Monthly Archives: January 2010

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Baby Jordan | Melbourne newborn photographer

22 January, 2010 – 8:39 pm

It is always such a pleasure to have clients return to me for sessions. Even better when it’s because a new little soul has entered the world. I photographed this little baby girl’s big brother as a newborn two years ago, and having her visit my studio brought back so many lovely memories of this beautiful family. I feel so thankful when I see my clients again as its always such an immense privilege for me.

It was also this beautiful session that I was joined by the lovely Shana, who contacted me as part of my Dis the Biz with Kris blog call out a little while back. We had such a fabulous morning playing together – Shana is a wonderful person and I am so happy that I got a chance to meet and spend the day with her.

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{It really was such fun seeing your beautiful family, Sarah and Jason – can’t wait to show you the rest!}

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Photo-a-day: Days 21 and 22 | Baby Photographer, Melbourne

22 January, 2010 – 3:51 pm

{Photo-a-Day Project: A personal project that I undertake every January for an entire month taking one photo a day of my children.}

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Day 21:  I feel like I’m having a bad case of déjà vu with this project. Charlie is going through a horrid catnapping stage during the day and it’s driving me a bit insane. It doesn’t help that the both Charlie and Mia are now sharing a room together as of a few days ago. Mia loves it – she thinks it’s a party when Charlie goes to bed. They sit there and talk to each other through the rails of Charlie’s cot, and I have to admit, it melts your heart a bit hearing them giggling at each other.

They often do the same thing in the car at the moment. Charlie will look over at Mia with a massive grin on his face, and Mia will giggle at him, which in turn makes me laugh. It is amazing how something like that can bring you so much joy. Something like a cheeky giggle can be so small and simple, but just mean so much.

This was how I found Charlie when only 30 minutes after putting him to bed I heard lots of giggling and gurgling going on in the bedroom, and so decided to go in and check. Go on, tell me who could get mad at that?!

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Day 22: Mia can’t get enough of daycare. It’s one of the few ways we can willingly get her into bed at night just by mentioning that the next morning she’ll be going there to visit. Her little eyes light up and sparkle. I never thought we’d get to this stage though. She’s such a mummy’s girl and so wary of strangers that I was worried when she first started how she would cope long term. Now, I barely get a wave goodbye as she runs in to play with the other kids, and trying to bring her home again usually involves some sort of bribery. Yep, she loves it!

One of her favourite parts is packing her bag for the day. She takes such delight in helping me prepare her lunch and snacks and lovingly packs it all away, and does up all of the zips at the top. The bag then goes on her back (with mummy’s help, of course) and she trots off to put her shoes on and get in the car ready to leave.

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Photo-a-day: Day 20 | Melbourne baby photographer

20 January, 2010 – 11:52 pm

{Photo-a-Day Project: A personal project that I undertake every January for an entire month taking one photo a day of my children.}

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Day 20: One of my favourite images from last year’s photo-a-day project, was the back of one of Mia’s curls. I wanted so badly to try and update it this year – her hair grows at a snail’s pace, and so photos like this make me realise it has actually grown a lot in the last 12 months. I’ve never cut her hair, and I can’t bring myself to do it when it’s still so fine and short. I will cut it… I’m sure… eventually…

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Photo-a-day: Day 19 | Melbourne baby photographer

20 January, 2010 – 7:44 pm

{Photo-a-Day Project: A personal project that I undertake every January for an entire month taking one photo a day of my children.}

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Day 19: Hands down, bath time is Charlie’s favourite part of his day (well, besides feeding…). He rolls, he gurgles, he laughs, he coos, he grins, he sings, he waves, he kicks, he loves…

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Photo-a-day: Days 17 and 18 | Baby photography, Melbourne

18 January, 2010 – 8:04 pm

{Photo-a-Day Project: A personal project that I undertake every January for an entire month taking one photo a day of my children.}

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Day 17: I adore this baby stage. The stage where they can reach their toes and find all delight in trying to eat them. The stage where you put them down and the first thing they do is bring their little feet above them into the air and grab them with their hands.

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Day 18: He is such a happy boy. Attention seeking, sure – but on the whole, he’s one contented baby. It’s this beautiful face that greets me every morning when I wake up and the same face I see right before I put him to bed at night. I never, ever want to forget this face. This beautiful open mouth smile and his sparkly eyes that light me up inside. Never, ever.

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Wonder | Melbourne newborn photography

17 January, 2010 – 3:43 pm

She is why I ache right down to my bones with love for what I do…why I go to bed thankful each and every night after meeting these new little souls for being fortunate enough not only to meet them, but to photograph them.

I feel like my words sometimes do not even begin to do my heart justice. I want so much for the beautiful and amazing parents that I meet to feel the way that I do when they see their images, to see what I see through my lens, and to be so joyful and amazed by their beautiful wonder. Every.single.inch of them is special. They created these people – I am merely here to capture their beauty.

This, my friends, is why I do what I do. This inspiring high that lifts my heart – it is a gift to me, these babies are a gift to me. I am so thankful for them.

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{So pure, so perfect. Leah and Glenn, you are both such wonderful parents and Zara is so loved}

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Photo-a-day: Day 16 | Melbourne children’s photographer

16 January, 2010 – 11:58 pm

{Photo-a-Day Project: A personal project that I undertake every January for an entire month taking one photo a day of my children.}

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Day 16: Yep, she’s a girly girl. She raids my makeup drawer on an almost daily basis – and although she has a bit of work getting her coordination right when it comes to applying makeup, I’m pretty impressed that she knows what goes where (or near enough).

And I know I normally only post one per day (and the above is my official one) I can’t go without posting the unofficial ‘after’ shot of her masterpiece:

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Dainty and Divine | Melbourne newborn photography

16 January, 2010 – 11:17 pm

I just have to say thank you so much to my amazing clients during this crazy busy month for me. I haven’t had nearly as much time to be able to keep the blog updated as much as I would like, and so I apologise if things like sneak peeks are (very) tardy, or non-existent for the moment. My priority is to make sure things still run as smoothly as possible for my gorgeous clients behind the scenes, so you’ll all have to forgive me for a little bit while I attend to my beautiful clients’ needs!

As such, this sneak peek is from a little while ago, but couldn’t help but share some images of this gorgeous sweet thing. Oh, how I loved her! Made her mumma wait for a little while to make her grand entrance, but I’m sure you’ll agree in that she was absolutely worth the wait. So dainty and divine. I could have sat there and breathed her in all day.

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{Naomi and Mark, your princess is beyond perfect – an amazing morning, with such an amazing soul}

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Photo-a-day: Day 15 | Melbourne child photography

15 January, 2010 – 9:38 pm

{Photo-a-Day Project: A personal project that I undertake every January for an entire month taking one photo a day of my children.}

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Day 15: Guess who learnt to jump? With both feet off the ground…?

Today’s photo-a-day was a very close race between this photo, and one capturing the look on her face when she realised she was doing it properly. Completely and utterly priceless. I could have cried I was so proud of her.

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Photo-a-day: Day 14 | Baby photography, Melbourne

15 January, 2010 – 6:10 pm

{Photo-a-Day Project: A personal project that I undertake every January for an entire month taking one photo a day of my children.}

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Day 14: Daddy giggles are the best…

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