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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
New Introductory Pricing for Callander | Callander & North Bay Photographer
If you’re a Facebook or Instagram user, you may have noticed that my big move from Barrie to Callander, Ontario finally happened! I can’t even begin to tell you how excited my entire family is to be here. It’s been nearly a month, and we are all settled in. It’s been really easy for me to get excited about rebuilding my business up here in this little slice of heaven, because I really and truly love this area SO MUCH! During my time scouting new locations, I’ve found so many beautiful options… but there’s something about photographing families up here that is VERY different from photographing families down South… It’s PEACEFUL. So peaceful. I’ve always loved my job. It’s always brought me joy. Working with my clients and freezing time for them during each and every session has always made my heart beat just a little bit faster. But HERE, in this place, it’s therapeutic.
I’ve had the opportunity to meet some new faces already, and have begun booking sessions throughout the summer and up to September at this point (I still have summer availability though, so if you’re interested, contact me!) 🙂
At this time, I am launching my 2019 Introductory Pricing for the remainder of the year, and wanted to share it with you! Introductory packages are available for sessions happening in Callander, Ontario, for a limited time only, for the remainder of 2019, while availability lasts. Availability for outdoor sessions is Monday-Friday at 6 and 7pm from May-August (and 5 and 6pm in September/October), by appointment only. Newborn sessions take place Monday-Friday at 10am in-studio. Other in-studio sessions (like maternity and cake smash) take place Monday-Friday between 9am-3pm in-studio.
If you know somebody looking for quality photography services at an amazing price right now, please share this with them! If you’d like to take advantage of these deals, CONTACT ME! I can’t wait to meet you! 🙂
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
Jack | Barrie Newborn Baby & Family Photographer
I thought I should maybe blog this sweet newborn session from last Fall before I see this family again next month for Jack’s half-year Sitter Milestone session!
I saw little Jack and his family in my Barrie photography studio last November for his newborn session when he was just days old. I had such a streak of luck that week with amazing older siblings giving me absolute GOLD when it came to sibling newborn portraits, and these two brothers were no exception.
Newborn portraits are some of my absolute favourite moments to photograph – they’re only this little once, the time is so fleeting, and by the time you see your images for the first time, they’ve already changed so much! I currently have just TWO newborn spaces left for the Summer. If you’re expecting in July or August and would like to secure a date for yourself, please do so before baby has been born so that I can guarantee you space in my calendar. 🙂
And now, enjoy Jack’s newborn gallery!
Raindance Photography is Barrie’s exclusive newborn, baby, child, family, maternity and pet photographer. Specializing in studio photography and outdoor portrait sessions and servicing 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
I am holding a model call in collaboration with Nicole Kathlyn Photography to capture images and video for a new marketing campaign and accreditation portfolio. If you fall into the following category please EMAIL me (Stephanie) at info@raindancephoto.ca
We will forward an application and full details. Please do not message us on Facebook or on Instagram. Session to take place in Nicole’s in-home studio in Barrie, and date to be decided based on applicants due date.
At this time, we are looking for Newborn Triplets (Due dates between now and July preferred) If you know someone who is expecting triplets, please share on your page and/or tag your friends who would love a complimentary session and portrait of their little ones.
Thanks so much!
Giving Back Contest – Winners Announcement | Barrie Photographer
As soon as I posted details for the Giving Back Contest last week, nominations began to flood in. I received 57 entries altogether, and every single one of them would have deserved to win. I am so thankful to have the opportunity to give the gift of happiness and memories to some of these individuals – hopefully it will give you something to hold tight to when times are tough.
There was no way for me to choose just one winner, not with so many deserving nominations. I chose one first prize winner, and then chose 4 more at random.
FIRST PLACE WINNER RECEIVES an All Inclusive Creative Portrait Session with Raindance Photography, all digital files from their session on USB with 4×6 colour reference prints AND a gorgeous 16×20” Barnboard Framed Print of their choice.
NOMINATOR OF FIRST WINNING NOMINEE RECEIVES a free session with all digital files provided via digital download gallery.
WINNER #2, 3, 4 and 5 will all receive an All Inclusive Creative Portrait Session as well, with all of the digital files from their session on USB.
NOMINATORS of Winners 2, 3, 4 and 5 will all receive $200 gift cards to use towards any service I offer.
Without further delay, here are our winners – I admire all of you for your strength and courage, determination, love and selflessness. May the moments that we will capture together bring you a small ray of sunshine during dark times. Much love.
WINNER #1 – Maggie Shaw. Incredible Mama to Aunika (ARK Strong)
WINNER #2 – Shannon Batters
WINNER #3 – Patricia Beardsmore
WINNER #4 – Amy Wiseman
WINNER #5 – Lisa Hagen
I will be in touch with all winners and nominators via email today with details. If you are a winner or nominator and haven’t received an email from me, please check your junk or spam folders.
Thank you to everyone for opening your hearts!
Sincerely,
Stephanie
Raindance Photography
OUT OF OFFICE ALERT: I will be away from the office beginning now until August 1, 2016. I will be doing my very best to ignore Facebook, emails, phone calls, and every other social media platform out there as well. 😛 All inquiries will be responded to on August 2nd.
Enjoy this gorgeous weather, folks! See you all in 10 days!
Raindance Photography is Barrie’s exclusive newborn, baby, child, and family photographer. Specializing in studio photography and outdoor portrait sessions since 2011. To book your indoor or outdoor photo session with Raindance Photography, please contact info@raindancephoto.ca
I couldn’t wait to get my hands on this gorgeous, squishy little babe! I had worked with her brother two years earlier, and I knew that if she was even half as sweet as he was, I was going to have an amazing gallery that I would fall in love with!
I cannot wait for the next rush of newborns that are scheduled to grace my studio in April! I have been off for the last week with my kiddos for March Break, so I’m missing my newborn baby cuddles! If you or someone you know is expecting, I still have 2 newborn spaces left in April up for grabs! Feel free to email me or use the Contact form on this page to inquire with me!
For now, enjoy some of my favourite images from this sweet little gal’s newborn session!
Raindance Photography is Barrie’s exclusive newborn, baby, child, and family photographer. Specializing in studio photography and outdoor portrait sessions since 2011. To book your indoor or outdoor photo session with Raindance Photography, please contact info@raindancephoto.ca