Photography Blog

I asked Vanessa and Colin what they enjoyed doing together so we could incorporate their hobbies into their engagement photo session.  Colin plays guitar and he also coaches a hockey team.  Vanessa loves listening to Colin and she was game to go skating with him as well.

I submitted the photo you see below to the PPOC (Central Portrait Branch)’s monthly competition and it won a merit award!  I think it nicely sums up how Colin feels about playing for Vanessa and how Vanessa feels about listening to him play.

We drove to the Markham Civic Centre’s skating rink for a few photos. It was extremely cold, so we didn’t last too long.

The Starbucks in Unionville has awesome window light!

We risked it and took a few photos on the train tracks.  No trains came.

Vanessa brought the flowers to the session to add a pop of colour to the photos.

Congrats again on your engagement! I’m looking forward to photographing your wedding at King Valley Golf Club in a few weeks!

I really love photographing headshots in the studio, so I was thrilled when Lise contacted me because she needed a nice photo for the conferences she will be presenting at soon. She also wanted a professional headshot for LinkedIn.

Professional photos are definitely one of the fastest ways for people to stand out on LinkedIn (and in general)! If you invest in yourself, people will be more likely to want to invest in you.

Here’s an emotional wedding photo from a wedding I photographed in Niagara on the Lake nearly a decade ago.  I love when the bride and/or groom cries tears of joy.

Happy birthday, Maya! We wish you a happy day filled with love, cuddles and kisses.

I took these photos about a year ago at Maya’s house in Burlington.  Maya’s mom and I have been friends since we were two years old.  Now we have our own little ones.

Maya has been adorable since day one and she keeps on getting cuter.

Just for good measure, here are a couple of Maya’s sweet big brother, Evan.  These were taken a couple of weeks after the above photos.

I hope Maya is having a great first birthday!

Here are a couple of photos from Amanda’s first communion. I think these were taken about two years ago.

Happy Valentine’s Day from my daughters, Julia and Emily!

We are also celebrating Julia’s 6th birthday today. She is very excited because she has her first loose tooth, she is l’amie du jour at school, it’s Valentine’s Day and it’s her birthday.

In the past few years, I have met quite a few of my neighbours through my photography business.  Tracey Rodriguez lives just a street a way from me and she called me up for some author headshot photos.

Here are a couple of my favourites.  I will let you all know when her book comes out!  We took these photos in my studio.  Just a few days before the session, I told Tracey about a video I had recently watched, Peter Hurley’s “It’s all about the squinch.” Tracey took it one step further and also watched his video, “It’s all about the jaw.” From now on, I will be recommending both of these to all of my headshot clients, because the results are fantastic!

Happy New Year!

One of my goals for the new year was to blog regularly. As you can see, that fell a bit on my priority list, but that is a good thing as my clients have been keeping me busy!  Big thanks to everyone who has been referring me to their friends.

I figure I will start my post with the Glas family, as I photographed them for their 2012 Christmas cards, they came back to me for Shannon’s dad’s birthday and then again for their 2014 cards. You can see how much the boys have grown.

We did the first series of photos at their house.  Photos below are from the front and inside of their Christmas card, but I put them together for you to see here.

They asked me for something completely different from the 2012 Christmas card session, so I suggested we go in front of the Christmas lights in Bloor West Village.

The brothers had fun donning their Santa hats and laughing in front of the reindeer.

Next week I am going to the photography conference in Mystic, Connecticut, so I am pretty excited about that! I will also be spending a few days in Boston, which I discovered last time I went to Mystic for the conference, which I am also very excited about.

I hope your new year is off to a fantastic start!

Hope you have a fantastic Christmas!