Rachel Boekel Photography Blog » wildlife http://blog.rachelboekel.com Portrait & Wedding Photography Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:30:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Brooks Alberta Photographer http://blog.rachelboekel.com/2009/10/04/brooks-alberta-photographer-2/ http://blog.rachelboekel.com/2009/10/04/brooks-alberta-photographer-2/#comments Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:59:10 +0000 rachel http://blog.rachelboekel.com/?p=101 With the news of snow in many parts of Alberta I started thinking about my first snow day of the season.
Geordie and I were up at Assiniboine Lodge a few weeks ago and it snowed, just a light dusting but snow none the less.
The trip to the lodge was a big treat for us. I spent most of the weekend doing photography work and Geordie drew and hiked.
The food was outstanding. Simply tantalizing. (If you haven’t already noticed, I love good food!)
We also spent some time trying to find the grizzly mama that was in the area, (at a distance of course) but no luck.

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I was a little embarrassed that I wasn’t out there every time Mt. Assiniboine came out from behind the snowy clouds
trying to get the ‘shot’ because everyone else was. I am not a keen nature photographer, I’m actually quite terrible at it.
I went out a couple times to try to be one but I realized I’m all about the eyes. Eyes don’t lie. They show love, compassion, lust and sadness too.
I love reacting to peoples eyes and to their emotion which is why I seem to have found myself in the wonderful world of portrait / wedding photography.
I love it when people throw me their eyes; words without sound.  Matt Damon does that so well (swoon).

I tried though – here is the view from our cabin. And above is Geordie hiking on our Grizzly mission.
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I won’t be posting on the weekends very often but I did want to share Assiniboine with you.

Also, I will be traveling to New York October 27 – November 9.  If you are a New Yorker interested in a session
please send me an email, if you’re an Albertan interested in a session I have limited sessions available between now and November.

]]> http://blog.rachelboekel.com/2009/10/04/brooks-alberta-photographer-2/feed/ 0 Brooks Alberta Photographer http://blog.rachelboekel.com/2009/10/02/brooks-alberta-photographer/ http://blog.rachelboekel.com/2009/10/02/brooks-alberta-photographer/#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:47:49 +0000 rachel http://blog.rachelboekel.com/?p=90 I used to be totally terrified of spiders. Not in a phobia way but in a ‘I just don’t like spiders way.’
One of the perks of moving to Brooks and more specifically to Lake Newell Resort (and by resort I mean hamlet) was that I have shed my fear of spiders.
I have become so accustomed to spiders that I A) no longer fear them and B) don’t mind photographing them.
I do however A) mind them inside the house B) shriek when they are on me.
It’s not like we have spiders everywhere they’re just kinda always around, which I’m pretty sure has to do with lake living.
Here is a creepy crawler I found spinning webs on our canoe while I was enjoying a mini coffee break yesterday afternoon.

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Last night I photographed and awesome family of 18. We had a great night and the light was just delicious.
So delicious in fact that I could see the backlit spider webs in the grass.

Happy Friday! (I promise no more bug posts for awhile!)

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