Your Vancouver Island Photographer for
Weddings, Family & Vacation Memories
Alanna is a nature-exploring, toddler wrangling, fun loving photographer whose perfect day is spent at the beach capturing your family moments and lighthearted, beautiful wedding memories.
Specializing in large family groups for more traditional shots, along with a more playful and candid mixed style for small families, home and personal sessions.
Chickens, goats and all fur-babies are welcome in any sessions, weddings included.
All Love and All Families Welcome
Let’s share some time for portraits at one of Vancouver Island’s amazing destinations, or in your own home or vacation rental.
For tender moments such as maternity and newborn sessions, or Grandma’s 99th birthday celebration, I am happy to join you in your home for a more relaxed style as we document your real moments and special events
I can work with just about every personality, mobility needs and age mix, and I can even come right to your home or vacation rental.
I am a toddler chaser, moment catcher and I offer a mix of not-so-awkward poses, sweet candids and real connection, a whole lot of patience and of course, FUN! Also, I often wear water shoes and end up in the ocean myself for just the right photo moment.
Let’s discuss your family photo session or couple’s portraits and find the right location for accessibility, time of day (we will certainly avoid toddler nap time!) and of course, unique and beautiful backgrounds
For couples who want to have a fun-filled, very much YOU personalized photo session, LET’S CHAT! Or if you just want to meet up at a scenic spot, I’ll do the rest.
I am here for your surprise proposals and engagements.
I would love for you to include your fur-babies in any session.
Anniversaries, milestone celebrations or even secret elopements are great reasons for a photo session. You get to be romantic of course and hopefully have a few laughs and just a great time spent being together and a few new photos that are frame-worthy and shareable to all of your closest people.
Or if you just need photos to prove you both still exist to your extended family, I can help with that too.
Remember the first time your child touched the sea?
Or that family vacation your kids still talk about?
Let me join you for these moments so you can create lasting memories with family photos at the amazing beach, forest and nature destinations.
For your Vancouver Island Portraits, I have many unique locations to share around Parksville, Nanoose Bay, Qualicum, Fanny Bay, Gabriola Island, Cowichan and other Central Vancouver Island locations.
Rathtrevor Beach Provincial Park is a great location for big family group vacation sessions, and weddings too!
I love what I do.
Being a full-time photographer allows me to meet so many people and get out and enjoy so many places close to home and share my favourite places with my clients.
I don’t take life too seriously, I am a go-with-the-flow, easy-going photographer. I want to make your family and couple’s photography experience fun and engaging, so you leave thinking that it went by quickly and that you can’t wait to see the photos, even if you think your toddler gave us nothing but mayhem the whole time.
When we connect, you’ll get a sense of my personality and how much fun I have making photos for my clients no matter what the location or weather or collection of people you want to include in your photos. It’s your session
I enjoy creating something new for my clients, exploring hidden gem locations and working with you to make your photo experience memorable and personal.
From waterfalls and beaches to local mural walls and downtown viewpoints, we are so lucky to have incredible locations for your photos, and I can’t wait to share these with you.
As a full-time photographer, I can often accommodate last-minute requests, even on a weekday, so it doesn’t hurt to ask!
Reach out below or contact me on facebook messenger or by call/text .778 .233 .2371
Vancouver Island Vacation Photos
If you and your family are enjoying a Vancouver Island getaway, I would love to join you and share some time with your family exploring and having the best time playing and letting kids be kids at one of our fabulous local Parksville area beaches, parks or destinations.
I have great low-key areas and beaches we can explore away from the crowds if you prefer the west coast imagery without the tourism hot spots.
We can also get right in the action for family photos at Rathtrevor Provincial Park, Englishman River Falls, Neck Point Park or the Parksville Boardwalk, just to name a few summer favourites. If you are staying on resort drive or at Tigh-Na-Mara in Parksville, there are several amazing scenic beaches within a 10 minute drive.
My Vancouver Island Family vacation photo sessions are about getting those few family frame-worthy and instagramable shots of your whole crew posing and looking fab.
Then all the fun stuff happens such as exploring and splashing, finding treasures, eating ice cream, hugging farm animals, we’ve got a lot of options between Nanaimo to Qualicum.
I’m usually right there in the water with you for the splashing too.
