It’s officially December and we are once again offering our portrait sessions at exclusive holiday rates! In keeping with our holiday tradition, there are 10 sessions available for a lucky few.

Whether for yourself or as gifts, if you’ve even been *thinking* about getting portraits done – do it now! Grab yours before they are gone – buy online now (below), or email us to get yours. 

Blue Olive Portrait Session Sale

One Hour Session $195.00 CAD Two Hour Session $295.00 CAD Family – Day in the Life $395.00 CAD 3 Session Baby Plan $395.00 CAD

Sessions can be for an individual portrait, couple or engagement, newborns, kids, or families. We offer our standard session at around 1 hour, an extended session at 2 hours (perfect for hitting a couple different locations), a day in the life family shoot that gets us together for a few hours while we plan activities to keep everyone busy, and our 3 session baby plan which can cover maternity/newborn/1 year or newborn/6 month/1 year shoots!

Each session comes with an in studio reveal session to view and order from your session and one of our custom 8×12″ enlargements. Sessions may be scheduled anytime in the 18 months following your purchase. When redeemed, we’ll work to finalize the session details including date and time, location, and ideas. We are currently booking January portrait dates.

Happy Holidays everyone!

Reilly and I are really excited to be participating for the first time in Eastside Culture Crawl this weekend!

Our live/work studio will be open tonight (Friday) from 5-10pm, and again tomorrow and Sunday from 11-6 each day. All of the Blue Olive stuff you’re all familiar with of course will be on display so if you’re wanting to meet up with us it’s a great time to pop in for some casual browsing through our work, and more importantly you’ll be able to check out some of the other creative stuff we do. Reilly has a large collection of his art photography on display, I’ll have some of my ceramics and typography line (http://www.etsy.com/shop/sassycontessa) out, and there will probably even be an impromptu performance or two on Sunday by Reilly’s band and some other musical friends. All in all, should be a great weekend!

Hello Everyone!

Long time, no chat. How has your summer been? Did you go places, see new things, play in the surf?

We’ve had an AMAZING summer – so many new babies to photograph and carefree happy kids to chase, a couple dozen wonderful weddings, laughter laughed and tears shed for touching vows, memorable speeches, and sunny days. Seriously, I believe we have the best job on the planet.

We’ve also tried really hard to have some balance, so the occasional day at the beach with a great read on my kindle and a guitar in Reilly’s hand has taken priority over our blog, so we could recharge and be ready to do what we do best each day in the office – from shooting through to editing and designing stunning albums for our clients. This time of year is always tough as we’re heads down working through the culmination of months of shooting, but we’re close to winning so we’re happy about that.

I have to say though, I’m SO EXCITED about fall! Sweaters and scarves are two of my favourite things, and I love the crisp cool air. We’ve spent time in the kitchen canning for the first time ever (can’t let the delicious farmer’s market & csa organic veggies go to waste!), and I’m dreaming of pot roasts in the crock pot and apple crisp in the oven. And, of course, many cozy nights around the table with friends.

We’ve got two big things to share before I go, but I’ll be back soon with all the oh-so-delicious stuff we’ve been keeping to ourselves for the past while.

First up, babies & kids! So many of our wedding clients come back to us when they start a family, and I melt a little each time that I get to meet and cuddle any new arrival. As babies become kids and trade sleeping soundly for running around as fast as their legs can take them, we join in on the fun. So, on that note, we quietly launched our babies & kids division over the summer. We are currently offering 50% off any of these sessions as an introductory offer for our blog friends when you mention this post, but it expires in one week so get in touch ASAP to get in our schedule for anytime in the next few months. Check us out online at http://kids.blueolivephotography.com.

And – the second thing I wanted to share – we are deeply thankful to each and every one of our clients and friends who voted for us again in the Georgia Straight reader’s choice awards! To be honest we completely forgot to even remind anyone to vote so there were no tweets or newsletter mentions at all (Reilly didn’t even fill out his own ballot!), which made the call to let us know we had won again that much more a surprise. We’ve been named the Best Wedding Photographers in Vancouver for the third straight row, so a giant THANK YOU to each of you.

We’ll be back soon with lots of eye candy to share.

XOXO!

Miranda (& Reilly!)