Cheers,
Sarah
If the title is confusing, this link may help. ... ... ok here's a super huge beach post! First Andrea, Shane and their daughters! Then Mel came home. We got to meet baby Vivian, and made a "Frozen" castle for Princess Elsa, aka Sammy. With Ava, Pat and Lydia we made sand castles and played with bubbles. All these photos were taken at Conrads Beach. Its super nice for photos but not as nice as Queensland for swimming. This blog post was lacking funny stuff or rambling. hmmm. Next time I promise.
Cheers, Sarah
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You might recognize Meaghan and Josh from their wedding photos we did this summer. They wanted Christmas photos with their four cats. Besides being wonderful, caring people they're also the super fun clients. Meaghan's request for photos was, "You do whatever you want." *eeeekkkkkk!!!!!!* It just so happened that I had been hankering to put people in snow globes. And put them in snow globes we did. Afterwards we hung out and I took some photos of their cats. Luchador, has a squinty eye and reminds me of a pirate. He looks even more like a pirate with an eye patch. Hrmmmm maybe I should try to give him a peg leg and a parrot. .....
Cheers, Sarah What an awesome Tuesday it was. We had three shoots today! The first was Jessica and Adam's engagement photo shoot. We went to a park I'd never heard of before because it had the ever elusive TEETER TOTTER or see-saw. I've wanted to make of photo kids being launched of teeter totters but so far I've only had adults...so is you want a picture of you or one of your kids launching your other kid off a teeter totter message me. Let's make it happen.
Congratulations Jessica and Adam! I can't wait till the wedding!!! Cheers, Sarah This was a really fun shoot! I've known Shyann since high school. She was up here for a weekend and wanted to get some photos done with her Mom, Sandra and daughter, Keira. Keira was a smiling machine as you'll see. Since it was wicked cold outside on Saturday, and everyone was from away, I decided to do the shoot in the Chocolate Lake Hotel lobby. I was a bit worried about this idea.. if it would be busy, the quality/colour of the lights and if it would look we were in a hotel. My fears were.. umm what's the word..? unfounded?? hmm Whateves, what I mean is that I was worried about nothing. The images are beautiful, Shyann, Sandra and Keira were such wonder company, and we stayed nice and cozy inside. All in all it was an awesome shoot!
Cheers, Sarah Hillsburn IS AMAZING! They are a Halifax-based folk pop band and I suck with words so I can't say the right things to explain how awesome their music is and what wonderful people Rosanna, Paul, Jackson and Clayton are.
But I can show you photos from our shoot out in Prospect! I hate dinosaurs... I don't know how to finish that sentence. Also it's a very confusing way to start a blog post for an image featuring a dinosaur. OK, how about this, I hate scientific dinosaur stuff but enjoy dino memes, cartoons, them eating people etc. This image was inspired The Simpsons episode Bart Sells His Soul. Bart sells his soul (just like the title promised) to Milhouse for five bucks. He then buys one of those sponge dinos that you add water too. He figures that when he adds water the dinosaur will grow huge and eat Lisa. Shawn and I looked everywhere for these sponge dinosaurs and couldn't find them. So we had to make our own. The first two that Shawn made were sad and hilarious looking ... there are no words. Only tears from laughing. Our friends, JP and Melissa, have two awesome kids we love taking photos of. Emilia was super excited for this picture. She loved playing with the hose and soaking the dinosaurs Shawn made. I loved how it came together. I also added the Clever Girl reference from Jurassic Park. I figured it was fitting since I used a velociraptor !! Cheers, Sarah That title needs work. I love Alice In Wonderland. I love the books, the made for t.v. movie and most of all I love the Alice games(American McGee's Alice and Alice: The Madness Returns). I don't think I like the Disney Alice In Wonderland however. I don't think I've ever used Alice that many times in a sentence. OK anyway- I wanted to make a series of Alice images that I hadn't seen done before. Years ago I tried to use a pop-up book as the background for an image I was doing. It was Beauty and the Beast and I tried to put a person in the book, as Belle, with the Beast. It didn't work at all. Not even a little bit. But that's when I was younger and suckier at Photoshop. Now I'm older and way better with Photoshop. ----weird how the old me was the young me--- Shawn and I bought an Alice In Wonderland pop-up book and asked our LOVELY AND WONDERFUL friend Danielle if she would model for us. And model she did. Danielle was amazing. She helped soo much- she came up with how to wear her hair, her make-up and what she felt Alice should wear. AMAZING. You know who else is amazing? 1.Shawn, for helping with the hours of Photoshop this one image took. Shawn watched Photoshop tutorials with me and helped me analyze the lights and shadows and how to add them into this image. 2.Erin. Erin works at Just Us, with Danielle. She made us the coffee that kept us going while we were editing. Erin also gave us helpful critique when we needed it. Enough rambling here's the first in the series of three Alice images. ENJOY!!! Cheers, Sarah ....did you find the cat?
Shawn and Krishna "encourage me" (tell me to stop being stupid and just try) to take more photos of outdoors. I typically don't like doing this. I'd rather just stand in nature than to take photos of it. But I'm starting to come around. The images are pleasing and easy to shoot. And people seem to like looking at them. We'll see how it goes. Don't worry, I won't turn into a landscape photographer. Pinky Promise. Krishna wanted a photo of him against an amazing starry sky with a Nova Scotia feel. We went to Peggy's Cove and waited for all the people to leave. There were a few teenagers smoking-they do bad things because they listen to music with swears-but we scared them away. Shawn helped by running blindly over the rocks looking for the perfect angle to shoot from. Krishna sat still perfectly LOL! After several attempts in photoshop, and some rough draft by Shawn we got the image you see below! I really love it. Thank you Shawn, Krishna for encouraging me to do things I don't wanna do for no good reason. Cheers, Sarah Upon closer inspection the sun set image was just begging for an inspirational hipster quote treatment. I used some wise words from LiL Jon. Update! We went out again! This time to Citadel Hill and the Halifax water front. Also Theodore The Tugboat was there.
Yesterday we decided to hold a quick contest on our Facebook page. The first person to reply to the post got a shoot where they would get water balloons thrown at them. I was worried no one would enter. I was stupid to worry lol. So many people wanted it that I had to opened it to the first three people to respond. Then I got messages about it so now I think I have a total of five people and two families that want to water ballooned in the face. I love you guys. Jessica was our first shoot. WE'RE SO SORRY AGAIN JESSICA. Who would have thought that the balloons would just bounce off her face and not pop. After a few tries, Jessica went to put her dogs in and Shawn looked horrified. He whispered, "I can't do this. I feel awful. You do it." NOPE. I had Shawn stand on the cooler and drop the balloon on Jessica's head and SUCCESS!!! The next shoot was for Stu, which his girlfriend Megan set up. Stu had no idea what we planned. So we set up, Shawn covertly got a water balloon and BAM- the water balloon BOUNCED off the top of Stu's head and slightly messed up his hair. FAIL. After that we had tons of fun soaking each other and managed to get so amazing pictures. I can't wait till to do more!! Cheers, Sarah We did more!!!! Swasti was our next target and of course Shawn and I had at it.
Shawn and I went out last night to try to see some of the Perseid meteor shower. We saw a grand total of 2 meteors. Wow. But I did bring my camera and took photos of the moon. The moon was crazy!! It was so red as it started to rise, and super huge too. We went to Crystal Crescent Beach, where we have run into/(I) have followed many porcupines. I totally heard porcupines talking last night, I've watched enough youtube videos of Teddy the porcupine to know what one sounds like. It was too dark for me to see so I didn't go looking for it. Which is probably for the best. The series of photos would have been me getting closer and closer to the porcupine, then one of the ground and then one of me at the hospital because I tripped and fell on the poor guy. Yes, it's probably for the best. Until next time porcupine. (I'm doing the thing where you look all squinty and point at your eyes.)
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