Here is another wonderful site dedicated to inspiring photographers and is really such a helpful resource and I’m thrilled to have been featured on it twice. It’s called Inspire me baby!

One of my sunrise maternity images was used for inspirational post about silhouettes, here is that shot…

and here is the link to check out the post http://inspiremebaby.com/2010/09/24/inspiration-of-the-week-silhouettes/

Here is the original post of this sunrise maternity session. http://mphphotography.net/blog/2010/08/kanellas-sunrise-maternity-session-mph-photography-toronto/

They also featured another session of mine done last winter, as usually families don’t do sessions outdoors in the winter when they have young children, but it can be done and it can have great results, and I highly recommend doing an outdoor winter session if you love winter and the snow.

Here are a couple of images from that session…

and here is the link to the post on their site:  http://inspiremebaby.com/2010/12/29/inspire-outdoor-winter-family-session-by-mph-photography/

Here is the link to the original post I made on my blog about this winter family session.

http://mphphotography.net/blog/2010/12/winter-session-amy-and-her-family-mph-photography-toronto/

Just want to wish everyone a Happy new year. This year will be a little different for MPH Photography since we are having a baby girl in the beginning of May and I’m cutting down my sessions and only going to do a few every month, so for anyone who wants a session done this year, now is the time to contact me before all the spots are filled up.

In the meantime, I will be posting more about my family and my goal is to spend as much time as I can with them in 2012.

I have been meaning to post about a site that I love and have been featured on. The site was created by Emily Krbec, a fellow photographer friend of mine whose goal it is to celebrate and showcase fellow local photographers, she believes that us photographers should learn from each other and share our work, rather than be worried about who our competition is and I think she’s right. It would only make us stronger if we band together and join forces and share our work and our ideas and concepts and how we run our businesses and then we can all grow together and take photography to another level.

Here is a session I did with  Heather that was featured on their site:

http://www.thefriendlyphotographer.com/?p=1510

and here is an image from that session as well. If you wish to check out the original post I made for my blog  just click here http://mphphotography.net/blog/2011/05/heather-mph-photography-toronto/

I’m also honoured that one of my images is featured on their front page on the slideshow.

http://www.thefriendlyphotographer.com/

If you have a minute check her out,  http://www.thefriendlyphotographer.com/?p=203, and here is her personal work site as well http://www.emilykrbec.com/

I love my job!! I’m sure I have mentioned that many times before but I absolutely love it and I love it even more when return clients who have become friends come back for their annual Christmas portrait session.

Louise and her family, are definitely one of my favourite families to photograph, this is the 4th time I have had the pleasure of photographing them and each time gets better and better. They picked out a great location and the weather was definitely on our side as its almost December and its still not that cold out. We really had a great time, and I just couldn’t stop taking pictures of this bunch, they are so cute and so sweet and adorable and I could have easily spent the whole day with them.

I remember photographing Louise when she was pregnant with her youngest and to see this little one grow along with her 2 sisters is something I treasure and its an honour to be the one to capture them as they grow.

This was my last session of this year, and its been an amazingly wonderful year, I feel so blessed and even though it was a crazy busy year, I loved every minute of it. Next year may be a bit slower, with baby coming in April/May so I will not be booking as many sessions as I did this year, so if you are considering doing a session now is the time to book as space is limited and once they are booked I will not have any other openings available.

I was so happy to end this year with this family, I had a smile the whole time and although I felt a bit sad at the end, I was also extremely happy and looking forward to the future and where my photography business is going.

Louise, as usual it was fabulous seeing you all again, and hope you enjoyed your session and all the fun we had, and I hope you like your sneak peek. It was so hard for me to choose my favourites as there were just so many shots that I loved from this session.

Many thanks to all my wonderful and amazing clients, I can’t thank you enough, and I look forward to photographing you all again in the future, but as 2011 is coming to an end, I want to take this opportunity to wish you all a very joyful and wonderful holiday season and all the best in the new year. God bless!

I love doing sessions at the beach, and we are pretty blessed to have a few of them here in Toronto so for this session we chose Woodbine beach and it was a beautiful day, sun was out, and even though it was a bit cold when you reached the water, it was still nice for an October day.

I met this lovely family for our session and right away little C warmed up to me and we quickly became friends. As I photographed him playing, we started talking and laughing and just having alot of fun together. I love kids, and often feel like I’m still a kid myself so I can relate to them and love watching them explore and learn about things, their amazement and their expressions are often priceless.

We got mom and dad in the pics as well and we took a walk along the beach and played in the park and had a real nice time having fun and in the midst of that we had a great photo session as well. This family did so well that time flew by and before we knew it the session was over as we have captured so many fun and memorable shots.

Thanks guys for coming out and having me photograph your family, it was such a joy, I love your little boy, he’s so cute and full of life,  and both Chris and I wish you all the best.  Enjoy your sneak peek from our session.

I have had the pleasure of photographing this family several times throughout the years and its so wonderful to watch these two girls grow in front of my eyes.  I not only consider the Ward family clients but friends as well, and was very sad last year when they told me they were moving back to New Jersey, and I thought I would probably never see them again.

Glad to say I was wrong, because Beth contacted me a few months after they moved and told me they were coming back to Toronto for a few days and if she could book another session with me! I was thrilled and so excited and then when the day got here,  the weather was perfect and the location was awesome, and it turned out to be such a wonderful day.

We met at Hart House and after exchanging hugs we began and it was non stop fun the rest of the session. I just love this family and am beyond thrilled that they traveled across the border to do a session with me and I look forward to photographing them every year.

Beth and Brian, I want to thank you for your constant support and enthusiasm, and I’m so touched that you keep coming back even though you moved so far away. I really hope you enjoy your sneak peek from our day together, and you know you are welcome back to Toronto, anytime!!!