London Ontario Family Photography | Smith Family Rainy Day Session

I love seeing this beautiful, fun family every year. For this session, we pushed through despite rain in the forecast and had a blast (as usual!). Here are some favourites from our rainy day session.

London Ontario Family Photographer | Woodsy Extended Family Session

It rained all morning, and we almost cancelled. But I’m so glad we didn’t, because despite some muddy trails and wet grass, we had such a lovely time capturing some extended family photos in the woods. One of my favourite things about these sessions is watching grandparents interacting wth their grandkids, and this shoot was no exception. Scroll down to see what I mean!

London Ontario Photographer | Medway Creek Family Session

Jen is one of my dearest friends. We met while working as early childhood educators when I first moved to London, before babies and career changes took us in different directions. But despite not seeing each other at work every day, our friendship has grown over the last 10 years - one of those friendships where you can not chat for 6 months and then pick up right where you left off and talk for hours. It was such joy to take these family photos for Jen and her beautiful family back in the Fall of 2017, and I’m so glad to finally be sharing some favourites on the blog today.

London Ontario Family Photographer | Golden Hour Maternity Session

I loved reminiscing about this woodsy maternity session. The sun was shining for us on this gorgeous Fall day as we documented this special time before this sweet family welcomed a new member. Have you ever seen a more excited and proud big-sister-to-be? Here are some highlights from our shoot!

London Ontario Family Photographer | Spring Blossom Mini Sessions

Booking for this year’s Spring Minis opened up this week and they are just about sold out! We can never predict what specific blossoms will be in bloom at any specific time, so it makes each year a little bit different. I always like to reminisce about the previous year’s minis on the blog during booking week, so here are some favourites from my 2018 blossom mini sessions.

London Ontario Family Photographer | Silly Backyard Extended Family Session

Extended family sessions are always interesting because there are so many different dynamics at play - between adult siblings, between children and grandparents, between cousins, etc. The thing that stands out to me about this particular extended family session was how fun, silly and laid back it was. And when I say silly, I mean funny face, fake moustache level of silly. Scroll down to the bottom to see what I mean!

London Ontario Family Photography | Fall Family Session

I always say this, but I love getting to know families over time. This was my 2nd session with this gorgeous family (we’re up to three now, slowly catching up on my blogging!), and it’s so fun to see Cole growing up over the years. Such a handsome little dude, and such a beautiful family. Here are some favourites!

Best of 2018 Family Sessions | London Ontario Family Photographer

I wish you could have seen me putting this blog post together. First of all, it took a very long time. But most importantly, I smiled from ear to ear the entire time. So many beautiful families. So many favourites. So many. Some obvious ones that I previewed on social media and were stand-out favourites from the very beginning, and some that I had completely forgotten about, that for some reason didn’t really grab me during the editing process but made my heart sing during this yearly review.

As always, I feel the need to point out that my initial selection was so large it was ridiculous. In fact, one might argue that this selection is ridiculously lengthy. But I can only narrow them down so much, ya know? At the end of the day, whether a session appears in this compilation or not, I am so eternally grateful to each family that trusted me with capturing their memories - some for the first time in 2018, and some for the 8th time. It sounds so cliche, and we photographers like to throw around phrases like “I want to tell your story” and “capture your milestones” and “document your real life”… but it’s the truth. It’s why I do what I do.

Looking through all of these images made me so excited about the upcoming shooting season. For now though, I’m still reminiscing about the incredible year that was 2018. Here are some favourites!

London Ontario Family Photographer | The Agyem Family

Sometimes family sessions with teenage/adult children can be a bit more of a challenge in terms of capturing candid interactions and real emotions. With little ones, there’s a lot of snuggling and ticking and playing and swinging that inevitably produces lots of smiles and giggles and moments. I know when I’m photographing a family with older kids that I will need to work a bit more to encourage natural, candid interactions. All of that to say that when I met the Agyem Family, I was blown away by the effervescent joy they exuded and the funny, sweet interactions they had with one another. We did not stop laughing, joking and playfully teasing throughout the entire session, which made it easy to capture their beautiful spirit during our session. I loved hanging out with them and am so happy to finally be sharing some favourites on the blog today.

London Ontario Family Photographer | Backyard Extended Family Session

I spent a lovely morning in this beautiful family’s backyard capturing extended family photos. I love seeing grandparents light up and interact with their grandbabies - especially that first grandchild that brings so much joy and totally changes the dynamic of the family. Here are a few favourites!