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vancouver photographer // and this was 2013

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So before you start - this post is packed with photos.  I don't even know how many photos it has, that's how many  there are.  Don't say I didn't warn you.

It made me smile to look back over all my 2013 sessions - so many amazing people I met and laughed with - families & couples & babies & moms & dads & stories, and each were beautiful in their own way.  I feel so blessed to have met them and been chosen to document their stories.  

I was recently doing a maternity session for a couple I've photographed before, and as I asked her to pose in some strange and uncomfortable position, I said, "I'm sorry - I bet you didn't come here expecting to have some crazy photographer tell you to do this!"   She looked at her husband and laughed and said, "Actually, it was the same last time..."

:) So thank you to everyone who let me photograph you & who put up with all of my crazy ideas.  Here's looking at 2014!

stanley park portrait photographer / paper airplane dreams

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Rachel has modeled for me on many occasions in the past.  Most of the time, she had very few good things to say about her appearance in my photos.  So you will understand that when I tell you that this time - THIS time - she had no complaints, I felt, in some small way, that I had arrived.

I spent an afternoon tearing out pages of an old Narnia book (I had two copies - don't worry) and folding them into paper airplanes.  (I did have to google "how to make paper airplanes", I will admit.  And yes, the fact that I couldn't remember how to do this made me feel a little old.)   I then attached red yarn directly in the center of each plane and we set out to the forest, where we tied them onto trees.  

I wanted to create a make-believe world where travel simply involved will-power; where merely wishing you were in Paris could take you to Paris; and where paper airplanes could actually fly.

These are paper airplane dreams.