stephanie + chris - muskoka maternity

about two months ago, i spent a beautiful day in muskoka at steph's family cottage. her baby bump was just perfect! chris was definitely not happy about taking the last photo, but he made a deal with steph- if he did it, then we could do a photo that he wanted to do. alas, our shoot ended with chris swan diving over steph's belly into the water. since then, baby evelyn has finally made her arrival (which was very overdue!) and i can't wait to meet her!

enjoy,
xo jenn

caledon family portrait: late summer!

here is a quick little post of some family photos from last weekend. working with babies can be quite the feat but i think we did well! you probably won't recognize wesley anymore (i barely did!) from his newborn shoot a few months ago.
i've been shooting like a madwoman lately, and now i'm just floating along in a sea of editing so i thought i would share a few here and there as i go along.
enjoy!
xo jenn

baby wesley - newborn portraits

this poor post has been waiting patiently for weeks and weeks to be posted, but it got lost in a blur of vacationing, moving, then vacation photo editing and now enjoying the summer weather. well its time to get back to work and i'm very happy to be posting this little gem!
as i mentioned in this post, i have come full circle with this little family. wes' parents' wedding was one of my first, and i shot their maternity photos a few months back.
anyway, time for the photos! without further adieu, here is the little darling, wesley.
enjoy!
xo jenn

on vacation!

i am heading out on an adventure for the better part of a month...but i still have a few shoots that need to be posted! they will have to wait til i am back.
and guaranteed, there will be plenty of travel photos coming your way very soon.
but for now, here are 2 shots of Q who is looking all grown up and toddler like! she is amazing and is growing SO fast.

enjoy and have a good month!
xo jenn

sam + owen - maternity

very early this morning, sam delivered a little baby boy! wesley william arrived around 6am on one of the nicest days we have had yet this spring. i delivered this shoot to sam and owen just a few days ago, so it seems i was just in time because newborn shots are just around the corner.
sam and owen's wedding a couple of years ago was actually the second wedding i ever shot, so i'm very happy to be able to document yet another exciting time in their lives. this family lives on a great property, so it seemed like the natural thing to do to shoot sam's maternity photos out there. the field was a bit too bright, so we headed back into a building that was actually once a pig farm! inside, the rusty background turned out great and slatted open wall gave us some nice light to work with. outside, owen suggested some shots in front of the mint green door which looked awesome in contrast to the red walls.

congrats to the new parents, and i can't wait to meet the little addition to your family!
enjoy!
xo jenn



i really like this shot, so i tried a new layout...not sure if i like the layout but i wanted this to be on its own!

amelina: a few more

finally about to deliver these newborn shots....here are a few more, continued from the sneak peak. i especially love the shots we did of ranin holding amelina...they have a soft and warm feeling to them, and ranin looks stunning in them.

enjoy!
xo jenn

baby amelina

so i'm already posting a sneak peak even though i said i wouldn't do it anymore!
however, these photos are a bit different- i tried something new this time around, esp with the post work.
when i looked at these shots after i got home from the shoot, i realized that they reminded me of a baby in the womb, so i tried to kind of emulate that with the colours (pretty obvi). amelina was so comfy in there, regardless of how nervous her mother was while we were shooting it. it must have been like going home!

hope you like them!
enjoy,
xo jenn

holiday wrap up...its not late, i swear!

so this post may seem like it should have been written a week ago... but for most, today was the official 'back to work day' (me included) so i tried to stretch the holidays out until 6am this morning (and staying up late watching curb your enthusiasm didn't help my cause).

so here it is, a short post of photos basically summing up what my holidays were all about (sans photos of my family sitting around for countless hours talking, eating and drinking).

p.s. check back for a recent newborn shoot and the cutest puppy you have ever seen (promise!)

enjoy!
xo jenn

1. Q turned one! i can't believe its been a year since we did her newborn photos. i feel like i have grown and gotten a lot better since then. here are a few from the 1st birthday party and a book i made for her for christmas.







2. this kitten hardly left my room for 10 days. still mad at leanne for taking zoe back to ottawa! kitten theft aside, you should check our her awesome site that she designed herself.
also played with some christmas tree bokeh.



3. was supposed to have an alternative to traditional stuffed turkey on christmas day, because i am not a fan (even though the 'alternative' just turned out to be a stuffed chicken with all of the usual sidedishes). instead, my family decided to spread bronchitis all over our house so the 5 kids had leftover Montfort's, and i did not complain once!
bought fresh rosemary for the chicken...you already know what happened there so instead i did some quick shots of it so it wouldn't go to waste!

alyssa: just a few more

i have been a very busy lady lately, but it all must get done before christmas!
with this post i realized it is getting repetitive having a sneak peak (which really should just be one photo...but i'm usually just too excited to post just one!) plus a full post, so consider this the last one.
i already gave these images to the new mom & dad, and they were quite happy with them. alyssa was snuggling up to me like a little mole digging into the ground! she is so cute.
enjoy!
xo jenn