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Little Julia & Easton :: Winnipeg Child Photography

Rebecca Whitney — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:02:19 +0000

Meet little Julia and her proud big brother Easton! Julia was just over two weeks old when I met her and she is so so so perfect and sweet and beautiful and adorable!!! Easton had said during his mom’s whole pregnancy that he wanted a sister so he was so happy (although he apparently thinks she’s a little boring now! ) He was a little shy at first but I managed to get him to like me I think! And then he was so good with kissing his little sister, and his mom had him smell Julia’s little foot and that was so funny to him!

Tamara and Jaret, I’m so happy for you both, Julia is so precious and it will be so much fun to see her grow! And Tamara, I’m so glad we finally met, you’re so wonderful!!!

Here are a few of my favorites!

This was just after he smelled Julia’s foot, so cute!!

She’s so perfect!!!!

Easton found a way to have a little more fun with his new sister!

Amelie & Ellyce :: Winnipeg Family Photography

Rebecca Whitney — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:24:49 +0000

Jody and I became friends with Jason & MaryAnne in 2008, when Jody did a huge renovation on the second floor of their house, and also earlier put in a bathroom on the main floor. He’d always come home and tell me how they were such good people, so fun, so nice, so smart, etc. And he always raved about their little girl, Amelie, who was I think 2 1/2 or 3 at the time – he’d say she was the cutest and best behaved little girl ever! Amelie was scared of Jody at first and that went on for awhile I think, and then she started referring to him as “The Man” (I love that!!!), and finally she got to the point of calling him Jody! I was so happy when I finally got to meet the family, and was equally impressed, they’re just the best of people and so wonderful, and so fun, and so interesting! And I also love that Jason and MaryAnne are both naturopathic doctors, I just listen and listen and try to get any knowledge I can from them in that area!

Little Ellyce (Lee Lee) arrived in late August 2008, and she was just a wee teensy little baby when they came over on the night of our wedding on September 2nd! I took some family photos and newborn photos soon after that (when I was just starting out in my own business!) – it’s incredible to look back and see all of Lee Lee’s dark newborn hair, and now I see how much Amelie has grown and changed!! I saw Amelie and Lee Lee two or three times after that, over the next year, and Lee Lee was growing into such a happy little girl! And Amelie was such a good big sister!

I was so excited to go spend more time with them to take lots of photos of the girls and some family photos! I love seeing both how similar Amelie and Lee Lee look, but also how different their personalities are. Amelie is so so so cute and pretty, and so animated and I love all the silly faces she makes!! And it’s so funny to me how much she loves TimBits!! I have so many photos of her going to the TimBits box! And little Lee Lee is such a happy little girl, she smiles so much, she’s so cuddly (I got to hold her and I loved it!!!!!!), and she seems so laid back and just so happy!

I’m trying out a new feature in the updated blog theme I use, so instead of having this be a long post with lots of photos, they’ll be in a kind of slideshow. And then I made a cool slideshow that I’ve embedded below that! So often with sessions, especially family sessions, there’s just so many expressions and fun and different thing, so I love how slideshows tell the story of the day so well!

And here’s a cool slideshow with more fun photos!! If for some reason the embedding doesn’t work well, you can go here to view it as well.

Amelie & Ellyce from Rebecca Whitney on Vimeo.

Thank you so much to Jason, MaryAnne, Amelie & Lee Lee – you’re all so wonderful and I love seeing you all!!!

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Rebecca Whitney — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:34:26 +0000

Moody Winter :: Winnipeg Photography

Rebecca Whitney — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 05:50:13 +0000

Today has been a bit of down day for me. I know we all have them sometimes, days when we feel very alone and lonely (two different feelings, neither fun). I miss my friends in Chicago right now. I’ve been listening to a lot of John Mayer, Thievery Corporation, Mazzy Star and Portishead so that tells you all you need to know about my state of mind. I’ve been productive though so at least that’s good!

Conan’s last show is on right now and that’s making me feel sad, too, and they played a sweet vignette of clips set to music and that kind of thing is so powerful and makes me teary!! I’ll miss him and I’m so sad for him!! (Even though I have to say that Craig Ferguson is my absolute favorite late night host, he’s so brilliant and genius and absolutely hysterical – so I’m VERY glad he’ll still be on, I’d be more sad if he was getting the boot!)

Anyway, I just took a break a little bit ago and decided to edit some photos just for me! Jody and I went out in the morning a couple weeks ago when we saw the trees covered in gorgeous frost and ice, it was so beautiful and my photos don’t even do it justice – I kind of knew I couldn’t possibly capture adequate wide angle shots that showed all the trees covered (my favorite lens was in the shop for cleaning and we mostly saw those from the car!) so I focused more on the small details and winter light. We had a wonderful time that day walking around and driving around and I have some very cute and funny photos. But because of my mood right now the photos (well the ones I edited, not the ones of Jody and I) all seem kind of moody to me – it reminded me again that one part of the experience of photography is the frame of mind of the viewer at that moment. In a couple days I’ll probably look at them again and see gorgeous winter wonderland!

Tomorrow I’m helping Curtis out at a beautiful winter wedding, I’m excited! Seeing the love and laughter and joy of a wedding day always makes me so happy and filled with excitement for the couple!!!

(I just heard Conan’s speech at the end of the show, he’s so amazing, such a good person and he took such a high road – and I love what he said about cynicism. I love him even more after that. And am even more sad for him now.) Anyway, here are some of my photographic observations of a frosty Winnipeg winter day. ::

Okay one more, but a silly one, just so people don’t worry about me.

Little Zoey!! – Winnipeg Child Photographer

Rebecca Whitney — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:44:50 +0000

I can’t believe how time flies sometimes, I’m starting to sound old cause I’m saying that all the time now, and making comments like “she’s grown so fast” and “I remember when”! Yes, I’m sounding like an old lady, I must stop!!!

I sooooo loved going to see little Zoey and how she’s grown! I had two maternity sessions with Melanie and Cam last year (first one and second one) and I loved getting to know them, they’re so wonderful and sweet and thoughtful and fun! And then little Zoey arrived and was the cutest little tiny newborn ever!! I was so excited to take her six-month photos and see how she’d grown and changed!! She’s still so teensy and petite (Melanie is little and cute too so Zoey is taking after her!), it was so cute how on one hand she’s a six-month-old little baby and sitting up and smiling and laughing, but she’s also so tiny and cuddly and still like a teensy little baby! And she absolutely emanates sweetness, she’s so cute, so feminine, so curious and just so so so sweet!!!! I was so in love!!! And her smile is so cute, and I love her little nose so much (I know that sounds silly but she really has the cutest nose!!)!

I had such a great time seeing all of them again, and Rocco and Lucy (their dogs/first babies) even remembered me! And I’m going to go hang out with Melanie and Zoey again soon so I can just hold Zoey and play with her!! Thank you so much to Cam, Melanie and Zoey, you’re all so wonderful!! Here are just a few of my favorites from the day! ::

Little Gabrielle! – Winnipeg Child Photographer

Rebecca Whitney — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:47:07 +0000

I so love having an ongoing relationship with my clients!! I first met Angela & Adrian back in November of 2008 when I shot their maternity photos, a month later I met little Gabrielle when she was a newborn, last summer I saw her again when she was six months old, and now I got to take her 1-year photos!!

She’s sooooo cute, and I absolutely love this age when they’re starting to walk and changing so much every day and learning so much and becoming little tiny people!! Gabrielle is so animated and has the best expressions ever, from her wide-eyed wondering expression, to her big smile, to her even bigger silly smile! I know I’ve said it before, but she so takes after her parents cause Adrian and Angela are so happy and smile and laugh so much, so of course Gabrielle does as well!! I loved seeing her walk all over, and she had a favorite blue toy that she wanted to hold all the time (blue is definitely her favorite color right now which is so cool, I didn’t realize babies had favorite colors!), oh and she’s so cute with mirrors – she smiles so big at herself and she kisses her reflection!! And I LOVE her red hair so much!!! At the end I got to pick her up and hold her for a couple minutes and I was so in love, she’s just the sweetest little girl!!!

Thank you so much to Angela, Adrian, Gabrielle, and Kasey!! I love seeing you all and seeing how Gabrielle grows and changes!! Here are some of my favorites!! ::

I always love these photos, the expressions are so cute and funny to me!!!

I love this little dress so much!!

She’s so cute!!!!

Gabrielle is already a little Chiefs fan, cheering with daddy!

I love these last four photos so much, I couldn’t choose so I put them all up, they make me smile so big when I look at them!!