*Southern Manitoba Photographer* Alycia Hildebrand Photography | Wedding, Family, and Children Professional Photography

This past weekend I had the pleasure of meeting little Chase and his family! Chase was about a month old and a total dream to photograph! This little man was totally adorable! He has the most perfect lips out there!

Loopy Basket Stuffer from (Anna’s) Custom Yarn Barn
Pattern for the little pants from Melody’s Makings

May 12th is Mothers Day! If you didn’t know that, you still have a few days to buy a gift!
What makes a great gift for mom?
FAMILY PICTURES!!

So here is month two of my Instagram sharing with you all!
You can get all of the information about it here regarding a template if you’d like

So, how many of you hopped on the Instagram bandwagon? I’ll be the first to admit that it was the 2nd app I downloaded when I got my iPhone a year ago (Facebook was the 1st…). I realized that I don’t share a lot of personal posts on here, and I’d like to change that!
So…I decided that once a month, you’ll get to see the Hildebrand family life according to Instagram!

Here is March!

What I’m planning on doing with these is printing out an 8×10 copy at the end of each month and putting it into a photo album. I tend not to print my personal photos (At the end of a month I usually end up with 300ish edited family-type photos) as I  don’t have the ability to choose which ones I’d like to print! So I figured that until the day comes where I do decide to print them all, this will do! I’ll try to post a picture of what my album looks like when I find one I like!
You wouldn’t even have to print them! You could just create a photo-book at the end of the year with them!

If you’re familier with photoshop and would like a copy of the template that I used, you can download it here!

Note: I used Photoshop CS5 to create this, so I can’t guarantee that it’ll work on every version of photoshop. The font I used is called Ostrich Sans Rounded, and is free! You’ll need to know how to use clipping masks to use this template. 

You may recognize Karmyn from the maternity session that I shot a few weeks ago. Her little one finally made her appearance!
This sweet little girl has completely captured my heart! While she made us really work for the shots we got, I think it was totally worth it!

White bonnet is courtesy of Sew, Crochet, Love
Pink Hat is courtesy of Fresh Outta the Oven

Meet Greyson!! He’s going to melt your heart!

The colourful knit hat is from my dear friends at Sew, Crochet, Love.

A few weeks ago I met up with a completely wonderful soul by the name of Karmyn!! When she contacted me, she informed me that she would be 39 weeks at the date of our session! YEEPS! She looked AMAZING for 39 weeks!!

Of course we chose the most frigid day on record to do the session (we wanted to go outside!) at -42 she really was a trooper!!

I should also note that on January 25th, Karmyn and her boyfriend welcomed a BEAUTIFUL baby girl into the world!! Congratulations you two!!

“…Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts at which you nursed!”  - Luke 11:27 (The Message)

I just love when clients have a very exact idea of what they’re wanting for their images! When Stephanie told me that we’d start the session off at Twisters Restaurant, I knew this was going to be a good one!

These 2 are so adorable and they were a blast to work with! I can’t wait til their September wedding!

It’s the little things that make me happy. When a stranger says ‘Hi’ in passing, watching my sleeping babies, Jonny’s Java Coffee, quality chocolate, and Flowers!

Speaking of flowers, the other day I entered a contest on my favourite florist’s page, and low and behold…I WON! I NEVER win anything!! So needless to say, I was ecstatic! I did however, make Chris go into the store to pick them up! Then it looked like he was buying me flowers (Yup…I’m weird!)

Thank You Megan at Bloom for the Beautiful flowers!! The Rainbow Roses are something really special!!

Bloom is my absolute favourite florist! If you’re looking for a florist for weddings, special occasions, or just because you want to show someone how much you care…Call Bloom Floral in Winkler! You won’t be disappointed!

Website: http://www.bloomfloral.ca/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bloom/

Oh, and the last four photos were done with a reverse 5omm lens technique! It’s pretty fun!