Well, doesn’t spring seem just around the corner when someone brings you tulips? Lovely M, mom of Ms S, came to pick up her photographic order with a bouquet of pink tulips. How pretty, and of course I could not resist photographing them…here is one of the shots, and another of her adorable little gal, Ms S . I am sooo lucky to have clients who would even think of bringing me flowers, let alone actually do it. This never happened in the writing biz, lol.

Sigh…I love my clients. What great people and great little ones I get to work with…

And another wonderful thing…despite the snow this week, we have crocuses blooming in our yard. I love how reliable spring is every year, and can’t wait to get out there digging in the jungle of our garden.

I had my favourite model and second-born daughter, Meghann, out under the second string of Vancouver’s blooming cherry blossoms this week, this time in Queen Elizabeth park, where, given it’s Easter, there were a considerable number of picnickers and revellers. There was even a family who had erected a tent for their kids to play in. The weather has been much, much warmer than last weekend, though it’s overcast, sprinkling and a little cooler today. (Rain is due. Yuck. More of it.) It was a challenge getting good shots around all the people enjoying the park, but I managed, and hopefully I’ll find time to pop some up in our portrait section. Meantime, here’s a couple ones I’ve worked on…

The last shot is of the art “Vancouver Ancestors” by the Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz. I love this installation, part of the Vancouver Sculpture Biennale. I’m sure most Vancouverites, including me, wish all the sculpture around Vancouver would stay permanently; alas, only a few will stay.

When the snow melted in our yard over the weekend, we were amazed considering the months of low temperatures to find bulbs pushing their tough little snouts out of the chilly earth. We found snowdrops, too, the diminutive harbigers of spring, with their white blooms still tightly furled. I’m sure they’ll pop at the first blink of sunshine.

We decided what with all this new hope and new life springing forth it was time to indulge ourselves, and our brides, in an awesome day of studio and street photography, on us! Anyone who books at least a 6-hour contract in February, and who has a wedding gown she doesn’t mind getting dirty (spares are available for under $100 on eBay), and who pays for her own makeup and hair, is welcome to a day of fashion photography around the Lower Mainland! Let’s see what kind of trouble we can get in. Train station? Bus station? Gondola up to Grouse? Underwater? With urban graffiti? Romantic shots with your honey rolling around in the surf? (Oh, okay, not until summer…) Only limit? Imagination!