Lara has been doing photography professionally for more than 10 years. As she was getting her BFA specializing in photography she was already in high demand for her commercial photography. After graduation she worked in the commercial industry shooting tabletop photography. “Tabletop is all about the details and the lighting”, describes Lara “You need to have a good eye for detail and understanding of how light works to do tabletop well.”
While doing commercial work she found time on weekends to fuel her passion for sports and found sport photography. “I literally fell into it,” she laughs, “I remember the first day I was shooting. It was the Mountain World Cup and I almost fell out of the tree and onto the course! Too bad, it would have made a great picture!”
While her business was expanding Lara’s friends started asking her if she could photograph their weddings. At first she was hesitant. “Wedding photography is completely different than what I was used to shooting, or so I thought.”
Lara found that her work in tabletop and sports photography was the perfect training for wedding photography. The quick eye for detail from tabletop to the quick reaction needed to get the sports shot was what makes a wedding photographer an excellent photographer. “As a wedding photographer I need to be quick. These moments are fleeting and you need the eye and the reflexes to make it work,” explains Lara.
She was finding that wedding photography was the perfect marriage of her two photographic passions. All this new love for her work naturally wound its way into portraits and her ‘Baby Bits’. “I get to meet all these wonderful people every day. All the love, it’s amazing! And, to be able to give people a recreation of their wedding to see again and again, or a portrait of a loved one. I have the best job in the world!”
Lara isn’t the only one to have a passion about her photography. Her photographs have been published in magazines and newspapers all over North America, in everything from national graphic design publications to the Squamish ‘Chief’.