Candid Family Shots

The photos taken this day are of "my side" of the family. We went out after Thanksgiving lunch to walk off some of that big meal and decided to take some "candid" shots just for fun! They ended up turning out quite nicely even though it certainly was cool and blustery out there. I am sure thankful for both sides of my family. I am blessed by them and love them all tons! The top 2 pictures are of my younger and only sister. The next four are of my sister and her husband. The following 4 photos after that are of my Dad and my step-Mom and the last photo is of my step-Mom and her Mom. It was fun and the colors were still quite lovely! Hope you enjoy the photos! Blessings!

MVFD September Burn

Its been a while since my last post! August was an extremely busy month for us in between harvest and getting horses ready for our sale! It was good, but am glad August is over!
It rained at the beginning of the week which slowed harvest down and made for great conditions for this house burn out on a farm a short distance away from our town. Its so awesome that this department gets so many opportunities to go out and do practice burns like this. It just hones their skills for "the real thing" when it happens! Again, I was blessed to be able to attend the burn and do some photos for this department! It was alot of fun, as always! If there are other firefighters and/or fire departments viewing these pictures and are interested in having some taken of your own practices or even "live ones", I do take photos for other departments as well, so please feel free to contact me! Hope you all enjoy the photos! :)

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! :)

Adventures in Fishing

Hi! Its been a while since our last post. We have been a little busy between work, riding lots & lots of horses, yard work, housework, family stuff & the list goes on & on. But we did manage to sneak away for a long weekend and head out to Lake of The Woods to get some much needed R & R! It was so worth it. The smell at the lake just does wonders for the body & soul. The air is so fresh but with that woodsy piney smell, it just makes me feel so good! I have spent a great deal of time over my lifetime thus far at Lake of The Woods. I have always had family out there and they are always so gracious enough to have us come & stay so, from time to time we take advantage of that blessing. We decided to head out & do some fishing. We didn't have a boat so we went out to one of the little back lakes off one of the logging roads that we know. We had a really great fishing day that day and caught a few fish. It was so nice back there. It was just my man & I! No one else was around and it was peaceful & still. My hubby caught a real nice bass. 1 inch away from a master angler. Boo! But it was still fun reeling it in & snapping a couple pics. We also caught some jack, but threw them back as they weren't big enough to keep and we prefer to keep the walleyes! Below are some photos from our fishing adventure on our getaway! You can see the beauty of the lake & the peacefulness of the area! We had a great time there, as always!