Mother’s Day Family Photoshoot at Nitobe Japanese Memorial Garden

Katie’s work offered a free photoshoot with a selected photographer who shoots weddings at the Botanical Garden, so since it’s been a long pandemic, we ventured into Vancouver to take them up on the offer. Due to wet weather, the photo shoot had to be rescheduled a couple of times, so on the day of this shoot, it was happening rain or not. Luckily the rain stopped early on the morning of our shoot, so it went ahead about as dry as you could hope for late May. The Japanese Garden is usually pretty beautiful at this time of year, but we did miss the peak of the cherry blossom bloom by a few weeks.

We started off the shoot by going over the bridge.

Overall, the kids did well during the photo shoot. Naturally, they were hamming it up a bit as they were excited to be somewhere new and near other humans for the first time in a while. We ended up with some nice family photos, and a few cheesy ones as well! The garden was closed to the public for some repairs, so we had the whole garden to ourselves during the shoot, which was a nice touch.

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Photos by MLCastles.

This rarely happens; four people in the frame all looking at the same place. Boom, we have a family photo!
We even got a few pictures of the kids without us.
Colin was really loving having the camera on him. I’m surprised this is in focus because he was moving non-stop the whole time.
A cute photo of Addison beside the pond.
Hey, the two of us, in a photo – together. Without a makeshift tripod or anything. Yes, there was a really cheesy photo of us gazingly staring into each others eyes… Not really our thing, but it even kind of worked.
These kids are getting too heavy to hold up for a whole bunch of photos.
A cute photo of the kids laying down in the grass. The sun was right in their eyes, and they were incredibly squirmy the entire time, so I’m glad this photo turned out since we were pretty sure it wasn’t.
One of the last shots we did where the kids gave us each a nice little kiss.

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