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I promise I’ll be posting more photos, albums, Christmas cards and storyboards soon

I leave you with a portrait of my photographer friend Lesley. Isn’t she beautiful!? We sneaked out for a last minute photo session just hours before I left on vacation so we could take advantage of the beautiful fall leaves before the wind blew them all away. Lesley and I are heading over to the Sunshine Coast to photograph a wedding this Saturday. Everyone cross your fingers for a sunny Halloween day!

Today marks a new beginning as this blog finally emerges from the darkness of many started and not always finished files on my computer’s hard drive into the light of the web for others to read.  It is a new beginning for my creative explorations and a new adventure into what I hope know will be an exciting time ahead. This blog will above all be a place where I will share my photographic adventures with you. It will also be about creativity and exploration in other mediums, and probably a little about other unrelated, but fabulous things I see and hear about and can’t resist sharing with everyone that may read my ramblings.

So what inspired this new venture you may ask? Those who have known me for a while probably know that at one point in time I had hung up my creative hat to pursue other opportunities that I needed to explore. But, even though I learned new skills and had a chance to try many interesting projects, somehow by way of small and big decisions I would end right back at it – creating, designing, and capturing what my eyes would see around me. At the same time I started spending more time in front of my computer virtually discovering the work of amazing photographers, designers and artists via their own blogs.  With every new post I read a little flame of inspiration and belief would light deep in my soul pushing me to get back to doing what I think I was put on this planet to do … to be creative, to tell visual stories about people and places. The blogs I’ve spent so much time reading are a big reason I am sitting here today in front of my computer on an incredibly hot and humid evening writing this post. Their authors’ fearlessness and passion to follow their dreams, to be photographers and artists and to keep working on their craft and sharing the experience with people like me, inspired me to do the same.  To stop waiting for the right time or for enough knowledge and skills, and just dive in and see where life takes me.

But the most important reason for why this blog is seeing the light of day is my husband. I am blessed to have met a wonderful man who not only shares in my many interests, photography included, but also supports my many and all sometimes wacky ideas. Without his patience and encouragement this new endeavor would still be hiding in those dark files on my hard drive! And to all my great friends who let me take their photos whenever I asked, I am forever grateful for your confidence in me and your support.

At this point I should say that although I am very excited about all the photos and ideas I will be sharing on this blog, journaling and writing from the heart for that matter, is a new and somewhat scary proposition for me. You see I have always seen myself as a visual storyteller first and so writing is a new challenge I am taking on here. Second, I have a million new ideas every day that I think would be great projects and blog posts, but time doesn’t always allow to get them all done.  So this is a disclaimer to say that I will try and work hard to post new things often, but from time to time you might see an apology note or two about my absence from the blog. But present and future clients do not fear as session photos are exempt from this clause

Can’t start a blog about photography without a picture. That would just be crazy! So here’s a photo from one of my most favorite places on earth: Iceland.