LAZY DAYS BETWEEN CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEARS

Another wonderful Christmas has passed, we cooked our first Turkey dinner and didn't kill anyone, got to visit with friends and family and then the question always arises, what now? I guess play with your Christmas presents and wait around for New Years.

We spent Christmas dinner at my cousin Steve & Jills house and had the pleasure of seeing Sylvie again. Her curls just melt my heart! Sylvie took a bit of time warming up to us but once she did it was time to play with Steve. Just one more day til we ring out 2009 and ring in 2010. I can't believe it will be a new decade already, it feels like we were just celebrating the year 2000. Off to Fernie tomorrow!! Happy New Year's all

BOW CYCLE

Head on down to Bow Cycle at 6524 Bowness Road NW, Calgary. They have killer deals on accessories right now! You never know, you might feel like buying a motorized vehicle from my handsome husband as well ;)


Bow Cycle Customer Appreciation Night was a hit, my personal highlight of the night was "The Crusher", oops my bad "The Blendster" a customized sled that has two built in blenders to make margaritas in the outback!



The DJ was a fun addition to the party. If I had had my (fingers crossed) new flash I would have been able to capture him better

THE GRINCH = SMUDGIE CLAUS

Obviously I am on a big Christmas kick but when else can you enjoy being extra cheesy and torturing, uh I mean enjoying, dressing up small animals and children. I was over at Stephs yesterday and we had the best laugh at Smudge in his Santa costume. Smudge holds a place in my heart as we lived together for 6 months once upon a time.


He was slinking around like the Grinch for awhile before giving up and just sitting in a pile of defeat.

Smudge holds a place in my heart as we lived together for 6 months once upon a time. Only 5 days til Christmas!

UNDERNEATH THE CHRISTMAS TREE

underneath the Christmas tree, originally uploaded by kohsberg.

Wow only one week til Christmas! I can't believe it.. although I love the glow of my tree so much I am tempted to keep it up all year round

UNHAPPY ELF

Unhappy Elf, originally uploaded by kohsberg.

I know its cruel but I couldnt resist buying these tights when I saw them in Land & Sea a few weeks ago. I know Marc may consider tights on a boy a little feminine but look at how precious he is. I wasnt torturing Chase, even though this picture may say otherwise, I just thought this had the most personality. I can't believe it is Christmas in less than two weeks

2009 ORNAMENT

cheesy christmas ornament for 2009, originally uploaded by kohsberg.

Our family tradition (if 3 years counts as a tradition) is to get a least one nice ornament a year for our tree. This year I lucked out and the line up at the craft fair was short at this booth so I finally got a customized ornament and I am quite excited about the cuteness.. and Christmas in general as we missed it all last year

JUST ANOTHER WEDNESDAY

I have not had time to be inspired this past week with my camera but I do have a class field trip tomorrow night and a photo shoot on Saturday so I should have something fun here shortly. In the mean time I present you my favorite coffee mug

ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING

This past weekend was my first solo babysitting since I was prob. in junior high so I was a bit nervous. Thoughts of 'will he like me and will he cry lots?' swirled around in my head but I put on a brave front and the evening went quite well. Chase and I agreed that if I carried him around for 4 solid hours he would behave wonderfully and let me take his picture. On the whole he is a pretty jolly baby

STROLLING AROUND DOWNTOWN

Trying a different style here with the picture off to the left, not sure what I think yet but as I have no money to actually pay someone to design a blog for me I will continue to fumble my way through and decide which free style I enjoy the most.

Tina, who you shall become quite familiar with as she is one of my constant modeling volunteers, and I took another walk at lunch to check out Stephen Ave and surrounding alleys for possibly shoot locations. In the process I took quite a few pictures of Tina taking pictures but you get the idea.


The accordion player was my favorite! I was trying to get a picture of him staying still and the crowds swirling around him. Unfortunately I did not have my tripod so I had to lean against the pole and hope for the best. The weather wasn't cooperating either and since there was a huge wind storm happening there were no crowds outside either so this is the shot I had to make do with. Apparently not only are 80's clothes back in style but so is the huge teased bleached blond hair.. I shudder


We were getting into the Christmas spirit, checking out all the fun decorations and greenery I just thought this was a neat shot, I have never heard of this place before but it looks downtown hipster!

MOTHER NATURE AND CHINOOKS

A few nights ago the latest and greatest Chinook rolled through town and the sky was turning an amazing shade of pink and blue with this nasty looking cloud so I ran out (with my new best friend Lensbaby Composer) my back door, hoping my neighbors wouldn't think I was stalking them.. again.. and took a few shots. Metering was tough but I think I captured(ish) the essence



Sigh, the beauty of Calgary in the fall

NIGHT CLASS

A few teasers from last weeks class. Not necessarily a style I am a huge fan of but thats the class so this is what it is. I did manage to find a kind of funky shot by the gate, peaking through to a view of the city skyline. The other one I just thought was kind of neat, almost spooky if you consider this was shot at night in a deserted school hallway (I did underexpose by 2 stops though)

MY MUSE... AND SOULMATE :)

I spotted some new graffiti around town and convinced my husband to pose for me for a few fun shots. This was my attempt at shooting wide angle without a wide angle lens. I was pleasantly surprised.


I broke out the Lensbaby as it only seems to work in natural light and I was feeling it! Judging by Steve's stellar posing he was also inspired



Trying out a few "engagement" shots with myself and Steve, a remote and my tripod.. again liking the results

BABY LOVE

Lindsay and Chase came over to play the other night and we turned it into a bit of an impromptu photo session.



Chase has the most beautiful lashes I have ever seen, I hate to say it but he's pretty... AND one of the most precious babies I have ever met!



Chase is an excellent combo of both his Mom and Dad, although I think he got his gorgeous eyes from Lindz

WEDDING SHOOT

Yesterday Tina and I took our wedding dresses out of storage and played around with a "faux" wedding shoot. We had a blast taking pictures of each other but its def. harder than I realized to try to come up with creative ideas. Fortunately the sunny blue sky was out so that made for some creative sun flare shots. These are a few of my favorites. A big thanks to Tina for letting me experiment with her flash too

PRINCE'S ISLAND

Before Saturday's photo shoot Tina and I thought it would be a good idea to get out with our cameras so we hit up Prince's Island park on the only blue sky day of the week thus far. Lets face it, Calgary in the late fall is not the prettiest city ever, it's mostly just browns. We did discover the cutest kids playground and had some fun coming up with future shoot ideas... and might have had fun goofing around too.







I felt kind of like a creeper taking this little boys picture but he was just so precious enjoying the slide



There were also a few show off squirrels that were posing for us to take pictures