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Romance at Home | Alberta Wedding & Elopement Photographer

An in home couple’s session, does it get any more intimate than that? There is something so incredible about being invited into someone else’s space to document their life together. It’s an honor that should not go unmentioned. Listening to these two talk about their life together and their plans for the future was moving. […]

Changing Seasons, A Kith&Kin Family Session | Red Deer Alberta Family Photographer

“But I don’t care about the location of the session,” someone recently told me. It was a stab in the guts, but I do understand; most families looking for a photographer just want beautiful pictures and as long as the location is pretty, they don’t care where we shoot. But I do. And this is […]

Your Kith: An Intimacy of Location | Central Alberta Family Photograper

We often forget that relationship extends beyond human interaction. Have you ever considered your relationship to home and location? That is your Kith. Kith is defined as a relationship to place, an intimacy between you and the land you live on. Your Kith is the places that shape the landscape of your life; your house, […]

Wild Moon Desert Woman | Drumheller Alberta Womanhood Photographer

There is intimacy with the Sun in the desert, even as those last few rays kiss the horizon you feel it penetrate your skin and feel in kinship with the heat. You mourn as they drag the light away from you only to marvel at the whisper of the rising Moon, almost full and you […]

Return to the Water – Beach Maternity Session | Central Alberta Maternity Photographer

She doesn’t remember the time she lived in the water, but it happened, just as it’s happening now inside her. But her body remembers the smooth rocking; It remembers the comfort of muffled sound, vibrations in the dark. She moves along the edge of the beach, aching to feel the familiar water on her skin. […]

Beach Motherhood Session | Red Deer Maternity Photographer

Motherhood, in all of it’s painful beauty, swept up in the waves of the ordinary. We don’t realize how miraculous this is, unseparated from the mundane. Here lies everyday magic, the place where this world meets another. How beautiful it is to witness. How magical it is to live within this pool of watery beholding; […]

Self & Other; An Intimate Couple’s Session | Central Alberta Engagement Photographer

A portrait of self and other; two souls filled with longing for themselves and for each other. A tidal wave of feeling captured from years of passion and pain. Our stories weave into one another, creating a tapestry that will be our life together. And this, photographic evidence that we were here. That we lived. […]

The Art of You ; Commissioned Art Pieces | Central Alberta Fine Art Photographer

Why buy an image to hang on your walls when you could become the custom and one of a kind art you look at everyday? This is exactly the intention behind my conceptual fine art sessions. These sessions are slow and intentional. You come into my studio with concept ideas and together we turn your […]

Wild Roses | Photographs from Alberta’s Women’s Festival

To worship with abandon means to fully let go of pretenses; to come to the feet of the divine and allow yourself to be seen. That is what I experienced at the Wild Roses Festival in July. Women came together and removed the masks they wear in the world and let each other touch the […]

Kith and Kin | Red Deer Alberta Family and Motherhood Photographer

For a long time now I’ve been wondering if perhaps I’m just not a family photographer. I find almost no poetry in taking a family to a location they have never been to and photographing them in ways that speak very little about who they actually are. I find it downright boring as fuck. Even […]