Creative Wedding & Portrait Photography

May 3, 2011

A Portrait Session with Baby Veronica and Her family – Parry Sound Family Portraits

Filed under: Baby and Child photography,Portraits — Tags: , , — johnbrisbane @ 4:42 pm

One of the wonderful families I had the pleasure of working with late last fall was Heather, Jade, their young daughter, Veronica, and  Heather’s mother, father, and brother.  As the weather was starting to get that late fall, early winter bite, we did the session in my studio, just north of Parry Sound.

Veronica is a cutie and her mom and dad had her done up in a spiffy plaid dress.  We had a fun session and everyone enjoyed their time in front of the camera, and trying to make the others laugh during their turn.

A few of my favourites from the session are below.

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February 13, 2011

Olivia with her mom and dad – family portraits Parry Sound

Filed under: Baby and Child photography,Portraits — Tags: , , — johnbrisbane @ 10:08 am

I met Sarah and Roy in 2007 when I did their engagement and wedding photos.   This past October I had the pleasure of photographing them once again, but this time with their wonderful daughter, Olivia.  Olivia was just about to celebrate a birthday when we did these shots.  Sarah recently celebrated a birthday of her own so I thought it would be fitting to post a few of the images from our October session as a bit of belated birthday to Sarah.  Best wishes guys.  You have a wonderful daughter!

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December 23, 2010

Merry Christmas and some personal Family Portraits from our Cambridge Ontario Studio

Well  in addition to wishing everyone a safe, happy and healthy Holiday Season, this is sort of a Christmas present to Grace and I.

Those of you who follow my site know I rarely post any images of my own family but I thought I would switch that up for this post.  Recently we expanded, and opened a studio in Cambridge, while maintaining our Parry Sound area studio base.  Recenty my daughter Jodie flew in from  Calgary with our grandson Tony and our daughter in law, Sheri, who lives ten minutes away from our new Cambridge studio, came over with our other grandson, David.  This provided a great opportunity to use the studio to grab a few personal, family images.  I opted to shoot them with two alien bee strobes, in low key, with the dark black backdrop.  I find this approach tends to keep the focus directly on the subjects.

Enjoy and have a Very Merry Christmas!

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December 19, 2010

Parry Sound Family Portriats – The Anderson’s on Georgian Bay

Filed under: Portraits — Tags: , , , — johnbrisbane @ 9:40 pm

This past September I had the pleasure of meeting and working with Dave and Bernice Anderson and their children.  We were doing a session for the whole Anderson Family at Dave’s father’s place on Georgian Bay, just north of Parry Sound.  After doing the shots of the larger,  extended family group, I always like to also do a range of images of the smaller family groupings,  so we did some with just  Dave and Bernice and their three children.  A few of those shots are below.  We did some  along the shoreline with some of the great rock and white pine that is so charactistic of the Georgian Bay area and then went down the the dock on a part of the shoreline that Dave and Bernice own and got a great shot of them on the dock.  

One of the things I like most about doing family portraits is that I get to meet some truly wonderful people.  Dave and his brother know the waters around Parry Sound very well as they operate the well known and popular Island Queen cruises.  If you have never had the opportunity to take one of their Georgian Bay cruises you should.  The scenery is awesome and the Anderson’s add in lots of interesting commentary about the Bay and the area.

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November 15, 2010

Family Portraits with Sadie and her family – Blackstone Lake – Parry Sound

Filed under: Baby and Child photography,Portraits — Tags: , , — johnbrisbane @ 8:55 pm

In September we had the pleasure of working with the Brown family once again.  We photographed Lisa and Graham’s wedding in May, 2009, and they had purchased a gift certificate for a portrait session and a print package as a gift for Lisa’s bother Ryan and his fiance, and now wife, Collette.  Collette had called me early in 2010 to let me know they wanted to hold off on doing the shoot as they were expecting their first child this spring. 

This September, Sadie was four months old and everyone gathered at Grandma and Grandpa Brown’s home on Blackstone Lake for the portrait session.  I had photographed Lisa and Collette at the same location in May, 2009 as Lisa, Collette and the other girls in Lisa’s wedding party had gotten ready at Brown family residence.  We got a lot of shots of Sadie, and her family, with one of my favourites being Sadie exploring her dad and mom’s toes.  

We also got some shots of Lisa and Graham in exactly the same spot that Lisa had posed on May 30, 2010, in her wedding dress, just before heading off for her wedding to Graham.  This time Lisa and Graham were expecting and I am happy to say that about 2 weeks after we took these images, Lisa delivered Graydon, a healthy baby boy, and a cousin for Sadie.

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October 30, 2010

The Clarke Family Portrait Session – Parry Sound

Filed under: Portraits — Tags: , , — johnbrisbane @ 9:11 am

One of the things I love the most about doing family portrait sessions is meeting a lot of wonderful people.   In July I worked with Jan and Pat Clarke and their extended family.  Their children had purchased a photo session gift certificate for them for Christmas, 2009 and Jan and Pat had saved it until their family could get together this summer.   We met along the Georgian Bay shoreline early one evening and had a great time capturing some images of the whole family and some smaller family groupings.   A few images from our photo session follow.

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September 28, 2010

We’re growing!!! A new studio, new cards…

Those of you who follow my blog and facebook page know we have recently opened a southern Ontario studio in Cambridge to help us better serve the Southern Ontario market.  We will be continuing to have a strong presence throughout the Parry Sound – Muskoka region through our studio on the shores of  Georgian Bay, near Parry Sound, while using the Cambridge studio as our base for Southern Ontario.   

 The new Cambridge studio has nice high ceilings, tons of storeage, and awesome natural light.  As well, it has lots of room to display our ever expanding portfolio, a great office space, and a wonderful room for client consults.  To reflect these changes we now have a toll free number for Canadian and USA based clients 1-877-942-1661 and new business cards.  The back and front sides of the cards are shown below.  Our e-mail contact is info@bayshorephotography or john@bayshorephotography

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June 28, 2010

Giving Back to the Community – print donations to WPSHC Foundation – Parry Sound

Filed under: Baby and Child photography — Tags: , , — johnbrisbane @ 8:39 pm

Last year I was approached by some of the staff in the Obstetrics Unit at the West Parry Sound Health Centre to see if I would be interested in donating some baby and child prints to help brighten up the area.  I selected three different types of images and had them enlarged and framed and then, after discussions with Lynne Atkinson, Executive Director of the Foundation for WPSHC, Bayshore Photography donated the three framed prints to the Foundation.  The prints were strategically placed in the obstetrics unit and served to brighten the faces of the nurses, patients and visitors who passed them.  Recently the OB unit was relocated and the prints are waiting to be rehung in the new OB unit. This should happen over the next few weeks.    Shortly before the framed prints donation I was approached by a staff member in the physio department, whose wedding I shot in 2005, about them using one of my baby images on some of their physio print material.  Again this seemed like a great opportunity to support the local hospital and to give back  to the community, so I was happy to oblige and now one of my baby in mom’s hands shots if helping promote the physiotherapy department and the good work they do.

The images used in the framed prints donated to the Foundation and in the physio brochure are included below.

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