You know how sometimes circumstances change dramatically in the eleventh hour? And sometimes it’s ridiculously discouraging?  And often it’s hard to see the beauty of the change? One week ago, it was a deliriously warm and sunny Sunday afternoon in southern California.  This Canadaland resident was basking in the glow of her red-white-and-blue homeland, the…

    Traipsing through the woods, sipping tea in between locations while bouncing on rutted trails in a classic (read: old) pick up truck, throwing leaves, watching the sun sink toward the horizon.  Oh yeah, and commemorating this season of love and autumn engagement. Simon & Christine have one of the sweetest, most precious love…

When I first met Shanna, I was running around my neighborhood desperately trying to coax my kitten to return to me.  I’m not sure I even said “hi” to her as I raced past her, lunged for the cat, and … well…missed. I wheedled.  I begged.  I bribed.  I stalked.  Yet my four-month-old kitten wasn’t…

He takes her in his arms, carefully but deliberately.  Poised to begin, they start to waltz.  The man is finishing the last step, doing the current step, and preparing for the next step. He has to think. Plan. Do. Lead. He can’t step on her toes, can’t send her crashing into another couple, can’t forget…

Picking a “favorite” photograph or a “favorite”  type of session is, in my opinion, akin to picking a “favorite”  child or “favorite”  sibling: ill-advised.  However, as far as stress-free, love-filled, happily-photographed sessions go, engagement  sessions could easily be my favorite.  I love having a leisurely schedule to meander a city with two people who are…

Blissful anticipation with a healthy dose of  reality, that’s what they were.  Two weeks before their wedding, Kelsy and Sean’s spent an evening with me as we meandered Vancouver’s sidewalk.  With a suppressed by palpable excitement,  they walked back into the hotel where Sean proposed earlier in the year.  They laughed over memories from their…