International Women’s Day wrapped up with a beautiful light show in Val des Monts, Quebec.

...their faces will settle, they will fall into their natural rhythms - and THAT is when we’ll get photos that will move you in 20 years.

Seeing my tiny 5-year-old in his dad’s arms in his too-small pajamas with his head on Dad’s shoulder watching the lights in awe?

Standing with my big kids while they saw the Corona for the first time?

It was a big deal.

Around here we throw rocks, look under logs and move…reserve your photography session weekend now!

I wonder sometimes as I’m pressing the shutter of my camera with my feet frozen and the sky filled with clouds if this is the same hope for light that kept me going when I was a kid.

I think it is…

…I see it in them often. Picking up the dominos for the twentieth time and setting them out “one more time” to see if it works…

Sometimes we don’t see it - we don’t see ourselves the way our friends do. A soul who loves her children fiercely is beautiful, striking even - and every mom who sees this photo recognizes it.

Juniper Farm’s Sunflower Maze offers the perfect location for family photos in the fall!

Looking back many years later at the experience of birthing at the Civic and having a birth photographer.

Newborn Photography in Wakefield, Chelsea, Quebec in your home.  Relax, stay home, I will bring the coffee!

Photography is how others see things they may not otherwise see. Photos can start important conversations and from one single image - a new relationship can be born.

I want you to see what’s possible when one family set out to organize a run in honour of their son Aaron. The impact of Aaron’s life is immeasurable and here is one way this is true.

This post is inspired by a comment I saw online, “I’m not hiring a birth photographer because I’m having a hospital birth and it won’t be beautiful”. I felt my heart jump forward to the commenter and I wanted to message them and say “Wait Wait!!!

Some tips to have a great babywearing photography session with Ottawa Babywearing Photographer. Bring your favourite wraps, snuggle in and let’s capture some memories.

The Ottawa Birth and Wellness Centre offers families a place to birth in Ottawa where they can enjoy many comforts of home, large showers, a beautiful birthing tub and lots of space to move around in their own private room.

Supported by her midwife, doula and partner - these birth photos from the OBWC offer a window into what it’s like to birth at the centre.

...she continued to rest on the bed in the breeze of the fan. The shadows were in beautiful contrast to the slits of light coming in through the curtains. So I turned up my ISO (how sensitive the camera is to light) way up and began.

These photos prove what I’ve said all along (when this photography business was called Breathe In Photography) - the babywearing photos you invest in now will FOREVER bring you right back to these moments. You’ll feel the weight of your baby on your back, you’ll remember their “cooing” stage and their “da da la da ma pa” stage and the hours of cute conversations with toddlers stage. Take the photos!

She rocked and swayed and danced as baby made her way down - and when the pool was filled she settled in to the pool. She trusted her body and moved in ways that her body and baby called for. The room was very dark but a few dim lamps and the light from the hallway.

He was born on the stairs right into Dad’s hands!

A birth photographer will take care of that photo.

When you have a birth photographer at your birth you can be fully present in your experience - you can catch your baby…and I’ll take care of the photos.

There are little details that I see as the photographer that I knew at that moment mattered. The way Dad’s huge hands looked holding such a tiny soft-skinned newborn was heart-melting and powerful.