It was a Monday – left Whitby at 9:30am to get to the Scarborough Bluffs for a family shoot. This was a family I had worked with last year – I got amazing images back in 2013 so I was pretty excited about the shoot this year.

But once I left the 401, it was SOOO foggy I knew I’d have to cancel the shoot. While we were talking about rescheduling I mentioned Whitby was not foggy when I left my house. To my surprise, they decided to come to Whitby and have their shoot here. :)

Started at Central Park and ended our shoot by the lake. We didn’t get a sunny day, but the photos are stunning anyways! Loved them so much I had to share these with you – even though I have over 5000 wedding images to go through right now.

Edward Gardens and High Park are the most popular locations among my clients for family shoots, so I was actually surprised this year when I got two families wanting to go over there (check out my Facebook Page to see the photos from the other family shoot!). I’m always at the Brick Works for engagements sessions, so it was nice to go there with a family for a change.

I had a great time with Faysal, Liyana and their parents. These kids were super cute and fun to be around! Let me share some of the amazing pictures we got from that morning. :)

Adam’s aunt decided to give him this shoot as graduation gift. The location? Their own backyard, which I loved – it made the shoot much more intimate and special. Everybody was pretty emotional since Adam was leaving for university soon.

So let me share my favorites with you – hope that parents seeing this will rethink about stop taking photos with their kids just because they’re not little and “cute” anymore. ;)

Her kids are two of the cutest boys I’ve seen; Liam has lots, lots of energy and Cole was just really sweet! It’s so nice to see them having so much fun with each other and I’m always amazed at how siblings care for each other at such a young age, no matter how different their personalities are. Incredible. Can’t wait till my daughter becomes an older sister!

I tend to focus on couples on my blog for obvious reasons, but I promised myself I’d post more family shoots this year. I will also try to post some from last year, I just need to have time to go through my disks.

Last month I had the pleasure to work with these three little guys and their parents at the beautiful Richmond Green. Here are some of my favorites!

I’m still drowning in wedding and family photos to edit, but I just had to stop everything I was doing to post this. Love these photos, had to share it now otherwise I’m sure I’d forget.

Now let me get back to work. :)

Thing is, after you have kids, your priorities change quite a bit. I’m always working on weekends and then, on weekdays, I also have to stay on my computer editing photos. When I’m done with the editing, I just want to spend as much time as I can with my daughter and this blog, unfortunately, is not a priority anymore. I do post some new work on my Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/YukiNodaPhotography); that’s the place where you should go to check out my newest work.

This is Francesco and this photo session is celebrating his 100th day, a special occasion in Chinese culture. It was such a pleasure to meet this cute little baby and his older brother, Matteo.

Our shoot started with just Francesco and his mom. A few minutes later, Matteo and his dad arrived from swimming lessons. First thing Matteo did was go to his brother room and hug him! Cutest thing EVER! It was incredible to see such a young boy caring so much about his younger brother.

From all the shoots I’ve had last year in this place, this one is my favorite! Loved shooting this cute little family! The kite sequence was quite hard since the wind was not helping at all, but in the end we did get great images out of it.

I won’t even start to talk about weather – I lost count of how many times we had to reschedule this shoot. Hopefully will have a sunny 2014. :)

I just loved working with this beautiful family and I must say that this was also one of the most gorgeous days from all summer. What an amazing sunset light we got on these images… it makes me want to have some time off during weekends so I can have a photoshoot like this for my family as well.

Really hard to choose which images to post, but these are some of my favorite ones. :)

Iris and Daniel are expecting baby Sophia – due to arrive pretty soon! It was my first time shooting at the Kelso Conversation Area and I must say that location is pretty nice! Weather could be better, but as of now I already gave up on the idea we’ll have a great summer, so I’m happy if we just get a day with no rain.

Please enjoy my favorite photos from their shoot. Congrats, Iris and Daniel! May you find babyhood a wonderful experience filled with lots of happiness and great memories.