Welcome to the Green Apple Photography Blog. By viewing my stories and images, you will get a glimpse into my shooting style and personal experiences. My mission is to get you excited about your family portraits, about the moments I capture of your gorgeous children and the beauty of your pregnant body. I want you to share them with your friends and family and to see quality and artistry in every image.

For the many people who share their comments, stories, and lives with me, thank you!

Monday, October 25, 2010

Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas. - Dale Evans

Each year Green Apple Photography offers the Christmas Card Special.  As you may have read in a previous post, this year was different.  We wanted to give something back.

It was a HUGE success!  Every single client that came for their photos, was extremely generous and donated to Kate's Kause (www.kateskause.com)

We raised over $400.00 for Kate and this is just the beginning.  Please enjoy some photos from last weekend's sessions.

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My next project with Kate's Kause will be the sale of general Christmas Cards.  I designed them specially for Kate's Kause.  please visit www.greenapplephotography.ca and click on "Kate's Cards".  You can purchase them directly from the site.  If you are interested in them for your business, please email me (info@greenapplephotography.ca).  If we meet our sales goal on this project, we will raise well over $5000 for Kate's Kause.  Please help us spread the word and make a difference.  This project officially launches November 1st, but we are taking orders now.  A special thanks to M&T printing for donating a portion of the printing costs.

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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

16 months old and loving life!

I met the sweetest little girl this week.  She came for her first photo shoot with Green Apple Photography.  After a few shy moments, she started to come out of her shell.

It was a very relaxed shoot.  She sat with mom, playing in the studio and I caught the moments.  She loved pointing out all the new things she was seeing and made the cutest "Ahhh" noise when she was particularily interested in something.

She had a beautiful smile, amazing blue eyes and adorable curls.

Please enjoy a few moments from this shoot. 
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Saturday, October 9, 2010

Creating A Little Colour

It all started with my husband's idea.  We were planning on shooting our family Christmas card picture.  We have 2 small children -10 months old and 2 1/2 years old.  They are wonderful, sweet, funny and fantastic, but they wear us out!  At the end of every day, when the kids are in bed and hopefully asleep, my husband and I both look at each other and are thankful for some silence. 

So here comes the great photo idea: have the kids getting into some sort of shenanigans - banging on pots and pans, colouring with markers on each other or something like that.  The dog could be getting into trouble too - as usual.  Maybe he could be destroying our daughter's drawing or chewing on a roll of toilet paper.  That is after all, his favourite snack.  My husband and I would be in the background, looking exhausted (as if that was a stretch) with no real intention on stopping the chaos around us.  We thought it would make a hilarious shot.

As the discussions on what the kids should be doing continued, we thought it would be funny if our daughter was about to squirt paint on our son.  This evolved into paint everywhere!  The dog in paint, our son splashing in paint and our daughter squirting the paint.  So I set up the shot, covered the floor with roll after roll of craft paper, put the camera on the tripod and enlisted the help of my in-laws to push the button.  Did I mention we decided that we all should wear white shirts!
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Here are the results of all the fun. It turns out that tempera paint isn't so easy to get off of skin and that 10 month olds want to taste it, and that no matter how hard you try, paint ends up on something you didn't intend.  After the clean up was done, the baths complete and the kids in bed, my husband and I once again looked at each other and were thankful for a few moments of silence - but this time we were smiling at the fun we had with our kids that day.

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Inspirations

I can only hope that my marriage is as successful as Nelda and Ray Brenneman.  Surrounded by almost 200 of their friends and family, they celebrate 50 years of marriage.  The evening was filled with great food, love and lots of laughs. 
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  The highlight of the celebration was a performance of Josh Groban's You Lift Me Up by Ray, two of his sons, his grandson and about 10 others.  It was really wonderful to see the 3 generations together, singing on stage.  There was also performances by a barbershop quartet - which is where Ray gets his musical background.
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 I feel lucky to have been a part of such an fantastic celebration.

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