Summer is a time of the year for me that represents the peak of all things light, alive and free. As a child those gorgeous July nights were so long and overflowing with promise. We stayed out past sunset with friends, catching fireflies in jars. We would escape to the beach on weekends, or (because my parents were also feeling that summer freeness) we would take off for a few days during the week and head down to the shore.

At the end of August we always vacationed at least two weeks in Rhode Island, and did nothing but live, sleep, breathe, eat the beach. Salty skin and hair, sunburns and freckled noses, clamming and muscle foraging on the rocks. We would spend hours in the salt pond collecting shells and catching crabs. We never ever left the beach before sunset. It was, and still is my mother's favorite time on the beach. (And therefore mine as well). Everyone packs up and heads home, the waves calm a bit, the seagulls pick up the scraps families left behind and the water almost feels warmer than the air.

This time of the day at this time of the year for me symbolizes change; the embracing what lingers of that sweet summer light that dapples in our hair and on our bronzed skin, the freedom of all that screams summer. And it is, for me, a time to be documented.

My Summer Skin Sessions are intimate, gently styled, seaside sessions that take place at sunset into dusk at various times of the year in various locations stretching from the Saint Lawrence Coast in Québec through the New England Coastline all the way to Connecticut, but will almost always between the months of May and September. These sessions are a little different from my Storytelling Sessions as the entire time we re together is more of an intimate experience focused around the actual physical state of being near and in the ocean at this magical time of the day - either on your own or with your loved ones. While there is a more specific aesthetic to these sessions, each and every one of them is unique and liberating - a moment where change is invited and received, and we get to capture it together for you to have to look back on forever.

My family and I are always traveling during that time, so I announce dates a couple of months in advance; on my blog as well as via my Instagram account and emailing list, so stay connected to find out when my next sessions will be! You can always contact me privately via the contact form as well and we can be in touch and plan that way too.

So if you are called to it; if you too yearn for those long summer days and feel that same heart ache for change when late-August creeps on in on you because you know that September is just around the corner and it' s a sort of bittersweet ending to the most beautiful time of the year, then let's talk. xo