The Clover Field

If you read both parts of the Isolation series, you may have guessed how we spend this past summer. Well I will tell you…

We had the most glorious summer in the most glorious place after a not-so-glorious year living in a high rise in Toronto with constant on again off again lockdowns. We essentially repeated what we did last summer and drove 25 hours to the Interlake. Only this year we had a more permanent living situation. We lived in a sweet cottage on about 2 acres of land with the sweetest vintage trailer that I used as an office and sometimes a guesthouse! We swam in the lake almost every day and rode horses every week and ate ice cream from our favourite ice cream shop as much as we could! I’d wake up every day and pinch myself just to make sure it was all real. The place belongs to Grandpa James. It was built by his grandfather. His mother Margaret grew up in the house. The house was sitting unused for maaaany many years so he offered this space to us since it’s exactly what we were looking for. It just needed a little TLC. We had so much fun bringing life back to the old place. I felt like we went back in time with the vintage decor. We had arborite tables, original hardwoods, and a retro fridge (that required manual defrosting), and everything in the place was from the 70’s or earlier. Needless to say, I was in heaven. Living in my “Good Place” home. (Have you seen The Good Place?) Anyway, our time there was rather sentimental actually. On so many levels. Which I will absolutely get in to on another day. But today, I wanna talk about The Clover Field.

The Clover Field is what I named the outdoor photography studio that I was able to create on this land. Everything about this space was inspiring. The light was magnificent! The land itself was so pretty and has a sweet nostalgic feeling. A perfect spot for any kind of session. This space provided me with the inspiration to create again after a rather challenging year. Here, scroll down to see some images I took at this beautiful place.

I am very much looking forward to next summer already so I can meet even more people down at The Clover Field. Just like this year, I will take a very limited number of sessions. So contact me if you are interested in booking a session in Manitoba next summer. And consider signing up for my newsletter so you won't only be the first to know of any discounts, mini sessions and pop up events, but you'll also get first dibs at booking them. And guess what?! The timing is perfect because the most popular newsletter of the year will be going out this weekend!

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Susie Derkins + Hobbes

We LOVE the Calvin and Hobbes series and have read it over and over and over again! When Audrey got her haircut before school started she loved that she resembled Susie Derkins and that’s when the idea to dress up as Susie and Hobbes stemmed from.
Every year we create a fun picture (see Astrid + Stormfly, and Hilda + Twig, and Hermione + Ginny). So we got to work reading the series again in search for the perfect picture. This might be the only block of comic where Hobbes is a real life tiger with Susie in the scene. Usually he appears as a stuffed tiger whenever Susie enters. To be fair we only searched through 7 or 8 books before giving up because we loved this scene so much we thought it’d be hard to beat.

Here’s the comic strip we took it from.

And of course we like to carve our pumpkins to match our theme. This year, because of Covid-19 trick or treating was cancelled. But we still wanted to capture our Halloween adventure like we do every year. We just had to do it a little differently this time. We thought it would be fun to go for a Halloween walk with our Calvin pumpkin and take pictures with the decorations while I give my children candy for letting me take pictures. Win win! So off we went!

The streets were relatively quiet. But every so often we had someone call us over. “Hey, we have a candy shoot!” And my goodness were those shoots the best idea!!

One family even had a giant spider with glowing red eyes holding a bucket that would slide along a string from the porch to the sidewalk! It was brilliant!

And some people just put candy out for kids to help themselves. Don’t worry, all that unexpected candy is in quarantine.

The night ended wonderfully by stopping at our friends house to sit in the back yard around the fire pit. Needless to say, our Halloween wasn’t a disappointment at all! But we do hope things are more normal next year.

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