Life Is Moments -- Calgary Family Photographer
I think about how a life is all about the moments...like the moment he gave her a beautiful eternity band just because he loves her. Or, how on their first date they instantly felt comfortable and just talked and talked. Or, how that one time they used the 'power plumber' and the stuff clogging the drain ended up all over the ceiling. All over everywhere. Those are the moments that make up a life :) This is what 28 years of love looks like.
~ Dana
Spring Has Sprung
A sweet little photo bomb by a little boy whose own baby pictures include one of my most pinned images ever. So excited to help his family welcome a baby brother or sister!
If you are expecting a baby soon, make sure to contact me and ask about my specials for families who book both maternity and newborn sessions with me. It is such a special time that I enjoy documenting for people.
~ Dana
Good Mother
Jann Arden is my absolute favourite person to follow on Twitter. Aside from being ridiculously funny, she will occasionally send out little poems to the twitter verse that make my heart stop. This should not surprise me. I have loved her music for as long as I have known about it.One of my favourite Jann Arden songs is "Good Mother". I had to post the video here with a few images from my Mother's Day Pop Up studio. It was so awesome to spend my mother's day celebrating with so many other fabulous moms!
I know these are all a little different for me. Same me...different feel. It's fun to try something new and I am grateful for the trust these families showed in me for allowing me to explore. I loved it. More studio stuff to come from me in the future for sure ;)
~ Dana
Photographing Moms
With Mother's Day approaching, I was considering posting all the moms I had worked with over the last year...but, that would be a very large post ;) And, what images of them do I post? You see...I photograph as a mom. Even when they're not my kids, the pictures I take are heavily influenced by what I would want to remember if it were my family. So, I kind of feel like all of my photographs are photographs of Motherhood. What you see and what you don't see of your life as a mother--the kids, your husband, YOU in the middle of it all...little stories of motherhood.
My friend and client, Jennifer Chaney, recently posted a blog post about letting your pictures show what is in your heart. It filled my heart to see her post an image I took of her and her boy where you could see her heart. 
These are my favourite kinds of images to take. The ones where you can see how much love a mother has for her child. That is a universal emotion my friends. Mothers around the world know it. I like to show you what that looks like. I also like to show it to your kids. It's like proof positive that they are the centre of your world(as if the 52 hours of labour you went through weren't enough proof!).
As much as I love these images that show me a mother's heart, I also love capturing images that either show a mom 'in action' or views that I think they probably see on a daily basis at this point in their life. It is partly why I like to do my sessions in my client's homes. These mundane moments are worth remembering because chances are you are too sleep deprived to remember it without a little bit of help ;)
So, to me...if I really think about it...motherhood is a sort of photographic style which I've embraced. I want my photographs to speak to those moments of parenthood which you want to hang on to...the big emotional ones and the little, everyday ones.
If you are ready to have some photographs like this of your family, I would love to help you out ;) If a full session isn't in the cards for you this year, I still have two spots at my Mother's Day Pop-Up Studio in downtown Calgary.
And, to all of my clients over the last year--thank you for sharing these moments with me(and for those of you who are on my blog--the world). Motherhood is a tough, but incredible job. Slow down this weekend and enjoy it a bit ;) Happy Mother's day!
~ Dana