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One of my favorite things is to walk by myself around Montreal with my camera. I have said that many times. What I haven't said is that, in my mind, I have a collection of pictures that I call: holding hands. It means that the scene, the place, the time, the light were all so perfect, so beautiful, that it feels wrong to be there alone instead of holding hands with someone. These pictures belong

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Yesterday she asked me to take some pictures for her Facebook profile. It was a beautiful winter day,  sunny and not so cold, so we spend 10 minutes in front of our house shooting without our coats :)

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  I love walking around centreville in January with my camera and an imaginary movie in my head.

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In November, a group of Flickr friends and I decided to give a gift to ourselves by making a book with our work. That way we would all have everyone's pictures in our homes for Christmas. The idea took shape thanks to Juju, who had the time and patience to assemble the book. We call it 16 Clicks and it's a heart-breaker. Every time that a mailman brought it to one of our homes, whoever received

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Let the magic begin!  ♥

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I took each of these pictures under the spell of love.

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Sipping hot Jazmin tea under the lights of the Chinese garden is an autumn pleasure I never pass. This year I went there with my parents, whom live near Madrid, and my mom took some GORGEOUS pictures with her point and shoot that I will share soon. Maybe i'm not the only photographer in the family after all. Now I' trying to convince her to take my e-class   :)

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and my daughter Valeria last saturday while shopping for flowers for Thanksgiving Day. By the way, I have no idea what those pretty fall flowers are called :S

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Across the street, right in front of my house, there is a little park with nothing special, just a tennis court, a few old benches and many beautiful trees. But once a year there's a magical phenomenon that I call The Apple Carpet and that all the birds and rabbits who live there probably call The Supermarket. It's like a sweet, fun and delicious children's storybook.

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 I’ve been through a rough time lately. Maybe I just need a little autumn to start feeling better.

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There are client sessions to share, photos to edit, new projects to finish and little stories to tell, but for now I'm recovering from a small surgery and working at home on my September photography e-workshop (which I love!). Realizing that I actually wanted to slow down and rest has giving me a sense of peace I'm enjoying a lot. I'm a hermit at heart. I have to push myself to get out of this

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I bought these in the Montreal's Plateau zone for a tea with my good friends and exquisite caterers Mayra and Beatriz. We ended up eating a bowl of homemade chicken chowder instead of tea, and having the macarons for dessert. Grilled Pistachio (the green one) was my favorite. I'm going there tomorrow to get some more :)

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Bye pool and ice creams, bye midnight snacks while reading in bed, bye homemade popsicles, bye sleeping in, bye renting movies in the middle of the week, bye road trips and picnics. I'm going to miss you all. But I'm ready for fall ♥

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Two hours from Montreal, near the US border there is this peaceful little place that stole my heart from day one. There is a pier with benches to watch the blue-green lake water and a rustic table to have romantic picnics at sunset. On one side a modest marine with just a few boats. On the other, a crystal clear natural pool surrounded by sailboats. There is also a couple of art galleries, a

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Today, very close to home. I was kicked out of this place by a million bees :S

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I was looking forward to this session, I got to photograph one of my favorite clients again! I did a photo session with Gabriela and her beautiful sisters and mom one year ago. Now she's almost sixteen years old and she's just blossoming! For some of these photos we went to a nearby marina and the rest were made in the little park in front of my house. I had such a hard time choosing which

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I was recently hired to do a session with two BFF teenage girls who are going to be separated because one of them is moving to Europe while the other one is staying in Montreal. They wanted to have this memory of their friendship. When I was taking these pictures I relived the day when my best friend Sara left Caracas to go live in Orlando, Florida. I was 16 years old, and to me losing someone

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One of my favorite places and lovely parents to be. I can't wait to meet their baby Marianne!

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One of my favorite summer day trips is the Eastern Townships region: lakes, small gem towns, old-fashioned general stores, fresh baked raspberries pies, little marinas, beautiful country scenes and even an almost french lavender field.

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p Favorite colors :) This is a little collage for Vicki's Creative Challenge Flickr group.b

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p When six years ago I talked to my friend Marlene about my plans for moving from Caracas to Montreal, the first thing she said to me was "Oh, I remember the flowers! Montreal is so beautiful, tons of flowers everywhere!". Now I understand. Every house, public square, street or little shop in this city is decorated with dozens of flowers during summertime. The few things I know about gardening

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Last Sunday we went to Coteau-du-Lac's wharf to have a picnic. Then, at the historic site, Valeria - as always - played a while in the cold water. I think this girl is a river nimph.

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p summer. naps . warm afternoons. light. books. lemonade. breeze. wild flowers. beauty.

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p The light at this place is always so beautiful that it's ridiculous. I took this picture thinking of a very dear friend of mine.

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p My 15 years old daughter Marianne makes these friendship bracelets, and they have been so successful with her friends that she's thinking about opening her own Etsy shop. She learned how to make them when she was 9, with a book we gave her for Christmas.

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p I have a pretty colorful collection of about two dozen of inexpensive bowls that I found here and there and we use them all the time. The cats have their own collection too :)

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p Aylmer's Marina is one of my favorite places to wait for the sunset.

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p Valeria's playground.

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seagulls . iPod . book . warm breeze . a perfect afternoon in west island.

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celebrating the warm weather.

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and it lookS like this in my garden. This one is dedicated to the group of creative, sensitive, open minded, committed, generous, fun, brilliant, talented artists of my immediate photography entourage for continuously helping each other recover from creative discouragement when needed. I love you.

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My books for the summer are here! Amazon.ca delivered them in three days :)

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