Julie Tauro’s Portrait Photography Blog

Jade and Andrew - A wedding day

July 3, 2009 – 4:12 pm

Do you know what stinks…having a wedding and it rains all day! But you know what…in the end it really doesn’t matter because two fanastic people (one my niece, the other my new nephew) joined their lives together officially (I say officially because anyone that knows them knew it was a done deal for a long time now!).

And besides, what is a wedding day without something going wrong…that adds to the unpredictablity of the day, and is simply symbolic of the unpredictablity of sharing a life with someone.

So here are some of my fave images from the day…

Two of the cutest flowers girls EVER!!!

And a sweetheart for a ringbearer too!

It was raining out, so we decided to walk around the hotel to find places to shoot. I suggested getting a drink at the bar. After our drinks came, I realized kind of suddenly…I was having a drink with my NIECE…what the heck is she doing DRINKING…oh yeah, somehow in the last few years she became a grown woman. Sheesh, I am getting old!

The saga of the umbrellas…well, it was raining all day (as I mentioned), so that morning several of us were running all over town trying to find enough brown umbrellas for this wedding party.

Success…

A brief respite from the rain just before dinner, so we headed to the docks.

A great time was had by all of their family and friends!! (this old lady went to bed after the flower and garter toss though, but I heard about more hijinks and several injuries that were incurred later that night…you know who you are I am sure!!)

Congrats you guys!

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Happy

June 25, 2009 – 6:24 pm

I am winding down this week, getting ready to be on vacation for three whole weeks! And I have decided to give myself a photography assignment for the summer - well, several actually (and two non-photography assignments - start piano lessons and to teach my kids to cook - we’re going to do Jamies Food Revolution for them - it will be fun!).

I decided to start my summer of photography assignments with one of my favourite subjects - the garden. But I have many more “subjects” in store and they are very different for me (and I can’t wait to get going on them). I am also working on a few new exciting changes for the business (more on those in September - all I can say about them is I CAN’T WAIT!!)

Here are my happy images for today…

This one is the full colour version of my peonies - what can I say…I am into the hot pink my garden this summer!! And I adore peonies (second only to lilacs).

These are my new most favourite friends in the garden this year…garlic scapes!! They are like happy little roller coasters growing my veggie garden. I love them (and I have a recipe for garlic scape butter that I intend to try on our steaks this weekend - the circle of life and all that).

And another cool little space I discovered…my asparagus secret garden - it is just so frilly and feathery…

And last but not least, just some lovely pink and purple flowers

Happy!!

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Teya -

Wow! Those garlic scapes are amazing! The second one is just brilliant and you should put it up in your house and/or sell it as an art print.
Marmalade -

I.LOVE.THESE. the peony images are stunning. Peonies make me happy.
christine -

wow, i am loving these garden photos! i wish i had a garden like that! :) beautiful work!
Lisa Kelly -

Julie, these are absolutely stunning, the garlic scapes are incredible. Stunning work!
Anna-Karin -

Wow these are just beautiful! I can almost feel as if I am your gardening viewing these in person.
Well done and lovely captures!
Sandra -

These are so stunning Julie! You should consider selling this fine art!
Carrie S -

Oh I feel like I could reach out and touch these…gorgeous color!
nina -

Wow..these are gorgeous but I especially LOVE the first series and the last..the colors are just luscious!

A wonderful maternity session

June 22, 2009 – 12:32 pm

I truly enjoy maternity sessions. I think it is because the only photos I have of myself during this incredible time of my life is some snapshots at my baby shower and a couple in the baby nursery. That is it!!

But this is such a beautiful and fleeting time in a families life, and it is great to capture it in portraits.

This couple was great to work with. They are anticipating the birth of this very special little one in July (and I totally can’t wait to get my hands on that baby in our session!!). And I know they have a great group of family and friends who are just as excited for them (I saw in the facebook grapevine they had a baby shower for them recently - I am sure a great time was had by all).

(and one tip for all the moms and moms to be out there - look how awesome her nails look in these portraits!! It definitely makes a difference to your portraits - what a great excuse to get that mani-pedi done - not that you need an excuse LOL!)

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Nina -

Such a happy couple. What beautiful memories you’ve captured for them!
Lisa Kelly -

These are gorgeous. Love those black and whites. I agree about the nails, they look really lovely.
christine -

wow, those black and whites are stunning, they’re very dreamy! :)
Marmalade -

breathtaking bw images Julie. I love those last two - so lost in the moment.
Jenna -

So beautiful, really gorgeous images. I love the ones with the wraps, your lighting is divine.

Family

June 16, 2009 – 1:03 pm

I have quite a few sessions to catch up on (and I am not even going to try to go back further than a few weeks for this!), so I thought I would share some sessions from the last while before I head off on vacation (no promises though…).

This was a fun session - I really enjoyed these children and had some pretty great conversations with them. I really love sessions with families that get along great, and even with the usual three year old antics (they make you work for it but it is ALWAYS worth it!), and an unexpected potty break (with no potty in sight…thus necessitating a trip to the nearest Timmies - which makes me wonder where we would ever be in this country without our beloved Tim Hortons…but I guess that is an completely different conversation LOL), it was alot of fun and went as it should, including the fantastic weather.

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Marmalade -

Love all of these - what a gorgeous gorgeous family! That last shot made me smile - I think it deserves center stage in a hall way printed large- love the border treatment on it as well for that purpose. Great colors!
carrieS -

What a stunning family. That family group shot could not be more perfect! I hope they get a big canvas of that!
sylvia -

these are all fantastic and gorgeous images of the family… but my heart was stolen with the last image… that is adorable!!
Brandy -

What a gorgeous family! I would absolutely love to have images like these of my own family. Great work!
Andie -

Wow you did a great job capturing this beautiful family. I love the last one too!!
Sandra -

Julie what gorgeous images! Such a beautiful family and you have captured them wonderfully! Have a great vacation!
Joyce Smith -

I have no idea what Tim Horton’s is but I know that these are fantastic images!! You can just see that a good time was had by all and beautiful memories are the result!
nina -

That is one gorgeous family shot! Beautiful session!
christine -

wow, lovely images! :) what a cute family - and that dog is adorable!!! :) i love your photos!
Lisa Kelly -

Could those kids be any cuter. What a handsome family they are. I love the rich colours and how you’ve captured all of the different ages. My fave is the last one though, very cool.
Sheri V -

Julie … these are fantastic !! … i love them all !
Jenna -

These family images are just gorgeous! I would be soooo thrilled to have these of my family, absolutely STUNNING!

Problems with email to Rogers clients

June 13, 2009 – 7:07 am

I am just running off for a weekend of soccer games, but wanted to quickly post that if you are a Rogers customer, and are expecting an email from me about gallery activations or orders, I just got a ton of emails bounced back to me - only from Rogers customers, with a weird message about your computer not being on…huh?!?

My hubbie thinks this might be related to that darned spammer from a few weeks ago (Rogers may have blacklisted my email because of it). But I can’t deal with it until Monday because I will be on the pitch photographing soccer games all weekend.

I will email you quickly today from my personal email, but failing that I will also phone to check in on Monday with you to see if you got the info you need.

Have a great weekend!

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I collected my Mother’s Day gift

June 11, 2009 – 8:23 pm

…otherwise known as the Annual Tauro Kids Will Cooperate for ONE Photo Shoot gift.

It comes but once per year (and grudgingly at that - cause they weren’t exactly “cooperative” is the actual cooperative-sense - well, I should add that ONE of them was cooperative…)

Here is a sampling…I am just kickin’t it old school here - just some good ole black and white and colour images. No fancy actions, no textures…just the real thing.

Yes, the boy got a hair cut since his skater shots - here, I demonstrate that he actually has some eyes…

As I am posting this, I look down and see my dog eating this new grey/yellow headband - I am thinking “someone” here forgot to put it away.

This one just got her braces off last week - needless to say…easy to get some smiles!

And so another year, another shoot…and my sanity is “pretty” much intact.

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Lisa Kelly -

What precious images to have. As a photographer I can so relate with the once a year photos where the kids kinda sorta pretend to cooperate, hehe. Your children are just stunning and I am sure they are growing up way too quickly.
Jenna -

Awww… what a perfect mother’s day gift! Beautiful images of BEAUTIFUL children!!! Great posing and locations too!
nina -

Beautiful family!
Heather Gibb -

Lucky you!!! These are all awesome. You have beautiful kids! I did the same thing….please do it for me for Mother’s day!!
Anna-Karin -

Congratulations on capturing such beautiful portraits of your own children. It is always so hard to photograph your own kids when you are a photographer, but you can’t tell in these. They are all just gorgeous kids!
Shellie -

Awww you have such cute kids!!! I need to get this on my mothers day wish list for next year!
Sheri V -

Julie ! .. your kiddos are sooo gorgeous, and growing up so fast. Gorgeous work as always !
carrieS -

Yup..perfect Mothers Day gift. AS a mom and photographer I know how hard it is to get decent shots and how much we appreciate it when we do. You have beautiful children!

Skater

May 27, 2009 – 8:25 pm

I might have mentioned that I am about to launch my amazing, gorgeous, luxurious line of albums…I am busy doing the layouts to put into them as we speak. Tonight, I finished one that I just had to share. It was the most handsome dude I have ever had the pleasure to work with (and he works cheap - only charged me enough to buy a skate key…whatever THAT is…)

This is the layout for my grunge / teen album. The sample is a 10×10 with a grey snake skin cover (see, I told you these albums were cool! snakeskin even!). There are MANY cover choices though (just in case snake doesn’t float your boat). This is a sampling of some of my favourite pages (who am I kidding… I love ALL the pages!)

This one is his favourite…

This one is MY favourite…

This one is my almost-tied-for-first-favourite!

So handsome…I mean, cool, dude!

I have also posted my new layout for the maternity and newborn album (which will also be the layout for the baby’s first year album - they are interchangeable). That can be seen on my facebook page - be sure to “fan” me so you can see that one and all the other album layouts (once I finish them this week and next).

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Anna-Karin -

These images are so cool and that album rocks!!
nina -

I love all the action and life you’ve captured in these.
Heather Gibb -

Wow, the images are to die for and the layout of your album is fabulous!! A true piece of art!
Daniela -

Julie - this is sooo *cool* and yes he is quite the handsome dude!!!!
heavenesque -

Fabulous!!! My kind of photo!! Love it:)
Marmalade -

The texture works so wonderfully on these! Great job Julie.
marie -

these are so cool!
Jenna -

These are so cool, love the album! I am sure these will be a big hit!
Danna -

that is going to be a really awesome album, great design and really cool shots.
Brandy -

Wow, that is going to be one cool album!
Sarah -

These are so fabulous! Love them!
Nichol Krupp -

These images ROCK. Love them all, the textures and the conversions. TFS!
carrieS -

soo cool! I know tons of boys who would love these kinds of shots!
Anna -

Oh my! That is such a cool book! I totally have to get going doing something like that of my skater. Lucky kid there!

Summer Schedule Update

May 27, 2009 – 8:44 am

As I was booking some sessions this morning, I realized that I have very very few summer weekend session times still available. Currently I only have 7 Saturday/Sunday spots left until September. Most of those times are afternoons/evenings (just three are Sunday mornings). I also only have 4 Friday evenings left.

So if you are looking to book a weekend session this summer, I would recommend doing it as soon as you can. There are however, many weekday morning session times still open, so I can easily accomodate you then.

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Summery Thoughts

May 25, 2009 – 10:29 pm

Life has been pretty crazy for us in the Tauro household these past few weeks. Between the start of soccer season (which is responsible for the fact that we currently are on the pitch 7-8 times each week! and this is in addition to the regular activities - school, piano, karate, work, etc.), the spring portrait season, and then all those pesky spring tasks around the house and yard (cause I gotta have the backyard decked out for those relaxing summer evenings…oh yeah, we don’t have any of those right now), I have neglected this blog, am WAAAYYYY behind updating the website or my facebook pages, and have many mounds of paper to be filed, organized or followed up on (yes, “mounds”…that’s in the plural!)

So I will be updating some stuff in the next while, including images of all my amazing new albums that have been arriving (they are finally all here - now to get just the images into them and we are set). AMAZING albums…is it actually possible to be in LOVE with an album. Yes, I think it is in fact. They are GORGEOUS (did I mention I really like them…).

Every summer, I usually offer up the opportunity to have portrait sessions at the beach (which is one of my favourite places to visit in the summer). However, this year I will only have limited times that this will be available (back to that whole soccer thing). I will only be travelling to the Owen Sound, Port Elgin, Sauble areas for these sessions. This could be a great opportunity for you, or family and friends to get a portrait session while on vacation (either at the beach, cottaging, or just visiting the area, which is gorgeous by the way…I grew up there and didn’t truly apprecitate that fact til I moved to the suburbs). So if this is smething you are interested in getting more info on or exploring some date options, just drop me a line.

I will still be off for the next couple of days (but I will be catching up on some email tomorrow - I am just alittle behind since I have been off for the last week). I will also be on vacation June 27 - July 19th. I will do my best though to fit in any newborns that are less than two weeks old during that time though. Please let me know as soon as you can if you are looking at having a newborn session during that time period.

Now on to summer….I love summer and can’t wait for everything that season brings.

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Two cuties in Pink

May 18, 2009 – 4:16 pm

But all is not as it seems…you see, every now and again in every photographer’s life, in walks two cute little girls. You, feeling just alittle girlie yourself at the prospect of photographing them, squeal alittle bit in delight (in your head of course…can’t have people hearing a grown woman acting as silly as that).

But alas, while the three year old is happy and sweet, the younger one, no less sweet than the older, is much much less happy…in fact, she is downright grumpy.

Well, we all have those days too don’t we. So while we need to try this again, I did manage to get just a couple (and seriously, these are IT of the younger sister that don’t involve furrowed brows and grumpy faces). But they are just so darned cute anyway…I am SURE she will love me in a week or two LOL.

This last one proves that she liked me for, oh say, about the first 5 minutes…

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Lisa Kelly -

Hehe, I love her grumps and you clearly definitely won her over for some of the time. Big sister is beautiful and I love all of the beautiful colours and expressions you captured.
sylvia -

wonderful location and beautiful girls!
Shellie -

What sweet girls!! Great variety and amazing captures!
Nina Pomeroy -

A-dorable! Love the B&W tutu shot of them together!
Jenna -

Well you’d never know she was grumpy by the photos you showed! So cute! Love the color, great variety.
Brandy -

What beautiful girls! I love the color and vibrancy of these images!
Danna -

adorable!!! love the shot of the 2 together.
Patti -

The are so sweet and girly!
Heather Gibb -

Wow the shot of the sisters interacting is perfect–it’d be a gorgeous big canvas~
allie -

wow. all gorgeous but that first bw one in the skirts… breathtaking!
Sandra -

These are beautiful Julie! Wow, I would never know the littlest one was anything but happy. You worked your magic again!
Oma and Papa -

The girls are beautiful. Olivia looks so grown up. I love the picture of her standing against the brick wall with her hand in her pocket. It’s so good it looks like an ad for jeans–Olivia looks so natural. Maddie looks so cute with her bear–just want to grab her a give her a hug and a kiss.
carrieS -

Beautiful lighting in these!
Anna -

Oh the cheeks on that little one! Yum!

Welcome

Jade and Andrew - A wedding day

Happy

A wonderful maternity session

Family

Problems with email to Rogers clients

I collected my Mother’s Day gift

Skater

Summer Schedule Update

Summery Thoughts

Two cuties in Pink

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