racheljphotography

Hello beautiful friends! Thanks for stopping by and viewing my recent work and sessions. You will get the chance to see glimpses of moments captured in people’s lives. I will occasionally post photos of my growing family and some of my personal projects and work as well. I hope you come back and I do love hearing from you so please feel free to comment on posts if you have the time. I appreciate all the love and support from my friends and family. 

Love, Rachel J

You’ve already seen Graeme and Michelle’s Sneak Peek of their daughter Claire blogged a little while ago, but before I left on holidays I didn’t have a chance to blog their session yet so here it is! Claire’s full session will be coming soon as well but for now you can enjoy the beauty of a pregnant mom and her husband before having a little person change their lives forever. 

Many hugs and loves to you both!

Rachel

I love this one because it looks like Graeme is about to push Michelle over. :)

Before I left on holidays I photographed Baby Finn and here he is!! Our friends Craig and Jenna are the proud parents of this beautiful little newborn. Congratulations and all our love C & J! We adore Finn and can’t wait to watch him grow.

Here is Finn’s cute wrinkly back. 

Feet together, this looks pretty comfy (for a newborn at least). 

Ahhh….sleeping soundly.

Jack meeting Finn the new member of the family.

Oh I love his lips!!

Ruby and Arun were married in July and it was a pleasure to photograph a wedding ceremony with traditions I’ve never personally witnessed before. Each part of the ceremony was described in English which was nice and I learned that there is a lot of symbolism throughout the ceremony. It was an honour to capture their Hindu wedding ceremony. It was followed by a lovely South Indian lunch outside the temple. Congratulations Ruby & Arun on your wedding! Soon I will also post their Christian wedding day as well.

Enjoy!

Precious Claire is 9 days old and quite tall already! Both her parents have some nice height so this isn’t a surprise. It was such a pleasure to capture Claire as a newborn for my old junior high school friend Michelle and her husband Graeme. Congratulations on your first born and I can’t wait to show you the rest! Also - Michelle’s gorgeous maternity photos have yet to be blogged too so things are a bit out of chronological order at the moment. Stay tuned for more soon!

Rachel

I am so excited to share this set of images from Brad and Shannon’s wedding. I photographed their rehearsal the evening before and met them all. This was my first time meeting Brad and Shannon and their friends and family in person because they live in California. The day of the wedding was rainy all day but this ended up being a good thing. We had some lovely light and to our relief it only rained lightly during most of the portrait session…I had an adventurous day as well. When we arrived at this awesome field where there is this old and abandoned barn I stepped on a rusty nail that went through my shoe into my foot. It’s all healed up now and I am left with a permanent reminder of their wedding. :) Luckily one of the bridesmaids had a band aid in her truck for the rest of the session. Now what you’ve all been waiting for…the wedding images!

Here are Shannon’s comfy shoes!

 And the beautiful cage! I LOVE this cage on Shannon. So beautiful and goes perfectly with her dress. 

 The flower girl dropping petals as she comes down the aisle.

 Brad watching Shannon as she comes down the aisle. He couldn’t take his eyes off her.

 Coolest fence ever! 

 Here’s the barn I was talking about and the bridal party.

 I seriously just love this dress. It has pockets!

Shannon’s brother works with this equipment and they went up really high for some cool photos! And then I went up and took photos of all the guests and the reception/ceremony tent and entire yard. It was scary but exhilarating too! I’m not a fan of heights.

 The reception tent. Purple and green go really well together.

Congratulations Brad and Shannon and I wish you all the happiness in your marriage! Continue to laugh and love like you do.

Love,

Rachel

As you likely noticed the blog posts significantly slowed the last few weeks. Our family went to the west coast to visit relatives and also to have some time alone. We really enjoyed being away and becoming refreshed. Here are a few photos from our trip. In the mean time I’m working on Brad and Shannon’s wedding photos and will be doing a blog post very soon of their fabulous wedding day! Please stay tuned because there are a lot of sessions and weddings coming up to check out.

Thanks and much love!

Rachel

Friends of mine recently had a baby girl and I went over to take some photos of her when she was 10 days old. Unfortunately, little Miss E didn’t want to sleep for me the entire time I was photographing her so here are some of my favorites of Ellie wide awake that I took. Congratulations Bonnie and Billy and the birth of your fourth child. She is precious!

Love, Rachel

Good friends of mine are expecting their first baby next month and I had the opportunity to take some quick maternity shots of them in the river valley a little while ago. Here are some of my favorites from the session. I can’t wait to meet your newborn in August! Love you guys!

Rachel

Well, I’ve been bugged for a long time to post some recent photos of my 2 year old daughter. To be honest I have hardly taken any photographs of her in the last 4-5 months because I’ve been so busy photographing my clients! Here are some recent snaps - most of them from just this morning. 

Below is Linnea near the beginning of July coming around the corner down our hallway…next to her is our dog Buddy.

 Linnea’s first braid - done by my intern Janine!

 Jeff made me a special drink yesterday evening to enjoy on the patio after I put Linnea down for bed (since I can’t have alcohol at the moment). Sparkling water, fresh local raspberries and thyme…

During the second week of July we went to Sylvan Lake as I was shooting a wedding in Eckville. Here is an image I took one evening at sunset.

 The rest of these images are all of Linnea from this morning…Here she is holding Leroy, her musical octupus, from her “auntie” Angela!

 Here she is dancing with Emma…you can’t hear it but we’re listening to some music in the background. She loves to dance and jump!

Jeff made Linnea a special breakfast of fresh market berries including blackberries, raspberries, blueberries and saskatoons with yogurt followed by some yummy scrambled eggs. This is her face after the first bite!

Elvira and I discussed having a late sunset session and were really looking forward to shooting outside. The day and night of her session it just kept on pouring rain in Edmonton style. So we were basically forced indoors and ended up at NAIT for some late evening shots. I am really excited to photograph this gorgeous couple in August. Their wedding is coming up quick! 

Enjoy! :)