Connections, Miracles and Christmas Minis....

2020 has been hard on everyone. The disruption to all of our lives has been unprecedented, but sometimes it takes being able to see what someone else has gone through to bring things into focus…

We’ve known Andrea and Kevin for years. Kevin has been our trusted mechanic for ages. The number of connections is too long to accurately note in this post. 

And I will bet that their 2020 has been the most trying of their lives. It’s certainly been more trying then ours.

Kevin missed the summer of 2020. His cancer treatment this year was difficult; more difficult than the previous ones. He has no real memory of June. None of July. None of August. He spent those in a coma. On a ventilator. And the professionals taking care of him didn’t think he would survive.

But he did.

I phoned his shop when the first snow flew. Of course, in Canada, at the first sight of snow you call your mechanic to schedule your tire swap! I figured I’d leave a message. We’re not really driving anywhere, so it wasn’t really a rush!

Well, you can imagine my surprise when Kevin picked up the phone.

During that phone conversation, he spoke of miracles. Most people have a hard time believing in miracles, he said, but that all his doctors and all his nurses, with all the science that they’ve learned over the years, could only come back to that one word - miracle.

It is truly a miracle that Kevin is still here with us.

We were shocked when Andrea sent in the booking form for our Christmas Minis. It arrived with no warning, little fanfare, just a form that explained that they would be coming for photos without their kids. Photos of just the two of them. She realized that they really hadn’t taken any professional pictures of the two of them together in a very long time, and wanted to make that effort to celebrate the miracle that they could.

Thankfully, they booked a session time with nobody afterwards…cause if you’ve spent any time with Kevin you know that you are NOT getting out of his presence without a very long conversation!!!

And I am very, very glad that I was able to have another long chat with him. And Amy and I are very, very happy to be able to provide these memories for an awesome couple who have endured a dealt hand that most would be hard-pressed to overcome.

(had to get in a poker reference for Kev!)

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Christmas Mini Photography Sessions for 2020 are on now! This year, our mini sessions will be Socially Distanced, OUTSIDE, using the ravine just out our backyard. Snow or no Snow. They’re held on ANY DAY YOU WANT THEM TO BE.  (as long as there is daylight.)

More info, sample images and Booking Details can be found on here.

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Go Behind The Scenes at a Newborn Session at LOCPS

We love seeing tiny little newborns at our home studio!

We’ve been hopping since November, welcoming eight of our tiniest clients - including a set of twins - to the studio…not to mention that we are getting ready to welcome another little guy on Monday this week on his seventh day on the planet. These are some of Amy’s favourite sessions, getting in all her baby snuggles before they go home…

At some point, in what probably started as a way to look busy during these sessions, I started playing around with shooting video of the process of a newborn session. A newborn baby can take a bit of time to get settled and sleeping deeply, and, well, there’s only so much that I can do as a man in those circumstances!

Above is my first attempt at capturing all the love and care that abounds during the shoot, both from the new parents and us as photographers. I hope you enjoy.

Jeff

One of our best photos...period.

When we started thinking about the 15th anniversary of locps, and some of the images we created in the past…one of the first photographs to come to mind is this one….

Taken in December of 2004, Amy captured this moment in our Mill Street studio…and we’ve been haunted by those eyes ever since! In the single click of a shutter, an image that conveys so much emotion and so much feeling is really hard to put into words, even after so much time passing.

Liz had a footwear store around the corner from us, and came into our shop one day nervously with a request - could we capture the intimacy of her breastfeeding her little one? Of course we said yes!

The date was set, and I took the afternoon off. In order to help ease into the session, Amy took a bunch of photos working up to the feeding photos, and this is one of them. At three months old, Paige was not able to sit up on her own - most babies do so at six months - so mom lovingly held her for a bunch of them.

We used this photo as a sample everywhere. It was on a bunch of print ads and on our original website. We used it as our Gift Certificate image forever, it was the cover of a United Way brochure we designed, and it was prominent on the banners we had displayed on the outside of our second location on Main Street. In fact, Liz told us that when Paige was older, they would drive by and she would exclaim “There’s the Photo House!” when she saw herself.

Amy also captured the breastfeeding shots, but only a few. The session was cut short when, while naked and feeding, Paige had a bit of a bowel movement! It went everywhere!!! Poor Liz wasn’t sure what to do, holding a a baby without a shirt on and baby poop all over her. And neither did Amy - do you keep taking photos at that point, or do you start the clean up?