Rachel Boekel Photography Blog

Oh dear blog readers…. I do apologize.
I have been all over the map lately, and with a cold to boot. I’m starting to come around again.
These images were all taken in January. Can you believe it.
Being able to go outside, especially with a little guy, in January is something that doesn’t happen in Alberta.
We had...

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4 more sleeps.
I’m all about counting sleeps. I don’t have a proper calendar on my fridge but if I did I would be crossing off days
with green and red pens. I love to colour co-ordinate things. I was that girl in high school who had a pencil case full of
pens. Pens for math, pens for...

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The time this session took from phone call to end of session was about 45 minutes.
Ms. B is so herself. She is at that age of kicking snow, playing, having fun and making snow angels… in a skirt!
What a great way to spend 45 minutes; photographing the happiness of playing in the snow!

I love the...

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I know, I know… I am supposed to be loving to love today and oh boy I am. No buts or anything.
I haven’t had a lot of luck uploading this week, some web difficulties and have therefore missed about…oh… 3 posts.
I wanted to catch up a little and tomorrow I’ll show the love.
Fall sessions are so...

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Fall in Alberta can kinda be brown. Trees, Grass, Fences…sometimes I dream of rain-forests and Caribbean beaches
on a brown day, especially if it’s a portrait day. Nothing can compete with the energy and laughs of a great family
though and then I thank my lucky stars that I am doing what I am doing where I am doing it. With real...

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My camera is at the Spa. Just like me it needed some knots massaged out from all the
photos we had taken together. My back was sore from it’s heft, it’s sensor was dirty from the work.
We went our separate ways when I arrived and therefore I have no exciting NY photos to share. For now.
Get...

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How fantastic is it to be invited to the family farm to do family photos and then find out they have a backhoe.
Oh and a motorized kids Jeep. Oh and there are two boys. Yeah, fantastic.
The farm, which was Julie’s parents, was quite big and so we had a lot of places to photograph and...

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I’m biased of course as they are my family.
(If you are new to the blog, check out the old blog to see a lot more of them)
This session is from early September. That’s how far behind I am at the moment!
These were all taken in 10 minutes. The mosquitos were so unbelievably bad that it...

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This is the 4th time this family has been on my blog. (You can see them here,  here and here)
We’ve been documenting Sebastian’s early years. He is growing so fast I can hardly believe it!
Hermelize and Jan have become such great friends now and I treasure being able to watch Sebastian grow.
He’s so aware and...

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It was impossible to pick which images to post. There are 18 people in this family I have a LOT of images!
We had originally booked the session for September 20th which just happened to be the only day it rained in all of September (well practically).
We re-scheduled and we made it work yet again. Imagine scheduling 18 people...

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