{"id":6823,"date":"2012-04-14T14:17:02","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T19:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=6823"},"modified":"2012-04-14T14:17:02","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T19:17:02","slug":"this-week-in-pictures-porch-portraits-family-easter-and-other-spring-beauties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2012\/04\/14\/this-week-in-pictures-porch-portraits-family-easter-and-other-spring-beauties\/","title":{"rendered":"This week in pictures: porch portraits, family Easter and other spring beauties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">I<\/span>t&#8217;s weekends like this that make me glad I&#8217;m not shooting on film anymore &#8211; I&#8217;d have filled up dozens of rolls of film with all the shots I took this week!  <\/p>\n<p>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 the colouring of eggs, but there were so many other things to photograph these pictures didn&#8217;t even make it to the blog!  Anyway, here&#8217;s our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/sets\/72157629759516633\/detail\/\">Easter fun on Flickr<\/a> if you&#8217;d like to see them.  And here&#8217;s my favourite shot of that day:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/7053276715\/\" title=\"Sacred by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7212\/7053276715_3eafcc9caf.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"Sacred\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know, it&#8217;s a repeat from last week.  And <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2012\/04\/12\/easter-porch-portraits-with-the-s-family\/\">so is this one<\/a>! But they&#8217;re cute enough to repeat, right? This cute duo came out for porch portraits with their adorable little brother last weekend. What a fun family!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/6909027760\/\" title=\"Easter porch portrait sneak peek by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5116\/6909027760_55d2dfd49c.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"Easter porch portrait sneak peek\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I blogged these ones already, too!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/7058625929\/\" title=\"The red balloon session by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7263\/7058625929_5300711536.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"328\" height=\"500\" alt=\"The red balloon session\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/6922476668\/\" title=\"Balloon outtake 3 by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7082\/6922476668_ae85fe56fc.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"Balloon outtake 3\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every week on my way to my French class, I walk past these flags near the National Arts Centre.  I&#8217;ve tried to take a picture of them a few times, but I could never make the composition work for me. This week, I walked by on the Canal side for a change of pace, and the low perspective was just the trick!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/6925089970\/\" title=\"Flags of Canada by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7125\/6925089970_a880b8d168.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Flags of Canada\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Can you match all 13 flags with their province\/territory? And bonus question &#8211; why are they in this order? \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n<p>We found this beauty on a recent campfire outing with Simon&#8217;s Beaverscout troupe.  Isn&#8217;t it gorgeous, in a vintage-abandoned sort of way?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/7062762981\/\" title=\"Antique truck by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7077\/7062762981_5a68da29ab.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"Antique truck\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And last but not least, Willie in high key.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/6919833334\/\" title=\"Willie by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7180\/6919833334_26fc2e3a2c.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Willie\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t tell him, but I&#8217;ve grown quite fond of the silly orange beast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s weekends like this that make me glad I&#8217;m not shooting on film anymore &#8211; I&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2012\/04\/14\/this-week-in-pictures-porch-portraits-family-easter-and-other-spring-beauties\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This week in pictures: porch portraits, family Easter and other spring beauties&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6823"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6826,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6823\/revisions\/6826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}