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This blog was created to display my work as an artist and a photographer.
From the moment I first looked through the viewfinder, I've fallen more and more in love with the beauty you can create in touching the shutter and freezing that moment forever. I love photographing people, special moments, and once-in-a-lifetime events that will never replay themselves out of your mind again. Life is special and wonderful & I find there is no better way to contain it and make it last than through photographs.

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Daniella Kalinyuk
the photographer

October 15, 2011

Elle 09.21.11

Danielle first contacted me for an extended family shoot earlier this year (which was quite the circus bunch). I was delighted when she contacted me again to photograph her daughter, Elle, who turned ONE!
I fell in love with Elle's pretty blue eyes the first time that I shot her during their family session, so I was quite excited to be photographing her again. Little did I know that it wouldn't be as easy I thought this time around...because little-miss-one-year-old-now had just learned how to walk. And she wasn't running around in the grass, smiling and playing all pretty--she kept getting up and heading toward the concrete where she could balance better every time we dragged her back to the nice grassy area. Nonetheless, I love a challenge, especially when it's to chase around a cutie like this to catch her quirky smile.
Isn't her toothless grin adorable?? :)