Bringing a new baby into an established family dynamic is exciting but always a bit risky; it might change everything we know to be true.

I remembered how much I love working with mothers and their kids, but I also felt a strange unease. Something has shifted and I no longer want to shoot with the formula that I think plagues commercial family photography in central Alberta.

Printing a Year of Pictures

I’m going to let you in on a little secret: I don’t know what the hell I’m doing anymore.

I don’t like Canola and I don’t care for yellow, but that’s what our field is full of every other year.

I don’t need a roadmap to my own soul

I’m learning film. What a humbling experience.

I had the feeling as I planned the session that I should add elements of mystery. Then she told me she was a 2/5 emotional manifestor and thought maybe some mysterious elements would be nice. As she reached down to touch a white cockle, I noted that her hands looked a lot like mine. We […]

If wedding photographers are supposed to have emotional boundaries, I’m doing it wrong. I fought tears multiple times throughout the day – asking myself “you barely know these people. why are you crying?” But I don’t have to know them to feel the palpable longing between them. To witness love and devotion as genuine as […]

Graduation is an initiation ritual. We move from one phase of life into the next, side by side with peers, supported by our elders. We alchemize the story of childhood into one of autonomy and self-reliance, taking on an adult perspective yet in a still very childlike form. A space of transition; no longer a […]