10 years from now, the family portraits you take today will be perfect for remembering exactly what you look like right now—your hair colour, your son’s height, your daughter’s gap-toothed grin. But what if the most important thing those family portraits…
Every year for Mother’s Day we honour the beautiful mothers both in front of my camera and in my life. But this year in celebration of mothers, I wanted to do something a little different. This year I photographed three mothers…
In the editor’s letter of the Dwell magazine March issue, Editor-in-Chief Amanda Dameron writes about the power of interior design. Interior design is about manifesting comfort and pleasure in an environment sheltered from the world at large. It’s about summoning the…
In honour of the first day of spring and St Patrick’s Day this week, today we’re talking about wearing green in family photographs. If you have a neutral-loving heart as I do, you may think green is a bold choice. And…
Last week I wrote about improving the parent-child bond, my response to the Globe and Mail’s article ‘The Disintegration of the Parent-Child Bond’. In my view the question should be ‘how do I instill a sense of love and acceptance in…
The Globe and Mail article ‘The Disintegration of the Parent-Child Bond’ has been getting a lot of buzz since it was published yesterday. And while I agree with the author on the importance of a strong parent-child bond, I’m not sure…
Update: The Home for the Holidays announcement went out to our VIP subscriber list on Thursday and there are now only 4 spots left. If you’d like to reserve one for you and your family, call the studio today. Christmas is…
Not sure where to start when it comes to what to wear for family photos? Today I’m taking you behind the scenes and showing you how I chose outfits for our family photographs last week. Our annual family photographs are happening…
Deciding on the perfect frames, figuring out how you’re going to arrange them and choosing the photographs to fill them is important (obviously for us, since it’s what we’ve built our entire family portrait experience around). But those are the technical…