jeevan: new life
May 14th, 2012 by sharaleep | 1 Comment »
what a little gentleman. he slept sweetly and soundly, then woke up for a brief “eyes open” appearance before drifting back asleep in the arms of his mama.
happy first mothers day, suman!
theo: new life
May 11th, 2012 by sharaleep | 3 Comments »
here he is. the child of the most documented family (by me) outside of my very own. what a special gift.
music monday: tenth edition
May 7th, 2012 by sharaleep | 1 Comment »
staying in the hawaiian spirit…(which is where i am right now…don’t be jealous, it’s not that awesome…fingers crossed), i figured i’d share a little ukelele goodness from my friend jordan klassen. not only is he an amazing musician, he’s an all around nice guy. enjoy…and don’t think about me drinking mai tais on the beach watching the sun set. because i don’t drink.
sebastian: first birthday
May 6th, 2012 by sharaleep | No Comments »
it’s so hard to believe a year has already gone by since i first met him. and this little blue eyed charmer has just gotten cuter. we got to celebrate his first birthday at this great kids’ cafe:
his first taste of cake ever!
mark & beth: engaged part two
May 3rd, 2012 by sharaleep | 9 Comments »
so here we are again with mark and beth. weather/schedules prevented us from doing a full shoot the first time around, but we were stressed that the giant peach was going to deflate, so we crammed in a quick session with him, even though it was raining. oh ye of little faith! peachy survived a whole other week and from what i’m told, is still hovering until this day.
let me just tell you that these people are amazing. i started to get to know beth a couple years ago and my life has been blessed by her ever since. you know those super awesome drawings my website is littered with? you know that person who took my dream brand and made it a reality? the one who pretty much crawled into my brain, dragged out my ideas and put them on paper more beautifully than i could have imagined? oh yeah. that’s her. plus she’s so fun to hang out with and my kids love her. if you ever come over to my house, you’ll know why simon refers to her as “beff. elephant”.
and mark…talk about one of the sweetest most genuine guys. ever. i was suspicious of him at first, when beth told me about this mysterious fellow who lived across the country who would just fly in and out on a whim to see her. what if he has a whole other family in another city that you don’t know about? and why does he just disappear every time i think i’m going to meet him? ok, so he works for westjet. and he doesn’t have a whole other family. and he ended up moving to abbotsford and i got to know him and he’s actually really nice.
i’m glad you found one another. you two are so. so. good together. i am over the moon, as your friend AND your photographer, to walk this walk with you.
i love you guys!!
sadia & mike: engaged
May 1st, 2012 by sharaleep | No Comments »
it seemed like all the odds were working against us. engagement session booked and re-booked…and re-booked again. wedding rescheduled to a day that i was previously committed. but in spite of a few setbacks, we landed up doing the shoot the day before they were supposed to get married…a nice way to celebrate their almost anniversary 
sadia loves it when mike does this face. loves it.
you are such a sweet couple and i’m so glad it worked out for me to be with you on your wedding day…it’s going to be beautiful!
music monday: ninth edition
April 30th, 2012 by sharaleep | No Comments »
oh fiona, where have you been?? more flashbacks to an angstier time in my life…it’s funny because i always wondered why people are so attached to music/voices from their youth. i still don’t have an answer to that, but i realize i’ve become one of those people. I AM ONE OF THEM. and i’m okay with that. because the music of my youth is rad.
kenton & rose: engaged
April 29th, 2012 by sharaleep | 5 Comments »
“we have like, two pictures of us together. and we’ve been dating for three years.” my favorite way to start a conversation! i’m not even joking. because 3 minutes into the session we had already increased that number by 500%.
one thing i loved about these two is they are super well rounded! they met in university and are both incredibly “book smart”, but then they would turn around and be like “do you mind if we climb that tree?” um, no. no i don’t.
the day before we were to meet, i got an e-mail from rose that said: ” So we had a bit of a contact lense solution disaster. Long story short is that Kenton has a really swollen eye and it is very red. This would not make for good photos. I am not sure how long it is going to take to heal.” close to the end of the session, kenton made reference to the time rose “sprayed poison in his eye” and i had to know the rest of the story. turns out kenton was trying a new contact solution. when he first put the contact in, his eye stung and assuming it was something on the contact, they removed it and rose (who is a chemistry teacher) proceeded to spray more of the solution into his eye to clean it out at which point kenton starts screaming. little did they know, this particular solution needs to be mixed and react BEFORE applying it to your contact. thankfully by the next morning, it was looking way better and we were still able to do photos. oh yeah, and he didn’t go blind. the two photos below are from while they were telling the story. rose looks sheepish and kenton…a little smug, i think!
dillon & joanne: engaged
April 27th, 2012 by sharaleep | No Comments »
i love their story. joanne relayed it to me when we first met and it involves a “hidden” one on one friendship and a series of funny (maybe not so funny at the time) mis-communications. jo left him hanging and poor dillon assumed he was getting rejected. thankfully, they were able to get it sorted and the rest is history!
august is going to be a good month…i get to shoot this wedding as well as joanne’s sister’s. they’re getting married a week apart!
mark & beth: engaged, part one
April 27th, 2012 by sharaleep | 10 Comments »
this couple has a piece of my heart. i don’t even know what to say about them without getting all mushy. so i’ll refrain…at least until their wedding post.
lucky for you, this is only part one! and if mr. balloon knocked your socks off, just wait until you see what’s in store for part two…
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