Skip to Main Content

Blog

Mackenzie Katsmar

Mackenzie Katsmar PhotographerMackenzie Katsmar

Phone/Text: (905)-325-1635
Email: mackenzie@ballantinephotography.com 
LinkedIn:   |   Instagram:@themspirits

“Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.”
— Don McCullin

Karsh recreation

Karsh recreation

By Mackenzie Katsmar

Posted in General

For our first semester of year two of the Niagara College Photography program we had an assignment within our portraiture class to recreate an iconic photo by Yusef Karsh. I had been dreading this assignment for awhile because you’re...

Read more

The Story Behind a Photograph

The Story Behind a Photograph

By Mackenzie Katsmar

Posted in General

Seeing a portrait that speaks to you and invites you to think about who this person is, where they are or where they're going is a wonderful thing to experience when looking at a image.

Read more

How amazing working something you love is.

How amazing working something you love is.

By Mackenzie Katsmar

Posted in General

Throughout my life I had never thought of myself as a creative, that whole "left brain, right brain" thing I just assumed I wasn't creative and wouldn't be able to accomplish things like that in my life. That is until I found PHOTOGRAPHY. 

Read more

landscape photography - water

Beauty, Art, and Photography

“Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.” ~ Matt Hardy

Learn More

(905) 325-1635Contact