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Gabrielle Touchette Photography – Recent Work

My passion is to create inspiring images while documenting all of life's best milestones.

My clients invite me into their wedding celebrations, into the intimacy of their homes and into their family adventures for a chance to see (and keep) what my camera sees when I spend time with them. For that, I'm eternally grateful to them.

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Well, I finished my to do list today. The one I’

Well, I finished my to do list today. The one I’ve been keeping for over 10 years! (Yes I have a running to do list for my photography work, in one text document that I have been using for a decade! I list all the work items I need to do, and cross them off as I finish them.)

Now that photography has been shut down since November 12th, I’m finding more time on my hands to work on things I’ve left on the back burner since early 2020, including updating my website. It isn’t live yet but I can’t wait to finish it! I find the hardest part is writing my bio for the “about” page. You don’t know how many times I’ve rewritten and tweaked it!!

One of the last things left to do is to populate my photo galleries and then I’m ready to launch. I’m building my website on a Wordpress platform using a customizable template I bought during cyber Monday deals in 2019. That’s how long ago this has been in the making! The crazier thing is that egabrielle.com used to be egab.org back in 2001. It was a tiny website I had built from scratch using HTML and it displayed my film photography and even some poetry I wrote. 🙃 Egab was a play on “e-mail” using my name, and that has stuck around all these years to now being egabrielle.com.

That’s a little history of my ever changing website! Once it’s live I’ll be sure to share it with you all here. For now, here’s a little sneak peek of it.
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Today I should be photographing a wedding. But it

Today I should be photographing a wedding. But it got postponed to 2021 and instead I’m attending the live streaming of a funeral for a family member that passed away from Covid. A year ago I could’ve never imagined how vastly different our reality would be right now. I’m grateful for the 6 months I had this year to take photos of my clients from a safe distance. Stay safe everyone and remember to check in on loved ones. These are emotionally taxing times. ❤️
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*EMPATHY* I’m finding I’m spending a lot more

*EMPATHY*
I’m finding I’m spending a lot more time breaking up fights between my kids now that they are pretty much together at home ALL. THE. TIME. Anyone else relate? 🙋‍♀️ One thing I’m learning this year (and hoping to teach my kids) is the value of empathy. In a world where we are more stressed out and polarized than ever before, there has never been a better time to reflect on empathy and ask ourselves how well we understand it.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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One thing that has been difficult but eye-opening for me is realizing that empathy is a choice and not a feeling. Exercising empathy towards others is not conditional on how we are feeling. If it were, imagine how much empathy we’d be withholding, especially to those we disagree with or strongly dislike!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
I’m noticing that empathy always helps to bridge a way towards community, respect and love. Exercising empathy has never negated or discredited my own feelings. That’s the beauty of it. It allows for relationship without forcing anyone to change their own personal feelings.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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And Merriam-Webster agrees. The definition starts with “the ACTION of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to….”⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
It doesn’t say “the FEELING of understanding”. It also differentiates between sympathy and empathy. Sympathy implies sharing the feelings of another, while empathy means imagining feelings that one does not actually have.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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So good news - even if we don’t feel what others feel - even if we disagree with them, we can still exercise empathy. And when we do, it’s surprising how much bridging happens between two different hearts. Something we could all use a bit more of right now.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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My days this month are spent at home, editing phot

My days this month are spent at home, editing photos, filling USB drives with jpgs, mailing thank you notes to clients, and remembering all the glorious days that I got to spend outside with my lovely clients taking their beautiful photos. I can't tell you how grateful I am to all of you who supported my business this fall and booked a photo session. I appreciated every single minute that I spent with all of you! Tomorrow will be a quiet day. I had my winter mini sessions planned for tomorrow in a beautiful wintery forest, but sadly they are cancelled. Know that I will miss you tomorrow! My heart goes out to all of you frontline workers, especially those in health care, carrying the enormous burden of caring for the most vulnerable. I have loved ones who are being cared by you right now and your work does not go unnoticed. Thank you!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Enjoying the last of the carefree, summer evenings

Enjoying the last of the carefree, summer evenings of 2020. From some of the last candid captures of my lovely time with the Anderson family back in the summer at HarbourView Park. •⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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The many faces of the cute Stansell children. Can

The many faces of the cute Stansell children. Can your day get any better than this after that face smiles at you with those EYES?! Of all the kids, she kept seeking out the camera the most, ready to pose and smile for me all the time!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Hello! I have some new followers today after givin

Hello! I have some new followers today after giving a virtual talk to 26 of @prairieviewphotoschool’s diploma students this morning on Zoom — so here’s an excuse to say: hi 👋 welcome here!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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As the students found me on IG and started following me, one of them piped up in our Zoom meeting to say they had gotten me to the 2000 followers milestone. 🎉 Which instantly got me thinking and sharing this with them:⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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The amount of followers you have has nothing to do with your success as a photographer. I’m living proof of that. 😂 Even though I barely have 2000 followers after 7 years on IG, it doesn’t dictate my real life success as a photographer. Some people need to hear this.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Yes, the struggle is real: we are all guilty of monitoring our number of followers and worrying that it’s a reflection of our worth. But the good news is: it’s NOT.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Your ability to run a successful photography business isn’t solely dependent on IG popularity. For some it may be, but definitely for most, it doesn’t have to be.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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So if you’re just starting out as a photographer, don’t get caught up in the illusion of success that can so easily prevail on social media! Don’t let that discourage you!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I’ve been running a strong business that went full time in 2011, and the number of followers I have never determined whether or not my bills got paid.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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As long as you show up for your friends and family in real life and serve your photography clients well, the size of your follower list should have zero bearing on your worth or your purpose.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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So go out there, be who you need to be to the people that matter, and don’t get fooled about what actually holds your value. Nurture the relationships that matter and the work you’re most passionate about.

A stampede of absolute joy and carefree spirits! Y

A stampede of absolute joy and carefree spirits! You know it's going to be a fun family photo session when this is how it starts! 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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