Lyndsay Cotterall is a Vancouver-based photographer. She contacted me at the start of the year wanting to book a portrait session with her husband Adam to celebrate their second wedding anniversary. In her email she wrote that she wanted to top Layton and Candace’s shoot, and I was up for the challenge! Lyndsay and Adam booked a mini-island getaway to Victoria and we met up for their session at the Laurel Point Inn. They were running a bit behind (after driving all over the city looking for a grocery store to buy pies…this will make sense in part 2!), and I was waiting outside the floor elevator at the hotel when I saw a flash of blond run past. The next time the elevator doors opened, there was Adam…arms open for a giant hug. Quite the greeting from a complete stranger! He said he always goes for a hug first! We started shooting in the hotel room, and with the racket we were making jumping on the bed, I’m sure any neighbours who saw me head into the room with a camera must have thought something strange was going on inside! Lyndsay and Adam were up for anything so we took photos until the sun went down, and ended up spending just over 5 hrs together during their session. We met up with Jenna and Tristan for some supper at the end of the night, and talked non-stop like a bunch of photography nerds. It was really great to finally meet Lyndsay and Adam, and I look forward to more shenanigans with them in the future!