Lethbridge Weddings & Portrait Photography by Tanya Plonka

I’m so grateful for families who take me along on the journey as their family grows. It’s been amazing watching Lindsay and Terry go from their engagement to welcoming Jaxson home. Aside from some perfectly normal fatigue from him keeping them up all night, the two of them are so completely in love with their baby. I got to meet him for his Lethbridge newborn photography session, which must have been a pretty exciting day for him seeing as how he didn’t sleep at all through the session! Any sleeping photos are completely fake moments where he relaxed and rested his eyes for a moment ;)

Hlady Rouleau Law Office needed to update their photos to refresh their website and wanted the professional feel of a library. We did their law office headshots using one of the lawyer’s individual offices as a backdrop. With just a little bit of rearranging (and hiding any personal photos and collectibles), the bookcase worked perfect.

This goes to show any space can work for photos. By the time myself, the lights, and the lawyers squished into the office, there was no room left for their web designer who was overseeing the photoshoot!

Blizzards and shutdowns couldn’t keep this family apart for their parents’ 35th anniversary celebration! Henk and Joanne’s children planned out a special celebratory reunion weekend, part of which included Designed to Dwell family photos.

The beautiful venue definitely came in handy to keep everyone warm during the blizzard that swept through Lethbridge that weekend. Despite the bad roads, everyone was able to make it down to visit their parents. Even luckier was being able to have their reunion before we all went into self-isolation across the province!

Renae’s personal branding photo session was such a blast! Renae is the brains and heart behind Beautiful Inside Academy, which empowers young women. After our New York trip in December, we started brainstorming some ideas for her session and were finally able to get together in the summer after all of the quarantine upheaval.

The focus in Renae’s work is her connection with her clients and sending a message of self-love, so it was important for the photos to focus on her and show that level of confidence and happiness. Her branding – both business and personal – is based around a strong white and black colour palette, with splashes of pink. I chose a number of white and grayscale backdrops for us to use to really make Renae pop!

Baby Adelita has arrived! (Which means Groot the dog is a big brother now!) I got to meet her at her Coaldale newborn session and loved seeing how happy her parents are every time they look at her. Adelita was used to company by now because her grandmother was visiting to help the first time parents out.

Awesome headshots aren’t just for office staff! The trades need headshots of their staff too. Showing your employees creates a more personal experience for your clients; they get to see who they are hiring!

Platinum Lighting recently updated their website and needed something more professional and consistent than the cell phone photos they were using before.

We did the photos on-site at one of their current jobs in Lethbridge’s historic Paramount Theatre building. The office they were working on had some great exposed brick features and we were able to use the Paramount’s lobby for a little more variety.