{Ottawa Lifestyle Photographer} Child portrait

As a photographer a camera is never too far away, but sadly, I don't always take the time to capture images of my own little people. So on an amazing Spring evening after dinner, I took the little ones to a sweet place close to home where the daffodils magically come up in a dreamlike way all over our favorite little park. It's our little secret that the fairies plant these lovely flowers and they know who they are "wink". Enjoy!

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Holidays 2009- The Guelph, Burlington, Hamilton, Port Colborne and Buckhorn Tour!

This post is for our family and friends - Thank you all for a wonderful holiday! There were so many great pics, but here are some of my favs...thank you to everyone that hosted us over the 5 day tour and to all who prepared the awesome food and especially to aunt Kathleen and aunt Ruth for hosting two kick-@ss Christmas fetes for us all! Happy New year!

Our first stop on the holiday "tour of duty" is to visit my bestest friends L and A in Guelph- what could be more exciting but to receive wonderful news that L is expecting her first babe in 2010! Woot!
The kids here Santa coming from the front hall...
This year cousin Robert dressed up as the Real Santa to give each of the little ones a gift...

Here's one half of the clan on Christmas in Burlington- Santa arrives with a gift for each one.

Our little princess got jewelry from Santa...how did he know it was what she always wanted!
With our whole normal schedule out of whack, our little man was up very late playing piano with tati Anne- was super cute!


Among our many stops on the holiday tour was to visit beautiful my baby niece. She has grown so much...have you ever seen such chubby haunches?! Cute!

Each Christmas For the past 3 years, I have crocheted different versions of this dolly for the girls in the family and every year, I am crocheting heads, adn stringing eyes and sewing details in the dark in teh car ont eh way to our Christmas party...this year it kind of shows, but little miss M didn't noticed and was so happy to have her dolly.

The E man gets his First Haircut for the Holidays

Things started out well enough with our little man being as goofy and happy as ever...but then, he's never had his haircut...so he was unaware of what would happen next...



Oh boy! Screaming like a banshee in dadd's lap there was a huge drama. Sister K, tried to console him with a lollipop with no luck...poor E man...

Then, no kidding...no sooner is he out of the chair ...then he is totally calm, with his lollipop and hockey cards..too funny...


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The Acharya Family- Ottawa Family photographer

Just in time for Christmas, we had a wonderful family session with C and S and their beautiful family on a sunny Sunday afternoon in November at their home in Kanata. The children played and showed us some of their best camera faces (see below). Falling in love with other peoples children is definitely an occupational hazard...these little ones were just adorable! Lesson learned...lollipops herd cats! Enjoy!

















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The Butler Family- Ottawa Family photographer

I have had some wonderful family sessions this year, and I must say there are an unusual number of budding young families among them. However, this family portrait was just a little different...none of the usual sock puppet tricks were going to get a laugh here. The Butler family has come together for the holidays, a special time when they would all be together...and there was no snow storm going to stop mom from getting that elusive picture of them all together....so we all trudged out in the bludgeoning cold; snow in our hair and teeth, but shoot we did! Here are some of my favorites from our session at the Museum of Civilization in Hull. What a bunch of troopers...Oh does it look like it's freezing cold? yep...it was! Thank you to the Butler family for a fun session and have a wonderful holiday together!







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L and her beautiful family] Ottawa family photographer

It was a pleasure to meet this young and busy little family for a Fall portrait session in Ottawa at my favorite little neighborhood nook. With a Parisian fountain in the background, sleepy rock gardens and this lovely bubbling family- I was in photography heaven! We let the wee ones be themselves and explore, mom fed the twin babes and dad, if it isn't obvious, there is a great man behind this successful woman. This little family will be playing zone defense for sometime still...but in the meantime, I hope that Lara will be pleasantly surprised by the images that come out of our busy little session ;) Enjoy and it was a pleasure to work with all of you.










Lara is an amazing lady: mom to baby twins and a wonderful almost three-year-old little boy and as if that wasn't enough, she is a local Ottawa business owner of Apples n Oranges, a children's clothing store. I invite you to visit her - in-person or on-line ;).
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Fall Family Portrait - Ottawa Family photographer

I have had the wonderful opportunity to capture M in her maternity portrait back in February. It has been a joy to see their lovely daughter grow over the summer season and take in a family portrait session. Little A couldn't be more beautiful. Thank you M and M - I hope to see you at this time next year.



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