I just had my first completely outdoor newborn shoot in Calgary this week (check it out below), and my first time back to photographing in 6 months. It felt so good to be healthy, able to walk again, and doing what I love.
This means that the good news is, I’m back!
I’ll be booking limited photo sessions within Calgary (because of my beautiful new baby), beginning at the end of June, and will be a strictly outdoor photographer during the Covid-19 restrictions so that it’s easier to maintain the proper distance to keep us all safe this summer.
I’m looking forward to this summer, I’ve had some really exciting projects in the works for quite some time now to add some much needed diversity to my portfolio and to what I post online, I can’t wait for things to finally come together and share it all with you.
With all that has happened in this last week to forward the Black Lives Matter movement, I have taken the time to dig deep and learn, to work on myself so I can teach my children better and do better, and I fully intend to continue this momentum in my life, to continue to DO THE WORK. The core value in my life and in my business has always been that everyone deserves love and acceptance.
As a small business owner I've built a community that I am incredibly grateful for and I want to serve my community more. I want to do what I can with my voice, a voice that can be seen visually through my photography. It’s my responsibility to depict a more diverse group of beautiful faces and stories of love, family, and friendship here in this space, with my community, through my art.
I hold my newborn baby close, with certainty of her safety in this world, now aware that this is white privilege. I can’t help but shed tears over this fact, wishing every mother, of every colour, felt as sure as I do that their baby will grow up in safety and acceptance. This is why I will continue to do the work, so that some day all of us mothers will feel that safety for our children.
I love all of you! Thank you for being here, from the bottom of my heart, and sticking with me through all of my personal ups and downs this year, through miscarriage to pregnancy again, through months of bed rest and finally a perfect baby. It’s been quite the ride globally as well in 2020, we have learned so much about ourselves and one another, I can’t wait to work harder on doing more, on finding more meaning and more depth in my work and finding a way to use my voice in a more powerful way to affect lasting change.
The photos in this post are from my first shoot post-partum. I was able to meet and photograph my sister-in-law’s newborn baby this week, my second little niece! I can’t wait until I can hold her, remaining physically distant is so difficult with that perfect little angel right there! Let me introduce you to my new daughter’s cousin and future BFF (once they are allowed to meet and be within 6 feet of each other, of course). Isn’t she beautiful?
