Events

Duke of Edinburgh Awards 2017

- Kelly

These young ladies and men have spent years working towards their achievements through the Duke of Edinburgh program here in New Brunswick. The recent ceremony held at the legislature here in Fredericton saw six silver awards and five gold awards presented by Her Honour the Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick, Jocelyne Roy-Viennea. (many of the achievers were unable to attend due to other commmitments)

I was impressed to hear how they’d used their skills and abilities to move forward through the levels while serving their community at the same time. (not to mention juggling schoolwork and extra curriculars!)

Congratulations to all award achievers!

1st Annual MBK Dress Rehearsal

- Kelly

Trying new things is scary. I tend to lean on the side of caution and stick with what I know works. But, I had this little idea and it wouldn’t let go. My photog friends in the States do lots of special shoots for their senior models all year, surely I could try one of my own and see how it goes?

Every year at prom time I catch glimpses of my grads on social media and think “oh I wish I could get a photo of them!”. However prom time has always fallen on, the night before or the day after my triplets’ birthday so I’ve never been able to go to the grand entrance or see them gather at the park for pictures.

The thing that held me back the longest was “what if no one comes and it’s a total failure!??!!?” Finally the desire to get a chance to spend one more evening with them (they’re really great kids!!!) and give them nice portraits in their dresses pushed me into the “it’s worth a shot” camp. Surely someone would be tempted??? I’ll even feed them to tip the scales in my favour!

It turned out even more fabulously than I could have hoped for. 100% turn out. Moms came. One even cried seeing the girls all dressed up. I forgot the Bluetooth speaker so they could play their music. No one cared. I couldn’t reach the ceiling to hang up the decorations I’d planned. No one cared. We chatted and laughed and sashayed and posed and shot and shot! I was setting them up for a group shot and I couldn’t have been happier when they  made sure there was a spot I could go to be in their photo with them!

I had so much fun with all of you Friday night. It was exciting to plan it with you and see your enthusiasm and get your messages! I was so excited to put this together for you. You have been absolutely wonderful to me this year and I am so excited to see where your plans and studies take you after graduation!

Some of the girls are keeping their dresses under wraps until the big reveal on prom night and I promised not to release the images until prom. There are some spectacular ones in there that I’m dying to show! My daughter was in the room while I was downloading and when she saw the first girl in her blue gown, she gasped and said “Mom! She looks like she’s from DISNEY!!!” However, one of the girls didn’t mind hers going public early so I can share a bit! Here is the very kind, thoughtful, skilled and completely lovely Miss M! I LOVE THESE SHOTS!!! (no pressure haha! Kxo)

 

 

Ballet Newbie

- Kelly

I had the opportunity to check out the well known to everyone except me, production of The Nutcracker! I know one of the dancers and her mom has desperately wanted to get some nice photos of her in action with the gorgeous costumes so I popped in to the dress rehearsal to get a few shots for Julie.

I know nothing about ballet but I know pretty when I see it! The set design, colours and costumes were a feast for this photographer’s eyes! I assume the dancing was superb as well, I wouldn’t know if there was a slip but I can definitely report that there were no crashes or falls.

I ended up getting more images than I know what to do with and will have to delete more than I care to (my hard drive is practically screaming at me every time I open the computer filepath!) but Julie is thrilled to have Miss H’s performance documented. That girl loves to dance and I loved watching her flow through the scenes in all her glory!