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Photography Workshops!

Spring Workshops!

It’s amazing how time flies. I had originally intended to host my next round of workshops in February, but since February has already arrived I’ve decided Spring will be a better time. It would seem this is the winter that never was. Good thing I bought all those snow pants for my kids this past fall!

Anyway. Here are the dates:

Basic Digital SLR Workshop

Saturday March 24 – 10am-3pm – $95

This is a great class if you have recently purchased a SLR camera.
There is a pretty big learning curve from a point and shoot to an SLR.
In this class you will learn about the basic elements that go together
to make great photos. It will be a hands on class, so please bring
along your camera and manual.

Digital SLR Refresher Course

Thursday March 29 – 7-9pm – $35

This class is specifially for those who have already taken my basic SLR
workshop and want a little refresher or have a question or two they
need cleared up. We’ll go over the main points again and add a trick
or two for you pull out of your camera bag when you are shooting!

Basic Post Production

Satuday March 31 – 1-4pm – $55

So you have a whole flash card of pretty photos, now what? In this
class we’ll talk about storing and organizing your photos on your
computer, backing them up, editing them in lightroom and making prints.
Feel free to bring your laptop along if you have one. We will also
talk about making prints and storing photos.

Sign up for two of the three classes and save $10!

Email me at info@sandraregier.com to request a coupon code.

Click here to register for the classes!

Looking forward to seeing you soon!

 


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Monkey Hooks – Seriously the coolest thing

I love having photos on my wall.  Love it.   The problem is I was always terrified to try and hang them.  Scared I’d make a gigantic hole in my wall and have to have the drywall repaired.   I always would have Chris hang them for me…. which he is awesome at doing, but sometimes I had to be a bit more patient that I wanted to be.  Now that I’ve found theses amazing little things I’m able to hang the photos all on my own.

This is a monkey hook.  Simple and easy.  Rather than trying to explain the finer points, I figured I send you to their website…..http://www.monkeyhook.com/ - We picked ours up at Lowes I think, but I’m pretty sure you can get them at any hardware store.  They have different weights and we even found some that will hold up to 50 pounds.  Pretty incredible.  I used one to hang this canvas in my studio.  The print is 30×30″ in size so it’s pretty heavy, and this little hook does a fabulous job!

I love anything that makes it easier for everyone to hang photos on their walls, cause really that’s where they should be!! :)

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Family Albums are Now Available!

I was so excited to open up my delivery today and couldn’t wait to show you my newest sample album for families and babies.  This one is an album that I designed for a newborn session I did this past fall.  It turned out so great!  Here are a few photos I took of it to share with you.

Such a sweet baby and this album will be an awesome keepsake for her!

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Camera Workshop – Saturday November 19, 2011

I’m going to be teaching a Digital Camera basics workshop on Saturday November 19th, from 10am to 3pm.  This class is awesome for anyone who has a digital SLR camera, and isn’t really sure how to operate it.  I will help you understand the basic factors that go together to create beautiful photos.  I’m going to be limiting the size of the class. so please register early so that you won’t miss out.  If you can’t make this date I will be holding the same class again in the New Year!  Cost for the class (including lunch) is $95 (plusHST).  Please send me an email at info@sandraregier.com for more details or to register for the class!

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Our Big Build – My New Studio!

I know I blogged a while back about building a studio… and if you are on Facebook you’ve been following regular photo updates, but I thought I should blog about our progress regardless.  It’s been a busy busy summer here.  Please keep in mind that the following photos were are all taken with my point and shoot camera…. to document our progress… not to show off my photography skills.  Please don’t judge :)   This is our house on April 10th, 2011.  We were just starting the demolition of the old addition on the back of our house.

We were busy for weeks recovering the bricks off the east wall of our main house and also behind the white siding of the addition…. yes there were bricks under that nasty aluminium.  We cleaned them and stacked them so we can reuse them on the new piece of the house.  Time consuming but totally worth the effort.

May 20th – Ready for the backhoe to take it away…..  I must say it was rather alarming how easy it was for it to get torn down.

And time to dig…. a big big hole.

Chris is a pretty big guy, but he sure doesn’t look it in this photo.

Time for footings.  The kids have been super interested in all that’s going on… and I think it’s awesome how they will look back and remember this whole project…. but my biggest concern is that they stay safe during the process.  So my answer to wanting to watch the big trucks and cranes was to tuck them safely away on the roof of our garage.  It’s pretty flat up there and they are completely safe and out of the way, plus they have an awesome view of what’s going on!

After the walls were formed and set it was time for the first floor joists to go on…. this photo was taken on June 15th.

There was a LOT of framing…..

Bailey even got in on the action helping with the second floor walls.  The crane arrived on July 5th to lift up the second floor roof truss.  We really want the new piece to match the old part of our house… which means a tall roof.  Chris is 6’6″…. the roof truss are considerably more.

The windows are in and the roof is ready for steel on July 26th.

The first bricks were layed on August 5th.

This photo is taken just last week.  The east side is all bricked, and ready to move around to the south.  Super excited to see the progress.  Thanks to all our contractors for getting us this far…. Ray Mathonia Backhoeing, D. Regier Construction, Prie-Form Concrete, D & D Electric and Terry Smith Masonry.  … so to recap…..

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You’ll notice it doesn’t say “after” as we still have a long way to go, but I couldn’t be more pleased with the progress!

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