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!

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

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!!!

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.

Do you have hundreds of little snippets of video of your baby? Do you wish you had it all together so you could look back anytime you want? Ottawa based videographer offers in home newborn lifestyle film and more.

Elle Odyn offers professional in-home newborn photography and film sessions. Stay home, grab your coffee, stay in the comforts of your routine and I will come over with my cameras and spend a few hours captureing images and film as you are.

Birth Photography is about YOUR unique story - the little moments, the connections, the details that make your family yours.  Ottawa Birth Photographer, Breathe In Photography, will capture your child's birthday as it unfolds.

How long does it take to see my birth photos? Why wait 6-8 weeks before looking at your birth images? Insight from Jennifer Gillean of Birth Story Healing in Ottawa Gatineau.

Ottawa Home Birth Story:  A precipitous birth and some questions and answers with Mom one year later.

Labour and birth is a dynamic process - almost a choreography between mom and baby. Baby instinctively knows what they need and mom responds, moving her body in a way to help baby...

"Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory." - Dr. Seuss wrote it perfectly.  Birth Photography is about more than the moment a baby is born - it's the details, the nuances, the connections.  Here are 12 images that show how the moments fill the story of your baby's birth.

Quite a few months ago, I met with a potential client to get to know each other and to chat about her interest in birth photography. She walked in with that beautiful glow that pregnant women have and she asked me a really important question.

Do you want to capture beautiful images of your family?  Learn everything you need to know to start - the challenge?  YOU will be in every photo!  Begins February 19 2017.