are you taking clicks of me??

a short shoot with leesh

2012-01-31T08:04:00.000-08:00

daniel + abbey + family july 2, 2012

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bif-bliss

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i spent some time in williams lake visiting my sis over the july long weekend last year. i did a photo shoot and it's time to share. for me there was a kind of special magic in shooting my little sister and her beautiful family. she's got a handsome hub and two gorgeous babes, but to me, maybe because i love her so much, she is the magic heart of her family. the light and the joy and the everything around which everything else ebbs and flows. i see her. i see the way she's blossomed in grace and beauty in her family. it's hard to put into words, so let's see if i can put it into pictures.

first there was filup-philemon-the bird.

ok. now is the real start.

we were waiting for ben and ducked under the balcony to get out of the sprinkling rain.

i love these two. (pics and people)

the hill top. brace yourself--there are many. shrug. it's my blog so i can do what i want. :)

(pssst. the boys are those lumps in the grass)

a family that runs together...

the dip that shocked us all:

this hike-up mid air makes me laugh

mr. blue eyes in the car after some tears.

a williams lake family:

i call this one "reflections in a barren northern town"

bob's shoes"

hi it's me. i like donairs.

sunday morning:

the end!

eryn and tyler--celebrate

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the dinner:

the food:

the speeches:

1st dance:

eryn and dean rock it:

the party:

wedded ones

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after the bridal party we took a few moments to click some of just the bride and groom. there was this beautiful flowering tree that i had picked out the day before but for some reason they wouldn't trespass, climb a fence into the long grasses and stand under a tree full of bees. stubborn, i guess. :) luckily the weeping willows were there for me in my time of need. also, let me just say that i wasn't purposely trying to hide tyler's face. it just happened that way... :)

my photographer friend linda told me not to put so many repeats in so i left out the black and whites of these weeping willows ones. but there's something i love about each of the 5 so you are stuck with the repetition. maybe you can tell me which willow shot you like the best.

bridal party of fools

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i really enjoyed the eclectic group of wing-nuts that eryn and tyler chose to be in their wedding party. i spent the most time with the bridesmaids and let me tell you, i love their wacky ways. it was fun to shoot them. they are each unique and hilarious and gorgeous. the groomsmen were pretty nifty too but i didn't get to shoot them as much.

i love gill's laugh.

besties.

it's almost like zombie bridesmaid attacks. :)

i thought this looked kind of technicolour like old 50's movies/photos.

rowdies

these next three are by my lovely assistant alysha clarke

some dress touch ups by the lovely desi while we wait for the boys to join us.

by alysha clarke

friends and family of rachel and tayler on their special day

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wedding guests i coerced and prodded into a group shot. please note natalie behind the groomsmen's legs. she deserves to be noted.

the cutest flower girls and ringer bearer ever.

obviously these are a special group of friends.

ready for the family group shots? here we go...

i think this is an especially good one of deanO.

kleowsky ceremony

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waiting

it begins

rachel kleyh

j +t + family partials

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the morning

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tanya's having a baby!

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to chase away gloomy days

2010-10-28T16:53:00.000-07:00

i've started working on bethany's pregnacy photo shoot. bethany is gorge. sometimes i can't believe how gorge she is.

this first one is an atmosphere shot with amy and shawn in the background along with the airplane.

uhhh babilicious.

i love this one.

lots more to come!

mahabubs at the park continued

2010-10-26T20:04:00.000-07:00

these mahabub pics were fun to take. i don't have a lot of practice of taking pics of families with young kids so it was a good kind of challenge for me too. another challenge was how sunny it was that day. we were expecting an overcast day but instead i had some shadows to deal with. the outcome is definitely not one of those perfect polished family photos type thing, but i kind of like it. i can also say i had a lot of hilarious faces and cute faces to work with.

maya and elijah are so super cute!

if you look really hard you can see elijah in the shadow of erin's leg...

this pose is pretty funny to me. what was i thinking?

my favourite part about this pic is maya's face. a person could eat that face.

runaways...

his eyes are like glass in this shot. if you enlarge it you can see my dark shape and fatima's legs.

faces....

oh boy. these ones make me laugh. i think this is maya's surprised face and i think elijah was in the midst of devouring erin.

this could have been her 'mad' face, i'm not sure. whatever it is, i think it's pretty funny.

ha!

kickin' it in the grass

eating leaves like a good baby should.

with the shadows of the leaves it looks like he has a leaf cap on.

i love this one:

these last ones were the first ones i was not dealing with the hat shadow. next time no hat mo!

the end!

2010-10-24T23:01:00.000-07:00

archie has lost his collar again. he lost it when we first moved in here. i found it behind the couch but let him run around naked until after edith left for her married lady adventure on the african continent. this time i don't know where his retro green collar is. here he is caputured during one of his hopeful, and on the most part peaceful demonstrations rallying for food. his thought process might be a little like this: " if i place myself right in front of her and look as cute as possible and purr, perhaps occasionally place my paw gently on her face, she might get the hint and feed me."

promised pictures of my home. i know i went a little crazy with the annotations. shrug.

more mahabubs

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mahabub teasers

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for antsy-pantsy erin:

mini girl's weekend--nanaimo may 2010

2010-09-27T02:49:00.000-07:00

girl's weekend was impromptu this year. because of that it was small. of the original sisters there was just me katie and sarah. maybe that's why this year it seemed to me, to be more about the rising generation of girls in our family. i enjoyed doing a girl's weekend for them--sisters and cousins. we went to the grandfather tree at pipers for our devotional. we sang hymns. we each said our bits about womanhood and self worth. it was special to me. sloan and adriel were the non-girl guests at the devotional and kept sarah very busy in the grandfather tree.

it's a special thing for me to witness my sisters being mothers. i don't know if they know how noble they are and how beautiful in that role.

(pics below--lesson for me in harsh sun shadows.)

i've lost a lot of weight since this pic. holy moly. of course it was these two sisters who helped me do it and did it with me. sisters are like that. they help you. they support you. they lay in the grass with you after having it out emotionally minutes before.

we went to coombs.

what a gorgeous rising generation we have. so much potential in their fresh faces.

stick your head by that tree series:

a collage of me!!

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heh, heh, just what everyone's always wanted.

green and blue

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these are the mountains in hope at the gas station. i think hope is in such a pretty location, at the base of the mountains with a pretty lake too. i'll always remember that time we were traveling somewhere (that's what i don't remember), and dad stopped so we could go swimming in the lake by hope. it was so fun. there was a rope hanging in the lake... anyways i digress.

the water i bought at the gas station. it deserves some lime light too.

rhiannon and the o'keefe horse. rhinannon knows her horse tricks...

hi. this is my head. head, meet the blog readers. you'll be seeing a lot of each other so you may as well get aquainted. this was when we were en route to edith's too hard to title function. notice karey and shauna behind me.

head and r. the ram who liked to lip my toes through the fence.

head and andrea's driveway. this was on sunday. i was scoping out places to photograph and so naturally photographed myself. if anyone thinks i look older than 36 raise your hand. if you raise your hand you'll be required to stay behind for detention, but please be honest.

now for the actual photo shoot. andrea instructed her family to wear blue and/or green. when i was editing the photos i realized blue and green was really the theme of the shoot. it was beyond clothing. it was the surroundings. it was my eyes...wait i'm not in this.

warm ups. you know, sometimes warm ups are the best pics. i liked these ones with andrea's jungle garden behind. i must have said something very witty before snapping this shot.

this is the exact same shot with my uber cool watermark that bethany made me. i just tried it out. i'm not sure i'm doing it right though. do you love it? i love it.

then i told everybody to dig their chins into their necks and get it over with. that dean is such a rebel. you'll see more of his individualistic behavior as we go on. you know i love subjects that obey my every whim but i respect a rebel too. there's room for us all--right? right dean? :)

see here dean refused to squish his head with everyone else's. i even gave it a shove towards andrea's but it remained stubbornly attached to his neck. dean thought this shot was cheesey. "dean's inhibited." explains andrea. "only with you." shoots back dean. the rest of the time we joked about the secret to a good marriage is being inhibited. :) anywhoo i ended up liking where dean's head is, so it's a moooooot point, aint it? thanks for being your inhibited self dean! is it just me, or do the three girls in front have gorgeous smiles or what? it makes me want to smile when i see their smiles. their smiles infect me with smiles.

the 'orchard' series. "it is an orchard! don't quote unquote it!", protested andrea to me. this is when zeus joined us. that was big hubabaloo, let me tell you. but what are families if not big hubabaloos? i know ours is. as an aside, jodi is such a loyal dog.

crop it and crop it good.

wide angle it

yah out then in, right sarah?

the orchard series is where i was experimenting. i don't know if it's good or bad. you tell me. please note the apple in andrew's hand. later i had to pummel him and throw his apple away. here he has it.

andrew, i should have pummeled you more. as a girl with 5 brothers i can tell when a boy needs pummeling. ask uncle evan. i know instinctively when he needs to be pummeled. it's a gift. anyways you are deep in the need for pummeling. i enjoyed where jodi stationed her self in this photo. it's like she knew the best place for her to pose. good dog, jodi.

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this photo is kind of for my own amusement. i took it off the hip and i enjoy the way i blurred everyone out and made the shot about jodi and her family.

nice bum-where ya from? i wasn't planning to take this shot, but then... there was just this row of bums and i, well i couldn't help myself. i mean no one was looking...

the willow wilderness series:

"make a face everyone!" i said. andrea's is quite fearsome looking--maybe it's best that it's half hidden. "this is my face." said dean. that guy cracks me up. kaetlyn apparently thought i meant make a cute face.

tyler as the weird creepy man. the rest as jumpers. this is the only jumping shot. enjoy.

the lake series:

these didn't turn out like i had imagined, but things rarely do. you get an idea and then you create something from that idea...you know what i'm trying to say? i wished that i could have been in the water taking the shot. instead i was laying in bird poo. anything for a shot.

andrea arranged this shot. thanks andrea. i was out of ideas.

a budsmaid's view:

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for all the beautiful professional images, go to http://katchstudios.com/blog/ at the appropriate time. these are just a few snaps, mostly behind the scenes as seen from the eyes of the buddabud-of-honour. enjoy.

mo, moninder, mina, and my personal favourite--mohinder. my bridesmaid pal. she got room service because she was the princess behind the scenes.

please note the similarities in style of my hair and my make-up artists. it's what i noticed when editing this pic. interesting eh? :)

i don't know why i do the things i do to pics.

fattie rocking the lepoard skin cape with her hair/make-up artist mel.

my pal giving me the L for love. love of laura. what a sweetie pie.

let's take a break from the beauties to take a look at the ring pillow. those are fake rings. i mean the rings are real but they're not the REAL ones if you know what i mean.

fatima got d.man a love card for their wedding day. a peacock card. ie. a card of passion. get a room you two. (that's my meaty thumb)

brown audrey hep. surveys her misty drizzly weddin' day.

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with the sails behind her.

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so bridebud and i had some time together in the bathroom...

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now we're post ceremony, post pics with katch. me and m were chillin in the bridal suite. so i took some liberties.

frankly i think m is pretty gorg-oh-rama

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during the reception esther took some shots with my cam. she didn't know the non-blurry tricks though and my cam can be quite difficile in low light sitches.

i like this one she got of the cake.

hubba-hub-mrs.-mahabub-beatty! it blurs but it stirs!

back to me:

later man.

2010-08-02T01:13:00.000-07:00

a long long time ago in another life. i visited vernon over easter. it was erin's engagement party. it was easter. here are some pics from that weekend.

one morning i followed andrea around while she did her early morning chores. here she is at the old chicken hut collecting eggs.

she gets ridiculously happy when she gets an egg. in related news, bethany is egg.

feeding the rabbits.

rabbit noses.

then she got called away. i went in and took a pic from the windah.

a chubbins getting changed with fat flailing limbs.

a blur of chubbins.

chubbins plays the pianah.

miss rhiannon and her book.

we had an easter egg hunt. biff and i found lots of loot. we were quite excited about it.tyler was ecstatic

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ahhh the family photo disaster. that one still hurts a little. the visions i had! but all i have really are the warm ups and they're not too good. but i'll share what i have. just don't get your hopes up people.

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after the break down in relations i took a few pics:

drew being a toughie.

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i knew he would crack

adam's apples were revealed.

suddenly eryn flew into a rage and knocked tyler's knees out with a deathly blow. "i love this part!" cheered andrew with his whole heart. tyler took his punishment like a man.

with this success under her belt eryn and her cronie jasmine did the victory dance.

which included a slam dunk by eryn which jasmine highlighted.

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much glee was had.

the end.

back at the ranch owen spent his time with baby einstein. "i pinch" said the crab.

later that evening andrea, rhiannon and i took some shots of the bunnies and sheep. anddrea and a pipsqueak.

indecent exposure.

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lil guy and his long lashes witnessed it all.

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this is my fave bunny. hunnybunny.

bouncing baby sheeplet

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something about andrew kind of looks like a girl here. a jughead's girlfriend type girl. i don't know what it is. weird.

here back to normal andrewness

i choked this sheep.

i took more photos, but in keeping with the luck of the day, they were lost.

hope you enjoyed!