My passion for photography began as a way to express emotion and artful creativity at a time in my life when everything was changing. Having two beautiful children who were irresistibly adorable only amplified that passion into what it is today. I had a great need to learn to photograph them in beautiful ways. I craved the knowledge of everything about photography, including editing styles, lenses, lighting, design, composition, etc. I spent large parts of the day learning about my camera and taking way too many shots of my kids, and my friends kids, and their pets, and...

Having been born on Vancouver Island to a pair of hippie parents that eventually settled in a small logging and fishing community, I have a great love of all things West coast, except rain, because I might melt. Something I recently learned about Vancouver Island is it's abundance of wonderful food, wine, beer, etc. For a large part of my adult life, I had been expressing myself through baking, sautéing and roasting any and every type of food. When that marriage of passions (food + photography) consummated, Guilty Kitchen (my food blog) was born. After learning even more about myself through the aperture of each successive lens, my true passion for creating art shone through.Currently located in the Cowichan Valley, I cover all of southern Vancouver Island for any of your photographic needs. Weddings, engagements, maternity, newborn, family and pets.

Garnett Wren Photography is the actualization of a dream, a dream to capture all of life's beauty as art and share it with others. My passion for capturing emotions in photographs has brought me to this place in my life and now I want to share that with you. My style can be described as modern, romantic and emotional. I try to keep things as photojournalistic as possible, but sometimes a little posing is necessary. What I strive for most is to capture your unique story in every photo.

I believe every subject is different and therefore every shoot will be special.

Thursday, February 24, 2011

When Winter Starts in February – {Victoria, BC Photographer}

When you live in such a place as the glorious and unpredictable Pacific Northwest, you learn to live by the seat of your pants when it comes to weather reports. 14 day trends? Horribly inaccurate. 7 day forecasts? Only slightly less so. Looking out the window? That’s about the most accurate report you can get.

Something that happens around here is a weird phenomenon of winter biding it’s time until you think you’re just about stepping into spring. Buds have started to show up on certain trees, flowers are peeking through the cold dirt and the sun shines low on the horizon. It’s enough to make anyone think that winter is on it’s way out and spring is just around the corner.

Then you look out the window and there’s a foot of snow.

I used to hate it when things like this happened, like the weather gods were trying to throw off my eventual shrugging off of the winter doldrums, the seasonal affective disorder. They were trying to ruin my worshiping of the spring sun and all the beauty that entails. But now I see it as a wonderful excuse to take the kids outside and take pictures. What is more beautiful, bright and clean then freshly fallen snow? There’s something so satisfying when you look out onto a field of perfect snow, untreaded upon by human or animal. Then you run headlong into it, creating those first footsteps. There’s just something wonderfully child-like about that feeling.

Another wonderful thing about when it snows is when the time comes to go back inside. Cheeks are rosy, hands and feet are freezing. Everyone cozies up by the woodstove together to keep warm and maybe even a freshly made hot chocolate is passed around. There’s just something about that snow.