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!

One image from Sandra and Aaron’s wedding today as I’m downloading images. So much fun with these folks!

A few images from my windy session yesterday with Christine and Dave at their farm in Meadowville, Pictou County. I really wanted to take that little kitten home, but I resisted.

Hailing from New Waterford, Cape Breton Island, Juliana and Jerry are high school sweethearts. Jerry moved straight across the country to be with Juliana while she was attending UVic, and now they’re engaged! They contacted me wanting to have their engagement photos taken before they moved back to Cape Breton, as a way to commemorate their time in Victoria, and thought it would be suiting to have another Cape Bretoner as their photographer! We had a great time during their session laughing at the Vancouver Island ‘winters’ and telling stories about the bizarre locations people misplace our accents (Nevada…really?). I’ll be making my way back to Cape Breton two days before they get to move back home, but I can bet they’re counting the minutes until they see the words ‘Welcome to Cape Breton’ painted on the Canso Causeway! Congratulations on your engagement Juliana and Jerry…enjoy home.