Repeat Business.


This is a portrait of one of our brides from last summer. She is a soloist and needed a PR shot
for a poster to promote her upcoming Ottawa performance. I posted it because every now and then someone asks for a testimonial…here is her email to us.

Thank you for the best photos ever!!!!! I have not stopped getting comments about my headshot especially….people want to know where I got them done….Guess what I said….

COUVRETTE STUDIO….they are the bomb! 🙂
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Portrait of Ottawa Artist John Ceprano


Ever wonder who created those amazing sculptures along the Ottawa River. Here is the man, John Ceprano….artist, sculptor, photographer and a friend of mine.

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A new print for our window.


We finally had a few minutes to make a new print for our studio window on Gladstone. Isn’t it always the way…you plan to get those prints made, but life gets in the way…even for us. Makes me wonder about all those couples who purchase hi res files to make their own albums. A friend who owns the biggest lab in the city tells me its actually rare that couples make a real album with prints. Kinda sad and ironic at the same time. All that money spent on a wedding and 25 years from now their kids will wonder what people did with those round plastic things with a hole in the middle…
Oh well, this family had a beautiful print on their wall a few weeks after the session…its what we do after all.

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Britannia Yacht Club, Ottawa Wedding

Great wedding shots are all about planning, location, timing and…oh ya…a bit of talent. Rachelle and I shot this wedding just a couple of weeks ago at the Britannia Yacht Club. Enjoy.

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Family portraits in the home


This was a challenging assignment. The shoot was done for the current issue of Ottawa Life magazine and it featured a local family with two disabled children.

I purposely chose to not put the kids in their apparatus and instead play with it as a design element and feature the bond between the parents and the kids utilizing their technology as a secondary element in the compositions. The top shot was chosen as the cover of the mag…guess I succeeded.

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We always get our man.

Uniforms are great to work with and especially RCMP uniforms. Getting a nice red in digital
seems to escape some people….dunno why.

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Why my studio is in Ottawa.


We travel all over the continent. From resorts in Jamaica to hi tech in Minneapolis to Executive Portraits in Toronto…we have done it all. A lot of people wonder why I established my studio in Ottawa.
It’s simple. My family were pioneers in the region and have been in one sort of business or another in Canada for over 350 years…yes, that’s correct… 350 years. As well, Ottawa is a great place to raise a family and the citizens are really nice folks.
Couvrette Studio has been graced with photographing Ottawa’s high society and yes, lots of everyday people who trust us to capture their family milestones. The portraits above were taken a decade apart and were featured on last years Christmas card for an Ottawa family. Being trusted to record the lives of Ottawans is really special.
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You can spend all the time you want looking at…

You can spend all the time you want looking at images on an Iphone, Imac, Ipad, Ipod or
Ipostagestamp…but nothing beats a black and white print on a wall for impact…nothing.

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2010 Ottawa Winter Wedding.


Ok, so its mid May and that fake spring we had last month has lulled us into thinking the warm weather was upon us. Then, last weekend we actually had snowflakes and even big snow in the mountains north of Ottawa. Oh well…this has to be our last winter wedding shot of 2010….promise.

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Ottawa Bar Mitzvah

A Bar Mitzvah can be as elaborate as a wedding. It is a chance to capture portraits and
cover the events of the party and the details of the decor and food.

We have worked in the Jewish community for over 30 years and its nice to see the children of our original wave of weddings having a Mitzvah.
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