It was a muggy summer day (yes, this is last August!) and the sun seemed undecided about whether to go or stay. I love the light on those days.
I spent some time exploring Second Beach with this awesome family & I got to photograph lots of hugging and kissing and LOVE!
September has the best sunsets.
(Yes, I'm blogging a session from September. Yes, I'm very behind on my blogging. Yes, I plan to catch up. Sometime. Hopefully. Yes.)
This beautiful lady is also a photographer & she brought along her old camera to Iona Beach. We wandered around the beach as the ocean dripped golden from the sun & the greens were so very green & the pinks so very pink. Looking back at this session made me excited for warm sunsets that cause everyone to sparkle and glow.
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!
We spent this summer evening at Whonnock Lake in Maple Ridge & the light was beautiful. Plus, this family (who is now +1 more beautiful little girl!) is just gorgeous!
Taylor is my cousin, and Esther is a beautiful girl with awesome hair. He's known her all his life, but one day it suddenly hit him that he liked her. So he asked her out. And she said yes. And they became boyfriend and girlfriend. It was even facebook official!
However, there was a catch: this happened about two weeks before he was leaving on a year-long mission trip to Mongolia. (MONGOLIA? Yes, Mongolia.) Great timing, right? It makes me laugh, because it seems so very...Taylor...to wait until the last minute to ask out the love of his life!
Anyways. They survived long distance and he survived the extreme cold and grew a moustache, perhaps as a way to cope with the weather - let's not talk about that - and they were reunited at long last, and then, within a few months, they were married!
Before the wedding, though, I got to take their engagement pictures. It was a day full of rain, with a predicted thunderstorm, but they were still up for it! So we wandered to a field in the middle-of-nowhere-Langley and then raced to White Rock to catch the fiery-red sunset. And I had lots of fun, and I think they're the most adorable couple, and I'm so glad I got to photograph them, and I know God is going to bless them in their new and exciting life together!
