Spring Mountain Maternity Portraits | YYC Mountain Maternity Photographer | Lace and Locket Photo

This mountain maternity session took place in Banff during April. This is such a gorgeous time to photograph maternity sessions in the mountains because there is still snow on the mountain peaks, and the waters are starting to thaw. The colour of the lakes is stunning, fresh and it feels so good. I think I like it more than winter mountain maternity sessions, actually!

This gorgeous mama owns a business in Carstairs, Alberta. If you’re out there, check her out at the Carstairs Hair Co. She had her hair and makeup professionally done for this mountain maternity session and she looked absolutely glorious. It was a really fun session to photograph out in Banff that day.

All of the maternity gowns in this Banff Mountain Maternity session are available in my client closet for you to wear for your own Calgary maternity session. Hair and Makeup can be added, just say the word!
If you’d like to book your own mountain maternity portrait session, please reach out here.

Gorgeous December Mountain Maternity | Banff Maternity Photographer | Lace & Locket Photo

This mountain maternity session was absolute perfection out in Banff. We have been so lucky to have such mild weather this season! This client originally had booked a local Calgary session when she had her first and I was so so happy when she chose a mountain maternity session for her second!

Her mountain maternity session couldn’t have been more beautiful. I know that there will be more of these in 2024 and they’re going to be fantastic!

This gorgeous mama had her makeup done by MaddPretty YYC in Calgary, Alberta. All these gowns are available in my client closet for maternity sessions but if you wanted to do a casual session and gio with the flow, we can do that too!

Golden Hour Mountain Maternity | Banff Maternity Photographer | Lace & Locket Photo

This gorgeous human being decided that on her way to come meet me in Banff for her Mountain Maternity session, it would be a good time to take a tumble down a stair or three……..Right after S.Kay Makeup Artist left, after dolling up this beauty, she tripped and smacked her face. She showed up with a sore ankle, and a swollen eye!! Obviously I was more concerned about if she was ok, and had she not even told me her eye was swollen I don’t think I would have even noticed!

She didn’t even care that she was bumped and a little bruised, she just wanted to do her photos, and she ABSOLUTELY NAILED THEM. LOOK AT THIS STUNNER. She brought this gown with her, and the colour was stunning. Between the sky and the water, it couldn’t have been more perfect.

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From our starting place, where we shot the blue dress, we went up the mountain to a field and did an outfit change. When E picked this dress, she wasn’t sure it would go with her skin tone but asked me to bring it anyways so she could at least look at it.

I’d say it’s her colour. In fact, it’s SO her colour that we chose to use it for some of her sweet baby’s newborn portraits, that I’ll show in a later post. Can’t wait!

We then went to the top of the mountain for some extra sexy maternity portraits, won’t be including those in this post, haha!

Mountain Maternity | Alberta Mountain Maternity | Lace & Locket Photo | Banff, Alberta

J’s session was a bit nippy but she pushed through it for the photos. She knew the payoff would be there. She was absolutely stunning and S.Kay Makeup Artistry did a phenomenal job on her hair and makeup.

This was J’s last babe so she wanted to make it COUNT, and that she did. She brought the fire, hard.

All the gowns in this gorgeous mountain maternity session are available in my client closet for you to wear during your own maternity session.

DID YOU KNOW?

You can choose as many gowns as you feel like changing in and out of for your session from my client closet?

I steam them and prepare the ones you are interested in and bring them with me out to Banff area.

I have a pop up change tent that I bring with me (unless it’s winter because that wont work well hah!) that you can change in, or you can change in your car.

Magical Milky Way Mountain Maternity | Lace & Locket Photo | Banff, Alberta

Ok, listen.
This session was literal magic. I don’t know what else to say.
Brianne had her makeup done by none other than S.Kay Makeup Artistry and she looked STUNNING.

It was a moderately cold day, of course and the snow just didn’t know what it wanted to. Homegirl came out to Banff and she brought the HEAT with her.

She picked stunning dresses from my Client Closet, and we kept her warm with Hubby standing just out of frame with a nice warm coat and a blanket. She wore maternity leggings underneath with a black spaghetti strap tank top.

The most magical part was at the end, when I wanted to add a touch of magic, milky way magic. The moon was shining so bright and clear that night but, of course, the moon is so small through the lens of my camera. I wanted to have the moon in her photos, even a couple, but it just wouldn’t work with a true moon. So I used an artificial one, a vector. It didn’t do the trick. I didn’t like it….till I found an overlay that was the Milky Way.

MAGICAL.
It was so stunning. I made a reel about this photo on my Lace & Locket Photo Instagram and you can watch that here.

All the gowns in this beautiful individual’s Banff Mountain Maternity Photo Session are available for booked clients in the Lace & Locket Photo Client Closet.

Hair and Makeup is provided by S.Kay Makeup Artistry for Mountain Maternity Portrait Sessions, and can be added on to Local YYC Maternity Sessions.

Winter Wonder Land Mountain Maternity | Banff Maternity Photographer | Lace & Locket Photo | Banff, Alberta

This.Session. Was Epic.

I still am speechless on how stunningly these images turned out, and it makes me want to wish for Winter in Banff again so I can go back and always do more of this!

Winter Wonderland Banff Mountain Maternity

It was around -10 degrees celsius for this session which is pretty standard. The wind wasn’t too bad but I was worried that with the bit of clouds in the sky we wouldn’t be able to see the mountains. It snowed gently throughout the entire day but it really worked out for us.

All gowns in this session are in my client closet and available to use for your own booked session. In the winter, we layer with leggings and tank tops and simply tuck the straps.

Just out of frame of all these images, is either my assistant, client’s partner (or both!) with blankets, warm bottles and things like that. This client actually brought the biggest, warmest fuzzy robe and it came in SO HANDY!

These dresses are actually the blue dress in my client collection and the client asked to have the colour changed and I love the tone she picked. It was so beautiful and flowy. You can see the snow in the background coming down and it’s so sweet.

This session was done just outside the Town of Banff in December, just before Christmas.

Summer Mountain Maternity Portraits | Mountain Maternity Photographer, Banff Alberta | Lace & Locket Photo

Luba booked me in April for her mountain maternity session and she seemed so sweet that I felt like I could feel it through my phone screen when I read her messages, that was the first thing that stuck out me about her. She was so much fun to work with, and her husband Frank. It was BRUTALLY hot in Banff that weekend when we did her session and the mosquitoes were vicious but they made it so, so fun and we laughed the entire time. Luba knocked her whole session right out of the park and it is one of my favourite sessions from 2021.

Luba’s hair and makeup was done by S.Kay Makeup Artistry, you can check out her work here.
All gowns that Luba wore are in the Lace & Locket Photo Client Closet and are available to use in your booked session.

Lady S | Baby Girl Mountain Maternity Gender Reveal | Banff, Alberta | Lace & Locket Photo

THIS. GIRL. NAILED. HER. SESSION. I know I say that every time, but she’s a literal goddess.
S told me she had found me on Instagram a few years back but she wasn’t pregnant and so she followed me, and waited until the day she would be. And I am so happy she did. Her and her little family were such a delight to work with.

As with my other mountain maternity work, S had her makeup and hair done by Sarah with S.Kay Makeup Artistry in Calgary. We came to meet in Banff and it was actually quite cloudy, a little windy, but not too bad. This session took place in early June.

Before her session was to take place, S asked if we could do a gender reveal for her family. She hadn’t told any of her family what they were having and she had the most adorable idea, using coloured flower petals! Of course many of us have heard about some gender reveal ideas that have been scary, or down right dangerous and so I am very careful what I will or won’t do - I said we can absolutely do this but we would have to pick up all the petals after the fact (they were artificial) because I wanted to guarantee that whatever we did, we left no trace on Mother Earth. So after this next photo, we did a real quick 100 petal pick-up hahah!)

SUCH A CUTE IDEA!

Then we moved onto just S and spoiling her with gorgeous images, in this gorgeous custom made gown by a lovely lady who lives in Calgary. Supporting local in every way I can is my JAM. This boho gown was made just for my clients and I love it.

Sarah’s work on S’s hair and makeup makes me swoon to this day <3 That red lip though!

Yep, I for sure was IN the lake to get this shot. It was absolutely worth it. And this is why I bring spare pants to sessions. Can’t do this in winter!

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Cannot wait to post this lovely human’s newborn photos of her sweet baby girl!

Handsome Baby J | Airdrie Area Newborn Photographer | Airdrie, Alberta

This gorgeous lady came to me for her Mountain Maternity Images, and she has been SO lovely about letting me make videos so she’s like my unofficial Spokeswoman for Lace & Locket Photo. Her session took place on a December day when it wasn’t even cold, and there was barely any snow. I know, that’s unbelievable for being Alberta.

You can check out the video I made of C’s maternity session last winter here. It’s super catchy and C is such a stunner, so beware haha!

Naturally I had to make a little video for this Mister’s newborn session, and make Mama tear up when I did it too. You can check that out here.