Double Shutter Images

We, Cindy Cardiff & Michael Kanka, merged our businesses in 2009 and formed Double Shutter Images.

In line with our philosophy of working together, we use this synergy to create images with visual impact to enhance marketing, capture special moments at events, and portray relationships.

With merging our businesses, knowledge, and experience, we are able to offer a full portfolio of professional photography and high-end digital image services.

Our photographic images last long past the moment they were taken, adding to memories and enabling you to share experiences with others.

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Cindy Cardiff is passionate about photography and

the ability it creates to share different interpretations of the world around us. She specializes in event and lifestyle photography, capturing the relationships between people and their surroundings. Community is important to Cindy, which is evident by her involvement at many local events. She doesn’t just show up to photograph events, she experiences them, often sharing the adventures with her two boys. Partnerships and people working together are the foundation of how Cindy operates and she frequently puts time and energy into her children’s school, community clubs, events, and fundraisers. She carries the relationships formed into her business, often collaborating with other people in the community. It was a natural progression to take the success of Trek Photography and team up with Photographer Michael Kanka to create the thriving partnership of Double Shutter Images.

Michael Kanka remembers buying his first camera, a Minolta,

when he turned sixteen, back in Munich, Germany. The camera is still around and occasionally used for some black and white work. Photography became a passion back then and was always a part of his professional life beside his second passion, software development. As designer and developer for online marketplaces and product configuration tools, professional studio photography was always part of the trade. After moving to Canada in 2003 with his wife Monika, and inspired by the endless opportunities to create stunning images in combining nature and wildlife with the people enjoying it, as well as technically challenging studio and architectural work, a new chapter of life was opened. Setting up a fully equipped photo studio in Squamish was just the next step. Combining the profound knowledge in professional photography and digital processing with the skilful image creation and local social connections provided by Cindy Cardiff made the partnership of Double Shutter Images a logical consequence.