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Hello, welcome!  I'm Catherine Farquharson.  I'm a professional photographer, using photography as a way to expand, connect and create.

For my clients and subjects, this means what we do is real, and fun.  I shoot creative editorial portraits for publications, sometimes of well-known names like Clare Danes and Sarah Slean.  I also work with emerging artists and people-of-note to-be, as we develop branding, image and feelings that photos can portray and evoke through their portraits.

As a documentarian, I tell photo-stories from all over the world, including the recent first interracial prom in Charleston, Mississippi, where my photos were published in Oprah's magazine, the National Post, NPR.com, Seventeen magazine and more.

I especially revel in covering important life experiences, including weddings, relationships, and natural lifestyle portraits.  Those moments and events are what we remember and hold onto, and I am honoured by the opportunity for my photos to be the touchstone for those memories and feelings.

For me, photography of people is the capturing of their essence, and sharing back what I saw and felt.  Wherever, and whomever they are. Everywhere and anywhere. Connecting, understanding and sharing. 

Tag Archives: destination wedding photography

Love without borders Part II

What can I say, except that it was so very worth it to fly to Rio De Janeiro to shoot Abigail + Gustavo’s second wedding.  As you may recall, they were married first in Toronto in June (see post here.)  This time they wed in a garden on a mountain, on a beautiful property called...

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let me just grab a tissue, then I’ll be with you

I’m slightly delayed on publishing this slideshow.  It’s not for lack of trying, but I haven’t been able to get through the images without tearing up, choking up, and cracking up.  It all started, when I started crying during Aly+Hugh’s ceremony, and cried my way through the recessional.  Then it just continued through the evening,...

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Love is the answer, At least for most of the questions in my heart

I have been waiting for the right wedding to use this Jack Johnson song with in a slideshow.  Megan + Mike’s wedding in Mexico was it.  The sunshine, the joy, the VW beetle, the laid back nature of the couple, and guests lapping up the experience.  It had all the elements you would want for...

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one week

A week ago we were here.  Puerto Vallarta.  Celebrating Megan + Mike’s wedding. It was so dreamy, so beautiful, and so much fun, I am awash in images I love.
I’m busy working away on a slideshow to share with you, it will be up in the next couple of days.  What. A. Wedding.
That is all...

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the two-day work month

Recently I was being teased for having only two work days in March, because I am shooting two weddings.  Of course, for a photographer that isn’t really true — the wedding day is the fun day “off” and it’s all the endless computer work that fills the other days. But I am ok with keeping...

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see? see? si! si! si!

Look how dreamy this is — the perfect place for family and friends to dine together by the ocean — and this was just the rehearsal dinner.  
Then, a piñata to boot, just to add fun to the fiesta.
Can’t wait for mañana. Buenas noches amigos.

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Curacao time

I usually post an entry at a minimum of once a week.  But, as I discovered being here in Curacao, it appears that things happen on their own schedule — later!  So, last week’s post is now coming later.  As did the wedding I am here for.
This is Ben:
And this is Erin:
They were scheduled to...

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I spy with my little eye…Wedding Bells!

It’s true.  Wedding Bells Magazine, featuring my photos of Shelly and Ben’s Miami wedding.  Coming to the magazine stand nearest you.  What a treat! Especially for such a fabulous wedding.
To see more pictures from their day, check out this blog post: http://www.documentographer.com/blog/?p=461

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when days of the week don’t matter

I met Tara when I was eleven at summer camp.   Photographing her wedding at the Lake of Bays on Tuesday was a beautiful full-circle.  She and Peter held their wedding at Port Cunningham Lodge, and all the guests stayed in cabins, just like at camp.  In fact, all of the old camp friends were...

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the quick recipe for love

Anna and Darrell got married last weekend in their hometown of Merville, on Vancouver Island.
Their celebration was so simple, yet so thoughtful, creative  and special.  I’ve noted the details for you that were unique to their wedding, and to them.  Just follow these 10 simple steps!
1. a small army of mothers who “chop and chat”,...

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