Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts

Friday, November 19, 2010

Book, Belated, Bravo!

It's finished! After a month and a half of being neglected and lonely on my to-do list, it is finished!

After doing a dumpload of cleaning yesterday, I decided to just sit down and finally make my photo book for my trip to Australia and New Zealand. A few hours later, it was all done! I love Blurb! If you want to check out the online preview, click here. Let me know what you think! I can't wait to get it in the mail!


And now on to making all the other millions of books I need to make! And trying out some new recipes in the next few days as well! Stay tuned!

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Canvas, Caramel, Crawling

This morning was to be the morning I left for South Africa. Instead I got to drive my dear friends to the airport to bid them farewell on their wonderful adventure. And I think it was a fun first day to my unexpected month at home. After 3 hours of wonderful sleep, I headed to Dave & Adri's to drive them to the airport at 5am. Jannie came as well and we had fun hanging out at the airport with them.

My favourite was the fact that Adri messed up on filling out her first visa form. Then she started the second and started laughing. We walked over and noticed that under sex, she had written "male". Oops. After rolling on the floor laughing for a while, I just told her to add "fe" to the end of it and maybe they would just see that all six blanks were filled in and not look at it again. Hopefully that worked for them. ;)


Jannie and I wanted Tim Horton's after the travellers went through customs, but in the airport it was still closed, so we decided to go find one. Upon leaving the airport, we decided we felt like we had just come back from somewhere. We decided that we had just come home from Japan. So all morning we swapped stories in remembering how wonderful our trip to Japan was. Lovely. So here's a picture from our trip to Japan.


Then I got to go trade my mom vehicles again and it was filled with the perks of playing with my favourite little man for the morning. We enjoy chasing each other around the house and up and down the stairs. And he's pretty fast at sliding down the stairs.


And then I came home and ate some caramels. And felt a little sick. But was reassured that they are made with milk partly, so it must be somewhat good for me, right? And then I took my vehicle in to be serviced and fell asleep at the dealership while waiting. Nice to nap in public while holding the book I was trying to read.


And then I drove to London Drugs excitedly to pick up my photographs on CANVAS!! SO exciting!! One is wrapped and the others are just on canvas but I'm going to look into framing options or seeing if I can wrap them myself. I LOVE them! I'm super excited to give them away as gifts, hang them in my own house and perhaps sell them as well! I love the way they turned out and since this was just a trial run, I shall now send more to be printed! Can't wait!


All in all a wonderful day!

And here are some things I am looking forward to as a result of my planned spontaneity:
-concert on the weekend!
-musical!
-friends visiting from alberta!
-hopefully going to alberta!
-going to the island!
-And of course, the best yet (okay this had nothing to do with my planning or lack thereof) is the arrival of a wee little one very soon!! Pink or blue? Hmmm.....

That's all for now! Enjoy the beginnings of the weekend!

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Photoshoot, Photography, Pictures

I've been toying around with the idea of starting a photography business for the last little while. As I have thought about it a bit more, I have decided I'd like to do a mix of travel photography (selling prints- or if you want to hire me to come on holidays with you as your photographer) and portraits/photoshoots. So right now I'm collecting a portfolio, so if anyone wants some free pics taken, let me know!


Today I got the chance to photograph one of my favorite (and cutest I might add) subjects.


Was so much fun to play and walk around and just capture him in his natural environment. And he was all smiles as always.


So here are just a few (out of the 200 or so) that I took this morning! I keep looking at them and admiring how incredibly cute he is. I just can't get enough.


So I'm biased, but I love watching him run around excitedly!


So that was the joy of my morning!


Definitely brings an infinite smile to my face. :)


So, let me know if you want a photoshoot and we can hook something up.. okay, we'll hook it up in October, but that works!

Also, if you want a postcard in my next few travels, shoot me an email (vanessa.s.maree@gmail.com) and I will add your address to my mailing list!

Enjoy the rest of your day! A post to come tonight (hopefully) about the next leg of adventures!