Adelaide's First Haircut

We finally did it! Adelaide had her first official haircut at the age of 4! Of course we had to document it!! We were able to cut enough to donate! She is so happy that she can pass along her hair to a child who has lost theirs. It really gives meaning to an emotional experience making it much easier to let that hair go! What an adorable experience it was! I brought her to The Loft on Queen St where she was treated like a little Queen. It was too cute. I'll let these (unedited) pictures tell the story! Just wait until you get to the bottom to see the results!! 

If you are thinking of donating your hair, stop thinking about it and DO IT!! It takes about 5 or 6 donations to make ONE wig. You will not regret it. And if your child is making this brave and amazing choice to donate their hair, contact me and I will come document their experience for FREE!! That's right, I will waive the session fee which is a $250 value! Now go make that appointment!! 'Tis the season after all!

Wanna know what happens after you donate your hair? Watch this video!!

We followed a hair donation through the Wigs For Kids process to find out. Wigs for Kids is an organization that has been building self-esteem in children for over 35 years by providing handmade hairpieces at no cost to the children's families. They rely on the hair donations and financial support of people like you.

Mommy & Me

At the beginning of Autumn I did an incredible photoshoot for Mommy & Me Bags. They wanted genuine lifestyle portraits of a Mom and her little lady shopping with their super cute matching purses! So, we put out a casting call and received some wonderful submissions but could only choose one. Now, I could see in their submission photos that this little lady had sass, but I had no idea how lucky I was! She was PERFECT! Don't get me wrong, Mama is clearly an incredible model and made my job so easy, but when kids are involved, they kinda become the star of the show, and this kid ROCKED it! The truth is, during a photoshoot, if I hear things like "just sit still", or, "please, come on, just listen", or, "no don't make those faces", then I KNOW that the photos are going to be so excellent. I'm not saying she was misbehaving. She wasn't at all. She was just being a kid and kids don't usually like to sit and and smile for photos! Mom definitely said with a bit of worry a few times "I hope these are going to turn out", ha ha ha. But that's the beauty of lifestyle photography. It's all the moments in between. It's observing with little or no direction and following the models instead of having the models follow you. Most of my clients are pleasantly surprised at how fun and relaxing our photoshoots are because most of my clients have at least one pretty intense photoshoot experience! But really, who wants to sit awkwardly and say "cheese" when you can have photos like these by just being YOU!! Have a look for yourself! And when you're done, head on over to Mommy & Me Bags to enter their contest for a chance to win a FREE Victoria Messenger Bundle, which are the same mother daughter matching purses as in these pictures! Good luck.

Fall in Film.

Since summer ended and a routine was implemented, life has gotten busier and fuller and faster! SO many big changes and new discoveries happen all the time in Adelaide and Audrey's life as they get older! More often I find that we're in a rush, and more then ever I am feeling time just flying by as these two blossom in to wonderful little humans right before my eyes! And of course, more then ever I want to capture moments in our real life. Like, our outings to high park zoo, our trips to the grocery store, brief picnics at the park after visiting the farmers market, going to and from school, puddle jumping to the bakery, and daytime errands with Audrey. These are the moments that matter. And these moments become nostalgic memories way too fast!! 

Thanks for reading!

All of these images are scanned negatives that were taken with my Pentax K1000 using 35mm film. Take a look through my Traditional Film Gallery to see more of my images that were taken with traditional film!