Alexis McKeown .photoblog.

~ scissors & stamps & sparkles, oh my! ~

Well life has been a lot busier than expected lately, so I haven't had much of a chance to bloggity-blog but I have been sharing a bit of my work over on Google+ (find me (+Alexis McKeown) and add me to your circles if you are into it!)  

Other than playing around on G+, I have been having a blast working in dance studios, dabbling in a bit o' real estate photography, and getting my business and myself ready for the crazy class-photos-and-dance-festivals season.   I can't beleive it's already springtime O_o

Oh, and I've also had the pleasure of spending a couple of lovely evenings with my bestie & her beau, gettin' my craft on :)  Won't their friends and families feel so special when they each receive a custom, one-of-a-kind wedding invitation?!  A whole lotta love (and glitter) is going into these babies...

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~ twice is good ~

Part two : the Catholic Ceremony  (see part one in my last post!)

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~ wedding colours ~

Back in August (how is that already so long ago??) I had a super-fun-&-action-packed weekend shooting the weddings (not one, but two!) of these two lovelies ~ you might remember them from their snowy engagement photos.

Part One : the Hindu Ceremony

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~ summer love ~

Had a blast with these two back in the summer!  

We went for an ice cream float on Whyte (have you ever tried a float with Coke + chocolate-peanut butter ice cream? Delightful :P ) and then went for a wander around the deserted UofA campus.  It was so much fun to make a couple of new friends and I am super-excited to shoot their wedding next summer.  

Cuties, don't ya think? 

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~ moms n' daughters ~

I had so much fun doing this "mother+daughter" shoot with these two lovely ladies a couple of months ago!  They are both such beauties - inside & out.  

One of the reasons this shoot came about (besides the fact that Tannis is such a cool mom and wanted to do something fun with her lovely little dancer Cali) is that Tannis was celebrating a huge accomplishment - she was about to enter her first fitness posing competition!  

We made some cool, muscle-y images to commemorate the amazing feat of getting that fit, and I will share some of those very soon, but first, here are some of the classic portraits of these two blonde beauties.

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~ how the time flies ~

It's been very quiet over here in "life outside the dance studio" blog-land, mainly because it's been very busy inside the dance studio... okay, okay, and a little bit because I've been chillin' this summer :P

But alas, the leaves are starting to turn, the evenings are cooling down and people are starting to hustle n bustle like they just realized 2 months have gone by in the blink of an eye and they are a bit behind in the work department (it's not just me, I'm sure of it.)

So this is my little tribute to the end of summer - some photos from my recent trip to the family cabin.  And I'll be catching you up on a bunch o' stuff from the summer months over the next couple of weeks, so stop by again soon! 

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~ snowy portraits ~

I am so happy to have been asked to photograph the wedding(s) of these two stunning young people later this summer.  I was just telling some friends about how jazzed I am about the upcoming event, because it will be not one, but two ceremonies - both promising to be beautiful, exciting, and fantastically fun :)  Anyhow, I looked back through my blog after this conversation and realized I hadn't shared the winter engagement photos I made for the couple.

So here are just a few...  Better late than never, right??  :P

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~ playtime ~

Here's another lovely little family unit I had the pleasure of photographing before the snow started to fly.  We went for a mini-adventure in the river valley and I know this sounds cliche, but I often feel like this job is much more like play than work.  That was certainly the case hangin' with these three :) 

There is so much joy here that you can almost feel it, don'tchya think?

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