Two Essential Ways to Preserve Your Memories
Through Every Stage of Your Family Story
Collect Your Favourite Memories Over Time
Make sure you capture this important thing through each stage of your children’s lives …
As a family, newborn and maternity photographer in Grimsby for over 15 years, I’ve seen my studio filled with some of the most beautiful magic life has to offer us – family togetherness. These are the memories my clients most want to capture, preserve and relive over and over from your pregnancy, your first days with your newborn, the celebration of baby’s first birthday and each new season with your growing family.
See How These Families Have Documented Their Story Through Important Milestones:
Maternity Photography in Albums and Gallery Walls:
Pregnancy is such a fleeting time (and one that we don’t always get to stop and savour as much as we’d like). That’s why I love helping you preserve these moments in portraits and books – so you can look at them whenever you need to remember the feeling. They’re also a really powerful visual to show your children as they grow up, reminding them of the way you loved them and knew them before you even met them.
Newborn Photography in Albums and Gallery Walls:
We can hold so much as mothers. And I love capturing the transition from holding your baby inside you, to holding your baby in your arms. What a truly miraculous journey to capture in photos! These are the kind of moments that change our lives forever as people, families and mothers.
First Year Baby Milestones in Albums and Gallery Walls:
In the many milestones that make up your first year with your baby, you all travel through so much together. You can capture each of these important moments from first crawl to first steps with my first year collective package. When we’ve captured them all, we’ll turn them into a beautiful portrait book, photo album or gallery wall. You will always be reminded of the incredible feats you made together as a family, and all the ways you supported each other through it – from giggles, to hugs to close snuggles.
Growing Family Through the Years in Albums and Gallery Walls:
Every new season brings a new dynamic to this “togetherness” you create. But when you capture these memories in photos, you can be surrounded by your unfolding story as a family (and even jump through space and time to relive your favourite moments of the past).
How to Preserve Your Favourite Memories:
In my natural light studio in Grimsby, I’ve been privileged to serve as your family’s memory keeper by helping you preserve these one-of-a-kind moments in meaningful ways:
Heirloom photo albums
High quality portraits to hang on your walls.
As I’ve said before in Why You Shouldn’t Wait to Print Out Your Photos,
“YOUR MEMORIES AREN’T DISPOSABLE. THEY’RE ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME MOMENTS THAT DESERVE TO BE HANDLED AND PRESERVED WITH LOVE”
As a photographer, it breaks my heart to think of the millions of memories lying dormant on our devices. That’s why I love helping my customers avoid the stress of getting their photos printed, and take care of that process for them.
How I Help You Bring Your Photos to Life:
Custom designing an heirloom photo album that tells a compelling story
Helping you choose fabrics for albums and materials for your portrait frames
Hanging your photos and installing your gallery walls for you in your home
Custom Heirloom Albums and Portrait Books:
The photo albums I create for you are handcrafted albums made in Canada. You can choose between a beautiful selection of premium fabrics in linen or leather, as well as a cameo photo cover or an embossed cover.
The heirloom albums come as a 10x10 size with deep matte paper. If you’re looking for a smaller version, I also offer 7.5x7.5 linen portrait books as well, which showcase your favourite images on deep matte paper as well.
A beautiful selection of items to add to over time, through each new stage and season of your child’s life.
Professional Gallery Walls:
Make your family photos the focal point of your home with a professionally styled gallery wall.
There are many names you might use – a gallery wall, a collage wall, or a storywall. I work with your space to design a photo wall that perfectly suits the:
Size of your wall
Available space on your wall
Interior design of the room (colour palettes and styles)
I’ll help you select the perfect materials from my collection of lux frames. Whether you want low-glare glass or that luxurious, touchable finish, I can customize these quality printed pieces for your home.
A major benefit to installing a gallery wall is that when you make this investment, I can help you can expand the wall to welcome your newest members!) I include custom design and gallery wall installation in your purchase of framed portraits.
Why You’ll Be Happy You Ordered Photo Albums and Frames:
You can create a timeline of your family life together. Life isn’t always a straightforward path. But even through ups and downs and messy middles, you’ll always have these photos to remind you that the difficult times always pass, and you always survive the chaos. Your family photos are constant reminders from your past self that, “Everything was always okay again. I will always be okay again after hard days or difficult seasons.”
You can remember a different side of yourself. Photos can actually help us meet new sides of ourselves and others. When your kids are growing up, it can be so comforting to look back at photos of themselves as a child and remember that somewhere inside them, in the midst of all the heaviness of adulthood, is a youthful innocence that can still come out to play. After all, as Anne Lamott says, “I am all the ages I’ve ever been.” And that’s a wonderful thing.
Fantastic prompts for a grateful-living. When you have beautiful photography around your home, in frames and photo albums, you can be surrounded with constant reminders of this amazing life you’re living, and this authentic story you’re telling together as a family.
Before and After a Gallery Wall Installation
Conclusion:
Through every stage of your family’s life, there are photo-worthy moments to be captured and preserved.
After a luxurious photography session in the Reflections natural light studio, it’s the perfect opportunity to preserve your memories of this season in professional photo albums and portraits. We’ll meet in your Image Reveal after for a wonderful photo selection experience. From there, I’ll do all the heavy lifting (literally, I’ll even come to your home and install your gallery wall!). Don’t let your favourite memories get buried in your phone. Transform them into pieces of art your family will grow up looking at every day.
Preserving Your Family Photography
- In Heirloom Albums and Professional Gallery Walls -
If you want to create something beautiful for your home and family, message me. I'd love to give you more information on booking a portrait session here at Reflections.
Client Testimonial
“When my significant other mentioned he wanted to do maternity photos, I instantly felt the stress of the process to get photos done. Being in photos have never really been my thing so when we found Karen we couldn’t believe the amount of effort and love she puts into her work.
Karen took all our stress away by being the “one stop shop” for photography. She had beautiful colour scheme ideas for our clothing. It was so nice not having to stress and find something just for photos to fit my baby bump and she had the impossible task of dressing my significant other who normally only wears work clothing.
When it finally came to the day of the shoot I was nervous and excited. Karen was so professional and knew exactly how to get us to laugh and smile for the perfect photos. She eased my nerves within minutes of being with her, and the shoot was so much fun and a great memory Stephen and I will share forever.
The best part was that her hard work doesn’t just stop at the photo shoot. She helped us pick frames that best fit our home decor and the photos that will be placed on my walls for years to come.
Reflections is not just a photographer. It is an experience that I highly suggest to everyone.”
- Kylee Robbins
Hi there!
I’m Karen, a professional, trained photographer in the Niagara Region of Ontario, specializing in maternity, newborn, baby and family portraits. Hundreds of mamas just like you have come to Reflections to capture the stories of their family’s growth.
As a mama of four, I understand the busy-ness of everyday life. I’m here to help you slow down time, even just for a moment, to embrace the beauty of that busy, full life.
