Rachel Ludwig Photography | Abbotsford Portrait and Wedding Photographer

I love it when I am asked to photograph a family again, it’s always great to catch up and to see how ‘my babies’ have grown! I photographed Evan when he was just an teeny-tiny newborn, and he’s now two!

He’s a very typical two-year-old boy and wasn’t super interested in me or my camera (this is totally normal! I know lots of parents stress out about this during a session, but it’s totally OK and we still get lots of great shots).  He may not have been interested in my camera or bribes such as lollipops, but he was most certainly interested in his car, the swings and slides, and running! He gave us quite the work out, but it was definitely worth it. One of my goals with my photography is to capture personalities, especially with kids, as they are constantly changing and growing up on us! I love that we captured Evan and what he’s all about at age two (and just for fun: see how many pictures you can spot his car in!)

Isn’t he positively adorable? Those beautiful brown eyes of his just melt me. Thank you Sarb and Lucky for such a great session…I’ll be in touch soon with the rest of your images. Enjoy your sneak peek!

that pout…too cute!

We had some amazing weather for an afternoon family session with the Gurash family, who came all the way from Cloverdale for a session at the Westminster Abbey in Mission. Nicole had mentioned prior to her session that fall colors were really an important aspect to her for their session, so I was a little worried when we had some typical BC fall weather the week before, and when I showed up and the beautiful red ivy wall I had wanted to use had already lost it’s leaves! Fortunately, there was still a lot of beautiful fall color on the trees and on the ground that we were able to incorporate into their images. Fall is such a beautiful time of year for family pictures, especially when the weather cooperates as well as it did on this day.

This family has three handsome and rambunctious boys, who totally knew how to turn on the charm for the camera. You know what they say about boys and being made of snips and snails and puppy dog tails, right? It’s so true. Boys are fun and I just can’t resist capturing that mischievous twinkle in their eyes! Even though I called Sterling, the middle one, Spencer. The entire session. eeek! I do promise that prior to having kids I had a really really good memory for things like names and phone numbers. Sorry Spencer! I mean Sterling. I hope you have forgiven me.

Now on to some pictures…it’s always hard to narrow down my favorites for blog posts. It’s kind of like having to pick a favorite child!:

I couldn’t resist sharing this series of images…totally sums of the antics of three brothers!

a) All looking and smiling b) # 1 is thinking: hmmm…I could be thinking up some trouble here c) #2 is in on the plan

d) #3 is saying…plant ‘em right here bros! e) ohhh….maybe I’m not liking this! f) enough enough enough already!

I love the lighting in this first one, and how the littlest brother is hanging on to mom’s legs in the foot shot

Thanks for being super fun and such good sports Nicole, Jason, Parker, Sterling and Harrison…enjoy your sneak peek, I’ll be in touch soon with your slideshow and ordering gallery!

Fish Trap Creek is a beautiful park near my home, and for some reason I don’t shoot there very often. So I was super excited when Tanya suggested we use this for their family shoot. The fall colors were absolutely perfect, and we couldn’t have asked for better weather. I also think that I have never laughed so hard as I did during this session. These four were constantly cracking up, and were so much fun!

I thought it was so sweet that Antoinette’s kids got a photo session for her graduation present. What a great gift to celebrate such a special occasion! I should also mention that Tanya had broken her foot just a few weeks beforehand, and she very gamely trecked all over the park to get the perfect shots. Thanks for being such a trooper Tanya, and a big thank you to all of you for such a fun morning!

Enjoy your sneak peek and I’ll be in touch soon.

A big thank you for all your thoughts and prayers for Katy, it’s been greatly appreciated! The last few days have been intense, and a roller-coaster of emotions for all of us as we do our best to support Katy. As I am sure you can all imagine, right now my first priority and focus is family.  If you are a client waiting to hear from me, I hope to catch up again next week. Thank you for your understanding during this time!

Some of you may remember my sister-in-law Katy, from her wedding in April of this year…and many of my clients have gotten albums that have been assembled by her or orders that have been packaged by her. I don’t normally share a lot of personal stuff here on this blog, but she needs lots of prayers and support right now. She’s been suffering from colitis for the past year or so, and the last few months have been extremely challenging. She’s been in the hospital for three weeks as the doctors have tried different treatments and medications, but unfortunately these efforts have met with little success. So today she will be having surgery. Needless to say, we are all terribly worried, and have been praying non-stop.

Please say some prayers for her, and keep her and her husband Anthony in your thoughts today. Specifically that the surgery goes well and that recovery goes smoothly so she can feel better and go home soon. And any encouraging messages that you might want to leave here I am sure will be greatly appreciated by Katy. Thank you!

One of the things I love about photography, is that it has allowed me to meet some pretty amazing people. Andrea and I connected over email, and as we went through all the pre-session stuff, we found out that we have a lot in common. Especially our love of reading, and we discovered that we have read and enjoyed many of the same books. When Andie (as her family and friends call her) agreed that the pumpkin patch would be a great place for some of her pictures, I was looking forward to meeting her and her husband even more! I always love it when clients are up for something a bit different.

We started the session at their beautiful home. Andrea has an amazing eye for design, and has created a cozy and stylish home that had me drooling! We discovered we also had a mutual love for interior design (although she’s much better at the actual execution part of it all…I just plan, and dream and never actually do the decorating. LOL). Well, you can see for yourself some of their gorgeous home below:

Meet their adorable dog Kingston (who is going to be in for some changes when baby makes his/her arrival!).

He’s the tiniest dog I’ve ever met…a little Yorkie weighing in under 3lbs if I remember correctly

Andrea looked positively amazing. 37ish weeks and glowing! What a beautiful mama.

Kingston loved being in on the action…he was a total ham

Then we headed off to the pumpkin patch. Andrea’s belly sized in at $5 on the pumpkin measuring chart!

I had to break it to her that babies are much more expensive than pumpkins…but fortunately, they are also much cuter!

Thanks again for such a fabulous session Andie and Derrick! I will be in touch soon with your slideshow…I can’t wait to meet your new little one!