It’s hard to believe it’s been a year since doing Sandi’s maternity photos! Natasha & Nathan are a tonne of fun, and a huge bundle of energy. I was excited to finally meet them recently. They definitely have their own very distinct personalities, and I can see that they’re going to be quite a pair when they are older!
Here are a few of my fav shots!
I had the pleasure of heading over to the home of Rachel, Chris, and baby Naveen yesterday for some family potraits. Naveen is not quite 3 months old and was oh so interested in my camera. Such a cute baby! She was a perfect angel the entire time I was there, too. Congrats again guys! She’s pretty spectacular
Here are a few of my (many, many) favourites
Sandi and Kevin are having twins! It’s been a while since I had the privilege of photographing twins - and newborn twins are the best kind. I’ll look forward to sharing 2 sets of new fingers and toes in just a few weeks!
I recently went to their place to photograph a few maternity portraits. These were two of my favourites
Sandi & Kevin
Sandi looking absolutely amazing
In the next month or two we’ll be updating our website to reflect our new look and to showcase some of the other work that we love to do - lifestyle portraits.
I love to capture and preserve all of life’s fleeting moments - weddings and celebration of course, but also pregnancy, birth, and all the stages of both our children’s growth as well as our own.
Today I had the honour of photographing Stacy in the final weeks of pregnancy with her first baby. Absolutely stunning and with such a glow, I am looking forward to all of the photos we’ll be taking when baby arrives in the weeks ahead!
When you spend a week at a workshop and come home, you get asked constantly about how it went and what you learned.
When you attend a normal business type workshop, you come away with specific changes you will make or investigate for your business - new software, a better way to do something you’re already doing, a neat new marketing tip. You have tangibles.
The focus of FW4 was to get the participants to think differently… to see differently. I’m pretty sure they accomplished just that.
But, what specifically did I learn? What tangible things did I walk away with?
I can’t tell you. I just know… it was good. Really good.
Everything is so abstract… I walked away with a number of mantras and vague concepts, things I can’t articulate and that my right brain is still digesting, but stuff I know I’ll have running through my head from now on whenever I pick up my camera or edit a shoot. Shoot and move, shoot and move. Watch for secondary subject matter. Anticipate the moment, as in, REALLY anticipate it. When you think you’ve nailed it, work it some more. And more. And again. You might surprise yourself. No tilty, tilty; no funky, funky. When it’s a good time to get that SCREAMING TIGHT SHOT (and why I’d better ensure that shot is horizontal when I grab it). There’s so much more…
Part of our week had us out on assignment, assignments that revolved around anything but weddings. I spent time with a family of 4 - Alex, Rob, Max (5), and Nia (3). We shot during the day, painfully edited and critiqued the shoot at night, and did it again the next day. I’ve been home for 4 days and was only there for 5 and I’m still playing catch up on my sleep.
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