Our New Birth Announcements!

New to Delicate Impressions is our new line of Baby Birth Announcements!  For boys and for girls!  After your newborn shoot, we delicately place your little one’s photographs into the card of your choice and that’s it!  Email tkinch@delicateimpressions.ca for more details!

1 Year Old

How beautiful is little girl “E”! This is the 3rd session I’ve had with her and now she’s 1 ! I can’t believe how much she has grown!  Happy Birthday little girl, and may your future shine bright and all your dreams come true!

It’s a plane…no a train…no it’s SUPERMAN!

This could very well be Superman as a baby!  Hansome little Clark (yes – named after Superman!) was such a fun little guy! He kept mom and dad VERY busy putting him back in place for the camera…I’m not sure who was more tired by the end of our session today, but we certainly all had fun!  Happy Birthday little man!

Show off your baby!!

Delicate Impressions introduces our new coffee-table album perfect for showing off your new baby!  This book is an absolutely beautiful one-of-a-kind album all the way from Italy!  It’s leather bound and your photos are right in the pages!  No sticking the pictures to the pages, or insirting prints!  No fading of your photos in years from now like prints can!  You have a choice of covers as well so each album is different and unique.  Ask for details at your next session!

Wedding Bells Rain OR Shine!

What was supposed to be rain and cloud started out that way in the morning but ended in being an absolutely beautiful day in St. Thomas Ontario!  What a great historical place for the perfect portraits of a beautiful wedding party!  The old train station is completely wearing down…paint falling off the walls, no finish left on the hardwood floor, and big old windows!  It was a pleasure taking pictures here!  Thanks for letting me be a part of your day!  I had a great time! Enjoy your sneak peak and congratulations guys!

Pikangikum

Our police officers whether regionals, city or OPP work hard at the jobs they do.  This is my sweet heart who has been gone to Pikangikum for 3 days, 33 hours to be exact (but who’s keeping track!), to help out the very busy police department up there.  Where is Pikangikum (for those who can even say the word lol!)? It is about 15 hours north of Thunder Bay Ontario.  It’s a community in desperate need of prayers!  With no plumbing, and no clock this is a community of people who are up all hours of the day and night.  A nice group of people who just need some guidance.  They have a church where they worship from 7pm til just shy of midnight, and a school where teachers go work at for stints of up to 3 years at a time.  They have an arena and they play hockey!  They try to live the best they can with what they all grew up knowing…and they get into a lot of trouble when night falls which is why our OPP officers are being deployed there for 2 weeks at a time working pretty much 24 hours a day trying to keep the peace.  This time, my officer got called upon to go and help.  He will be gone for another week and a half and I just ask for all of you to include him and the officers up there in your prayers each day.  It’s definitely a different life up there and we should all be thankful and feel totally blessed with what we have down here! Hun…I miss you   I am literally counting the hours until your safe return home!  God Bless…xoxoxoxoxxo

Photography Assistant…well, he could be!

What a fun couple I had the pleasure of meeting today!  Mr “G’ you can be my assistant anytime!  This was one loving, doting husband who was admiring his wife’s beautiful baby belly the entire shoot with the utmost willingness to help!  Help with flower peddles, help with wardrobe changes, clean up…the works.  Miss “J” you were so fun!  You make me laugh with some of your comments!  I can’t wait to see you all again when little Mr. B, H or N arrives (LOL!).  Here is your sneak peak as promised!  Enjoy!

How CUTE IS SHE!!!

Need I say more?? Holy – cuteness!

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On Mothers Day We Remember…

Happy Mothers Day to all you wonderful moms out there!  To you who have your beautiful children, and to you who have your beautiful baby bellies!  Today is a day to celebrate moms all over the world.  I would like to tell you all a little about my mom.  Today she would be 50 years young and probably still living in our house on Glasgow street in London Ontario.  She worked for years at the Canadian Red Cross along side my Grandmother who got her the job there.  My mom didn’t have the easiest life…quit high school at 17, married at 17, had me at 18, divorced at 20…did a lot of odd jobs for years until my grandmother got her a good one with what’s now called Canadian Blood Services.  8 years after having me, she gave birth to another healthy baby girl who I admit – I couldn’t stand for the first 18 years of her life! (This isn’t new so no – my sister won’t fall off her chair when she reads this!) lol…In 1999 I gave birth to my very own healthy bouncing baby girl and I finally got to understand the love a mother has for her children and how unconditional it really is.  My mom wanted to be there for the birth of my daughter so badly, but I had her so quickly that she didn’t make it in time…but the look on her face when she saw her grandaughter for the first time is one I’ll never forget.  As she put her right hand over her heart, tilted her head to the left and said “Oh MY!” My mom was always so proud of me and told the world when I became a Paramedic.  “This is my daughter – she’s a paramedic!”  It got quite embarassing especially when she would say “go put your uniform on and show everyone” (I’m not a 5 year old who has a new ballet dress you need to show everyone…SO embarssing!).  I remember the week of June 9th, 2001 when I got the call that my grandmother was diagnosed with Colon cancer.  Devastating news that seems all to normal these days now.  Then 5 days later (yes DAYS) my mom calls to say she has stomach cancer.  Talk about a moment of pure devastation.  They both faught hard but cancer won the battle.  My grandmother died in November of that year, and my mom in October of the following year.  Moms are such amazing women.  They raise their children to the best of their ability and live for years hoping and praying that everything they do is the right choice, the best choice and that we, as their children will do good by how we have been raised by our mothers.  Today we remember our mothers and celebrate with them if we are lucky enough to have that chance.  For those of us who have lost our mothers, we need to take this time to remember all the great things about them, and the wonderful choices they hopefully made to give us the best possilbe life they could. 

This picture is of my best friends beautiful baby belly, who when we did her maternity shoot asked if we could somehow incorporate this pin in one of the pictures for her mom who died of Breast Cancer 2 years ago.  This would have been her 3rd grandchild… Leanne, we are all so excited for the arrival of your sweet bundle.  I pray for her safe and healthy entrance into the world when she arrives in just 2 weeks.  Your mom I’m sure is looking down as your guardian angel.  I’m sure both our moms are  

Angel, to you who just lost your mom to cancer at the end of last year, this is your first mothers day without her and will probably be the hardest.  Just take time to remember all she was, all she did and all she meant.  Then look at your 3 children and smile, because today – you get to be with them, hold them, touch them, kiss them! 

Happy Mothers Day to you all! 

Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep

For those of you who don’t know about the NILMDTS organization, it is a non-profit totally volunteer based foundation that started just a few years ago.  Those of us who have been blessed with healthy children sometimes don’t realize just how luck we all are!  What is “Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep”?  It is a group of photographers who volunteer their services free of charge for bereaving families who have lost a new baby or who are expecting to deliver their little one who isn’t expected to live very long.  We offer the family a photo session so that they have something to remind them that their child did exist.  Here is a video clip from the Today Show that was aired a short time ago…to help you perhaps understand a little better what this foundation is all about.  God bless.  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/23481435#23481435   for more information about how you can help, please visit:  www.nilmdts.org