I just enjoyed a fabulous evening of music! I have heard about this local family band, so it was such a treat to see The Abram’s Brothers! I loooove bluegrass/folk music.. and man were they ever good! The brothers are now aged 14 and 17 (their cousin is also 14, playing the double bass), but they have been playing together ever since they were 6 and 9! I have to confess that I have a slight obsession with family bands :) These guys reminded me a bit of The Barra Macneils, who is my favorite family band EVER. :)
We also heard Rob Carnegie sing, who is a local recording artist… we are really blessed to have Rob attend our church because sometimes he sings on Sunday mornings which is super awesome. He is very very talented. All the proceeds from tonight went to Kingston Youth Unlimited which is a drop-in centre for city kids to go and hang out so they stay out of trouble :)

Here are just a few photos from this evening…

Rob Carnegie…

… And the Abrams Brothers!!

Here is the slideshow from Aaron’s mini photo shoot!

Hope you enjoy it!

haha I hope you don’t mind when my posts are completely un-related to photography :)

Tonight Josh and I went to see The Spiderwick Chronicles.. and it was sooooo good!!! I just love Freddie Highmore… he is so such a good little actor!! I reaaaally liked him in the movie August Rush.. if you haven’t seen that, you definitely SHOULD!!!

Happy Wednesday! :)

I finally got all of the images edited from my brand new nephew Ben’s photo session!

Here is the slideshow!! To view it in a separate window: Click Here

HOW cute are my niece and nephew!!?

This is a good one for this time of year!

This will probably be a really hard one for you if you’re used to sitting in your car with the heat on in the cold :)

Green Tip #4: Just 10 seconds of idling your vehicle consumes more energy than is used to restart the vehicle.

Wow…what an incredible weekend!! I had such a great experience at Sno Camp this year with the youth group. We have such an awesome bunch of youth, and I feel so blessed that I get to be a part of their lives!

Here are a just a few photos from the weekend!

…the hilarious grade 12 girls!!

This was a really powerful skit put on by one of the other youth groups. If you want to watch it, here is an online version of the same skit.

…gorgeous sunset over the lake

..and a group photo before we headed out!!

To view a slideshow of the whole weekend: Click Here!

I have been looking at my blog statistics and it shows that about 80-150 people view my blog every day! (I must say, I am very flattered!) I’m just wondering what you all enjoy most about my blog… what should I post about? Do you have any questions about me or my business or what goes on behind the scenes? Post a comment or shoot me an email with a question that I can answer on my blog!!! Don’t be shy….questions are the key to knowledge! The only dumb question is the question not asked. :)

Every year the youth group at my church gets to go on a wild and crazy weekend adventure called Sno Camp at Muskoka Woods! Actually I think this is the first time it’s been at Muskoka Woods.. I believe it has always been at Muskoka Bible Conference. ANYways.. I am very excited because since I am a leader this year, I get to go along with them on the trip!! Here’s a photo from last year. Don’t worry, I will come back with some kickin’ photos to show you all!!

Have a fabulous weekend everyone!!

Clients always ask me what it means when I say that I need to ‘edit’ their photos before I put them online. First I go through all the images and edit out all the shots where people are blinking or have funny expressions. Then I open each image individually, and adjust the colours, contrast, and brightness.

Here is an example of how your photo would look straight out of the camera, with no editing at all:

And here is what it looks like after it’s been edited. First I brighten up the image, then add contrast, and then add some saturation to make the colours pop.

So now you know why it takes a few days for me to get all your images online!

We’re so excited because Josh’s cousin (aka. brotha from a different motha) and his wife and kids are moving from Calgary to Kingston this spring! They are here house-shopping this week and it’s been so great to have them around. Although they have 2 adorable kids, they only brought their newest little one, Aaron, with them on the trip. He is such a sweet, happy, and content baby. We had a mini photo shoot with him yesterday, and he just smiled and giggled the whole way through!

Check out those big blue eyes…