{vancouver photographer} childhood

I was thrilled when Wheat Canada asked me to be one of their storytellers, because this Canadian company stands for so many things I love. Their children's clothing brand is not about perfectly styled images of spotless clothing in a spotless environment, but rather about letting children live in their clothes, have fun in their clothes, get messy, run, tumble in their clothes. Their vision gave me the freedom to capture childhood as I know it really is - mud splashes and all.

Speaking as a mother, as well as a photographer, I am absolutely in love with everything Wheat makes. Their clothing is so comfortable, so well-made and designed, and basically completely adorable. I want to purchase every item on their website, in every possible size, and I very much wish I had a little girl so I could buy all the girls' clothing as well.

{langley photographer} lifestyle maternity session on a farm

This lifestyle maternity session was last Thursday evening, and everything was filled with sunshine, and this family is wonderful. Also, they live on a farm - the kind of farm with animals and vegetables and stuff, which is basically my city girl photographer dream. So that's cool.

Here's their little sneak peek!

{langley photographer} autumn lifestyle family session

I get to be related to these people! Jason is my cousin & he married the sweetest lady & they have the cutest kids & also live in the most lovely home. So photographing them is everything wonderful.

The sun ventured out for a few days at the beginning of November, and we happened to book our session on just the right afternoon! Golden sunshine & rich colours & beautifulness everywhere. I've been wanting to blog this session since the moment I finished taking the photos, because I love it, and I love them. 

{travel documentary} paris

We were in France in late September, and I think it was one of my favourite times to be there. This autumn season had a richness of colour and a lightness, a tingle of magic that other seasons did not. We were there for two weeks of sunny, crisp, scarf-and-sweater-but-not-quite-coat weather, and the only time it rained was for twenty minutes the day we arrived. Plus, of course, I was there with my favourite people in the world. (Even if that did mean a jetlagged toddler who decided it was dance party time at 3am, and only really accustomed himself to the time zone on the night before we left.)

Jorge and I put together a video of our trip, which you can watch here.

Highlights of the trip: watching Jorge talking at Motion Plus Design in Paris, and bursting with pride. (While I pushed our stroller back and forth for an hour and a half, in a venue crowded with noise, to keep Matthias asleep so I could listen.) Walking the city from the time we woke up til late into the night, and sunsets that coloured Paris with fire.  Beautiful parks in unexplored corners of the city. CROISSANTS. (All day, every day.) Hasty dinners of baguettes and cheese in our tiny shoebox Airbnb apartment, where Matthias literally slept in the closet. Fifteen minutes when we got separated at the St. Lazare train station, and God answered prayer and brought us together again, literally seconds before our train was to leave. Renting a car and travelling to the coast of Normandy; staying in a rose-covered cottage and realizing that life actually does have fairytale elements. 

It was wonderful. I am thankful.

scintillating sunwashed spanish banks family session

All the S's in that title remind me of a book we were given, called Alpahebetics: An Aesthetically Awesome Alliterated Alphabet Anthology (by Patrick & Traci Concepción). 

My favourite page from the book is Q, which goes like this: "Quinn the quail queen quietly queued for the quintessential quinoa quiche."

Amazing, right? All of this, of course, has absolutely nothing to do with this session, but I believe it was a very worthwhile sidenote.

Steve spent a few months last summer pastoring at our church, and I had the opportunity to photograph this (ADORABLE) family together one sunny August evening. Linsey is a talented writer, their little son is probably the most active child I have ever met, and his little sister is such a sweetheart. We miss you guys!