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Stress-Free Family Sessions | Kamloops photographer

Family sessions with toddlers are fun and energetic and priceless. They can also be stressful if you aren’t prepared for a bit of chaos! Here are a few of my favourite tips to help you have a stress-free family photography session with your little ones.

How to Prepare for your Engagement Session

In this guide you’ll find everything you need to know from choosing the perfect location for you, to clothing choices, to what happens if it rains on your scheduled day.

Carefree outdoor family session | Kamloops

My roots in photography started first with families.  I have always loved photographing beautiful families. Kamloops family photography.

5 ways Personal Branding Sessions benefit your business

Having great images of yourself on your website and on social media is one of the easiest ways to help your audience feel like they know you. Yet the whole process of creating those images can feel daunting. A professional personal brand photographer will help you create a custom photoshoot plan built around your brand. They will make you feel confident and relaxed in front of the camera and they will create amazing images to promote your business and speak to your audience!!

Kamloops Portrait Photographer for Couples

Kamloops Portrait Photographer for Couples

Six reasons why it’s so important to book a couples portrait session and why you will be SO thankful down the road that you made the decision to spend some time in front of the camera with your favorite person.  
This studio session combines epic portraits with romantic, candid moments, the perfect blend.

Kamloops Tween Birthday Party

Kamloops Tween Birthday Party

Planning a cool birthday party for your tween can be difficult at the best of times… and with the curve ball of covid it’s even more daunting right now. Photoshoot birthday parties are new to the Kamloops area, so If you’re looking for something really fun and a bit out of the ordinary, a vogue style photoshoot birthday party might be just the ticket!!

Harper Mountain engagement session

Harper Mountain engagement session

Engagement photography that focuses on authentic relationships, real moments and incredible light. Outdoor evening engagement session in Kamloops BC.

Kamloops Personal Branding Session – Jennifer

Kamloops Personal Branding Session – Jennifer

Making authentic connections with your clients and customers, particularly for small businesses, is essential for your brand. Personal Branding is about building an online presence that is consistent and authentic, it’s about becoming a recognizable brand your customers and followers can depend on.

Outdoor family adventure Kamloops

Outdoor family adventure Kamloops

THIS family and I went for a grand adventure out in the Jamieson Creek area, and climbing down steep banks and trekking the back woods was so incredibly worth the effort.  And it was so fun!!!!  AND nobody fell in the creek, so we were winning all over the place 🙂

Summerland family photoshoot adventure

Summerland family photoshoot adventure

Adventure Awaits!!!  Have you heard that before??  It’s a phrase that runs through my mind every time I’m off to photograph a family session. Adventure truly does “await” when it comes to photographing kids, and I never know what’s going to happen, what they’re going to say or, really, how the photoshoot is going to go.

Finding the right photographer

Finding the right photographer

I wanted to share a story with you about how finding the right photographer can make all the difference in your photos. You know how sometimes you cross paths with someone who you’re sure is a great human being, but you just didn’t gel together at all?  But And on the other hand, sometimes you meet someone and you know immediately you’re basically kindred spirits?  Finding the right photographer for YOU can be kinda like that.

Sun Peaks Resort winter wedding | Carly + Bruce

Sun Peaks Resort winter wedding | Carly + Bruce

Every time I’m asked to shoot a winter wedding, it feels almost like winning the lottery. Not that I’ve actually WON the lottery, but I imagine this is what it feels like, haha.  Once you learn how to photograph them (hello snow and white dresses!) it’s so fun to go where the beauty takes you! And as far as winter weddings go, Sun Peaks Resort is an exceptional venue… lovely accommodations, a quaint village, sweeping views and so many beautiful locations for your photos!

Lisa Novakowski      250.320.4213      lisa@lisanovak.ca    

Based in Kamloops, BC, Canada.  Available worldwide.