Chad & Christine and Baby Isabelle

I had the opportunity to photograph the beautiful little Isabelle & her parents this past weekend. It seems only yesterday she was a small infant, and now she's already 5 1/2 months old! How time flies. It has been so much fun watching this little gal grow up, and I'm looking forward to watching Isabelle grow even more!!

I just LOVE her smile!

Isn't she just absolutely adorable??!!

Rub-a-dub-dub, Isabelle is in the tub...

Thanks, Chad & Christine, for coming by for this photo session!! It was fun!!

I Heart Faces: Fix-It Friday

I did not much to this photo, as I found it difficult to work with: the photo I downloaded was a small JPEG file. Oh, how I wish they would put the RAW files on IHF for us to download & edit!

The original:

My edits:

I lightened the skin & eyes then made the background B&W.

Check out some other photo edits here.

I Heart Faces: "All About Babies" Photo Challenge

This photo of my son was taken when he was only 6 days old.

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I Heart Faces: Fix-It Friday

It's Fix-It Friday #58 here at i heart faces and this week's photo was submitted by our IHF Contributor, Susan Keller from Short on Words.

The original:

My edit: vintage, B&W, vingnette

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Remembering Baby Sean

The world may never notice

If a Snowdrop doesn't bloom,

Or even pause to wonder

If the petals fall too soon.

But every life that ever forms,

Or ever comes to be,

Touches the world in some small way

For all eternity.

~ Author unknown ~

Little Sean arrived in this world 13 days ago, but last week he suddenly became ill and required hospitalization, including life support. Yesterday, he was taken off mechanical life support. I had the opportunity to give this family some photo memories of their precious son. What a beautiful baby!

I am so honoured to be a volunteer photographer for the non-profit organization "Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep."

I Heart Faces: Play

I Heart Faces' theme for the week is "Play" - oh, what fun!

I have so many photos, but this photo jumped out at me when I was considering a photo for this entry. In April when we were at a family reunion, I snagged this photo of my husband's cousin's daughter playing the piano. I simply vintaged the photo & added a border.

Play on, Miss K!

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I Heart Faces: Fix-It Friday

For some reason, Fridays seem to be busy days for me, but yet I find time for IHF's FIF photos. It's so fun to edit a photo then check out how other photographers edit the same photo.

Here is a photo that was originally taken by Andrea Riley:

My edit #1 (Sepia tones):

My Edit #2 (B&W + Vintage tones)

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I Heart Faces: "Barefoot Week" Photo Challenge

This week, the photo challenge at IHF is bringing attention to a charitable organization called Soles 4 Souls.

Soles4Souls is a Nashville-based charity that collects shoes from the warehouses of footwear companies and the closets of people like you. The charity distributes these shoes free of charge to people in need, regardless of race, religion, class, or any other criteria. Since 2005, Soles4Souls has given away over 7 million pairs of new and gently worn shoes (currently donating one pair every 9 seconds.) The shoes have been distributed to people in over 125 countries, including Kenya, Thailand, Nepal and the United States. Anyone can join our cause, and we need your help.

In May I took this photo of my son playing in the grass for the first time (yes, it has been a very, very long Calgary winter!!)

However, I wanted to do something unusual with this photo... I antiqued it then added the polaroid border.

Check out more "Barefoot" photo challenges at I Heart Faces.