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Jenn Di Spirito Photography Blog | Vancouver Maternity, Newborn and Family Photographer http://jenndispiritophotography.com/ Jenn Di Spirito Photography is a Vancouver maternity, newborn and family photographer boutique studio serving Vancouver and the surrounding areas. I specialize in colourful, modern photography that captures the authentic emotions and unique relationships of your family. en Copyright 2012 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:14:52 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Our Year in Photos: Month 8 Week 1 Join me as I take one photo a week for the next year, each one capturing a specific aspect of our family life and my kid's childhood that I want remembered. You can read the introduction post here, an FAQ post here and all related posts here.

In the first week of every month I photograph a room in our home.

Assignment 32: Photograph your playroom, basement or bonus room.

This is probably the least photographed room in our house. The kids are down there fairly often but the light down there isn't the greatest so I never really pull out my camera down there. Even if the light isn't great it's actually a really great space since it's only 5 steps down from our kitchen and we can easily talk back and forth when I'm getting meals ready or cleaning up.

It's also usually a mess. For those of you commented on how clean our house usually is, the adult spaces usually are but the playroom and their bedrooms are their spaces. I make them completely clean them up once or twice a week so I can vacuum but they usually semi-clean it on their own more often than that because all the toys on the floor means there's no room for soccer or hockey. Although this morning it looks like they just 'zamboni-ed' them all to the side.

So, as usual, I'm thankful I created this project. It's funny how I think because I always have my camera out that I'm capturing a complete picture of their childhood yet it wasn't until this week that I realized I never photograph them in their playroom. I did photograph it once before when I was talking about our Sarah Jane art (which is on the wall I'm standing against to take this photograph) but I don't have many of them playing in there.

If you're playing along with the project, I'd love to see what your playroom looks like. Link below in the comments or send me an email.

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Digital Collections Survey

Have a great weekend everyone!

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Even though she's acting older and more independent each day, there's just something about seeing her asleep in her crib all sweaty and warm with that chooch in her mouth that still makes her seem like my little babe.

Please check out the links to these amazing women to see what 'sleep' looks like at their house.

Michelle, Heather, Tracey, Stacey, Andrea, Jessica, Kristin, Amanda, Amanda,
Sara, Janet, Carla, Lena, Rose, Naomi, Tracy, Rhonda, Heidi

Let me know if you're playing along and we'll add you to our list for next week. Next week's theme is 'quiet'.

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I have always felt strongly that digital files do not serve you, as the client, well and I always try to communicate the importance of fine art prints and albums when I reply. And, for the most part, I think I do a pretty good job. But the question still comes up so often and I don't really understand it.

The photography labs available to Canadian consumers are sub-par at best so I have trouble understanding why a client would spend the money having their family photographed by a trained professional portrait artist and then have the images printed somewhere where the final product is too blue, too dark, over-sharpened, blurry and just generally doesn't look very good.

I also firmly believe that once you receive your digital images and ooh and aah over them for the next week, they end up languishing on a harddrive.

So please, help me understand. I'm not opposed to adding digital files to my product offerings. It's just that I really don't understand why you want them and what you want to do with them.

Why are digital files so important to you? I'm going to be sending out a survey to my newsletter list on Friday. If you're not currently on the list but would like to take the survey, you can sign up here. I send out maybe four emails a year so your inbox will not be inundated by me, I promise.

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(If you're reading this from a blog reader, you may need to click over to my site to see the newsletter signup box).

In asking you this question, I feel like I need to mention that as I add digital collections to my product offerings, the collections are going to be priced in a way that ensures I can still pay my taxes, insurance, website costs, equipment maintenance and repair, continuing education and compensate myself for the time spent away from my family. Giving away a disc of images along with the session fee would not only mean that I would be working for free, it would mean I would have to pay money into my business in order to keep it going. I love you all but that's not going to happen. :)

The survey will be anonymous but I do want to thank you for taking the time to help me create really relevant digital packages. You will have the option to enter your name and contact information at the end of the survey and I will do a random draw for one complimentary photography session. The survey will be active for one week (until Friday February 10th at 5PM PST) and I will do the draw for the session shortly afterwards. The session will take place in the Lower Mainland between April 1st and June 30th so you're welcome to enter the draw if you live outside the Lower Mainland as long as you're planning on being in the Vancouver area sometime during that time period.

And because it doesn't feel right posting without a photo, here was my company yesterday as I was working my way through this.

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January has five Mondays (and my project has four assignments each month) so this week is a bonus week. If you've missed a week or two, now is a great time to catch up. And even if you haven't been playing along, this week is for everyone.

Assignment 31: Change it up.

If you take a look through all your photographs, you'll probably see a lot of similarities.

When I'm photographing my own family inside our home I tend to take photographs from the same angle, in the same position, with the same lens because it's easy and it works.

It's definitely not the only way I photograph them but looking through all the photographs of them in our home, I can certainly see where my comfort zone is.

So today I'm challenging you to change up the way you photograph your littles. If you always shoot from your level, get down on there's. If you always shoot towards the window, shoot away from the window. If you always zoom in close to them, zoom out. You get my point.

This week I decided to photograph my littles from above. The toughest part? Making sure my slippers weren't in every single shot.

They had decided they wanted to go on a trip so they packed up a bunch of stuff into Angelo's suitcase and backpack and went on a vacation to Gracie's rug. I love how they play together.

And it hadn't occurred to me that I didn't have a photograph of his placemat. He loves it but it's getting really worn out so it's almost time for a new one.

]]> http://jenndispiritophotography.com/2012/01/our-year-in-photos-month-7-wee-4.html http://jenndispiritophotography.com/2012/01/our-year-in-photos-month-7-wee-4.html our year in photos 365 project family photography blog maternity photography blog newborn photography blog one photo a week pregnancy photographer vancouver pregnancy photography vancouver vancouver vancouver family photographer vancouver family photography vancouver maternity photo studio vancouver maternity photographer vancouver maternity photography vancouver newborn photography year in photos Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:11:24 -0800 linked 52: tired | vancouver maternity photographer I've been cracking myself up all week over this week's 'tired' photograph.

I walked out into the garage this week and saw our summer tires sitting there and couldn't resist.

Even more amazing women have joined our project this week. Click on the links below to check out what 'tired' looks like to them.

Michelle, Heather, Heather, Rhonda, Tracey, Stacey, Jessica, Amanda, Sarah, Janet, Lesli, Carla, Lena, Rose, Naomi, Tracy, Heidi, Kristin, Veronica

If you want to join in, send me an email or comment below and we'll link to you next week. Our theme for next week is 'sleep'.

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If you're new to my blog you can read more about my Our Year in Photos Project here and read all related posts here.

At the end of each month I create an album layout out of that's month's photographs so that at the end of the year my album will be ready to go and not require any work on my part to get it ready for printing. I also choose two (or three or four, but I try to keep it at two) favourite photographs from the month that weren't from the project. Sometimes those photographs are just random ones I've taken of our family that I love and other times I use those two photographs to include an event in our album that I don't want missed - a wedding, a birth, etc.

My album is a 12"x12" album and it's going to lay flat when you open it which is why some photographs look like they're going right through the spine of the album.

For my favourites this month I had to include some photographs of our trip to Mexico - one of my sister and new brother-in-law and one each of the kids doing their thing at the pool and beach. Gracie loves her gymnastics class and her favourite thing is to swing off the high bar. When we got to the pool and she saw this handrail in the shallow end, all the she wanted to do was swing off it.

]]> http://jenndispiritophotography.com/2012/01/our-year-in-photos-my-december.html http://jenndispiritophotography.com/2012/01/our-year-in-photos-my-december.html our year in photos 365 project family photography blog maternity photography blog newborn photography blog one photo a week pregnancy photographer vancouver pregnancy photography vancouver vancouver vancouver family photographer vancouver family photography vancouver maternity photo studio vancouver maternity photographer vancouver maternity photography vancouver newborn photography year in photos Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:09:46 -0800 Our Year in Photos: Month 7 Week 4 Join me as I take one photo a week for the next year, each one capturing a specific aspect of our family life and my kid's childhood that I want remembered. You can read the introduction post here, an FAQ post here and all related posts here.

It's the fourth week of the month so this week I'm photographing more of the details of our life.

Assignment 30: Photograph their height.

There are so many ways to go with this one but your assignment for this week is just to photograph your littles any way that shows their height today.

When I first pulled up my calendar to see which photo I had planned out to photograph this week and saw that it was 'height' I immediately wandered down the pinterest path of growth charts and got lost for the next three hours. For some reason when I read that prompt, I envisioned a jagged little pencil line marked on a door frame with the date and each of their names written beside their own little line.

Except then I spiraled into thoughts of how we'd never be able to paint their rooms because their little growth charts would be on their walls and then we would never be able to move from this house because then we'd be leaving their growth charts behind which is how I found myself on pinterest looking for inspiration on creating my own wooden growth chart that I could nail to the wall.

And it was after those three hours that I remembered that the whole purpose of this project was to capture the details of our everyday life, not the one I suddenly need the feel the need to create after being on pinterest.

So yesterday after church I photographed them using their dad as their measuring stick. I love how Angelo comes up to his elbow and Gracie comes up to his wrist and how you can see their height in relation to each other. How he is cuddled up next to his dad (his favourite spot) and she is performing and wiggling and can't wait to break away and dance. The perfect reminder of exactly why I started this project.

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I was really nervous this week because (a) photographing food is not my forte and (b) I don't cook breakfast. I told a friend of mine that my kids were lucky to get some peanut butter slapped on a piece of toast. I'm pretty sure that, when she laughed, she thought I was joking. I wasn't.

If you're new to my blog I'll mention something that I've mentioned several dozen times here before. I love to bake but don't love to cook even though I do cook every night for my family because it's important to me that they get home-cooked whole food from scratch. But our breakfasts, lunches and snacks are much simpler - usually some sort of bread with some sort of protein and some sort of fruit and/or veggie. And when they do get treats they both know they need to eat the healthy stuff first. :)

Anyway... this friend suggested maybe I could just whip up some breakfast on the weekend. We needed to leave the house fairly early on both Saturday and Sunday this past weekend but I'm an early riser so I rose to the challenge.

I had seen a recipe for cinnamon brown butter breakfast puffs that looked really good but I had imagined more as a special snack than a breakfast being as they're really more cake than anything. But what the heck, if my family was actually going to get a hot breakfast, I might as well go all out. I slipped down the stairs, quietly closing doors along the way and not putting on my slippers until I got downstairs lest that extra bit of noise wake up the kids.

And as I started to get ingredients together, I realized there was no way they would sleep through the sound of the mixer. So I did what any mamma who cherishes her quiet time in the morning would do...

I carried the mixer down into the laundry room so I could mix away without waking anyone. Of course the time I'm trying to be quiet is the time I drop the teaspoons on the floor, crash the muffin tins together as I'm looking for the one I want and somehow topple over everything in the drawer I keep my mixer paddle in.

And, this is the result when you give your child a glorified doughnut for breakfast. At least I made them eat some apples along with them.....

We've added another name or two to the linked 52 project. Please check out their links to see what 'breakfast' looks like at their house.

Michelle, Heather, Tracey, Stacey, Andrea, Jessica, Kristin, Amanda, Amanda, Sara, Janet, Carla, Lena, Rose, Naomi, Tracy, Rhonda

Let me know if you're playing along and we'll add you to our list for next week.

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A note to my clients: Valentine's cards can be ordered up until the end of the month. Any clients from last year who would like to order Valentine's cards with one of your session images, email me for info.

Aren't they cute? They're little flat 2.5"x3" double-sided cards. We're going to tape a lollipop to the yellow polka-dotted side with some washi tape and Angelo can write each of his classmate's names on the back.

And while we were taking the photograph to use for his Valentine's day card, I think I took two of my favourite photographs ever of my two amazing little people.

]]> http://jenndispiritophotography.com/2012/01/valentines-day-cards-vancouver.html http://jenndispiritophotography.com/2012/01/valentines-day-cards-vancouver.html family products baby portraits Burnaby child photographer Burnaby child portraits Burnaby maternity photographer Burnaby photographer child portraits contemporary family photographs high end photography Jenn Di Spirito Jenn Di Spirito Photography maternity portraits modern children's photographer modern children's photography natural light photographer North Vancouver baby photographer North Vancouver Maternity photographer North Vancouver photographer Port Moody child photographer Port Moody maternity photographer Port Moody photographer Vancouver child photographer Vancouver family photography Vancouver maternity photography Vancouver newborn photography Vancouver photographer Vancouver portraits West Vancouver family photographer West Vancouver maternity photographer West Vancouver photographer West Vancouver portraits White Rock child photographer White Rock maternity photographer White Rock photographer White Rock portraits Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:17:41 -0800 Our Year in Photos: Month 7 Week 3 Join me as I take one photo a week for the next year, each one capturing a specific aspect of our family life and my kid's childhood that I want remembered. You can read the introduction post here, an FAQ post here and all related posts here.

In the third week of each month I'm photographing part of our daily routine.

Assignment 29: Photograph your mealtime.

I chose a weekend lunch so we were all eating together and the light was pretty. :)

I've been looking forward to this one for a while because I've always thought it's funny that we don't sit all across from each other.

Jim and I sit closest to the kitchen so we can run back and forth throughout the meal for whatever we need. Angelo sits on the other side of the table so he can see everything that's going on, otherwise he spends the whole meal turned around trying to see whoever is in the kitchen and inevitably ends up knocking something over. Gracie sits in her highchair at the end of the table because we keep her highchair in that little corner between the french doors and the kitchen so we just push her over to that spot so we can all see each other while we're eating.

So here I was thinking it's funny that we don't sit two facing two at the table, when my friend Heather posted a photograph of her family eating last week and they sit the exact same way.

And now I'm curious. How do you all sit for your meals? If you're playing along comment below with your link or send me an email.

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This week we all photographed 'cold'. Angelo was on a sleepover at grandma's house so Gracie and I had a bit of girl time. We went to the lake to visit the ducks and ended up staying for hours. Gracie could watch them for hours.

She turned to tell me what the ducks were doing and the sight of her cold little red nose made me smile. And mumble under my breath about how she won't keep her hat on for more than five minutes but that's another story.

The group of photographers participating in linked 52 has grown! Please check out their links to see what 'cold' looks like to them.

Michelle, Heather, Tracey, Stacey, Andrea, Jessica, Kristin, Amanda, Amanda, Sara, Janet

If you'd like to play along with our Linked 52 project, please comment below and we'll be sure to link up with you next week. Next Friday's theme is 'breakfast'. I am so excited to see my friend Heather's photograph for next week - she is hands down the most talented food photographer I know (and she makes her family pretty great breakfasts).

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But on the other hand, as I mentioned last week, I just love the start of the new year. It feels so fresh and full of so many possibilities. I love the feeling of newness and all the potential of the year to come.

So with that said, I don't necessarily have resolutions for the new year, more I have intentions.

In 2012 the kids and I are going to get outside more. We spend pretty much the entire late spring, summer and early fall outside. But in the winter, when it's cold and rainy, we huddle up in our cozy home. I recently picked up 15 minutes outside: 365 ways to get out of the house and connect with your kids and since I'm a sucker for starting (ahem.) any sort of daily project, the subtitle appealed to me in a huge way. I love the little prompts to get us outside in the rain on days we might otherwise not venture outdoors (and have entirely too much pent up energy by 3PM). And I especially love the way the February chapter starts: resist hibernating on even the darkest days.

In 2012 I intend to write more. I am a voracious reader and have always loved books, but I've always said I'm not a writer. I think it's one of my biggest weaknesses. But I'm pretty sure I do myself a disservice by saying I'm not a writer, because that means I don't even have to try. This year I'm going to start, I've already started. I'm playing around with 750 words and I'm working way through Writing Motherhood but if you have any great writing tips for me, I'd love to hear them.

In 2012 I want to be a more intentional friend, wife, mother, sister, daughter, etc. I intend to be kinder. I intend to serve more. With those I'm closest to I fall back on being sarcastic. And lately, I've been lazy and tend only to reach out with a phone call (or more likely a text or an email) if there's an invitation that needs to be made or a question that needs to be asked. I've been reading about being a Proverbs 31 woman and that's been rolling around in my mind lately too.

And at the same time, all my talk of more makes we tired. Because it's not like I'm sitting around for hours on end wondering what I'm going to do with all my 'extra' time. I just started reading Praying for Strangers and the first chapter starts with this about New Year's resolutions.

"Every year I see them as a way to complete myself, to make up for all those things I haven't accomplished in a lifetime but can now master in a year."

So to this list I add being more gentle - with our house, with the kids, with my husband and especially, with myself.

What about you? What do you intend for 2012?

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The second week of every month I'm photographing the relationships in our life.

Assignment 28: Take a group shot of your immediate family (again).

Now that we're halfway through the year, there are two weeks that we're going to repeat. No, I didn't run out of things I wanted to photograph. But I did want to capture a similar photograph to see what changes six months can bring.

We were hiking up the mountain behind our house and I saw a log that I could rest my camera on. The log wasn't quite level and we're on a mountain which is why we're tilting a bit to the left but that just makes it perfectly imperfect in my books.

Angelo looks so much older now. He's four in both the photographs but now he looks so much more school-aged than he did in the summer. He is so excited about going to kindergarten in September. We have a running joke where I tell him there's no way he's going to kindergarten because he's growing up too fast and I'll miss him too much. And then he asks if I'm going to cry when he's gone because I'll miss him so much. Yup. And then it's not so much of a joke anymore.

And Gracie, she's finally getting hair. As the mama to two babes who were almost completely bald for the first year, I love that we're inching closer to the day I can finally put pigtails in her hair.

I have no idea why I chose to do an inside family photograph in July and an outside photograph in December when the temperature is in the single digits but such is life.

If you're playing along I'd love to see your family photograph - and that means you in the photo! Send me an email or link below with your photographs.

]]> http://jenndispiritophotography.com/2012/01/our-year-in-photos-month-7-wee-1.html http://jenndispiritophotography.com/2012/01/our-year-in-photos-month-7-wee-1.html our year in photos 365 project family photography blog maternity photography blog newborn photography blog one photo a week pregnancy photographer vancouver pregnancy photography vancouver vancouver vancouver family photographer vancouver family photography vancouver maternity photo studio vancouver maternity photographer vancouver maternity photography vancouver newborn photography year in photos Mon, 09 Jan 2012 06:06:50 -0800 linked 52: newness | vancouver newborn photographer fabulous artist friend of mine asked me this week if I had any goals for the new year. I gave her the few that have been rumbling around in my head but mentioned I was still searching for a photography project for 2012 and hadn't quite yet landed on one.

I love my Our Year in Photos project which has been challenging me to capture specific aspects of our family life and preserve them for my family.

But I was still searching for something that pushes me as an artist. And that's when my friend asked me to join herself and four other women in photographing one theme per week for the entire year.

This week's theme? Newness.

As much as the word newness for me conjures up visions of a beautiful glowing sunrise, a seedling bursting through the soil or a soft, beautiful newborn, for me today newness looks a little different. On this dreary rainy first week of January, when little #1 is just back at preschool and little #2 is upstairs napping, newness to me looks like some quiet time with my latte, a few books I've been storing up for just this time, a pen and a fresh white sheet of paper. It's a newness reminiscent of the first day of school with the smell of new school supplies, the excitement of a new teacher and the promise of a year spent with new and old friends.

And that's what today is. A day of excitement for the year to come, the promise of connecting with old friends and reaching out to new ones and the excitement of setting out intentions for me and my family - writing more, getting outside more, serving more. The newness of a year ripe with possibilities.

I'll post more next week about what I'm intending for my family in 2012 but in the meantime, please check out these amazing women and what newness looks like to them.

Michelle
Heather
Tracey
Stacey
Andrea

If you'd like to play along with our Linked 52 project, please join in! Next Friday's theme is "cold".

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