Since when do they make tweens . . .




. . . that look this old?

Thanks for allowing me to make your portrait!

Earth Day - The Rocky Mountain Flatbread Company



In honour of Earth Day, I'd like to share with you a company that provides a "community and organising dining experience" - the Rocky Mountain Flatbread Company.

This lovely restaurant located between Cypress and Burrard on 1st in Vancouver (and one in Canmore, AB) aims to revolutionize pizza. Their pizzas are handcrafted on site, with locally sourced organic ingredients. They extend their commitment to the environment and their community on many fronts, included local school involvement, neighbourhood nights, use of reclaimed materials in their decor. Read all about their achievements in sustainability here.

A lovely thing they do is have family nights on Sunday and Monday evenings.
Your kids get to go into the back kitchen and make their own pizzas!

The exceptionally patient and kind Jade helped our group out.
You start with a thorough hand washing, and then get instruction on rolling out their delicious pizza dough.






After a thorough saucing, you get to choose your own organic pizza toppings. Favorites from our visit were the mangoes, prosciutto, green peppers, tomatoes and olives. Not all on the same pizza.






They are then brought to the clay oven for firing. You can feel the heat from it, it was a pretty dramatic way to cook!





The yummy finished product! I can tell you that it tastes amazing - crispy, chewy crust with perfect toppings.

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They have a fun little play kitchen (from the cool store Natural Pod - check out the cardboard rocket ship!)where kids can don aprons and chef's hats and pretend to make pizzas. No plastic toys here!







Part of their commitment to sustainability is their use of biodegradable pizza boxes, cutlery and straws. The kids were incredulous that the pizza boxes and take-away cutlery was made of potatoes and the straws were made from corn. No pizza boxes were harmed in the making of this photo.




We highly recommend it for both dining and entertainment. We're excited to try out their curry night soon . . .

And if you are inspired to increase your own commitment to the sustainability of our planet, check out their list of simple things to change the world.

Happy Earth Day!

Five is a wonderful age for a photo session (although you will hear me say this about every age!). They are so precious, so clever, and about to step over the threshold into their formal education. Fives love to please, take direction well, and are not shy of me or my camera.

Meet my lovely and charming five year old friend T:




This is her session storyboard:


Thank-you, Miss T, for sitting for me!

Amazing mom, amazing boys!

Our workflow here at Theresa Wiebe Photograph involves the mundane yet crucial task of backing up files. Part of the fun in backing up is getting a peek at some if the session images! Here is the very last image of today's session:
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This beautiful mommy visited us to get some images of her boys sitting up, and although she didn't plan it, we got some images of her, too!

Thank-you for coming in, L, and allowing me to document your boys' first year. Your slideshow will be up shortly, and perhaps we can share more images of your lovely children here, too!

So that you can see how much they've grown, here are the boys as newborns:
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I had the privilige of having Mr. J sit for me.

Here is one for his mother:



And one for him:



Thank-you, J. Your images will be ready soon!

A rare photo of me . . .