ohtheplacesthatigo

It’s been almost a year since my friend Danielle was diagnosed with MS, and she’s been through more in this one year than some people will ever go through in a life time. She’s taken hit after hit after hit with symptoms ranging from blindness in one of her eyes, to extreme exhaustion, to losing the ability to use her legs. The only concrete thing is that she’s been told she had MS. All of the rest (treatment, outcome, etc) seem to be more experimental than anything. 

Danielle is an amazing woman that is a mother of 2 beautiful girls and a wife to an awesome husband (a fun fall session we did last year: http://ohtheplacesthatigo.myfotojournal.com/2011/nov/01/sontag-family/). She is kind, caring, full of life, funny, loving, and an all around awesome human being. It’s been hard to see her go through this this past year.

I’ve done this post a little differently than I had originally planned. Danielle and I went out on a sunny, but chilly, day about a month ago to do a little photo shoot. I had initially planned to use photos from that photo shoot for this post, but instead I’ve chosen a couple of my favorite photos of Danielle that I’ve done, along with just a few from the photo shoot. The above photos were taken last year, and the bottom photos taken from our shoot from a month ago.

I’ve never done any kind of supportive fundraising walk/run/bike before, but felt convicted to do the MS Walk with Danielle this year after seeing how hard she’s struggled, as well as to show her my support. Our team is called PMS (Pretty Mean Sisters) and have raised almost $1100 towards the MS Society and MS research. To pledge money for this walk, and Danielle’s team, please go to: http://mssoc.convio.net/site/TR/MSWalk/AlbertaandNorthwestTerritoriesDivision?team_id=3219&pg=team&fr_id=1306 and click on any of the team members names (mine is there as well) to make a pledge.

- Sara <3

Some main key words that describe this shoot:

Rooftop. Edge. Vertigo. Sun. City. Gorgeous. EYELASHES (real)! Fun.

Enjoy!

- Sara <3

Well, I get to make a new blog post on another beautiful friend!

Megan and I met and became friends in nursing school. I recognized her during the first few days, and after a few chats we realized that we both went to the same high school. And somewhere between car pooling home on the weekends, to birthdays, to “triple black diamonds,” we became friends ;)

Thanks for being fearless in front of my camera!

- Sara <3

Love this little family. This shoot consisted of pizza and a quick stroll through an iconic Edmonton neighbourhood before we were all freezing and had to go back inside.

- Sara <3

Just some shots from around our house. Was feeling the need to shoot something, anything, and the objects I photographed around our house modelled for me well ;)

- Sara <3

Some photos I’ve taken over the past week that I wanted to share! Happy Leap Day!

- Sara <3

I had the chance to photograph Blake and Sherri on a beautiful Sunday afternoon in early February. The weather was perfect, and I had a lot of fun going around the U of A campus with them and taking their photos. Not only are they super cute together, but they were super easy to photograph and were up for any ideas that I shot their way. 

Congratulations on your engagement you two! And thank-you for asking me to take your photos!!

- Sara <3

I got up early on a day off last week, and noticed the amazing frost all over everything. I immediately got an itch telling me to go out and photograph it, and after a little while of ignoring this itch, I finally hopped in my car and drove to a field by my house and scratched the itch. There’s something so delicate and temporary about the frost’s beauty, makes it hard not to love.

The photos are simple, and nothing special really, but I felt the need to make a post about it. 

Hope you enjoy :)

- Sara <3

Diana and I spent part of a morning and afternoon together, basically playing dress up and having fun. Not only is Diana beautiful and fun, but she’s also an amazing singer that sang and at both my wedding ceremony and reception. 

Diana was willing to try out different things, and I had a chance to challenge myself and try out something a little different as well, both in the photographing and editing stages.

Thanks for letting me photograph you Diana! I had a blast!

- Sara <3

So, I’ve been trying to push myself with my photography, and back in December did something a little different, but fun, with a super beautiful and talented woman.

Just a little preview of our shoot. A bigger post to come some time in the near future!

- Sara <3