May 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
This past weekend I headed out to St. Vital park for some family photos with Louise and her wonderful family. I’ve known Louise for just over a year now, but it feels like we’ve known each other much longer! We first met through a connection in photography, and we became friends when I started giving her private photography lessons – in French no less! She’s got a great eye for photography and also runs a translation business, so needless to say, I’ve been learning a lot of the correct French photography terms from her – for which I’m very grateful! (French is my first language, but most of my photography experience has been in English, until she came along!)
She’s passionate about life and full of enthusiasm, so I wasn’t surprised that I ended up having a great time with them during our photo shoot. Her husband and son are just as fun to be around and full of zest for life. And what’s best is that Louise totally loves her family – not because she tells me so, but because she beams when she’s around them. She’s madly in love with her husband and super proud and supportive of her son. It was such a pleasure being able to capture all of that in photos!
Doesn’t this background remind you of one of Tom Thompson’s paintings? I love it!
May 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
She’s here! My brand new little niece. My very first one! She was born just before Easter and was the tiniest cutest little thing in the world. My daughter is pretty excited that she has a little baby girl cousin!! (so much so that she tried to EAT her. I mean, user her as a chew toy. She’s currently teething two large molars and she’ll grab anything she can, even her new cousin!)
Here is Léonie at 24 days old with her beaming parents. We did the photos at my studio on a bright weekday morning. We got tons of photos, and I had such a hard time picking which ones to post online. Léonie has so many different expressions and I wish I could post them all! This will do for now…. check out the sneezing photo as well as the yawning photo of both her and her dad at the same time. So cute!
Introducing: Léonie. We love her to pieces.
May 15, 2011 | Uncategorized
A few weeks ago I got inspired to start a 52-week photo challenge. Being on flickr for several years now, it’s not uncommon to see tons of photographers posting photos from this self-assigned type of project. Usually people do a 365-day photo project where they take one picture a day for a whole year, and post each picture each day. It’s a really interesting project, but one that takes a lot of time and dedication.
Having a new baby and working like what seems like double the amount that I was last year, I thought I’d take it easy and do a 52-week project, rather than a 365-day one. But being a little bit on the ambitious side, I also decided to throw in an extra thing: art.
I used to paint and draw a lot before I got into photography, and since then, it’s sort of fallen to the wayside. Photography has been taking up most of my creative time in the past several years, but I wanted to get myself back to drawing and painting…which brings me to today’s blog post: a little peek into my 52-week photo and art project!
People have been following it on my creative photography blog, where I blog one photo and one artwork per week. I’m on week 12 now, and have 40 more to go! A few weeks ago, I created this drawing, which is actually a combo between a hand-drawn labyrinth and a silhouette photo of my husband Chad. It’s an actual solvable maze, so if you want to print it and give it a go, be my guest! (and tell me how it was! I haven’t done it yet, I just drew it!)
To follow my 52-week project, visit my other blog: gabriellephotos.wordpress.com
May 9, 2011 | Uncategorized
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May 9, 2011 | Uncategorized
A few weeks ago my art collective (f/action) had a photo exhibit at the cre8ery gallery here in Winnipeg. We had been working on this exhibit for quite some time, so finally being able to put up our work in the gallery and having opening night was pretty exciting. It’s something like our 5th photo exhibit together as collective, and each time I feel like it just gets better and better. Needless to say, it was sad taking down the images at the end of the 2 weeks, but I’m now ready to post them on the blog to share with all of you who couldn’t make it to the exhibit. Our theme was “fragments” and I did a series with unconventional portraits, questioning the idea of self-identity, misperceptions, deceptions and truths about who we are, who we think we are, how we portray ourselves and how we are perceived by others. Thank you to my 5 wonderful volunteer models for making this project a reality! Enjoy. 🙂
