About Shona Reid Photography
Art is not in the eye of the beholder. It is in the soul of the artist. ~ Seth Godin
This statement describes how I feel as an artist to a T! Photography is where I go to relax, push myself and see beauty in all things and relationships. I look forward to sharing with you sneak peaks of sessions, personal musings and general tidbits of what I hold so near to my heart.
Shona Reid Photography is an award winning photographer located in Ottawa, Ontario. She proudly received a First Place finish in the Child Category (2012) and a Recognition of Merit in the Maternity Category (2011) of the National Association of Professional Child Photographer's (NAPCP) International Image Competition. She is also a proud member of the Wedding and Portrait Photographers International (WPPI).
Yup. This is one lucky little guy. He decided to start a growth spurt on the day we did his session, so I got to spend lots of time just chatting with his parents. They are incredibly cool people with such a fantastic outlook on life. I felt like I had known them forever and it was such a pleasure to spend the afternoon with them. The wee man is awfully cute too! I didn’t even pose him with the bunny. He just curled right into him 
So sweet!!
Be safe on all your travels!
Shona xo
April 9 Waiting (for both pools to reopen!)
April 10 Anywhere (is where I’ll find her reading)
April 11 Seriously Mom?
April 12 April Showers? (What a weird spring!)
April 13 Mall Sushi Aftermath
April 14 Airplane Mu-se-wum (The Aviation Museum is a GREAT place for a birthday party!)
April 15 Six!
Shona xo
This little guys was such a joy to photograph and he had such a great crop of blonde hair!
Enjoy your little man! He sure is precious 
Shona xo
April 2 Popcorn Words
April 3 Package from Nana
April 4 Can We Eat These Yet?
April 5 Big Puffy Heart
April 6 Cool Dude
April 7 National Art Gallery, Ottawa
April 8 Hangin’ in Mable the Maple
Shona xo
Once this little guy got cozy he was the sweetest little sleeper ever! Now that I think of it, I don’t think I heard him cry once. Wow! That never happens at newborn sessions! Way to go, Champ
Lots more to come!
Shona xo
My baby turned 9…how?
March 26 :: Dirt Day
March 27 :: Together
March 28 :: Checkin’ on the Mer Mer (and the tree that was planted last spring)
March 29 :: Punky + Pippi = HER
March 30 :: Egg-cited
March 31 :: Happy Easter
April 1 :: April Fool’s…but these socks are no joke…a birthday gift that she loves!
Shona xo
A whole lot of willing on Spring occurred this week…
March 19 :: Adios Winter!
March 20 :: Hello Spring
March 21 :: Music! My son gave me some buttons as a present so that I could make music…so sweet!
March 22 :: Future Apple Junkie
March 23 :: Par-tay! Not quite her 9th birthday, but this was the day we had friends over.
March 24 :: Cabane à Sucre at Stanley’s Old Maple Lane Farm (check this out for what else we saw there!!)
March 25 :: Hangin’ Out
Shona xo
This couple is so lovely and I am extremely honoured that they have chosen me to photograph their upcoming wedding.
Her flowers remind me so much of this wedding and I think all of the little details going into their wedding will add to how memorable it will be!
Can’t wait!
Shona xo
Yup. I’ve never done birth photography and certainly hadn’t planned on doing any last Sunday when we went to Stanley’s Olde Maple Lane Farm for some Cabane à Sucre, but boy did we get a show! We’re strolling through the stables and there’s this major crowd around the cow’s pen. I look in and within a few minutes (literally!) this is what we saw!
It happened so fast and I cracked up at the look on my daughter’s face…”Mommy. You did THAT!?” “Well, yes, but you didn’t come out feet first and you were a total slacker…you didn’t walk on your first day!”
It was pretty amazing to see and I’m glad for the Mommy cow’s sake that it was a quick birth. Truly incredible!
And if you haven’t gone for any maple syrup yet, get on it Yummo!
Shona xo
Man, oh man. I do have a love hate relationship with my iPhone…It is essential for me to run my business, yet it.is.so.slow. I’m still using a 3GS and it’s only an 8gb version, so at times I want to pitch it…especially when my 8 year old said it was too slow for her to look up a word for her homework. Gah!
So, I went to my best friend google and started to search as to why my phone is so slow and how I could improve the situation. Low and behold, I discovered a few things…this might be old news to most of you, but if I can help one person, then it was worth posting.
1. An 8gb iPhone ends up only being a 6.2gb phone because the operating system you need to run your phone takes up a crazy amount of space. I dunno, I guess I’m naive, but I thought the operating system wasn’t included in the usage… (I can see my brother shaking his head as we speak…).
2. I came across this fantastic article and it really helped explain things. I’ve listed some of the highlights below, but it is a good and quick read
3. I actually don’t have that many apps on my phone so I couldn’t figure out why they were taking up so much space…according to the article mentioned, it’s music and videos that are the killer…So, my sons pirate birthday party playlist got the axe! Tip: I thought you had to resync your phone to remove the songs that you don’t want. Nope, you just go to the song and swipe your finger right and magically a little delete button shows up! Ahhhh! The angels sang Other apps may be small in size, but their documents and data take up a lot of space. For instance, my Ottawa Public Library app is only 3.5mb in size, but it’s documents and data is 279mb. This is the information that is stored on the app, but I can’t really see a way around that as I don’t want to delete anything or I’d forever be getting late charges! Just take a peak and this might explain why some apps are taking up more room than others and then delete the ones you don’t use.
4. Next up was my Safari app…if you’ve never cleared your history, cookies and data, DO IT! I think that cleared up 1GB on it’s own!!
5. And finally, since we all love taking a million and one photos with our phones (*raises hand* guilty!), spend a little time cleaning off your phone and backing up those photos. AND PRINT THEM. (Stepping off of soapbox now…) In addition, I took off photo stream…it was driving me bonkers as I’d have 3 versions of 1 image. One in the camera roll (where I took the photo), one in the library, where I sorted it too and then another in the photostream as it backs itself up there. I think I got that right. It messes with my brains. I miss film. That is all.
My phone definitely has more free space now, but, sadly it is still slow. I think that has more to do with running the latest operating system on an older phone than anything, but maybe I’m wrong. If you know the answer to this burning question or have any other cool tips and tricks, please feel free to comment below! I’d love to know if there’s something major I’m missing!
Hope this helped!
Shona xo
ps. The cool cover on my iPhone is a hard shell from getuncommon.com. It is AWEOME! I have dropped this phone more times than I care to admit, but that hard shell has protected it beautifully! Oh! And I miss my son’s baby surfer dude hair…sigh…
