The Katagis family just recently increased by one – something about birds and bees and other logistics that seems quite confusing in baby manufacturing. With the new addition to the family they decided to do the next best thing and invited me into their home to photograph baby Macy as well as them (Megan and Tom). I’ve actually known Megan and Tom for quite some time. Once again, writing this sentence makes me say “wow” but 15-20 years ago Tom and I met playing soccer, I was the star player and Tom would get me my water. It was a good relationship, it may also be a lie. Megan and I went to high school together and acted in the play Noises Off!; if memory serves correctly I was the star and Megan would bring me my water… There are actual VHS copies of this play around somewhere (okay, at my house as my mom found them all and gave them to me in a box).

My favourite part about babies (and young kids) are the funny random faces they make and Macy was no exception to this. Macy was a trooper for most of the shoot until she became tired and hungry and hated my guts. The blue (light blue, teal) M you see behind Macy was made by Megan – now how cool is that?

Thanks for the great afternoon Megan and Tom and of course little Macy, it was a fun time and I didn’t even get puked on!

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Andrea and Marc got the pleasure of me trying to acclimatize myself back to our northern fall weather after leaving 30C and sunny. I believe the day we ventured out was no colder than 10C but I had my toque on and felt cold. Damn you Hawaii!

I met up with Andrea and Marc at local downtown hot spot Dish and then we ventured around the downtown core once again using buildings, lane ways and any other fun things we saw. As a quick note, if anyone reading this needs to use either Andrea or Marc to look out for cars for them so that you do not get ran over go and find a stranger to do the job instead. After we had all the fun that could be had downtown we headed up to Hiawatha Highlands but used a part of the park which I have never been to before. Andrea and Marc’s ceremony will actually be taking place at the Bible Chapel which is now located inside the old ski lodge on the grounds – it is definitely a sweet location for their ceremony and party afterward. Checking the area out and using the surroundings before the big day was a bonus and hopefully we’ll be able to try to use some of them again when their wedding rolls around next year.

Thanks for the killer afternoon guys – looking forward to the wedding next year.

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With all the snow out there currently we’re going to flash back to a warmer time and one of my last fall shoots featuring the Assiginack family. I woke that morning with some crazy vertigo (I think that’s what it was anyway) happening and still had the lingering affects of it when we started the shoot but who needs to be seeings straight and not wobbling side to side to take a good photo? I met up with Nikki, Vince, Felicia, Clarence, Curtis, Melissa, Landon, Ellie, Sharron, Bruce, Michelle, Pat, David and Lexy the dog at the Soo Canal to rock their family shoot. We were a little slow starting due to my above condition but it didn’t take long for everyone to get into the swing of things and make the shoot awesome.

As an added bonus Bruce has inspired me to add a new rule to all of my shoots. From now on, for any shoot, wedding, engagement, family, baby, pet, etc there must be a pipe – no questions asked. Bruce and his pipe made for some of my favourite portraits that I have taken (two of them below!). So thank you Bruce for bringing it along and thank you to your wife and daughters for letting us keep it for the shots.

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