When I started planning my daughter’s first birthday party, I was overwhelmed as I tried to make a Zoom first birthday party & virtual cake smash a fun activity despite the limitations. However hard it would be, I needed to have a birthday party to commemorate our first year of parenthood and to celebrate my…
One of the heartbreaking side effects of this Coronavirus/Covid-19 season of isolation and social distancing is the lost opportunity for milestones shared with friends and family. We’ve all been touched by some form of grief and missed celebrations, I am sure: graduations, holidays, travel plans, wedding celebrations, birthday parties. The list goes on. But I…
While most of the photographs I publish online revolve around my role as wedding photographer, I have long described myself as a Relationship Photographer — inserting myself as the sometimes bossy third wheel to be able to photograph the emotion-full string of seconds that make up a well-rounded relationship. At Home Newborn Photos are no…
Do you remember the maternity photos? After wandering the streets of our own little downtown while celebrating family of three in anticipation of becoming a family of four, cozying into home was the perfect Abbotsford newborn photo plan. But what do you do when the kiddo doesn’t want to cooperate but newborn photos need to…
These are not your typical newborn photos. I mean, we have a (sometimes) asleep and (sometimes) awake ten-day-old. Typical. We have doting parents and adoring siblings. Typical. We have cute props and lovely natural light. Typical. But these photos are made extra special (and a-typical) because every prop we used used is going to be…
Not too many years ago, I determined (harshly) and announced (loudly) that I would never do newborn photos. ‘Babies scare me,’ I said. ‘They’re too floppy,’ said I. ‘I won’t be able to do babies justice until I have my own,’ I said. Marrying into John’s family, though, produced (no pun intended) ample opportunity for practicing…
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