Creative

Eclipse Goddess | Chilliwack Creative Photographer

What feels like ages ago I did this beautiful shoot at Cultus with Siobhan D’Souza from Shiverz Designs, Audra and makeup artist Kayla Marie. This was just before the flooding started - we shot this on the day the rain began and editing went to the wayside as everything unfolded over that tough time for so many - I love going back through shoots like these and trying new things with them, so here are fresh edits! This shoot was such a bright spot in that time - it was also right around the time of the eclipse, so we named this series, “Eclipse Goddess”.

This is my favourite kind of weather to shoot at the lake in (minus the torrential rains) because everything is so rich and moody looking

Makeup by Kayla Marie and Shiverz Designs, expert leaf throwers

Amber | Chilliwack Portrait Photographer

I think this was in June, and one of my first sessions after lockdown. It was so good to get back and shoot while also figuring out how to create in my style and keep a distance. There’s this abandoned house a few blocks away from me that I’ve shot with before - we shoot from the empty lot beside it or the sidewalk - but it’s such a sad & fascinating little house. I’ve always had a soft spot for abandoned spaces: why are they abandoned? What are their stories? They’re places where the layers of years seem to exist over top one another simultaneously - where you can imagine how they were while processing the state they’ve been left in.

I feel so lucky to still have had opportunities this year to get out and shoot - there is a connection in photographing others, a care spent in creating, and this year more than ever every minute spent making art was a gift.

You can follow Amber’s work here.

Model: Amber McGregor

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Wild Mountain | Chilliwack | with Inhale Floral Designs, Montana's Bridal Hair, and Joelle Marks (Family Management)

This day was cold, and awesome. I pretty much drove into the ditch, but I pulled myself out (through strength of will and only small, well hidden moments of panic) and the sky was blue and perfect and Chilliwack Lake was like a storybook winter wonderland. It was freezing. Like, it was really really cold, which makes model Joelle even more of a champ - she braved that cold in a dress and fur blanket and never complained once. 

We shot quick, we shot cold, and I feel really lucky to live in this lovely place surrounded by such awesome creative people.

Beautiful floral creations by the talented Haley Marks for Inhale Floral Designs 

Hair (I am in love with that braid) by Montana Bullied (Montana's Bridal Hair

Model: Joelle Marks from Family Management 

Assisted by super champ Audra Coton, and Utah Jack