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I really really REALLY wish I were putting these on my car

14 April 2012 Mothership Photography

When I knew I would have to buy new tires, I thought it would be fun to keep the bald ones and paint them bright colours and then use them in my porch portraits. Fun idea, eh? Not entirely sure if it’s a GOOD idea, but definitely a FUN idea. So I learned a LOT [...]

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This week in pictures: porch portraits, family Easter and other spring beauties

14 April 2012 Project 365

It’s weekends like this that make me glad I’m not shooting on film anymore – I’d have filled up dozens of rolls of film with all the shots I took this week! The week started off with my sweet parents-in-law paying a brief but sunny visit. Normally, the highlight of my Easter weekend photos is [...]

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Easter Porch Portraits with the S Family

12 April 2012 Mothership Photography

On the weekend, I had the great pleasure of playing with the delightful kids of the S family as we did a special Easter porch portrait mini-session. You might remember the S family from last summer, when I captured this great portrait of M swinging from the rope in our back yard tree house. (How [...]

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“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” ~ Samuel Beckett

11 April 2012 Photography

This is a story about trying, and failing, and ultimately succeeding. More importantly, it’s a story about how my menfolk love me enough to tolerate my cockamamie ideas, indulge my silly whims, and play along with humour and good grace. “I have an idea!” I announced to Beloved. He eyeballed the bunch of red balloons [...]

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This week in pictures: Spring things

8 April 2012 Project 365

I started picking up my camera again instead of just snapping pictures with my iPhone this week. The iPhone is great for stuff, colours and shapes and contrasts and whatnot, but only the Nikon does justice to people, and taking pictures of people is truly what I love about photography. (Photographing stuff comes in really [...]

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This week in pictures: “Somewhere out of a memory of lighted streets on quiet nights…”

1 April 2012 Project 365

This post is a little redundant, as you’ve already seen nearly half the pictures in my post about my trip to Toronto this week, but I’m a creature of habit, so pardon the repetition. I’m continuing to enjoy the simplicity of using my iPhone for daily pictures. Funny how it seems to be the next [...]

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28 photos for 28 hours in Toronto

31 March 2012 Photography

I flew off to Toronto for a conference this week. It was a one-day conference and I pondered flying in and out on the same day, but even flying Porter into Centre Island that seemed a little too rushed (and frankly, the idea of waking at 4 am is unpalatable even to an early bird [...]

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This week in pictures: In which perserverance wins out over inspiration

25 March 2012 Project 365

There are weeks when I live for my camera and my computer, and weeks like this one where I keep taking pictures and putting up blog posts because of some sort of internal imperative. I think I learn things from each extreme. I’m sure this brief period of physical and creative lethargy will pass, and [...]

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This week in pictures: March Break and other plagues

17 March 2012 Project 365

This was supposed to be a week filled with pictures of our family visiting for March Break, but we all ended up being so sick that I barely pulled out my camera at all while they were here. (Nothing like a stomach bug that downs four of five members of your family on the same [...]

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This week in pictures: Wherein late winter battles with early spring

10 March 2012 Project 365

It’s been one of those incredibly long weeks, so that I look back at some of the pictures I took earlier in the week and think to myself, “No, surely that wasn’t this week. It seems like I took that picture a month ago!” It was one of those crazy end-of-winter weeks when the temperatures [...]

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