The photography industry has been a good place for me- full of kind and welcoming people. I’ve learned a lot from other photographers who have been willing to share and learn together with me. In my journey thus far, I have been free of the drama that can occasionally crop up and have instead been fortunate enough to build some great relationships. Two of those are with Melissa VanLeeuwen and Emily Krbec. We met a few years ago on a long weekend get together in Toronto during a shootout. It was fun and we stayed in touch thanks to Facebook and E-mail. Since then we have collaborated on two occasions-a day where we focused on building our skills and portfolio with children and another where we worked on sharing our knowledge and again, building our portfolio, with a beautiful newborn. This time we decided to spend our day photographing maternity clients, as well as working on shooting in full sun.

The location was a lavender field in London, on a hot, hot day where the dirt burned your feet and the wind swept dust through the air. It certainly presented its challenges, but we were able to capture some gorgeous images of the models within the allotted two hours. The rest of the day we did what we do best- chatted, ate and chatted some more I always LOVE getting together and talking photography!

So here is our first model, Ashley. She is a talented photographer from the London area, and it was so fun to have her there as a model as she really knew how to be in front of the camera. I believe she was due in only 2(?) weeks at our session. Doesn’t she look INCREDIBLE?! They have since welcomed a sweet little girl to their family, Ella Ruby…congrats guys!