This session allows me to capture candid and gently posed moments of your Proposal or Engagement. This package includes 20+ stunning photos, each one thoughtfully and expertly edited in Lightroom. The final high resolution digital images will be shared in a private online gallery. We will discuss your vision and location choice so our photography session is relaxed and reflects your unique expression of love as a couple.

Pender Island, BC V0N 2M1, Canada

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Karena Holtz

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Proposal or Engagement Session

I am super excited to offer my "Say I Do on Pender Island" Wedding Collection.This greatly reduced offering is my gift to couples tying the knot on my beloved Pender Island, that I've called home for almost a decade. This exclusive island collection includes my favourite outdoor locations for both engagement and wedding photos. I am committed to providing you with not just images, but memories, preserving a hundred of your most precious moments in high-resolution digital photos.Before we set out on our photographic adventure, we'll sit down for a pre-shoot consultation, in-person or on a Zoom call. This is where your story and vision take centre stage, guiding me and my camera lens to capture your unique love in the most authentic way possible. This conversation also begins our connection so, on the day of your wedding, you feel relaxed and confident knowing I will deliver on my promise to expertly provide photos that capture the highlights of your day. Including those candid, timeless moments such as a laugh, a loving glance, a happy tear. You will be able to relive the magic of your wedding day anytime through your private online gallery. A carefully curated collection that forever captures your love and joy at the beginning of your journey as a married couple.As you prepare to say "I Do", I am ready to help you remember this day, through beautiful photographic keepsakes. Let's celebrate your love story together, capturing it in a way that you'll be delighted to revisit again and again.

Wedding Collection "Say I Do on Pender Island"

This 1.5 Hour Outdoor Session captures your candid, carefree moments in a favourite outdoor location with friends, family or with your partner. Choose an activity that resonates with you such as hiking a forest trail or walking the seaside. While I capture beautiful moments of your fun, laughter, and connection!

Outdoor Adventure Session

If you're looking for wedding photography coverage that includes a short video capturing the energy of your special day, this is the package for you. With important moments like getting ready or capturing expressions of both partners during the ceremony, having a second dedicated photographer allows these special moments to be captured from various angles.

Wedding Collection One (includes video)

This package is for the Business and Non-Profit looking for high quality photographic coverage of an event such as an Award Ceremony, Dinner Gala, or Lunch Celebration. This Package is tailored to your vision for your Business Event. And captures both candid and gently posed images with indoor and natural lighting. You will receive a Sneak Peek Gallery within 3 days of your event. And the Complete Gallery Collection within 4-6 weeks depending on the scope of the photo session.

Event Session - Business

If you and your partner are looking for more comprehensive Wedding photography coverage that expertly and thoughtfully captures both the candid and more formal posed moments of your special day, this Wedding Collection Two is the package for you!

Wedding Collection One

This Wedding Session is perfect for the bride &amp; groom saying their vows outdoors with an intimate group of friends and family. And who also desire high quality photo coverage of their love story in both candid and gently posed images.

Event Session - Wedding

With the Nature &amp; Tourism Package, I extend my passion for photography to your specific project for print or screen. We begin our creative journey with a phone or Zoom call to clarify your project requirements and vision. During the photo session, I focus on capturing images that reflect your vision. The result is 20-30 professionally edited, high resolution digital photos that showcase your project and exceed your expectations!

Nature & Tourism Package

Prior to our 1-hour shoot, I will connect with you for a 15-minute discovery call to discuss what you have in mind for your final product. This time allows me to get to know you so I can best tailor our session to meet your needs, as well as discuss possible locations and best outfits for our shoot.During our session, I will begin by taking a few images to help you relax and get to know me. We will use natural lighting as much as possible. As you let go and relax with my gentle guidance, I will capture an array of postures, both headshots and full body, that showcase your best angles and look. I will edit and format your session's photos in Lightroom. And have 10-12 images for you within 2-weeks.

Business Portrait Session

This 1-Hour session captures the love and playfulness of your family in one outdoor location such as a favourite local park or beach where you and your children like to spend time. A beautiful outdoor location where you get to relax and connect while I photograph your family enjoying one another. A blend of informal and gently posed images.

Family Session

I am delighted to offer you my "Say I Do" Destination Wedding Collection that reflects my love of travel to beautiful places around the world and merges it with my passion for photographing people in gorgeous natural settings. When you book me as your Destination Photographer for your Wedding in Hawaii, your Wedding photography is covered for free - my gift to you when you cover the cost of my return air travel, transportation to and from the hotel, and 4 nights of hotel stay. Having travelled to Hawaii many times, I have a deep love for the spectacular natural beauty and lighting of the Hawaiian islands and a deep respect for her indigenous people and their Aloha spirit. Having the opportunity to photograph your wedding on one of these beautiful Hawaiian islands would be a dream come true! This exclusive Hawaiian island collection includes my favourite outdoor locations for your pre-wedding and Wedding Day photos. Also included is a Zoom consultation to discuss your preferences and vision, allowing me to understand and capture the essence of your personality and love as a couple. Each of the 200-300 edited, high-resolution digital images your receive in a password protected online gallery will serve as a beautiful, timeless reminder of the special moments we captured of your beautiful wedding. It is always an immense joy and privilege to creatively and expertly document a couple's nuptial journey and provide you with a collection of images that will forever celebrate the love and happiness of your special Wedding occasion.

Destination Wedding Collection "Say I Do in Hawaii"

I'm starting to grow my business and do between $500-$1000 a month in bookings.

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Wow!! Such beautiful pictures! My goodness! And the lighting! You've made my daughter look so photogenic! And you caught her and all of us in such natural and beautiful ways!! They are beautiful. Your photos are truly beautiful !!

Eileen D.

Working with Karena is a wonderful experience. Her photos are stunning. 
What makes Karena's photography exceptional is her ability to capture the essence of a moment, a gathering, and the people within it. She did not simply photograph our awards event, she captured its heart. The warmth, spirit, energy, and flow of the evening are immediately felt when viewing the gallery of images. 

Karena works gently and with great sensitivity, allowing individuals to feel at ease and fully themselves. In drawing out moments naturally, she captures genuine connection, emotion, and presence.

Her work reflects not only what the event looked like, but also what it felt like to be there.

Alix Arndt, CEO for BCND Association

I just experienced a wonderful night with a photographer who brought out the best in everyone she aimed her camera lens at. Karena was warm and energetic and made you feel beautiful inside and out. Can't wait to see the photos!

Maria B.

Karena was such a pleasure to work with. Easy going, a great communicator, and open to ideas while providing experienced suggestions. 
The way that Karena was able to capture the light, the beauty of the landscape, and our family in such a natural way was really special. We now have family photos that are truly precious and will be treasured for years to come.

Miranda M.

Karena, Thank you soooo very much for the photos! We are absolutely thrilled and they are incredible! The lighting and magical moments, the expressions and flow are all captured so beautifully. You certainly have a gift!

Liza W.

Write in this style: It is my passion to photograph a recently engaged couple and the love of a bride and groom in the beauty of these natural outdoor spaces.

It fills me with joy to celebrate your beauty and love as a couple and capture it on camera - so you have beautiful photos that forever remind you of your love at the beginning of your journey as a married couple!