the Journal

Remember making summer bucket lists as a kid? The ones filled with everything from beach days to impossible dreams? This year, I made a new one—only this time it's filled with the sessions I'd love to capture. From garden hose water fights to golden hour beach walks and vow exchanges, here's what's on my Summer Session Bucket List. ☀️🤍

After arriving earlier than expected and spending six weeks in the NICU, these sweet twin boys were finally home and ready for their newborn session. From sleepy cuddles to matching blue outfits and quiet in-between moments, this studio session was filled with so much love, gentleness, and joy. A beautiful reminder that every beginning has its own story. 🤍

Some sessions feel less like posing for photos and more like slowing down long enough to soak in the season you’re in. Between the golden light, rain clouds that passed just in time, soft prompts, and the sweetest little secret only dad knew, O & C’s maternity session was filled with quiet moments that already felt like memories before baby even arrived. 🤍

Custom name sweaters have become my go-to baby gift — thoughtful, timeless, and filled with heart. What started as a simple product photo idea turned into a beautiful reminder of community, creativity, and the village behind small businesses. From borrowed baby shoes to a coffee-fueled creative morning, this session became about so much more than sweaters. 🤍

A little paint, a lot of laughter and 117 beautiful memories later — this Paint With Me Mommy & Us session was everything childhood should feel like. Messy hands, candid moments and connection-focused storytelling came together to create a gallery this mama will treasure forever. 🤍

There’s something incredibly special about getting to photograph a family through so many seasons of their story. Not just for one milestone, but over and over again as life quietly unfolds in front of the camera.

Some stories don’t begin when the camera comes out. They begin years before — in quiet hope, in waiting, in wondering if this chapter will ever arrive.

There’s something incredibly special about the first hours after welcoming a new baby into the world. The room may be quiet and slow, filled with sleepy cuddles, tiny stretches, soft tears, and the kind of love that changes everything all at once.

You’ll leave with paint on your hands (and probably your clothes), but more importantly — you’ll leave with something real. Something that felt like you. Something your child will grow out of faster than you expect. And something you’ll be able to hold onto, long after the paint has washed away.

When a client takes the time to write a testimonial or leave a review, it’s never something I take lightly. Those words hold so much meaning to me — far more than most people probably realize.

There is something so tender about photographing a couple stepping into parenthood for the very first time. Add in the joyful shock of “there’s two,” and the whole atmosphere shifts. There’s awe. There’s nervous laughter. There’s that quiet look between them that says, we’re really doing this.

Some sessions are planned weeks in advance. And some come together “last minute” — but feel like they were always meant to happen. This snowy engagement session was the kind that reminds me exactly why I do what I do. A Date & Location That Meant Something The location wasn’t random. It was close to the area where they had their very first date. The kind of spot that holds the quiet beginnings of something big. And the session date? Exactly two months to the day since the que

The last few months have been full — full of stories, full of trust, full of families inviting me into their most meaningful moments. And I kept thinking… how do I say thank you in a way that feels like more than words?

Before photography became my work, it became my way of holding on. Today my son turns eight, I don’t just see another year older. I see the very beginning of why I ever picked up a camera in the first place. At just six days old, he faced open-heart surgery — a double bypass — before most babies have even opened their eyes to the world. Those early days taught me how fragile life is, and how fiercely beautiful it can be. I learned, very quickly, that moments are not guarant

There is something incredibly special about being invited into a home during this season. The quiet anticipation. The carefully folded baby clothes. The way the light slips through the curtains and lands gently on a crib that hasn’t yet been used but already holds so many dreams.

C&C’s lifestyle engagement session felt less like “a photoshoot” and more like a slow afternoon spent together — the kind filled with laughter, movement, and those quiet little in-between moments that mean the most.

There are sessions that are beautiful. There are sessions that are joyful. And then there are sessions that quietly reach in and hold your heart a little tighter.

There are some couples who feel like familiar pages in your favourite book — and C&K are exactly that for me. Throughout the years, I’ve had the joy of photographing their family more than once. I’ve watched their love grow, their family expand, and their story unfold in the most beautiful ways. But this September engagement session? It felt different. For the first time, it was just the three of us. No little hands tugging at pant legs. No giggles running through the frame.

Tiff & Josh — your wedding day was everything. Beautiful. Emotional. Deeply meaningful in the quiet ways that linger long after the music fades.

There are sessions that are beautiful…And then there are sessions that feel aligned from the very first email.