Lethbridge Portrait & Wedding Photography & Design by Tanya Plonka

Normally it takes a lot to convince me to do landscapes (photos are just so much more interesting with people or animals in them!) but when I last went location scouting in the Crowsnest Pass, the autumn colors were so beautiful that I just couldn’t keep my camera down! I went on a mini-hike and barely stopped taking photos along the way. All of the plants were so lush and colorful, and the hazy sky from the BC fires gave such a warm, gorgeous light.

Interested in prints of any of these? Send me a message! Later this year I am hoping to put together a special gallery of prints for sale, so keep an eye out :) (more…)

It’s almost here! To count down to my OWN wedding, I’ll be making one blog post each month outlining all of the awesome things we picked out for our big day. We had set the date so far in the future from our engagement that at first it seemed forever away, so it’s hard to believe it’s almost here already. I have new found respect for all the brides I’ve worked with because planning a wedding is VERY HARD, and we even eliminated many of the steps that are involved!

Early on we knew we didn’t want to get married at home, and a beach was our top choice. In the end we chose Santa Monica, near the famous pier.

We’ll be having our intimate ceremony on the beach with dinner to follow on Ocean Avenue. By intimate, I mean 10 people including us :)

Getting married in California wouldn’t be complete without some Hollywood in the wedding, so it’s fitting that our officiant appeared in wedding scene in the Hangover!

In case you missed it, our engagement story is here.

While the snow has been sporadic so far, one thing that’s more frequent is the ice fog we’ve been getting that’s been coating Southern Alberta in gorgeous, sparkling frost. The frost has been so heavy that Lethbridge is still often white by the afternoon! With a few traces of autumn still left behind and no snow to cover the grass, it made for some beautiful photos. (more…)

Finally I bring you the last installment of my City of Lethbridge photos, featuring autumn! Sadly the trees didn’t play nice that year, and some lost their leaves while others were still green, so it was hard to get photos encompassing how beautiful it actually was! However, we had some gorgeous weather with delicious warm light and I was so happy with what I was able to capture.

In case you missed the other season posts, you can check them out here:

• Winter
• Spring
• Summer

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For the next installment of my City of Lethbridge photos, here is summer! We had an amazing summer and the city put on lots of great events so I had plenty of things to photograph! The great thing about being surrounded by farming communities is that it gives us such a diverse landscape with colorful fields next to urban settings. I love how rich and blue our skies are here all summer.

This is by far the largest post because we had such a long summer and I just couldn’t put my camera down :)

In case you missed the other season posts, you can check them out here:

• Winter
• Spring

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This is the second installment of photos for the City of Lethbridge, featuring my favorite season, spring! (You can see the first post, winter, back here.)

Last year we had a beautiful spring with warm weather and tons of blossoms, so taking photos was a breeze! Though we had a number of cloudy days, there were enough blue skies to offset them. (more…)