Lauralee Magill- Ottawa Photographer specializing in contemporary portraiture and fine art.

First, HAPPY 2009 EVERYONE!
I think it’s going to be a fantastic year, one for change around the world, and here at home.  My hope for this year is that everyone, no excuses, gets involved in something- big or small- and remembers that they have an impact on what happens in their world.  Could be as [...]

My New Camera Love

I’m in love with my new camera.  She was pretty snazzy in her day- nice to look at, priced right, and beloved by many.  The Kodak Folding Brownie, model 3A launched in 1904-1909 and featured a f/4 Bausch & Lomb lens, a ball bearing shutter and a Watson reflecting view finder that flips for portrait [...]

Patiently(?) waiting

for Mr. Purolator dude to arrive with my prints, ETA sometime before 5pm. Being able to check delivery status online is such a gift for someone like me, who tends to be a little ocd about stuff– I’m just not very good at waiting! So I love having little updates such as ‘14:36 [...]

What I love best…

about Sunday mornings.

And what keeps me going when it’s only Tuesday and there’s still a lot of week between now and when I can shut the world away for a little while and snuggle with my favorite people on earth.

Something to think about…

courtesy of David Copperfield and the side of my Starbucks dark roast vente. “The Way I See It #283″ says this:
The most important thing in life is to stop saying “I wish” and start saying “I will”. Consider nothing impossible then treat possibilities as probabilities.
OK.

O Happy Day!

Spring has sprung (please please let it be so!) and the massive snowbanks have receded enough that we were able to wear sneakers out walking. I think I might have pushed it a little with my open-toe shoes, but it was time to rebel against winter boots and jackets. It could snow 30cm [...]

Brand New Year

And we celebrated by looking back.
It’s been almost 12 years since we met, and our 8th anniversary is coming up this June. I still remember how nervous I was at our wedding- not because I wasn’t sure that we were meant for each other, but because I had such terrible ’stage fright’. The [...]