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You may have seen in an earlier post here, that I’m thinking of taking a trip up to Brisbane at the end of May.
I still have three spots free at the moment before I can confirm the trip, so if you were umming and ahhing about whether or not to go ahead, there’s no time like the present!
All bookings are on a package deal which includes the CD of digital negatives of the fully edited proofs from your session.
Drop me an email and I will send you further details!
It’s time for another instalment of my favourite online comic strip – What the Duck!!
Cracks me up every time!!
(Oh, and you already know what camera I have if you read my blog 
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… since our wedding day, and I love him even more now than I did then.
He’s the other half that makes me whole, my friend, a father, my love.
Happy anniversary
xx
Today’s entry is an educational one.
I call it “How not to take an Easter photo”
Happy Easter everyone!
It was a gorgeous day for a Saturday afternoon today. The weather was glorious! Perfect day for a photoshoot.
My gorgeous little subjects today were two adorable sisters and utter pictures of perfection. I had a wonderful afternoon with their family. The title of the post comes from when I asked one of the girls what her all-time favourite book was that she had to read. Do you know what book she brought out?
Awwwww! Doesn’t it just melt your heart??!
That’s when I got the opportunity to snap my fave photo of the session:
“Big Sister” Ashleigh was a glorious poser – she was very interested in the things I had brought with me, and loved having her photo taken (even if it was only to see the end result on the LCD screen after we’d snapped a few! Hey… keep them happy is my motto!)
The “Little Sister” was Shae – with some of the biggest baby blues I think I have seen for ages. She spent most of the afternoon chatting to herself in her own little language. It was such a pleasure to sit there and listen to her talk away. Every now and then she’d give me one of these…
But her stares were just as beautiful too!
{Michelle – I hope you enjoy the sneak peeks of your girls. Thanks for the lovely afternoon and I hope you had a lovely Easter weekend with the family}
The weather at the moment has been horrible… last night was apparently the hottest March night on record. Not a record I want to beat again anytime soon either. And, to top it off when the ‘cool’ change finally arrived, let me tell you, it wasn’t that cool!
I adored today’s session. I spent the morning with the most gorgeous, cheeky and intelligent two year old I have ever met. Honestly, this kid was amazing. He can already count, actually read letters of the alphabet, pick out colours…. he’s my little Einstein!! I’m sure his poor mother kept hearing me say “I can’t believe it” oh-too-many times today because everytime I thought I couldn’t be impressed anymore, he surprised me with something else! What a wonderful and beautiful little mind this world has in store for it.
So – anyone want some good looks with those brains? Check…
How about a cheeky smile? Check…
And a gorgeous giggle? Surely not…!
Want to see where he gets those good looks from??
This is his drop-dead-gorgeous-could-be-supermodel-material mother Twyla. I openly admitted to her I had a bit of a girly crush on her (I promise I’m no stalker Twyla!! haha) at the session – here she was, two weeks from her due date with her second baby and absolutely radiant beyond belief. She was a beautiful soul, knew how to work the camera, and really made my job a matter of just pressing the button at the right time! Bliss!
And let’s just finish with an ‘Awwwwww’ moment, shall we??
My baby sister turned 22 yesterday so in typical Aussie style we had a family BBQ to celebrate.
To mark the occasion, we tried to get a nice portrait of her. This was our attempt…
{See… and you all thought I just snapped the perfect shot everytime! haha}
Happy birthday Em!
She is the reason I do what I do…
{Happy 10 months Miss Mia}
I’m a new proud parent!! My babies have arrived home!!!
{Excuse the poor excuse for product photography – it is not my forte! That, and I was too lazy to get my proper backdrops out…}
I spent over three hours driving yesterday to bring my babies home, but oh-so-worth-it. I left around 3pm and I figured my trip would take me just over an hour by my calculations. I was all set. I had David’s navigator to guide me on my way (because I’m terrible with directions) so it was going to be so easy (or so I thought). For some reason, the navigator decided that going through Essendon, Carlton, the CBD, past Crown Casino (WTF?!) was the best way to get to my destination rather than using the freeway. At first, I thought it was strange but put my trust in this wonderful piece of technology to get there safely. By the time I had finally reached the CBD after taking this ridiculous roundabout route I was directed to take I had already been driving for an hour. I’d had enough by this stage so jumped onto the nearest Citylink tollway I could find which I knew went in the general direction I wanted to go.
The navigator didn’t like that of course and kept trying to have me exit off the tollway. I finally changed some settings and it seemed to like that ok, and told me to keep driving for 20+ kms down the freeway until I was supposed to exit. Of course, being the fateful day it was, the freeway traffic was horrible, and I mean HORRIBLE. I was driving at 20kph for most of the journey. I realised after a while that the navigator was being very silent and that’s when I looked down and saw the bloody thing had run out of power! Now I was stuck in a traffic jam, on a freeway I never travel, going to a place I’d never been to, and had no idea where I was supposed to exit. And where was the car charger you ask?? In David’s bag at home of course… where else would it be?!
I finally picked a random exit and got the good old street directory out (sooo last year darling…) and finally worked out a fairly straight way to get where I wanted to be. Finally, around 2 hours after I started my journey, I had arrived – double the amount of time I thought it would take.
Doesn’t matter though, as now my brand spanking new gear is in my hands – my Canon 40D and my Canon 24-70L lens. Mmmmmmm!!!! David better watch out because I’m thinking of divorcing him so I can marry my new camera (especially after that charger fiasco… I was not a happy woman).
Batteries are charged, memory card is in, and it’s ready to go (now, how do I use it?? LOL)
And my oh-so-gorgeous lens…
What a difference two weeks can make…
I finally got to meet little Cooper today, the newborn son of one of my previous maternity clients (see more photos from her session here). Honestly, this little babe was textbook perfect from start to finish. As soon as I arrived, he went straight to sleep, and allowed me to move him any which way and nothing bothered him in the slightest! He was a complete and utter dream.
This made me very excited of course as it meant I could shift him into whatever position I liked and he really didn’t care less – made my job a breeze and made it very easy to get lots of different photo ops which was wonderful.
I love these shots, this is beautiful textbook-style curled up newborn at it’s very best (and why it’s always best to try and get them within the first two weeks because they lose this very quickly!)
Some gorgeous detail:
And my favourite from the day:
{Deb it was so wonderful to see you again – you look amazing and your calm manner made you look like you’ve been doing this for years, not weeks! Enjoy the sneak peeks of your handsome little man}
