Thiessen Family

This was fun! I felt so honoured to be asked to take family pictures for this wonderful family! This family is very special to my husband and I! We love and appreciate them tons! I tried to make this as quick as possible so that the two boys who are only home for a visit had enough time to get out "just one more time" with their buddies! I picked out a few spots to take pics and considering it was in the brightest light of the day, I think we did pretty good! They were a fun bunch to work with and we had lots of fun! I hope these shots are "unique and different" enough from the norm in this area! I sincerely hope you enjoy them as it was my absolute pleasure to take them! God bless!

Big rapids & beautiful water!

Again, the title sums up all the photos below! All the photos below were taken at Berry Creek near beautiful Sioux Narrows, Ontario! I am so blessed to have had family out there all of my life and still have family there to be able to go and see this beautiful part of Canada. It is not a far drive from where I live so when the mood strikes, we hop in the car and head east! Water is absolutely amazing. How it acts, bubbles, churns, and erodes. The marks it leaves on the shoreline and in the rocks! The first 3 photos are taken right beside big rapids. The water on the creek is super high this year which made for some nice photo ops. The first photo is of overflowing water running through cracks in the rock. The 2nd photo is in a little pool on the last steppe before the big rapids end, and the 3rd photo is of again, the high water running over a crack and sand in the rock, which I thought looked totally cool! The last 7 photos are of the rapids from the top right to the bottom. You can see where the rapids start, how they act in the middle, and where the drop off and end! There were enough rocks that were available to climb almost to the middle of the big water and there I used my big lens and got some up close & personal shots of the water! I had lots of fun taking these! See the beauty of God's creation while enjoying these photos!

Beautiful light, nature & a rugged outdoorsman!

The title of this post sums up all the photos below. As mentioned in an earlier post called "Adventures in Fishing", we recently were in Sioux Narrows, Ontario visiting family and having a nice, relaxing weekend away. We had all kinds of weather, sun, no sun, rain, wind, hot & even cold. But, this made for all kinds of photos to be taken. There was some beautiful light that I took advantage of and played around and took some shots! The first photo is of the clouds and the sun dancing off the water as we were out on the lake in the boat. The second photo was taken in the evening in a quiet bay, and the dock just looked totally cool in the light! The 3rd photo is of a golden eagle that we saw while cruising around the lake in the boat. The photo certainly doesn't do him any justice! He was beautiful! The 4th and 5th pictures are of a black bear that was quiet, patient and stayed put long enough for me to snap a couple shots! Not anything to enter into Field and Stream magazine by any means, but nice to photo anyway! Last but not least, is a photo of my rugged, yet handsome, outdoorsman of a husband! I love this man to pieces & am so thankful that he let me take some pictures of him while out on a hike in the woods! He is my best friend and I am blessed beyond measure to have him as my husband! He is the very best & I love him so very much! Anyway, enough of the mushy stuff! Hope you enjoy the pictures as much as I had fun taking them! :)