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Maternity client shoot with my beautiful friend Ladan, who's having her second child!

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I think maybe this is my calling. I love working with mothers and families. I've had the privilege of working with Ladan for the past two years and when you've been photographing someone for that long it's really such a pleasure. I wish more people would hire me as their full-time family photographer.

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I'm slowly making the transition to 500px. I just got an account two days ago. You can only upload 20 images a week, unless you have an "Awesome" account, which is equivalent to Flickr's Pro account (only much more expensive, poo!). Ah well. The site design is pretty sweet though. It's so easy to browse and find great work.

Check out some of the people I've favourited already, they're so freaking awesome!
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... Flickr sharpening. *face palm*
I've tried to soften the uploaded image to compensate. Close up in the comments.

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I've wanted to shoot this for awhile but you know, bleep happens. I'd like to do more with ice skates and incorporate some movement. I may have exhausted ballerinas so what do I do? Slap some skates on and wallah, ballerinas on ice! ;)

As a kid:
- I used to wear a tutu to the beach with pink shoes and a crown.
- My friends and I would tie shirts to our heads and pretended to be mermaids. Our parents would always cut our hair too short.
- I used to dye my hair with coloured koolaid.
- I used to dress up like little red riding hood and pick berries in the "woods" a.k.a Jamaican bush.
- I had big dreams of becoming a figure skater and performing Swan Lake at the Olympics. Thanks to Oksana Baiul.

Not much has changed really.

Just signed up.
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Close up in comments.

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Mitch is incredible. He carried me so many times up that hill in the freezing cold and slush. We were both covered in disgusting icy mud. You should've seen the looks we got when we stripped down and started rubbing ourselves with mud. Granted the park does face an elementary school... and the kids had just been let out for recess. We felt so dirty, and not just because of the mud. We meant to roll around to get a more rugged "been through shit" look but it was too painful. Mitch has been the one pushing me to try new things, like to break away from the limiting square crop, and experiment with the cinematic. When he's not round I don't feel like doing much of anything.

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