This beautiful, happy, expecting family is the Duchene family. I don't do maternity sessions very often, so when Ashley reached out to me to shoot some portraits in Ottawa of her, her husband Matt, and their puppers Paisley, plus a little one on the way, I was so excited and happily obliged!

Ashley was eight months pregnant when she contacted me to do her maternity photoshoot. Doesn’t she look amazing?! She was hoping for a snowy, wintery, maternity session with her husband. They were expecting their first child, a baby boy, in January and wanted her first pregnancy documented. With Matt playing in the NHL, their schedules were super tight. It was really tricky finding a time that worked for us to meet, but I was SO happy that we were able to find a date that worked!