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A Valentines Day Wedding Wearing a Green Wedding Dress ~Nanaimo, Vancouver Island Weddings~

Celeste & Kit’s Intimate Valentines Day Wedding at the Bowen Park Duck Pond Celeste and Kit celebrated Valentines Day with an intimate wedding at the Bowen Park duck pond. These two were legally marrying in Canada among a small group of family and friends and then celebrating with a larger and more symbolic destination wedding in Puerto Vallarta later that month on the February 29th leap day. It’s complicated to […]

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Kimberly & David’s Romantic Sunset Portraits ~ Puerto Vallarta Destination Wedding Photography

Romantic Sunset Portraits While Vacationing in Puerto Vallarta I met David and Kimberly while photographing a destination wedding in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico this winter on the February 29th leap year. They were also attending a leap year wedding at the all inclusive vacation resort Royal Decameron near the small town of Bucerias. We met over a game of UNO and connected. I really really wanted to photograph a couple at […]

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A Puerto Vallarta Destination Wedding ~ Marrying on the Leap Day!

A Puerto Vallarta Destination Wedding at the Royal Decameron Complex, Bucerias, Mexico Celeste and Kit held their destination wedding in Puerto Vallarta at the Royal Decameron Complex in the little town of Bucerias, Mexico. They married on the beach on the leap day (February 29th) among 50 family and friends. It was a HOT, beautiful-blue-skies kind of day. Daytime margaritas, good music, happy and laughing people EVERYWHERE, taco dinner and […]

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Class of 2009 BSS Grad Reunion ~ Parksville Grad Reunion at Little Qualicum Cheeseworks!

Class of 2009 BSS Grad Reunion at Little Qualicum Cheeseworks 2019 rolled around which meant that the BSS (Ballenas Secondary School) grad class of 2009 was hitting their ten year milestone. We celebrated at the beautiful Little Qualicum Cheeseworks on a sunny but slightly chilly late September day. We had the Knockananna Grill food truck and a toonie bar to keep us going. The venue at Little Qualicum Cheeseworks is […]

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Rathtrevor Beach Family Photos ~ Blossoming Cherry Trees in Parksville, BC ~ Parksville Family Photographer

Family Photos in the Cherry Blossoms, Rathtrevor Beach, Parksville A local Springtime favorite in Parksville and all across Vancouver Island are when the cherry blossoms bloom! In March, April and May you can see the white and pink flowers in the parks and city landscaping. I was lucky to have photographed this family in March at Rathtrevor Beach shortly before COVID-19 pandemic restrictions became the norm in 2020. The white […]

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West Coast Portrait, Nanoose Bay Beaches

West Coast Portrait in Nanoose Bay Michaela and I got together to photograph her West Coast portrait at Moorecroft Park in Nanoose Bay. Michaela grew up in Nanoose and was raised by the ocean. She is an Instagram influencer, promoting the body-positive movement and self love. Check out her work here; Michaela Marie. She is 6’1″ tall and loves every inch of her body. It wasn’t an easy accomplishment to […]

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Surprise Family Reunion Birthday Gift ~ Family Photography, Milner Gardens, Vancouver Island

Family Photos at Milner Gardens, Capturing a Surprise Family Reunion Birthday Gift ~ Qualicum Beach, BC Great Grandma is having a birthday! Her daughter was going to take her out for brunch at the lovely Milner Gardens in Qualicum Beach to celebrate, bringing along the grandchildren too. What Great Grandma didn’t know, was that family from Vancouver and Alberta had traveled to Vancouver Island to be there for her birthday […]

Parksville Art Warz | Oceanside Paint Party Event

Art Warz, Parksville, BC ~ Oceanside Paint Party Event ~ Vancouver Island

Art Warz Event, Parksville, BC ~ An Oceanside Paint Party Event Jenny Hughes of Oceanside Paint Party put on an Art Warz painting competition event at the Parksville Community Center on Friday, March 6th, 2020. This was a three hour event where five selected artists created a West Coast Landscape themed painting within a certain time frame. Guests could wander around the room watching the artists color their canvas and […]

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Kitties in Cherry Blossom Trees ~ Parksville, BC, Cherry Blossoms ~ Photographing Cats During a Pandemic

Photographing My Cats in a Cherry Blossom Tree, Parksville, BC ~ When I Can’t Photograph People During a Pandemic, I Can Still Photograph my Cats It’s April, 2020. The cherry blossom trees are in full bloom here in Parksville, and I can’t photograph people in their beautiful bloom due to the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. Fortunately, I have one incredible cherry blossom tree on the property I live on, and I […]

Taleah & Sean’s Beach House Wedding ~ Cordova Bay, Victoria, BC Wedding Photography

Taleah and Sean’s Beach House Wedding in Cordova Bay, Victoria, BC Taleah and Sean held their wedding at the Beach House in Cordova Bay, Victoria, BC. With their family and friends seated in chairs facing the ocean, they married each other with a cool summer breeze in their hair while smelling the scent of salty west coast waves. With just over 100 guests and around a dozen children attending, their […]