If you don't know about Y.A.N.A. scroll down to my last post.

As part of my Y.A.N.A. day of shooting I had a few special visitors pop into the studio to create some photos that will be used in Advertising the Century Ride.

Thanks to Anita from Y.A.N.A and Peter from the Comox Valley Record Newspaper (the Record is also a sponsor for the event)  for putting this together and the busy folks who took time out of their day to come and be photographed to help promote the ride.

The Century Ride is a 100 mile bike ride.The ride will be happening on Sunday, September 13. The ride is divided into 3 separate loops and the riders are welcome to do all or part of the course. It's not a race. It's about community coming together for a common cause. In the spirit of community and along with our philosophy of families helping families, a family ride has been added this year. The family ride is 5 1/2 kms through Comox that children and families are encouraged to do together. Riders are encouraged to collect pledges and all of the money raised will go YANA.  For more information call Anita at the YANA office 890-0343 or contact us through the websitewww.yanacomoxvalley.com or through Black'sCycle (a huge sponsor of the event) 339-7011 or visit their websitewww.blackscycle.ca

Meet a few of the riders:

Janine Tiller, Nick Holatko, Anita Brassard, Erin Halichuk from the Record, Bert Heeringa from Canadian Tire and Dave Proctor from Remax.

Chelsea's family received a gift certificate from a long-time absolute favorite client (thanks Eva) who has purchased many Mckinnon certificate as gifts. Everyone she has given them to has been phenomenal to work with.
So I let Chelsea's family know that I had high expectations of them, no pressure or anything, but I knew they would be fun, relaxed and just as fantastic as all of Eva's other friends.

Well they were.

They drove down from Port McNeil for Chelsea's session and thankfully the weather was perfect.
We started in the studio an then headed to the park.  Someone had obviously sent Chelsea a memo about how much fun we were going to have as she was all smiles and laughs.

What a blur of fabulous people and great shoots.

The excitement started buidling last week as I led up to the weekend with a stunning baby and grad shoot - sit tight for sneak peeks of those.

Saturday I woke up excited,  I made sure to eat well, got the perfect amount of caffeine and listenined to the ideal mood matching music -   I knew I was in for a few heavy days for the annual Roots the Salon shoot and had to ensure the gear up went just right.

18 different shoots - 18 totally different looks - 1 photographer

A massive thank you to the stylists who are so creative, professional, inspiring, helpful and really fun, funny and kind (and I mean each of those sincerely.) I would gladly work with any of you anytime. Seeing how you work together and help each other was really awesome it is a real testiment to your passion for your craft and to Ida and Michael, the owners at Roots.

The models, folks, these are people who have never done this type of thing before. They were made over, dressed up, dressed down and made over again. They were told to do this, then that, then this again - and they brought it - and even smiled at us when we finished.

(Models please say hi when you see me around town, chances are I won't recognize you without those crazy eyelashes and get-ups.)

Here are a couple, just the tip of the iceberg. I will blog more later this week.

Some behind the scenes:

We really did have an abundance of fun

Can we do it again next weekend?