tracey l heppner - photographer & lover of life

i am writing this the night before thursday - i probably wont get to my computer tomoro am as i’m heading off bright and early for Gentle Hands, where i volunteer several days a week.

if you follow me on facebook, twitter or instagram at ALL, you will see my ...

has that ever happened to you?

being in the right place at the right time? ya..it happened to me the last time i was in vegas.

i was there for the infamous WPPI - wedding and portrait photographers international. and one afternoon, a couple of my dear photographer friends and ...

so i failed at not posting yesterday…MONDAY! oopsy!!

and then today, tuesday it’s already evening. oh my.

it’s been a crazy week, let me tell you…in a nutshell, play-by-play:

jonathan went on a fund-development trip to japan for gentle hands - a team from japan was at ...

i love divine appointments. “what?”, you say??? you know, when you are in the right place at the right time?

that’s EXACTLY what happened when i first met Suzanne. we had several mutual friends. i was in a coffee shop for a couple hours in kelowna, bc. i thought ...

its funny how sometimes in your life you meet people you never forget..and always stay connected to.

that is pretty much the deal with me and christopher barran.

i met christopher here, in manila, in the late 90s. our meeting was an interesting one with a story of its ...

today’s wedding blog post is a sneak peek of a delightful shoot i did for scarlet begonia flowers a few weeks ago. there will definitely be more photos of this particular shoot in posts to come, but i thought it would be so perfect to feature the SNEAK PEEK ...

2 friday’s ago i had the priviledge to work with SCARLET BEGONIA FLOWERS from manila here. the owner, djuna, has become a good friend and when we talked about doing a shoot together, she was on it! she is launching a new line of florals, which i will leave ...

let me tell you…some mondays are not bad..and some…are worse.

today COULD have been a doozer. it started that way.

i had an 8am appointment at the kids’ school with the superintendant re getting involved with the PAC.

so..to get there, it went like this: stepped ...

i first met sach in vancouver, through a VANPHOTOGS meet-up that i founded in 2008. i was drawn to his very peaceful and genuine personality. he was such a breath of fresh air to be around. and his story so fascinating - coming over from LONDON, UK to vancouver for the ...

our 2011 FOLLOW YOUR HEART tour to Italy will be this fall. and we will be visiting the breath-taking, coastal region of LIGURIA. also known as the ITALIAN RIVIERA, the region of LIGURIA is filled with quaint towns, exotic beaches, picturesque scenery…definitely a tour you wouldn’t want to ...

it’s true. i did. i entered a contest. it’s a travel photography contest. KLM and digital photographer philippines put it on. i thought, why not? i love travel, the assignment looks fantastic. 

so i did. i had to write a “pitch” on why they should choose me… :) and ...

we met at a party at our mutual friends, miranda & reilly.

sounds pretty good so far, hey? :) hehehe…seriously though, we did! and i remember it well…miranda gave me the skinny on how they knew him, where he’d come from, etc. not juicy skinny, just necessary skinny so ...

..want to laugh. when you hear all the stories and see the funny PMS cartoons. i know i do. i think my husband does…but sometimes he looks a little scared to.. ;)

today i’m not PMSing, but thought it would be a good day to laugh at it. cuz ...

it’s still tuesday right?? :) it’s almost 4pm but it is still tuesday..chuckle..the “sore eyes” have now become mostly gritty eyes so staring at computer does not work so well! however, here is today’s blogpost.

siena. we have seen it in movies - the english patient, james ...

it’s monday again! and i get to make today’s blog WHATEVER my little heart desires! so…with that - it’s wedding showcase time!

one of the things i love about weddings is that no one is the same. i have shot more than 130 weddings. and every single ...

i love documenting couples. couples who are OBVIOUSLY passionately in love with each other!

bernice & jj are no exception. they have been married a couple years now and i had been hounding them FOREVER if i could do an after-bridal session with them. finally this year we did it!

this ...

because i totally got derailed this week and mixed up my blog posts and then forgot to post a wedding one, all because (or this is what i’m blaming at least!) of the first day of school yesterday, i am blogging an extra blog today…

a delightful wedding i ...

mutual friends. italy. facebook. photography.

that pretty much sums up how i virtually met joe pulcinella! the world truly is getting smaller, no?

aside from our mutual italian friends and our love for photography, we both love italy. :) joe’s from the US and next year he plans on doing ...

it’s one of the major hubs into asia. and rightfully so. with a global economy and being an important business capital in the world, it bridges the east and west so naturally.

hong kong was under british rule until 1997 (i remember when it happened - we had been in ...

it really began when i went to GERMANY to shoot a wedding at a castle just outside of FUSSEN. with one of my best friends as my assistant and travel companion, we not only rocked that wedding, but we tootled around in munich and garmisch partenkirschen…and decided we were ...