A few days before Sydney’s session I was driving north of town and was utterly taken aback by the gorgeous canola fields.  I’m telling you–there is really nothing more stunning than a Practically Canadian summer.  Nothing.  The countryside is simply breath taking and the weather is sweet.

 

Anyway–back to canola.

 

I had this thought–I’ve done sunflower sessions and snow sessions, but never canola sessions.  Suddenly it just seemed silly.  Why wouldn’t I take advantage of fields of waist high yellow flowers as far as the eye could see?  Ideally I would have offered mini sessions in the canola–but that just didn’t pan out.  Instead, I took Sydney there with me for some canola field senior pictures.  And I’m so glad she was game to come along.  The air grew cooler, the sun dipped low and we spent the golden hour in the golden fields.  I’m super pleased with the results and I’m thrilled to be sharing some of my favorite images with you today.

canola field senior pictures

If you follow the Facebook page, you might have seen this image that I created.  This happened during Sydney’s shoot.  A family on horseback came trotting down the tractor path as we were finishing up.  They’d braved a slow walk past a clump of field bee hives swarming with very busy buzzers.  I’d driven past the hives earlier in the day scouting our location.  They swarmed my car and gave me a creepy Hitchcock-eerie feeling.  When I asked them about the ride past the hives one of the girls said, “Those were NOT there last week.  It was like fear factor.”  They were eager to ride away from the bees, literally into the sunset.

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Anyway…back to Sydney.  In addition to amazing shots in the canola, we also got these.  Seriously some of my favorites from the night.

field senior pictures

If it were up to me every hour would be sunset and every photo would be in a field.  But that would be pretty darn boring.  So we also shot around town–and I wasn’t disappointed with our location choices.  Seriously.  Sparkly skirt + shabby alley??  Yes, please!

alley senior photos

urban senior portraits

Oh, and did I mention she’s an athlete?!  I worked up a sweat climbing high enough to nab this one…but the result is worth it.

Senior Sports portrait

The downside about Practically Canada {okay besides the long commute between towns, and subzero winters} is that road construction has a very limited season.  Currently our downtown streets are all torn up.  Cons: We wandered around, unable to figure out how to get to places I had in mind to shoot.  Pros: There was no traffic and we nabbed a super-cool photo in the middle of the street…until a construction crew drove heavy machinery through and gave us a weird look.

downtown senior portraits

Which brings us to the end of Sydney’s preview.  It’s been sweet, hasn’t it?  I’m so glad she chose me to capture her senior portraits.  Remember to head over to the Facebook page and vote in the B&W vs Color challenge to help Sydney win a free 8×10″ print of the winning image.

golden hour senior portraits

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