There’s one simple thing every parent can do to ensure their family portrait session is a success. Of course, there are a few things you can (and should) do to prepare for your family portraits, but doing this one thing matters…
To all the dads who arrive at your family portrait session with a smile on your face… thank you. I realize family portraits probably aren’t the number one thing on your list of things you want to do that day, or…
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…
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…
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…
There’s a conversation I often have with parents part way through the session as we’re moving locations or when we’re all finished and heading back to our cars. It goes something like this…. “I’m really sorry, they don’t usually act like…
When was the last time you had your family professionally photographed? If your kids are little, then maybe it wasn’t that long ago. It seems like family photographs are on that ingrained checklist of things we do when our kids (or…
Happy Mother’s Day week, mamas. This is the week when the scramble for Mother’s Day intensifies – cards, gift ideas, flowers, brunch reservations and, if your kids are preschool-aged, whispered secrets about all the surprises at this years Mother’s Day tea….