Year In The Life: Apple Picking At Wynn Farms

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Year In The Life: Apple Picking At Wynn Farms

A “year in the life” photography package isn’t for everyone.

It is an investment, for sure.

It means that we can get together multiple times a year (12 is the suggested amount, once per month, but really any amount works!) and document the growth of your children, especially if they’re in particularly dynamic parts of their childhoods (e.g. transition from toddler to preschooler, transition from early childhood to adolescence, etc).

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Candid Photos At Lyndhurst Cottage | Mini Day In The Life With The Marcos Family

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Candid Photos At Lyndhurst Cottage | Mini Day In The Life With The Marcos Family

Sarah’s mom, Ana, the matriarch of this family, approached me years ago to plan this photo-session, but because of timing issues (and later, Covid), it took us until this July to make it happen.

The idea was: document the family’s stay at their summer cottage, on Grippen lake.

I’ve been there before, because I’ve photographed their neighbors a bunch of times in years past. It’s a gorgeous place. Private, pristine, quiet…

And in mid-summer, that gorgeous green of the trees, couples with the deep blue of the lake…

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Skate Jam in August 2022 - Kingston, Ontario ❤

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Skate Jam in August 2022 - Kingston, Ontario ❤

As a photographer who is NOT a skateboarder (I mean… I tried for about a year so far… but you get hurt a lot, and I am not a huge fan of getting hurt 😜), I’m still learning what makes a good skateboarding photo.

I’m also trying to make sure I’ve got enough photos of the entire event - and not just the skateboarding photos - to flesh out the story.

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Bernie & Libby's 65th Wedding Anniversary ❤️ | Cataraqui Golf and Country Club

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Bernie & Libby's 65th Wedding Anniversary ❤️ | Cataraqui Golf and Country Club

Libby and Bernie’s children had put together a gorgeous slideshow of photographs from Libby and Bernie’s 65 years of life.

This is when I got all choked up.

There were imaged of them as a newlywed couple…

Images of them as parents to very young kids… the same kids that were gathered here today to celebrate their parents… and had brought their OWN children…

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Gananoque Egg Toss | Totally Candid Family Photography

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Gananoque Egg Toss | Totally Candid Family Photography

Here we bring you another installment of the ‘Year in the Life’ series, with the Wright Straub family.

As you might recall if you’ve been following this blog, the year was 2017. We had predetermined that we would meet once a month with this family to photograph their activities.

And each month was like a fun game, figuring out what activity to photograph!

Jacklyn contacted me early that week and was like, “hey, i know it’s short notice, but we’re heading to Gananoque on Friday to do an egg toss and have some pizza”, and I was like, YES!

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When Your Client Is A Great Photographer | Forbes Family Photography Session

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When Your Client Is A Great Photographer | Forbes Family Photography Session

A couple of months ago, Tim Forbes and I had a photoshoot exchange: He photographed my family, and I photographed his.⁣

Now, for those of you who don’t know, Tim is one of the best documentary photographers this side of Ontario. He’s primarily a wedding photographer, and was actually my mentor. I shot an entire season of weddings as his second shooter in that first year of business, back in 2016.

He’s been in the biz for nearly twenty years, and it really shows! His work is perfect. (no pressure, Tim 😉)

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Candid Family Photography Session in Ottawa | The Roisin Family At Home

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Candid Family Photography Session in Ottawa | The Roisin Family At Home

This is an oldie but a goodie :)

I drove to Ottawa in early May of 2019 so that I could meet this beautiful family and take some candid photographs of them doing their thing.

They have three daughters, and we had already settled on a one-hour session in their home, during which time we would be able to take some photos both inside and outside.

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a photo you can frame

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Those mundane, daily minutiae that you'd just as soon forget, during a hectic bustle of a day, running after kids, juggling chores and errands, screaming toddlers, wailing babies, the demands of work... when all you want to do is kick off your shoes and call the day done. The last thing you want to think about on one of those days is remembering the moments, right?

Wrong.

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