Rockeries and The Courtyard Restaurant

Some locations are trickier than others as far as shooting. Unless you know what you are doing and have the equipment to pull it off, a lot of locations like Montebello, The Chateau Laurier and the Courtyard Restaurant tend to look like giant black holes. Experience is the key...1000 weddings to date!!!....and counting.

United Way

Isn`t it time you got your family together...

This year, for the first time in the long history of our studio we are offering Ottawans a chance to get that portrait you have been talking about for years. Whether its the whole gang in jeans and T shirts, a shot with the family dog or even a cool poster with Dad`s motorcycle...bring your wildest ideas to us and watch us make some magic. We do love animals and yes, the studio is capable of photographing your family and your horse!

Btw...yes, thats Paul Dewar and family having some fun with a shoot that defines their family quite well. Thanks for finding the time guys to get this together...

For lots of examples of our work...click here http://www.couvrette-photography.on.ca/2/portrait.html

Call the studio to arrange your sitting at 613 238 5104

DETAILS: This offer is valid only on sittings booked between November 1 and December 30 2009. The entire sitting fee will be donated to the United Way of Ottawa which helps families in our own community. Prints are at our regular prices and you are under no obligation to make any purchases. Deadline for delivery for Christmas is December 1st. We can accomodate groups of up to 40 people at our Gladstone Studio. All sittings must be studio sittings during our regular hours. Sittings on Saturdays, in the evening or at another location are at a premium. This offer is not valid for commercial clients headshots or any commercial assignments.

Awww...thats nice.

The current issue of Ottawa Life features Ottawa's Top 50 Citizens and guess who made the it on the cover. Nice to be in the company of Larry O'Brien, Alan Rock, and Michael Ignatieff. Read all about it here. Oh...row two five from the left...perhaps I ought to have smiled.


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Testimonials...

Every once in a while, someone asks me for a testimonial..........


Perhaps I could list the famous clients whose weddings we have shot like Barbara McLachlin, Justina McCaffrey, Marlen Cowpland or the Potters....hmmmn...that's gonna scare people.
Ok...how about being the only photographer who has done portraits of every Prime Minister from Trudeau to Harper....nah...boring.
Would 150 awards make a difference...maybe not. Just sound like we are gonna be expensive...a myth btw.

Ok...I`ve got it........Some real nice, real people....this should do it. Phew!


BTW....Check these ladies out if you need some real nice real estate in Kingston.

Pregnancy Portraits Ottawa

Here are a couple of recent pregnancy portraits of one of our clients. These are priceless memories...I know....we show our shots to our kids and they love 'em.
I had previously photographed this client for a bodybuilding portfolio last year. Return clients
are the best testimonial to our work...

Yousuf Karsh and I, Ottawa Citizen.

I am honored that the Ottawa Citizen has chosen to feature me in their story on Yousuf Karsh of Ottawa on the 100th anniversary of his birth.

Yousef and I met many times and I expressed my gratitude for the influence he had on my career. My one regret is never having had him take my own portrait or never having taken his, thought I did have the pleasure of taking a portrait of his brother Malak Karsh. As well, I wisely purchased an original print by Yousuf that he signed for me. The image is, in my opinion his finest work, a portrait of Pablo Casals. It is also one of the best investments I ever made.
My Karsh stories are many and I will save them for my own eventual book, but suffice to say I
was honored when he referred a number of clients to me upon closing his studio and equally honored when a number of corporate clients considered me as his replacement. Karsh was an artist, a businessman and one of the most refined gentlemen I have ever met...he truly possessed an old world charm that is rarely seen today. Without Karsh, I doubt my career would have developed technically and artistically as it did.

Click on this link to the Citizen page and if you click on my self portrait you can hear me speak on Karsh. The series is extremely well done...Yousuf would approve.

Ottawa Photographers

An Ottawa U student, Hamed Tinafer decided to make me his school project and created this
Wikipedia entry.....Wow. I am honored....and hey, its nice to think back on all I have done in my
career to date. Ok, enough resting on my laurels...thanks Hamed.