Meet Barb

I fell in love with food when I started cooking family dinners at 11 years old. During my teenage years and into my business career, I explored the culinary world from cooking gigs in oil rig camps to tasting fine wine and food as the web manager for Calgary’s Kensington Wine Market. In 2008, I realized my childhood dream and became a professional photographer with a natural talent for food photography. My food & beverage photography has consistently been featured in Edible Vancouver & Wine Country Magazine.

My sister gave me a Canon rangefinder camera for my 16th birthday. It was a bit of a surprise, because I had never really shown any interest in photography before then. (I think she got a great sale price where she worked. ☺) And oh, how that gift changed my life! I started to take photos and get some great feedback. I realized I had a bit of a photographic eye, and I was hooked. I considered a career as a photographer… And then life took some turns. I fell in love, got married, had babies, went to university, got jobs, built a couple of businesses. You know how it goes. So photography became a hobby and a way to archive family history. And then, my hobby turned into a profession. I took the Photography Certificate training at SAIT and one of my instructors said, “You should make some money with your photography!” So I believed him, and I hung out my shingle as a professional photographer in 2008. Since then I have helped many business clients tell their brand stories in pictures.

Who doesn’t dream of travelling the world? So many places to see, so many adventures to take. When you’re a working mom, travel gets put on the back burner. And when your kids start to get more independent, doors start to open a bit and the travel dreams come to life! In 2016 I had the great fortune of travelling for 5 weeks throughout Europe. What a journey! (Many blog posts to come, my friends.) And that journey changed my life just like owning my first camera did! It fueled a deep desire to travel more, to explore this amazing world, and to use my photographic eye to capture and share my travel experiences in photos and words.