As always, I loved working with Luiza and meeting her new baby brother, Lucas. It was my first time working at Coronation Park, in Oakville. I loved loved these images and could not wait to share a few of my favorites with you.

During summer spending 3 hours doing that while I need to edited photo sessions that are happening right now is tough. However this was my first time shooting at the beautiful Doctor's House and I could not skip N. and H.'s wedding from here.

It's really hard to not make the post super long because there are so many images I love and wanted to share with you and it honestly breaks my heart to not post everything I could. Even my web hosting service already warned me I post to many photos on my front page and it might make my site slower. LOL.

Anyways, this is N. and H.'s wedding from last May. You can also view their e-session here. Congrats N. and H., best wishes always! ♥

I won't lie: during this time of the year I'm a bit exhausted and the blog is not a priority at all, however I could not skip this photo shoot for many reasons: 1. this was the first time I shot in Owen Sound and this city is truly amazing! 2. I absolutely adored working with this couple - they were super sweet and a lot of fun 3. This photo you see above got A LOT of Facebook likes in a single day so I couldn't leave it out of my website.

Let me share a few of my favorites from that afternoon with you. We actually started at the beautiful Morland Place (can't wait to have the opportunity to shoot a wedding over there!), then we headed to Indian Falls.

I can't really write much because I do have a lot of clients waiting to view their photos (and I'm really sorry I'm not doing sneak peeks for all photo shoots during this summer), but I want to thank Angela and Jevon for the amazing afternoon! Thank you guys so much for taking me to all these gorgeous locations and I really can't wait to shoot your wedding at Lora Bay next year. :)

Weather hasn't been that great so we're also having lots of rescheduling, but I was so glad I was able to work with Kristine and Télcio last Wednesday. I'm completely in love with this photo session - I could literally post all photos from this shoot.

Kristine and Télcio are from Brazil and were actually in their honeymoon when these photos were taken. A friend of theirs had shot a maternity photo shoot with me and told them about my work. They only had one week left here in Canada, I didn't have that many days available, it was raining almost every single day, but thankfully weather decided to cooperate on one of the few days we were both available.

The sunshine last Wednesday was just gorgeous!! Kristine decided to wear the wedding dress that belonged to her mom and honestly, that made the photos even more special! Let me share some of my favorites with you. :)

Kristine and Télcio, congrats on your wedding and thanks so much for letting me capture such a special moment in your lives. ♥

One of the reasons I've been skipping families is that they all want to go to the same location and I feel like you've seen enough Edward Gardens around here. LOL

The question that I get the most when booking families is where to go, followed by what to wear. So I always send a what to wear guide with some tips and list of popular locations among families. Even though the list has over 50 locations, I can say that 95% of my families go with Edward Gardens. I can't blame them, place is beautiful and the kids do enjoy the scenery over there.

Reality is it doesn't really matter where you go! And this shoot is a great example of that. We were actually going to have the photo session at Edward Gardens but forecast was for rain. Rescheduling was not an option in their case and we decided to have the shoot indoors. Rain was on and off and we were able to go the backyard - and look what we've got! I LOVE these photos. In the end, it is really about bonding, playing and having fun - not the location.

Let me share some of my favorites with you. :)

Paul is also responsible for me finally ordering USB Flash Drives for wedding clients. LOL I've been studying getting those during the past year and I'd always forget about it. But during our meeting, Paul made fun of me still giving DVDs to people and I thought that maybe it was time to upgrade my media. Hopefully by next year all photo shoots will be getting USB Flash Drives instead of DVDs - honestly I think my DVDs are super cute, but I know that their end is near.

I really really shouldn't be using my time to blog since I have so many photos shoots lined up to be edited, but I needed to post this (I promise my next blog post will be a family photo shoot, I promise!!!). Let me share some of my favorites with you! :)

And what can I say about these two? This is one of the sweetest couples I've ever met! They have an amazing life story and I'm so lucky to have had our paths crossed. I already shot their wedding a couple of weeks ago at the Doctor's House and had, once again, an amazing time. I'll truly miss them! ♥

Let me share some of the greatest moments from the engagement session with you. Definitely, my favorite one is when H. surprised N. with an engagement ring!! He also brought her family to share this special day with them and I loved all the reactions from N. when seeing all her family there, however I decided to keep those photos private. Enjoy!

This is Christie and Dan's engagement session from this past weekend. We started at a park close to their cottage and finished the shoot with some great sunshine by the lake. My favorite part from the shoot is actually where they first met: the tennis court! ♥

Once I had to choose a major in University, I picked Japanese. Why? Don't ask me, I had no idea what I was doing career wise. Some months later, I decided to study IT. Yes, I have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science. I worked many, many years as a web programmer and although I was pretty good at it, I never really loved that career.

Photography was always there, ever since I was a kid - I used to take millions of photos and had a pretty popular Fotolog. People would tell me how talented I was, however I never thought of earning a living out of that.

If you asked me what was my dream job in my early 20s, I'd say working at Disney World. Doing whatever. Just wanted to be at Magic Kingdom every single day of my life. To this day I love that place and I basically work to support my Disney addiction. Anyways... working at Disney World was not doable for many obvious reasons. However, I have to admit: I'm happy doing this. Really happy. Even though it was never a "dream" I was pursuing. Capturing milestones in people's lives is wonderful and I'm aware of how lucky I am to be able to make a decent living out of photography.

I mentioned Disney World because that was where I got a call from Ashwin asking me if I was available to shoot their wedding day last month. I honestly thought he was joking since he called me in February - yes, February of THIS year. Turns out it wasn't a prank call. LOL

I worked with Anna about 5 years ago and I could not believe she still remembered me. Even though their wedding day was just a month away, they also wanted an engagement shoot (which you can view here. check it out later, it's definitely worth it!). We had the E-Session 4 (yes, FOUR) days before their wedding day.

In the end, everything turn out great - I loved their engagement shoot and can't even start on how I'm in love with every single picture from this wedding.

This was my first 2015 wedding and I could have not asked for a better couple. Be prepared: this will be a super long post. They had TWO ceremonies: an Indian one and a Polish one. The reception was so full of entertainment and great moments that it was hard to pick which ones were going to be here.

Enough talking - let me share some of my favorite moments with you!

Congrats, Anna and Ashwin! I had an amazing time working with you two! Wishing you a lifetime of happiness. ♥

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