Lethbridge Weddings & Portrait Photography by Tanya Plonka

What a fun first session of 2016! With a coating of fresh snow in Indian Battle Park, I got to meet little Brooklyn and her whole family on this nice warm day. She brought along her mom, dad, and both grandmothers for her Lethbridge snowy family photos. She was absolutely adorable, especially in her pink and white cowgirl outfit. Brooklyn had the best full body laughs and is such a happy kid. My fake fart sounds were a big hit for getting those big laughs out of her! Even though it was a little cold for her, she was such a great sport and had fun playing in the snow by the High Level Bridge with her family.

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Kennedy and Kaia’s mom surprised their dad with children’s sister portraits of the girls for his Christmas present. While he was briefly out of town, the girls and their faithful dogs visited me at the University of Lethbridge lake. Kaia is still a little too young to understand the concept of secrets so we had a backup story of me being a friend practising photos to avoid any spoiling!

The last time I photographed the family was before Kennedy could walk on her own so it was incredible to see how much they have grown! Even the dogs, Jake and Digger, are much more white than they were last time, though they still have the full energy of golden retrievers. We made sure to focus on their senior dog Digger who is getting quite up there in years so they can have some beautiful photos of him.

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It was wonderful to get together again with JJ, Shaun, and their girls for this year’s round of Aperture Park autumn family photos! Since we had also used the university’s lake for their last family session, I made sure to stick to all different spots this time around and this led us to the best pile of leaves for the girls to throw. Their leaf throwing got to be their reward for lasting through the photos ;)

The girls are so full of energy that I could barely keep up, but letting them make all the silly faces they needed helped them to pause once in a while. They are so cute together and I love their intense hugs that make them almost tip over.

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At the end of her session with her brother, Lilly got to do some special Snow White portraits all by herself! Her mom found her a beautiful Snow White dress to hang up in her bedroom with the same theme and her photos will help decorate the room, which is such a cute idea. Lilly was a perfect model for the character with her adorable smile and perfect way of sitting. Lethbridge’s Nicholas Sheran Lake provided a beautiful background for our “forest.” No poison apples were eaten during our session ;)

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The evening is a perfect time for summer river bottom family photos during a heat wave! Lily came down to Indian Battle Park in Lethbridge with her mom and dad for their family photos and had so much fun exploring the coulees. She loved running through the trails and having her parents pick her up to swing her, but probably her favorite thing of all were fake sneezes. The bigger your fake sneeze, the harder she would laugh! She even got pretty good at faking her own by the end of the session :)

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I love getting together with Shari and Garett every year to see how much their adorable girls have grown… and partly to see what awesome outfits they’ve picked out this time (I think Liv was the best this year in her baby pink skull dress). This year was special because it was their first photos together since Alivia arrived! We did their cute Nicholas Sheran family portraits in the morning and the girls got to run around and throw lots of stones in the lake.

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