I came across a post on another photographer friend's Facebook page of someone looking for a photographer to get some pictures done before the weekend. She wasn't able to do the pictures so I quickly piped in with "PICK ME, PICK ME!" and within 12 hrs I was editing the pictures from our hilarious evening!
Seradaye and Garth manage an orchard in Osoyoos that sells their fruit at a higher end market in Abbotsford http://www.leppfarmmarket.com/ and cherry season is fast approaching. The Market is doing some advertising, showing their customers who the growers are. So Sera, Garth, and Hana needed some photos!
I have to say that this was honestly the most fun I have had taking someone else's pictures. The whole family has a wonderful relaxed attitude. I knew right away that they weren't interested in the cheesy "walmart' style posed photos. This family knows how to have fun, and boy - who knew wandering around an orchard could be a comedy act. Following us around the orchard were their bulldogs Maggie and Jackson - it sounded like a couple little pigs grunting around behind us. They were so cute, but for some reason only wanted pictures of their butts.
Sera is a horticulturalist so as we were taking pictures I was picking her brilliant brain about problems we've had with out trees. I learned a few new things!
So in between laughs and giggles we snapped some great pictures, I love how their life and joy shows through in the pictures. It makes my job really easy to just capture the fun. As most people know I have a certain style that I like for my images and as I was taking the pictures that night I was imagining them in this style. "Walmart" style photos just don't work well with my style so this worked out great. The relaxed, fun nature of these images is enhanced with the "fun" look of my style.
Sera's beauty comes shining through in this one:
Maggie, Jackson, and Hana in the old farm truck.
Hana is going to be a beauty like her mom!
I was honoured to work this family.
LOVE this one!
At one point is was highlighted that their life is sometimes known as "The Garth Show" (Which I completely understand as our life is The Grace Show!) So in honour of Garth here's one for him!
Thank you guys for a fun filled evening in such a beautiful orchard. (I should have got a shot of the view they have! Probably the best in the whole Okanagan Valley)
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