MUSKOKA PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY

Welcome to Muskoka photographer Gerd Harder’s web site featuring Muskoka outdoor family portraits.

While Gerd has many interests in the arts and in photography this site is dedicated to an area where he will be concentrating on in the years to come:
Professional Muskoka outdoor family portraits and children photography taken on location near Bracebridge, Port Carling, Gravenhurst, Huntsville or elsewhere in the Muskoka and Georgian Bay area.

Sooner than you can believe it, your children are leaving for college or get married. Capturing this precious memory, and having it done right should be as crucial to your Muskoka family portrait photographer than it is to you. Finding a professional photographer you can entrust with your family's memories can make the difference between cherishing your family portrait for many years to come or being disappointed.

Why ask professional Muskoka photographer Gerd Harder to create your outdoor family portrait?

Although being fairly new to the Muskoka area, Gerd is a seasoned veteran in his trade. He is one of North America’s leading portrait artists. A fourth generation family portrait photographer, he operated portrait studios in Germany, Canada and USA before moving in 2007 from central Florida to the Muskoka area. Acclaimed as one of Florida's most awarded portrait photographers, Gerd quickly won recognition of his fellow photographers in his new province. In the first portrait photography competition which he entered with the “Ontario Professional Photographers Association” his four submitted portrait photographs scored high. Among other awards his peers awarded him the title of “Portrait Photographer of the Year" of Ontario. In 2008 Gerd received the titel "Portrait Photographer of the Year" for a second consecutive time.

Gerd draws from the knowledge he gained in photographing outside family portraits in many different location for over 30 years. Not only in Muskoka outdoor family portraits are in demand. His clientele originates from all over North America, from California to Florida, Quebec to B.C., Texas to New York, Iowa to Alberta among many other locations. In the process he has gained a wealth of experience which has trained his eye and enables him to adopt quickly to new environments in order to come up with outstanding family portraits.

With all the beauty which Muskoka has to offer not surprisingly family portraits are often taken in and around cottages. As an alternative to a non characteristic studio portrait Gerd enjoys working outdoors in these natural surroundings that capture the essence of his clients’ habitats. They love spending their time here and enjoy taking this souvenir captured in their family portrait with them to their main residence down south.

Located just a few kilometers outside of Port Carling, Muskoka photographer Gerd Harder is in a perfect place to serve its clientele in Bracebridge, Port Carling, Gravenhurst, Huntsville and throughout the Muskoka lakes area. Leaving the comfort of his photography studio behind and practicing family photography on location may be challenging at times. The reward is living up to the challenges and offering a professional muskoka family portrait outside a cottage which is unique to the individual client. Instead of being pictured in front of a meaningless studio background his families are shown in the place they love.Gerd always enjoyed traveling and photographing Canada's great North. Over the years he has photographed nature scenes from the coast of Labrador to the Arctic Ocean. Since he moved to Ontario he visited and photographed many times the Muskoka Lakes and Georgian Bay area and the beautiful Algonquin Park. Gerd will increasingly turn to the Muskoka area to offer his family portrait photography combining his love for the great outdoors with his profession.

You can log on to www.HarderPhotography.com to view different areas of Gerd's and of his partner Dana's body of work. The main reason for this web site is to promote what will be the specialty of Gerd in the years to come:The professional muskoka family portrait outside a cottage showing his patrons with their beautiful natural surroundingsIf you are interested in getting your family photographed in front of the surroundings of your Muskoka cottage and getting it photographed well then please enter this site and look at the examples. Some of the outdoor family portraits are taken near Bracebridge, Port Carling, Gravenhurst, Bala, Huntsville or other Muskoka locations, some are taken in other parts of this world. All of them are demonstrating the quality of portrait you can expect when you ask for a Gerd Harder portrait.

Enjoy.