Today, Advil is my friend.

The lovely Aspen, from today's shoot.

The vivacious Anthea, from Saturday's headshot session. Nothing like a little tap-dancing to set the tone for a shoot.

How do you say 'tacky' in Greek?

A little drinkie for the end of the day. Nada and I visited the Church Key Bistro this evening.

Nicole, from tonight's shoot.

Today's lesson - high-key.

Me, in my coffee cup.

Yesterday, we saw Claire get her ears pierced - today, I share with you Alex's first zit - puberty, here we come!

Claire got her ears pierced today.

Oops! I stepped on Steve's glasses - my bad.

I brought yogurt and fruit, but two students forced this poutine on me!

Taken tonight with my Russian 500mm mirror lens.

Alex's frog prince piggy-bank (don't ask me why it's yellow...) - in honour of renegotiating our mortgage.

Words of wisdom from the photography students.

New toy for getting colour right in your RAW workflow - the X-Rite Colorchecker Passport. Take a photo in RAW, import into Lightroom, then export using the Colorchecker plug-in, and you get a custom generated calibration profile for your camera for that lighting situation. Pretty slick.

It may not be a marketable skill, but it's better than nothing, I guess...

A tip of the cap to Prince Albert's diner...

Lighting class today dealt with the 3:1 portrait - here's the background light in action.

Shot with Mish and Vadim tonight - Jen was our model.