Been a B&W film user for the better part of my life, I had took a break from photography since I had to move to Prince George for school. The passion for creativity was still there, unfortunately since I am pretty bad at operating a point-n-shoot, photography was on the back burner in my early 20s.
The eureka moment arrive when my first born was a week old. Being a new parent was really rough for me, I was overstress, under rest and the trauma of child birth did a number on me. Both of us were really scare and we insist on sleeping together (us with Aidan in the middle) on a cramp single bed in his nursery. We woke up, from a three hours of sleep; bed head and all; but I can't get over how beautiful my little boy is. The light from the late fall sky cascading through the blinds, lighting his little face. I grab my cell phone, then starting to take photos with the in phone camera. When I saw the images on my computer that afternoon I was complete in awe of how breathlessly beautiful they are, I did what a normal first time parent will do, order prints on line.
A week later, the prints had arrive. When I was going through them I had an epiphany. It has noting to do with what type of camera you are using, it is all about how you choose to see the subject and how you record the connections you form with it. Photography is a medium, in which we record what was in the moment. Emotion, closeness, relationship between objects...all are subjective but also sharp our memory. People often said someone had an eye for it, the "it" are the senses.
I brought my first D-SLR three years ago, since then a lot had happen. I started shooting baby portraiture and then friends started to ask me to cover certain events. It just snowball into a part time job.
I enjoy shooting wedding, being an hopeless emotional romantic (who cry at EVERYTHING on TV) I thrive in the love and tenderness rapport in the wedding. Maternity and Baby portraiture are a closed second, since they are always a welcome reminder of how I met the two little being who are the love of my life.
In between taking care of my boys (all three of them, size X-small, small and XXX-Large) and learning how to live my life to the fullness; I devote the rest of my free time into photography and lightroom. All the preset you see on this site are creation by me, with the intention to share. As with life, photography is an on-going learning experience, so I take every chance I get to shoot. If you are interested in more of my work or a possible project/session, please click on the "contact" link above. I am base in Vancouver, but can travel to all corners of British Columbia and the southern part of Alberta.
Cheers~
Vivian
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