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Studio Newborn Availability | North Bay & Callander Newborn Photographer
Happy Monday!
I’m counting down the Mondays I have left in my Studio. Leaving here will be bittersweet, for sure. Over the next few weeks I’m going to be sharing some of my favourite moments that I’ve captured in my Studio over the last year.
If you’re expecting, or know someone who is, I have a handful of newborn session timeslots available, on select Mondays at 10am before the end of June. Best to book now to secure your space! You can find Collection Information here: https://raindancephoto.ca/2024-newborn-collections-pricing/
and if you’d like to go ahead with booking, just Contact Me and we’ll get the ball rolling!
Have a great day everyone! (And feel free to share this info with any friends who might need a newborn photographer between now and June!)
Hey everyone!
I just wanted to pop in to give everyone a pretty big update. Some of you know, most of you don’t, there have been some big changes happening in my life over the last half year. Ideally, I’d like to say they wouldn’t impact my business, but reality is that they have and will continue to for the foreseeable future. My page has been quieter as I navigate, but I am still very much open for business and happy to see all of your smiling faces and squishy new wee humans. 
We’re getting close to the time when I need to announce that I will be moving (yet again), into North Bay (I’m currently in Callander). However, this time, I’m not sure if I will have a studio space to call my own right away, as I always have in the past. I am so blessed to be surrounded and embraced by such an amazing community though (both the local photography community and other small businesses) who have offered me the use of their spaces, as needed, until I’m able to find my own footing again, and for that I am beyond grateful.
If you were hoping to have a session in my current space, I will be here until the end of June (early July at the latest) so I recommend booking soon! Anyone else looking to book a newborn session with me after that time, I would still absolutely love to see you, and will discuss booking options with you when you contact me.
As a result of these changes, I will begin offering in-home lifestyle newborn sessions again (these were always my favourite because they also come with the option of short Memories in Motion films!) Studio style newborn sessions will still be possible. After June, my focus for family sessions will be outdoors or in your own home. I will also begin offering Personal Branding Photography to small businesses and entrepreneurs in the very near future, and I’m SUPER pumped about this!
My hours of operation will be changing as of May 8th, with my availability being limited to select weekend dates, Mondays, and weekday evenings (by appointment only).
If you’ve read this far, thank you! You have all always been so encouraging and supportive, and I’m so grateful for all of you as I navigate my way to this next chapter of my life.
Much love,
Stephanie
Owner/Photographer
Raindance Photography
Fall Sessions – Final Dates | Callander & North Bay Child Family Photographer
Hi everyone!
I’ve received a lot of inquiries about my remaining availability for Fall Sessions this year, so I thought I’d post it for everyone to see.
At this time, these dates and times are the last of my availability for outdoor sessions with Fall colours:
October 7, 11, 12, and 14 at 5pm in the Callander/North Bay area.
For the full menu of Pricing & Packages, please CLICK HERE.
Raindance Photography is Callander’s exclusive newborn, baby, child, family, maternity and pet photographer. Specializing in studio newborn photography and outdoor portrait sessions and servicing clients from Callander, North Bay, Barrie, Orillia, Bracebridge, Gravenhurst, Midland, and Penetanguishene since 2011. To book your in-studio or outdoor photo session with Raindance Photography, please contact info@raindancephoto.ca
The Rainbow Collection Now Booking | North Bay & Callander Family Photographer
It’s that time again! We might be heading into another Summer heatwave, but just around the corner will be the cool, crisp air of Fall; Pumpkin Spice Lattes, warm and cozy sweaters; and beautiful, vibrant COLOURS!
This years’ Fall Mini Event will happen on Friday October 1st AND Saturday October 2nd with timeslots at 8, 8:30, 9, 9:30, and 10am AND 3:30, 4, 4:30, and 5pm for best light. These sessions will take place in the North Bay area (likely Callander) and exact location will be given a few weeks prior to your session.
If you would like to snag one of these sessions at the special Mini Event price point, please fill out this booking form ASAP: http://raindancephoto.ca/fall-mini-session-booking/
These are always my favourite sessions every year – As much as I love the warmth of Summer, I’m a sucker for all things Fall! Bring on the apple cider scented candles and the fingerless mittens, I’m ready! 😛
Instagram Giveaway Entry Details & Official Rules | North Bay Callander Photography Studio
Hi everyone! Earlier this year, I set a little social media goal for my business to reach 1,000 Followers on Instagram. I have nearly 4K followers on Facebook, and Instagram was feeling a little bit lonely, so I thought I’d give everyone a little bit of incentive to pop on over and show my IG social page some love! I was so thrilled to hit the 1K mark a few weeks ago, and as promised, in celebration I am giving away a FREE PORTRAIT SESSION to one lucky winner!
The Giveaway is officially open now! Please head on over to my Instagram Account @raindance_photography and enter for a chance to win! For logistical purposes, and because this was a goal specific to Instagram, the giveway will happen solely on the IG platform. If you don’t already have an IG account, this may be a fabulous time to get one! 😉
All of the legal mumbo jumbo and official rules and regulations are here, as well as instructions on how to enter. Good luck everyone! Can’t wait to see who wins! 🙂
INSTAGRAM GIVEAWAY TERMS & CONDITIONS
- Eligibility: Giveaway is open to Canadian Residents who are willing and able to travel to Callander/North Bay Ontario to redeem their session.
- Sponsorship: Raindance Photography.
- Agreement: By participating in this Giveaway, you agree to abide by these official rules and regulations.
- Entry period: Giveaway opens Monday July 19, 2021 @ 10am, and closes Wednesday July 21, 2021 @ 10pm.
- How to enter: Participants can enter the Giveaway by completing the following requirements:
- On the Instagram Platform, follow @raindance_photography and comment on the Official Giveaway post when you have done so. If participant is already a follower, just make a comment to that effect instead.
- Tag a friend for extra entries (maximum of 20 additional entries).
- Like & Save Post.
- Share Official Giveaway post to stories and mention @raindance_photography.
NO PURCHASE IS NECESSARY TO ENTER and Raindance Photography will never contact anyone for financial information of any sort during the course of any contest. If a participant is contacted privately by a user claiming to be Raindance Photography regarding this contest, especially asking for financial information, please contact @raindance_photography or email info@raindancephoto.ca and also report that user directly to Instagram.
- Prizes: Participants can win a FREE Raindance/Classic Collection, which includes photo session and select number of digital files. Value varies based on session type. Session can include the Raindance Collection for regular creative portrait sessions (babies, children, families, maternity, pets, couples) OR a Newborn Classic Collection. Raindance Photography does not offer wedding photography services or business branding sessions.
- Odds: Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received.
- Selection and notification of the winner: Winner will be chosen at random via random name picker on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @10pm. Winner will be contacted via DM on Instagram, and tagged in a public post. Winner will have until December 31, 2021 to claim their prize.
- Rights granted by the contest participant: By participating in this free session giveaway, the participant gives Raindance Photography full permission to share the resulting images and any other behind the scenes video footage obtained to the Raindance Photography website as well as any social media pages for the purpose of promotion and marketing.
- Terms and conditions: Winner must be able to travel to Callander/North Bay Ontario for their photo session. Prize has no set cash value and may not be redeemed for cash. The prize may not be transferred to any other individual, and must be claimed by the winning participant. No reimbursement will be given to the winning participant should the session need to be cancelled or rescheduled as a result of unforeseeable and unexpected circumstances (illness, death, state of emergency, pandemic, etc.)
- Limitation of liability: Participant agrees to hold Raindance Photography harmless for any personal injury which may occur during the session. Raindance Photography agrees to never pose clients in a potentially dangerous manner or location, and all precautions necessary will be taken to follow pandemic guidelines, when applicable.
- Disputes: Winning participant will be required to review, sign, and agree to a Booking Contract, which will be referred back to in the event of any dispute regarding photo session, session location, or package contents.
- Privacy policy: Raindance Photography will never share any personal information, including email address, phone number, home address, credit card information or any other information collected from the winning participant with any outside party. All information collected during the booking process is used by Raindance Photography only for the sole purpose of providing photography services.
- Social media platform regulations: This Giveaway is not endorsed, sponsored or administered by Facebook or Instagram, nor is Facebook/Instagram associated with this contest. Facebook/Instagram is released from any responsibility to entrants or participants.
- Affirmation: By entering the Giveaway in the fashion mentioned above, the participant agrees to abide by all of these Giveaway Rules.
Temporary Closure – COVID-19 Concerns | North Bay & Callander Photographer
**UPDATE**
I have thought long and hard about this decision, and it physically pains me – especially considering my beautiful new studio is literally JUST finally finished and ready for business! You all know what I’m about to say, by this point, I’m sure…
While I sit here fretting about how I will pay my bills (as far as I can see, at this point, self-employed folks like me aren’t getting anything in the way of financial relief or assistance) it’s not lost on me that my children are worried – not about money – and their worries are the most important thing right now. When I put my daughter to bed for the last bunch of nights, her typically happy-go-lucky, not-a-care-in-the-world little face has had traces of anxiety peeking through. Unfortunately, she’s part of the “higher risk” population, and we’ve had to explain to her a little more about why she needs to be extra careful, as a result. I can tell that she’s trying not to let it get to her, but when she goes to bed at night, I can see it weighing on her little mind.
For her, and for people like her, I will be temporarily closing my doors, and doing my part to encourage “social distancing” until further notice. All bookings that were on my March calendar have been postponed, and no further bookings will be accepted until it’s safe to do so. I’m happy to book people in for sessions 2-3 months from now, and am not taking deposits for those bookings at this time. I am finishing up all of the retouching for sessions that happened before this pandemic was announced, and I will be offering online downloads of files for those folks until they feel comfortable picking up their packages.
I thank you all for your support and understanding. This closure is temporary, and I cannot WAIT to open my doors again (hopefully soon!)
Stay safe, stay home, and wash your hands. 
Much love,
Stephanie, Raindance Photography
Wow. Anyone else looking back at their 2019 right now wondering what the heck just happened? Seriously though, WHAT a year it has been for me and my little photography business! I generally pride myself in my ability to keep my personal and work lives separate, but that became a pretty difficult thing to do this year, as I packed up my life, family, and business and moved to a whole new town, where we set straight to building an addition on our new home – transforming it into both a studio and multigenerational living space (yes folks, my parents are moving in!) Looking back, I can only sit here, biting my fingernails just hoping that my stress levels weren’t too obvious to my clients! LOL! 😛
It isn’t easy, saying farewell to a loyal client base and rebuilding a business all over again in a new place. I quickly learned that it feels a little like the first day of school as a child all over again… except now I’m a grown up and have forgotten how socially awkward I am at these things.
As challenging as 2019 was, on so many levels, I am grateful for the opportunity I have been given to meet some amazing new people and begin great new friendships along the way. Thank you, to everyone I’ve had the pleasure of working with this year. I know it’s tough to choose to hire a photographer who’s in the midst of such profound personal and professional change, but so many of you still chose me, and for that, I am truly grateful. 🙂
I am excited to move forward and continue growing my business in the Callander/North Bay area in 2020, as my studio chugs slowly towards completion. I have so many mini events planned and will have an awesome Grand Opening Offering as soon as my new space is ready for business! In the meantime, my little mobile studio is busy travelling to clients in their homes for both studio-style and lifestyle sessions.
To my fabulous Barrie clients, I will be releasing my 2020 Availability for your area next week for early-bird booking, watch for it!
Wishing you all love, peace, health, and happiness in 2020! I hope I will see all of your smiling faces throughout the year!
Much love,
Stephanie
Raindance Photography is Callander’s exclusive newborn, baby, child, family, maternity and pet photographer. Specializing in studio photography and outdoor portrait sessions and servicing clients from Callander, North Bay, Barrie, Orillia, Bracebridge, Gravenhurst, Midland, and Penetanguishene since 2011. To book your indoor or outdoor photo session with Raindance Photography, please contact info@raindancephoto.ca
Sweet & Funny Newborn Faces | North Bay & Callander Newborn Photographer
I love every part of my job – photographing excited parents as they await their new bundle, families as they snuggle together for their portraits, chasing kids around outside for that perfect candid action shot, energetic pets, curious toddlers, and most of all, brand-spanking-new-babies with all of their sweet newness. Most of the newborn images you’ll see me post are the sweetly posed, fast asleep, curled up angelic shots that all parents come to see me for. However, hidden within MOST of their galleries, are those sweet and sometimes hilarious awake shots that the parents usually end up loving more than anything else!
I’ve put together a compilation of some of my favourite little faces from over the years… They range from eyes wide with wonder, serious FOMO (fear of missing out), pure bliss and happiness, excitement, sweet cheekiness… sometimes they’ve lost control of their eyes (lol), their little tongues, their arms… and sometimes they’re plotting ways to kill me with their eyeballs with looks of sheer disgust and hatred. ALL of these faces make my job just that much more enjoyable, and so I wanted to share them all with you today in case you needed a smile.
Enjoy! 😉
Raindance Photography is Callander’s exclusive newborn, baby, child, family, maternity and pet photographer. Specializing in studio photography and outdoor portrait sessions and servicing clients from Callander, North Bay, Barrie, Orillia, Bracebridge, Gravenhurst, Midland, and Penetanguishene since 2011. To book your indoor or outdoor photo session with Raindance Photography, please contact info@raindancephoto.ca
The Couchie Family | North Bay & Callander Family Photographer
When I began photographing families nearly a decade ago, I was keen to learn, excited to try new things, and TERRIFIED at the idea of photographing another photographers’ family. LOL! I’ll let you in on a little secret… all of those statements still apply today. Behind the scenes, I am constantly brushing up on new techniques to improve my work, I’m always up for trying something new, and when other photographers hire me I fret like it’s nobody’s business that for some reason I will forget everything I know I’m good at and not remember how to turn on my own camera. That’s never actually happened, by the way…
This summer, I had the pleasure of working with this lovely family in Callander, once again. Mama is an incredibly talented professional photographer in the area, and once every few years I have the honour of updating her family portraits. Even when you’re a photographer (maybe especially if you’re a photographer) I think it’s so important to let someone else photograph your family. If you’re the parent in the family who’s always behind the camera, you’ve probably noticed that your family albums are lacking of your presence. So even though I feel like I’d love to lose 50 lbs before stepping in front of the camera, I know that my children love me just the way I am, and they cherish these images of us all together at this point in their lives, and I love to see how they look at me through someone else’s lens.
I love every type of photography that I do – maternity, newborn, children, families, and pets – each for different reasons. One of my absolute favourites though, is family photography. I LOVE to be able to draw out real, raw emotion. I love to show parents the beauty in their chaos. I love to pose families nice and close, in a little tight group snuggle, and encourage them to tell each other stories from when the kids were really little (kids love this) and then snap away as the magic of their connection and family dynamic shines through. Each and every one of my sessions starts with group family portraits (both formal and candid, standing AND sitting), and then moves on to sibling portraits, individual child portraits, couples portraits, and then if time allows, MORE awesome family portrait opportunities that get everyone up and moving around, jumping, twirling, running, and having FUN! I pride myself on being able to make those connections, creating real emotion, and turning tears and fears that can sometimes happen at the beginning of the session into genuine smiles and laughter. If I have one downfall, it’s that I usually provide clients with galleries that are a little on the large side, because there’s just so much awesomeness that happens in every session (sorry, not sorry!) 😛
As you peek through my pricing and package page (which still has introductory rates until December 31, 2019, for sessions taking place in the North Bay Region) you may wonder what I mean when I refer to the “entire gallery”. If you scroll through all of the beautiful images below, you’ll see an example of what an entire gallery actually looks like. Some folks can narrow their selections down to the package that comes with 10 images, and others can’t. For those that can’t, the All Inclusive Package exists, and it looks like this…
Enjoy!
PS: I still have some availability for Fall Family Portraits, if you’re interested – contact me!
Raindance Photography is Callander’s exclusive newborn, baby, child, family, maternity and pet photographer. Specializing in studio photography and outdoor portrait sessions and servicing clients from Callander, North Bay, Barrie, Orillia, Bracebridge, Gravenhurst, Midland, and Penetanguishene since 2011. To book your indoor or outdoor photo session with Raindance Photography, please contact info@raindancephoto.ca