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Surprise! A Backyard Engagement Session With Nicholas & Jessica
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Now Booking Summer 2023 Sessions
Coming Soon! 2022 Witchy Styled Sessions by Emily Beatty Imagery on The Grounds Of A’Daylia Gardens
Update: Its currently a few days before our 2022 photo sessions, and there is one time slot available Saturday October 15th (mid afternoon) and two options available for Sunday October 16th (mid afternoon). E-mail emily@emilybeatty.com to inquire about booking a session.
These are always the most magical shoots of the year. Stay tuned for fabulous 2022 images in the coming weeks!
New! Your Kitchener Photographer’s Fall 2022 Availability
Hi Everyone! Turns out my fall is filling up fast, so I thought I’d share a calendar with my current bookings and available dates. You’ll see just a couple of weekend days available for the next three months, so if you’re thinking about fall family photos, now’s the time to get in touch! I do have some weeknights and after school times open in addition to the green AVAILABLE listings. This year I will NOT be taking any December bookings to ensure I have all my other assignments completed well before Christmas. So please plan accordingly! 
Check back soon for info and test images for this year’s seasonal mini sessions.
For inquiries, or to book a session, send an e-mail to emily@emilybeatty.com or call 519 568 9819.
The Year We Launched A’Daylia Gardens
All Photography by Emily Beatty Imagery
2021. What a year. It was not without its challenges. Actually it was almost entirely challenges wasn’t it? Somehow, despite COVID and months of lockdowns, my mom and I planted seeds, grew flowers and a small business blossomed alongside them.
We are very fortunate to have had the resources and support to launch a floral business and build a tiny shop when so many other small business owners are struggling to stay afloat after so many mandatory shutdowns in Ontario since 2020. Its been a crazy couple of years. Two things we know to be true, more now than ever: FAMILY and FLOWERS can keep you going. It’s enough.
We hope our tiny shop full of fresh cut flowers and all the pictures I got to take throughout the year will bring a few moments of peace and beauty to your day.
You can find a great big gallery of flower photos from every month of the year by visiting Welcome To A’Daylia Gardens.
We’re immensely grateful for all the support we’ve received from friends and family over the past year or so. Thank you!
Wishing you and yours much love and joy in 2022.
Love from,
Stephanie (The Mother, Owner & Flower Farmer)
and Emily (The Daughter, Photographer & Social Media)
P.S. A’Daylia Gardens doesn’t have its own website yet.
If you’re not already following us on social media, we’d love to see you online.
Find us by searching Facebook and Instagram for adayliagardens
Summery Family Photos In Paris
There’s a special place in my heart for this family.
We finally had the opportunity to get together for some family of four portraits on a hot hot day at their family farm in Paris, Ontario in August of 2020.
Love and light forever.
Flowers provided by A’Daylia Gardens.
Summertime 2021 At Emily Beatty Imagery
It has been quite a year or so hasn’t it?
The pandemic has been a really challenging time for so many people, and I’m no exception. Emily Beatty Imagery has been closed for the better part of 15 months. Now, at long last, there seems to be a path forward to reopen small businesses here in Ontario. (AKA I’m finally allowed to photograph other humans once again!)
I’ve had the opportunity to rethink the way I was doing a lot of thing within my business and my personal life. One of the silver linings during this time has been helping my mom realize her dream of opening up a small floral design business. She named it A’Daylia Gardens and its now up and running.
(Find more A’Daylia Gardens pictures here.)
So that means that I’m now available to book some photography clients and then ramp up toward what I hope will be a much more exciting holiday portrait season than the one we experienced in 2020.
Goals include offering both an indoor and outdoor option for holiday 2021 minis as well as taking on some new head shot clients and doing lots of outdoor family photo sessions during late summer and fall.
Are you ready to reconnect? E-mail me! emily@emilybeatty.com
P.S. You can also support artists like me by purchasing household art like this from Society6.com
Fall 2020: An Unprecedented Portrait Season
Oh hello! Time for a second wave update from EBI.
I’m terribly sad to announce that our home studio on Sixth Ave. in Kitchener will not be available for indoor photo shoots during fall 2020, although we ARE offering outdoor sessions. It is simply not possible to safely separate the studio space from our home space at this time.
For now, it will remain a sewing studio where I make masks and gowns for the pandemic. (This will please my husband, who for once, will not have to endure fake snow in every nook and cranny of our house following the holiday rush.)
Fortunately, we still have a window of time for outdoor portraits this fall. The leaves are just reaching their most colourful peak. Friends, now is the time to get your seasonal photos done. I have space for a couple of sessions with immediate families in the tri-city area during the Thanksgiving weekend. Since nothing is certain this season, the sooner we shoot, the better. If updating your family portraits is something you’ve been thinking about, I recommend that you get in touch asap.
As for COVID precautions, I’ve got several new policies in place to protect my clients. So far, our outdoor, socially distanced sessions are going really well. Family portraits are feeling extra special. Extra love-filled and important. Each family’s health needs are very unique so I’ll always check in with you about the details before we work together.
In general, I’m reducing the use of props, encouraging touchless, distanced sessions, I frequently stop to sanitize my hands when shooting, and I’ll probably be wearing a mask during our session. Despite these little changes, we are still turning out some great images this season. I am treasuring each session, knowing it could be the last one for awhile.
Hopefully we’ll be able to keep on doing outdoor photo shoots until after the snow flies. Fingers crossed. I’ll be announcing details for styled outdoor fall AND holiday minis in the coming days. Both will be by appointment starting October 11th, on the grounds of @adayliagardens just outside of Maryhill, Ontario. Oh, and I’ve also had the pleasure of doing some really unique personal branding sessions during September. I’m always available for head shots and website photography in addition to family portraits. 
I’m very excited to see what we can accomplish together this fall! Don’t you just love autumn?
Have a safe and snuggly season!
~Emily
Auntie Em’s Super Secret Dill Pickle Recipe
Homemade dill pickles are a part of my childhood that I missed as an adult, so I set about recreating the recipe and making it my own. After five years of trial and error, I’ve finally perfected the procedure and I’m ready to share it with the world! If you’ve always wanted to try making your own pickles, or if you’ve dabbled, but haven’t found the right recipe yet, give this one a try. It is gooooooood and includes full instructions for safely canning pickles.
My husband’s biggest pet peeve is Internet recipes that contain paragraph upon cringe-inducing paragraph of personal anecdotes before you get to the useful stuff. With that in mind, I’ve created a concise, easy to find, easy to save, easy to view on a cell phone version of my famous garlic dill pickle recipe.
Let’s jump right in!
Do you know the different forms of dill? These are fern dill, dried dill seeds, fresh dill flowers, and dried dill weed. (From left to right and top to bottom.) I like to include at least a couple different types in each jar of pickles for a nice, well-rounded dill flavour. I’ve also been known to add dill flowers to floral bouquets for texture and movement plus a pop of yellow.
Now you know all my secrets! (Okay, all my pickle related secrets.) I hope this recipe works out well for you. Trust me, once you taste these babies, you’ll never want to go back to store bought pickles again.
Cheers!
Emily Beatty Imagery In 2020
Hi There!
What a wild ride this year has been so far. Like many of you, I spent the early months of this year following the news on the Pandemic, looking out for my loved ones, and waiting and wondering when I’d be able to resume photographing people again. My modest home photography studio became a modest home sewing studio and I spent many days fashioning masks and gowns for my neighbours and the the residents at the long term care home down the street.
I have given up predicting when things will turn into “The New Normal”.
In June we got word that photographers in our area of Ontario would be allowed to reopen under phase 2. The next day, my husband developed COVID symptoms, we both needed to get tested, and we were under quarantine until we got negative results 8 days later. After a stint at the cottage to regroup, I tried again to resume photography, but within 2 days, I suddenly had an opportunity to have a long – delayed operation. Now August is right around the corner, I am convalescing after surgery, and I’m longing to pick up my camera again just as soon as possible. Whenever that may be.
Going into late summer and early fall, I’ve got my eye on portraits packed with personality, and with helping fellow business owners get back up and running with personal branding photography services. High quality images and a professional presence online have never been so important to how we do business. I can help you connect with the exact sort of clients that will uplift and support you and your vision going forward.
Want to know more about how personal branding services work? Start here: http://emilybeattyblog.com/personal-branding-photography/#sthash.awvN8vdY.dpbs
Feel free to e-mail me for details. emily@emilybeatty.com
Until then, I’ll be chilling in my backyard garden paradise with a box of popsicles, fashion magazines I normally don’t have time to read, and mental images piling up in my brain. After all this time in isolation, I’m just dying to connect with some other creative collaborators in the coming months.
Stay cool out there.
~Emily