A fern in Sendall Gardens with steps leading up in the background.
Very Nice! This would look incredible on a large canvas!
I gave myself 15 minutes to take separate portraits of Isabelle and Ben. This included the setting up of any lights, the shoot itself and post processing.
Not a lot of time.
Working under a time crunch with kids is challenging. Ben will only give you a few minutes to work with and that’s it. Nothing more. I usually find I have to break it up into shorter sessions and work around his ever changing moods. Most frames I captured tonight were of him crying. Isabelle is older and is easier to work but at the same time she can get fussy just as quick.
It’s important give yourself personal photography challenges. I imagine this is probably true for every form of art. For photography, it might be doing something simple like shooting with only one prime lens for a week. Maybe it’s just shooting at a time of day that you would normally avoid. Whatever it is, forcing yourself to work within a set of rules, especially difficult ones, is just plain healthy.
These are by no means the best portraits I have ever made, but I know that future ones will be better because of it. At the beginning of the year there was no way I could have banged off a couple of photos in this amount of time – well, not properly exposed and in focus ones. It is something to be proud of.
Strobist: Alien Bees 800 with 50 inch Westcott softbox camera right, bookend camera right for fill, triggered by Cybersync.
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Wow,that’s some attitude Isabelle is displaying! Ben looks worried.
The expression on Isabelle’s face reminds me of her father on days he’s not impressed. Too funny!
My Mom made this beautiful hat for Isabelle. She has refused to wear it until tonight. I have no idea as to what changed her mind.
On a lighter note, Isabelle sang a beautiful song at the breakfast table this morning. It went something like this…
Row, row, row, your boat, gently down the stream
Throw your Daddy overboard and listen to him scream
And that, my friends, is why I love this little girl so much.
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Great Photo’s!!! That’s funny because that is the exact song Mackenzie and I sing to Kevin every night before bed!!!! Great minds!
so sweet.. hat suits her 
Keith, i love reading your thoughts for the day….. What a beautiful little girl.
The days have already started getting shorter and the air has been so much chillier. It’s a shame that summer appears to be coming to an end, at least here in Langley. Shorter days mean that I’ll be spending more time shooting at night.
I think this photo works well as CD art work, but that’s just me.
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Next Kings of Leon cover?
Definitely works! Possibly a drunk driving campaign as well?
The clouds up in Penticton were amazing. I could easily have taken a million shots of the sky.
I remember Joe McNally saying that if you want to make a photo interesting, just add water. The 2nd image works well for me because of the water drops on Owen’s face and the contrast created by the water in the background. Just by getting Owen wet and asking him to stand underneath a wharf added so much to this image.
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Isabelle sitting on her Great Nina’s sofa in Penticton, BC… just after waking from a nap.
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We spent a few days up in Penticton visiting my Grandparents. The weather was freakishly cold for this time of the year so we didn’t get to swim as much as we would have liked. The first photo, the one of Ben, makes me laugh. He looks a mini David Hasselhoff or some sort of cave man with a club.
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This photo was so heavily backlit that I couldn’t make out their little faces when it actually came time to take the picture. I thought they were looking at me and behaving. Apparently not. I love Isabelle’s bored, “are we done yet” expression. It’s so true to life.
Strobist: Nikon SB-800 with 28 inch Westcott softbox (up high above camera), triggered by Cybersync.
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yes Belle’s expression is priceless!
I went for a walk at lunch and the sun flickering through the leaves overhead reminded me of Kurosawa’s film Rashomon. The scene where the woodcutter walks through the forest and the camera points directly at the sun has always stuck in my head. I vaguely remember something about this being the first time ever, well at least in cinema, that this had been done before. Something as simple as pointing the camera at the sun being deemed new is a totally bizarre concept now. As usual, my thoughts wandered all over the place and as I continued to walk, I finally settled on taking this photo.
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love love love this picture!
We all helped my parent’s move into their new (old) house today. It was a hectic but the whole family pitched in and worked hard. During the chaos, I couldn’t help but stop and take this photo of my little niece sitting in the big empty garage. My parent’s now live within a 10 minute walk from our place. How awesome is that!
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Awe! So cute! Good thing she’s smiling or that could of looked like a very sad abandoned, neglected child 
lol
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