Annie Gabaldon Portraits

Rico has also been taking photos at his day job for their company's newsletter, Click. For their next issue, they needed portraits of Annie Gabaldon, a project manager, as their featured employee. We know Annie and her family outside of work and they couldn't have picked a better person with a big heart and big personality to boot.

Lately, she and her family have played significant roles in our lives here in Canada. When we moved into our current home a year and a half ago, they were so kind as to welcome us with wonderful homemade lunch which we all shared in our dining room. When we shoot weddings, her cousin-in-law would look after our little one, Mikka. And after finally admitting that all we had for dinner was a box of Timbits and Iced Cappuccino after an exhausting e-shoot, they fed us homemade dinner in their own home. Visits with them have always been fun where everybody has a keen sense of humor and Annie, well, she's got an infectious laughter that just keeps on going and going.

But there's another side to Annie that we were not aware of prior to the portrait session. She tutors kids with dyslexia to improve on their reading skills. Here are some of the photos we took while she talked about the special teaching technique to help these kids to be successful in school.

Playing with teaching aids to form their company's initials.
Showing us how she uses a toy worm to visually explain long vowels vs. short vowels.
I love how this picture just shows her fun side as we know it.
Here's another photo of Annie and her youngest daughter, Jacquie, who just woke up from her afternoon nap. We took this after the above portrait session.

Before we left, we got to talking about how our business is doing. With her sister and her family as well as her mom and dad being in town, they immediately decided to ask us to take family portraits which of course we were more than happy to do. We'll have a separate blog entry on the actual photoshoot of the family portraits. Watch out for that!