Bogs, Abandoned Houses, Soft Sunset High Fives

It's been a crazy couple of days ... last night I was shin deep in a swamp co-shooting with Tanya at Bells & Babies Photography for Shiverz Designs. Tonight I wandered through some abandoned properties (with the kind permission of the owner -- thank you!) I also picked up a fuzzy caterpillar, hung out in the woods, and cruised around in a mustang this week so ... all around, pretty awesome.

It's almost three a.m. and Jamie leaves on a cabin getaway tomorrow at five -- this weekend I'll be editing the giant pile of stuff I've been making my way through, hanging with my big brother and welcoming my Crystal back to Canada with many coffees and demands for details about her recent trip to Iowa. Oh, and hey! The Book Man's 22nd Anniversary is coming up on September 29th and I'll be there for a spell with a photo booth set up ... so swing on by for book-related awesomeness!

Posting a real sneak peek of tonight's shoot on the Facebook page tomorrow, but here's a little peek from the outside of the location we shot at tonight.

The woods are lovely dark and deep

This past June I went out location scouting with Jamie and we stumbled across the most beautiful little location nestled in the woods. This is the location I later used for the Awakenings photo shoot, as well as for a small handful of shoots since then. It's just the most peaceful, beautiful little spot... a bit of a drive, but it's worth it.

Can't wait to go location scouting again, this time with my husband (YAY!!!!)

Fall / Halloween Mini-Sessions Are Here!

Mini-sessions are now available until October 30! I've done mini-sessions a little different this year. They are available Monday to Friday only for $130. The sessions are 20-25 minutes and you'll receive a DVD in a paper pocket with 10 fully edited images. You can schedule a mini-session on any weekday, at any available time, but the location must be Gwynn Vaughn Park -- a lovely little community park in Chilliwack, on Fairfield Island. Mini-sessions are limited to four people per session.

I recently changed my pricing guide, as well. All full sessions are $300 and as always, come packaged in lovely, handmade fabric pockets.

Pretty excited about some new changes coming along ... I'm redesigning / revitalizing the website, editing a few awesome recent sessions and getting ready for leaves. Hope your fall is just as lovely and jam-packed with ideas and inspiration.

New fabric DVD pockets!

My friend Georgia from The Swinky Binky handcrafts all of my session DVD pockets out of, I'm pretty sure, awesome fabrics and love. We wanted to incorporate some chevron up in here since I'm currently pretty obsessed with it, so some of this new batch features a lovely grey chevron print.

Fabric pockets come with full session DVDs, which are session-customized on an Epson photo printer. The final DVD also comes with a complimentary fine art postcard, tied with a coloured ribbon.

Happy Engagement! Liz & Cory: Chilliwack Engagement Photographer

Elizabeth and Cory are getting married at the end of September! Yay! I shot a little engagement session with them at the end of July, and these two are straight out of a romance novel. Can you believe that perfectly placed wind? Can't wait to celebrate with them and see Liz as a beautiful bride. Congrats guys!

Honeymoon in Tofino!

Jamie and I went to Tofino for our honeymoon and stayed in a little cabin overlooking the ocean, down an overgrown forest trail. The cabin was very tiny, rustic and beautiful. We pretty much completely unplugged, read books and wandered around Tofino and Cathedral Grove. It was only three days, but it was awesome!
 

Pre & Post Wedding Awesomeness!

Happy First Day of School to those of you heading back! I hope your summer was as awesome and full of love as mine. I'll be posting pictures throughout the week and as they get edited, but from photographing the awesome bands Twin Peaks & Tall Cans, to doing a cake smash with two my favourite toddlers, to photographing the wedding of Matt and Emily and then like, also getting married or something myself or whatever -- it's been a truly great summer.

A bunch of my family came down from Kakabeka Falls and Thunder Bay, Ontario and places beyond and it was like magic getting to reconnect with them, showing them some of my favourite places -- not to mention celebrating with them. I promise to do a whole wedding post soon.

I'm sitting here at my office window with the sunshine outside listening to Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros "Here" album. LOVE. I've got a pile of editing to do, I'm catching up on the seventh season of Supernatural and I'm designing some special thank you cards for some extra special people. (Note to self: do a design post, too!)

I took my family to Harvest Cafe on Mill Street where they officially had their socks knocked off by awesome food. I drove to Vancouver for maybe the second time ever, saw some sea lions and sang Africa by Toto karaoke style with no fear. (And "Hold On" by Wilson Phillips. Full on, fist pumping, eyes closed off key awesomeness...)

From my cousins seeing the ocean for the first time, to the Aquarium, post wedding breakfast and rehearsal dinner, here are just a few photos from August of some of my favourite people in the land.