Family Photography for Every Season

Whether you’re chasing toddlers through a river valley trail, updating your annual family portrait or welcoming a brand-new baby, I have a session designed to capture this chapter of your story. Explore the photography experiences below to find the style that best fits your family.

Session Types

Storytelling Sessions

The most popular type of portraits for families who want a relaxed session that focuses on connection, adventure and unscripted moments. Images captured provide a lifetime of memories.

Family Storytelling Pictures

Classic Portraits

Shorter sessions for families looking for portraits with a polished and slightly more traditional approach. Ideal for a quick annual photo update and holiday cards, images are primarily posed and facing the camera.

mother and daughter portraits by Pause Photography

Newborn & Baby Sessions

From sleepy newborn snuggles to milestone moments and first birthdays, these sessions preserve the tiny details that change so quickly. Available in-home or on location for a relaxed, baby-led experience.

Best Edmonton newborn photographer to get babies to sleep for pictures
Why Family Photography Matters

Life is lived in fast-forward

Our babies grow into toddlers, preschoolers, grade schoolers and high schoolers. Feeding, naps and diaper changes become swimming lessons, sports, school, music lessons, birthday parties and one day you wake up and your baby is a teenage. Families change, and the everyday moments often become the memories we treasure most. My goal is to  preserve not just how your family looks now, but how this season of life feels.

You deserve fun, personality-filled family photos
Which Session Is Right for You?

Unsure what might be the best fit for your family? Expand the sections below to help you decide.

Real-life moments and connection

Activity-based portraits that are fun, relaxed and emotion-filled; showing your family in this season of life. I focus on capturing moments of real connection, with some classically posed portraits sprinkled in for good measure. For immediate family members in the same household. Please inquire for extended family session rates.

Choose: Storytelling Sessions

Traditional family portraits

Primarily posed family portrait sessions are perfect for a maternity session, just the kids, a quick update for the family photo wall or a special holiday session. Classic portraits can be booked in the studio or outdoors within Edmonton. For immediate family members in the same household. Please inquire for extended family session rates.

Choose: Classic Portraits

Extended family session

Session includes a phone or video consultation prior to your session, up to two hours of photography time to photograph the whole group as well as smaller groupings that are important to you with a few candids sprinkled throughout.

Contact me for extended family portrait details

Posed newborn session in studio

Studio session for baby only. These sessions are baby swaddled in various wraps and posed on a beanbag. No parents or siblings. If timing allows, some poses may be completed without wraps.

Choose: Newborn & Baby Session

In-home newborn lifestyle session

Relaxed lifestyle session in your home with as many breaks as needed. A stress-free experience for the whole family. I’ll guide you with prompts and help direct some relaxed poses.

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Baby's first year milestone session

Studio session to celebrate baby’s milestones. Baby must be able to sit on their own. Up to about one year old.

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Ready to Preserve This Chapter?

Whether you’re planning a family adventure, updating your portraits or welcoming a new baby, I’d love to help tell your story.