Another year, another sweet session with this growing family | Tiiu, Dale, and the kids visit Wartman Paterson Park

I first photographed this family in 2016, when Tiiu was still pregnant with her youngest. It was my first full year as a family photographer.

I’ve photographed this family five times in nine years, and I’ve watched their kids grow, and explore, and now they even have a fur baby added in the mix!

Read this last chapter of their story and see the magic photos we made on a dreary day in November, in Wartman Paterson Park in Kingston, On.

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A walk with the Kid: a story of wild horses and trust

The mare curls her lip and butts the Kid in the face. He falls backwards, lands on his butt in the wet grass, starts to cry. There's no blood, no scrapes, no bruises, but the Kid's heart hurts. He's lost his surety, maybe his trust. Some horses are like that, Kid, I tell him. You gotta be careful. But some horses aren't. You just can't know it on the outside.

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