, I did mention earlier in my post, she’s taken! So there really are engagement photos! I promise…

We had just gotten home from Lonestar and decided to walk off our fajitas for 4!  I whispered under my breath, barely audible, except to the most trained ear, “walk”.  And boy did she come running!! If she could’ve put her own leash on at that point in time, I’m sure she would’ve.  Her counterpart on the other hand, had no clue what was going on, he was just excited cause she was excited.  Putting the “walking collars” and leashes on is an event in itself, the little one (dog that is) gives me such a hard time to put the harness on.  He really lives up to his nickname of Psycho dog, so lovingly referred to by me (the boys get mad at me when I refer to him like that but really if you met him, you would agree!)  Anyways, with our leashes in hand (forgot the poop bags! OOPS, good thing we didn’t need them for this one) off we went.  The sun was setting nicely up the street so I couldn’t resist grabbing my camera for hopefully a few good shots. 

Wow, was it freeeeezing.  I’m pretty sure the feelings in my fingers still havn’t come back yet.  Between the cold, balancing my camera, and dragging “psycho dog” on the leash, it was a sight to see I’m sure.  There were a few times ole phsych lunged forward and almost pulled the camera out of my grasp.  He’s strong for a 6 pounder!  But yet for the most part he strolled right beside me, marking his territory any chance he got.   Maxie on the other hand, pulled at her leash like walks are going out of style and this would be her last one.  She usually ends up taking whoever happens to be holding her leash, for a walk  instead of the other way around.  She has never once stopped to go to the bathroom when on a leash.  I kid you not,  NEVER!  Weird.  I don’t get it.  We have tried taking her for a walk as soon as we get home (after a whole day without going outside) and nothing!  She will wait til she’s in the privacy of her own backyard, thank you very much, before she does her business. 

She does tug on that leash though, she’ll run around in a big circle and tie you up, lie down on the neighbour’s lawn and not get up, find the biggest puddle and roll around in it.  She is in her glory when she goes for a walk, and on this day my oldest had the honour of holding her leash with pride (even when she lay down in the snow and refused to budge).   I was so cold, and when I asked him if he was ready to go back home, he said “Nah, I think Maxie still wants to walk”.  So away we went, a boy and his dog…following where the wind…errr…dog took us.