About: Welcome! I am a children and family portrait photographer in the Vancouver area. Here on the blog you'll find advanced previews of recent client shoots, tips for making your sessions as fun and beautiful as possible and a peak into my life - including lots of photographs of the little guy who inspires me everyday. For session information and packages, please visit my website.
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08.29.11
Our Year in Photos: Month 2 Week 5
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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.

Since August has five Mondays, this week is a bonus week. If you've missed a week or two, now is a great time to catch up. Wherever you are in the project, or even if you're not participating, I hope you'll all join in this week.

Assignment 9: Print a photograph.
One of my goals for this project is to have a printed album at the end of the year that my family and friends can hold in their hands and flip through. And I'm pretty good about getting family images up on our walls. But there's just something about having a recent photograph up that makes me smile.

I love our home and I'm passionate about having artwork of the people I love most up on the walls. So there should be no excuses for leaving my images languishing on the computer where no one gets to see them.

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I had three of these "frameless" frames left over from a project a year ago so I decided to put them to good use. I ordered some custom mats from Opus and then printed some 8"x10" photos from the past month.

The best thing about this is that I can swap them out regularly. I'll actually probably swap them out fairly soon as I'm not overly crazy about how these three look together but for now I'm just happy to have them up on my walls.

I've only had them up for 24 hours and every time the kids walk by they stop and look. I hung them lower than I would have so they'd be able to see them and yet Gracie still wants to be lifted up so she can point at the one of Angelo. Definitely happy I decided to get them up on the wall, and thinking of another project to display some photographs at their height.

I challenge you this week to print a photograph. You don't have to do anything fancy with it - you can pin it to a bulletin board, put it in an old frame you're not using anymore or even tape it to your computer screen - just print one.