Good Morning Whig Readers,

Recently we were listening to a pod cast on one of the many trips we’ve made to Toronto this year. A point was being made about the sense of place and personal meaning a child derives from seeing themselves in a photograph amidst their family members.  When a child looks at a family portrait they don’t see the ten pounds Dad has put on, or the silly hair cut Mom had, or the passing trends everyone is wearing, they see themselves belonging.  Be it multi-generational, the immediate family, or portraits of your little ones, photographs matter. Photographs don’t just have to be for posterity they can be loved and enjoyed right now, in your daily life. “Living with what you Love” is all about putting beautiful wall art of your family and children into your homes.

One of the lovely women I’ve had the pleasure to work with recently allowed me to take a few shots of her home to help me articulate, visually, what “Living With What You Love” looks like in action.  Featured below is one of our Fine Art Gallery Wrapped Canvases. This particular photograph was hand selected for it’s colour and clean composition. The yellows interspersed through the flowers tie the photo in nicely with the colour palette of the room, leaving the space airy and bright. Once we had an idea of where the canvas was going, we chose a size that would appropriately fill the space and contribute to the rooms decor. Our clean and sophisticated style of portraiture lends itself well to turning your family photographs into beautiful wall art that will warm up your homes and personalize your space. Have a great day and “Live With What You Love.”

Bon Appétit,

- The Violets

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Feature article as printed in the Kingston Whig Standard

 Winding Violets is first and foremost a fine art wedding photography studio, made up of a husband and wife team. Lucas Tingle and Melissa Howlett were married 3 years ago and began Winding Violets, their full-time photography studio in 2009. “Photographing a Wedding is capturing the beginning of a family, and it’s not long before these new families start to grow,” point out The Violets. “Photographing baby bumps, newborns, and kids was just a natural step for us and the growth of our business. We grow right along with the families,” says Melissa.

 So why have maternity and newborn photographs taken, or for that matter why get professionally photographed at all? Winding Violets encourages the families they work with to consider photographs as home decor. Imagine replacing your store bought canvases and the impersonal framed pictures with the precious moments in your family’s development. Winding Violets calls this approach to portraiture and wall art, “Living With What You Love.”

“We have enjoyed great success with our “Living With What You Love” line,” The Violets emphasize. Many families in the Kingston area have warmed up their homes with wall art of their family from Winding Violets. This fall and winter Winding Violets look forward to strengthening their relationship with the families of Kingston and transforming your house into more of a home. Please feel free to call for a free consultation: 613 540 1066. And be sure to visit Winding Violets’ site for a special post on “Living With What You Love” today: www.windingviolets.com.

Hi ya everyone,

Hope everyone’s summer is going well and that wedding planning is coming together harmoniously for all the brides to be. We just wanted to share a short post of our good friends Lindsay & Jeremy and their little bundle Brynley. We’ve had the pleasure of photographing Lindsay & Jeremy from engagement, to wedding, then materinity, & now onto baby. Watching a family begin and grow is a beautiful expierence. They are a real blessing in our lives & we look forward to many more years of friendship and photographs.  Jeremy & Lindsay thank you so much for your continued support, appreciation, & love.

Bon Appétit,

The Violets

FIN

We just recently made the trek up to Bancroft to visit some dear friends and meet their brand new baby girl Brynley!  Of course we brought the camera, so we would have something to share with all of you : ) She has too be about the sweetest little baby girl I’ve ever seen, but of course I am bias…best smelling too! When will  they invent scratch and sniff monitors?…I am sure there is an App for that by now, but I digress. Thanks to Brittany, Lindsay’s good friend who crocheted Brynley the cute little pink hat; I think Melissa was a bit jealous of it. If you notice, the few shots we posted here are super tight; we thought it would be neat to photograph something so small really close-up: make all those teeny baby bits visible. We talked a bit about how babies change so quickly, so it was neat to capture those tiny features before they change  too much. It’ll be fun to revisit these photos a few months, or even years, from now; I am certain this won’t be the last time she makes an appearance here on the Winding Violets blog. All-and-all we had a terrific visit. Welcome to the world baby Brynley!

Love

The Violets

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TWO | THREE

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FIVE | SIX

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EIGHT | NINE

TEN

ELEVEN | TWELVE

THIRTEEN

FOURTEEN

FIFTEEN

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Sharon and Mike were kind enough to invite us into their home to photograph their brand new baby girl Karys (pronounced: care-us/ greek for Grace). Typically newborn portraits are done studio style, on a flat backdrop to isolate the subject; we decided to take a different approach for this shoot placing Karys in the context of her family home.

One of my favourite things about old family pictures is spotting all artifacts from my childhood. Some pieces of furniture, artwork, and miscellany are still part of our caravan others don’t make it. There is strange sensation to be derived from seeing a familiar object in a unfamiliar context, perhaps a painting that hung over the couch in the old family room now hangs in the rec. room in your new house gathering dust. Photographs preserve peripheral details and have the power breathe new life into artifacts from our past reminding us of the value we once endowed these objects with. There are also those pieces of miscellany that don’t make it to the next house, toys that have been given away, blankets and clothing that have been handed down, donated, or thrown away. Spotting these pieces of our past remind us of how far we have travelled and carry us back culling faded memories that are seemingly attached  to these physical pieces of ephemera – memories that might have been lost, had the artifact not made it into the frame.

For Sharon and Mike I hope this translates to memories of their first home and the beginning of their new family. For Karys, it is my secret hope that in 10 years time she will happen upon a box in the basement and be filled with questions about this first home and the circumstances that made up their lives when she was first born.

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Jennette brought her beautiful baby daughter Lauren into our studio today for some Little Violets Easter Portraits.  My-oh-my what a cutie, and was she ever animated. We caught some terrific expressions : )  Everyone have a wonderful and happy Easter!

Enjoy,

- The Violets

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We had lots of fun shooting this one! Everyone loves to go out on sunny days to take photos, but what about the rainy ones? I have always wanted to shoot in the rain, personally I feel it would make for some really dramatic and fun shots. Figures that it took the courage of a child to make it happen : ) Rilyn was such a great sport, and for being such a “girly girl” she sure took to pouncing into puddles well!

This is the premiere Little Violets Moving Portrait and we couldn’t be more pleased to share it with ya’ll. Capturing a child’s movements, voice, and reactions really contributes to the creation of a rich portrait and memento to keep and share though the generations. For most of us, our familial documentation is scant if existent at all. We may have a few old pictures of our mother when she was a little girl, or some of us might be lucky enough to have some Super8 footage from some bygone vacation to Florida or birthday party.

Imagine having a Moving Portrait of your mother as a little girl, or yourself, or little one  to pass down, share, and enjoy on special occasions. We are very excited and thankful that we can use our gifts toward such a beautiful and worth end: family heirlooms.

We hope you enjoy,

The Violets

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Who: Sharon, Mike, & Baby Mathewson

What: Kingston Family Photography/Kingston Maternity Photography

Where: Winding Violets Studio Downtown Kingston

When: February 27, 2010