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Live Life Unscripted.

Documenting Authentic Heartfelt Love.

Moments are special because they slip away.

I am fascinated with human connections and watching real moments unfold. Time is precious and extra care should be taken on one of the most important days. It would be a huge honour to be the one you trust most to tell your intimate story.

My Photography style is heavily focused on capturing these moments. The real and the candid moments. So what it really means, is I have a very documentary photography style. Nothing is forced or fake and everything is epic.

My main goal is to document your beautiful and authentic self! I love the real and the raw; so get ready to let your guard down.

I think emotions are everything! In all of life's special moments. Weddings, boudoir, labour and deliveries, maternity, newborn and families. I am passionate about all types of photography.

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An Empowering Boudoir Experience

For the open-minded & non-traditionalists

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Lifestyle Newborn Sessions

For those moments that pass by all too quickly.

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I’m So Glad You’re Here!

I’m Crystal. An Ontario Based photographer travelling through Price Edward County, City of Kawartha Lakes, Peterborough County & Toronto.

Depending on the day, you can find me out hiking with my dog or spending time with my family. I have seen the office more times than I’m willing to admit and Figure Skating is life.

Genuine kindness is high on my values list but we will be a great match if you are…

Sentimental
Energetic and a little quirky
Romantic
Not afraid to get a little dirty, real and have a lot of laughs!

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Let’s step away from traditional.

Photography is less about the camera and more about humanity.

I desire to create epic moments with people who care more about celebrating life, encouraging everyone to be themselves, capturing the details and moments others can’t see. I want to show you how beautiful you are, the love in your eyes for your partner, children or just the happiness of the moment. Let’s create a unique, authentic experience.

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Testimonails

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Hi Crystal! I can’t thank you enough for the incredible photos!! We’re swooning 💕💕💕

Looking forward to making it an annual tradition!

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How my gosh Crystal!!! I absolutely love love love them!!! Thank you so much!! I’m keeping them under wraps for now until after the wedding. I will for sure be referring you!

Hi Crystal,

These pictures are truly amazing - thank you so much!

It is going to be hard to pick just one for our save-the-date cards, so wish me luck lol.

We are so grateful to have you be a part of our wedding!

Have a great weekend,

Alex

Crystal!

Oh my goodness, we love everything about these pictures!!! You captured our day so beautifully and we are so thankful we chose YOU, you are amazing. Everyone is still talking about you and how comfortable you made them feel and how personable you were. We are so lucky. The slideshow was perfection and brought tears to my eyes, so much joy! We are so lucky to have found you.

We cannot wait to get our pictures printed. We are looking forward to our next shoot with you! Thank you times a million, there are no words to describe how obsessed we are with our pictures/slideshow! A special thank you for the amazing photos of me and my poppa that I will truly cherish forever, he is pretty high up there in importance to me so it was really special to have those pictures and when I saw the joy in his eyes I melted. They are perfect. It means the world to me that you captured someone so dear to my heart in such a beautiful way.

Lots of love,

Sam, Drew and Ryan

Just got the email with the Photos this morning. I can’t tell you how happy they make me omg I almost cried going through them. Thanks so much! I know it was a REALLY fricken’ cold day, but they ended up looking awesome.

Crystal is simply amazing!

Ok, so, I can't begin to recommend Crystal enough. She was absolutely awesome as our wedding photographer. She made myself, my husband, and our whole crew comfortable and relaxed with taking photos even though we are notorious for not always being the most photogenic. She rolled with all of our punches (and non stop laughter) and she caught so many beautiful (and hilarious!) moments. By the end of the night, we just wanted to ask her to put down the camera and stay a while, she was that good at making sure everybody had a good time and felt like a million bucks. If you are getting married in the Kawarthas, Crystal in the photographer to look out for 😍

Thankyou so much crystal!!!

“The photos are too cute, and you were awesome will recommend to anyone who needs pictures done.

Thank you thank you thank you!!!

Thank you so much for sharing our special day with us. It was so great to meet you.

I think you are an amazing person and am grateful to have met you. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing your passion in photography with us. We know the pictures

will look amazing. Thank you again!

Incredible memories captured in the most memorable way!

We had the pleasure of having Crystal capture our photos of our wedding day. Our path originally led us to Crystal with her extremely affordable budget and packages. Little did we know she would blow us out of the water. Crystal managed to capture the most candid and beautiful photos from our big day. We cant get enough of them. We recommend crystal to anyone and everyone that is looking for a photographer. Not only does she bring talent and creative skill, her bubbly and outgoing personality puts you at ease right away. She made us feel so comfortable during our sessions that it felt like we have known her for years.We look forward to working with crystal in the future!

I highly recommend Crystal! We have used her a couple times now! She just did a newborn shoot for us and I cannot express how amazing she was with our baby, Crystal is definitely a baby whisper. She was also great in directing us and our two year old in the shoot. We are also obsessed with the photos!Thanks Crystal!

great personality and photographer

Crystal was super patient while doing our wedding photos in the 40+ heat and while I was ready to just run to somewhere cool, she reminded us that we would one day look back on these pictures and be sad if we missed some of the key shots! Looking forward to getting the final photos from our wedding day! Thanks Crystal!!

Just had our engagement shoot today with crystal and she was awesome. She really got my fiancé out of his shell and I can't wait to use her for our wedding day as well.

We were married on Oct 6 2018, and Crystal covered our special day. She was the consummate photographer, and we could not have asked for a better one to do our engagement and wedding. Everyone loved her - from our family to the guests, and especially my now-husband and I. We highly recommend her, and would definitely get her again for future photography needs!

Absolutely loved her personality! She was amazing and patient with us. I’ve never had my 2 year old NOT cry during a photo shoot and he was happy and even dancing! So excited to see how the photos turn out 😍

Thank you so much!!! Those are absolutely adorable!!! We will have to make an appointment to do her cake smash pictures lol. But honestly thank you I cried they were so adorable!!!

THANK YOU for capturing such BEAUTIFUL photos! ❤️ absolutely stunning! The slideshow made us cry 😭!

Thank you Crystal - I will be sure to recommend you to other brides to be!

Aweeeee Thank you so so so soooooooo much. They're beyond beautiful <3 We appreciate all your wonderful work Crystal . You're fabulous :)

I downloaded my photos today and I wanted to say that they are amazing and I love them! I am quite body conscious most of the time, but you do wonderful work and have made me feel really beautiful. I definitely want to have a photo book made, it will be the perfect gift for my fiance.

If you are looking for someone amazing to do your wedding look no further than Crystal Jessup! She is so wonderful! So helpful, amazing with children and will give you photos to die for! I'm so glad we made the super easy decision of having you as our photographer. Couldn't have had anyone better.