well, we sure had nature working against us for this session. this is part ii, because of all the rain last week. and part ii, part i began at a wonderful location….that happened to have the biggest infestation of mozzies i have ever seen. so back in the cars for part ii, part ii. we still had to battle mozzies, and ants. but we battled through and made it work!!

it’s late and these guys are probably awaiting their sneak peek. thanks so much guys, i adore your girls. enjoy xx

isn’t hannah just delicious? i adore her.

i think this one might be my favourite from today? georgia might definitely be taking over as my new front page gal!

I swear her eyelashes grew in a week!

oh how i love outdoor newborn photos.

and all the family!

i love clients who come back to me. there is something wonderful about seeing kids grow up in front of my camera….steve and terri had me photograph hannah, and her photos still remain some of my favourite. in fact, hannah is the precious little newborn on my splash page, wrapped in the pink muslin. i know the image is over 12 months old, but i just can’t bring myself to replace it with another!

so, today i got to meet hannah’s little sister, georgia. i am going back next week, because the non stop rain we’ve had meant we couldn’t head outside for some family photos. fingers crossed it’s dry for next week!

terri and steve, was wonderful to see you again today, and to see hannah again. she’s wonderful…as is your new little addition!

beautiful baby bits

i LOVE this photo. maybe it can go on my splash page?

hannah before and hannah now:

this little cutie wasn’t due until next week, and here he is, already 8 days old! And doesn’t Marii look absolutely stunning?

a few facts about conrad:

his mum is from estonia
his dad is an aussie
he did wees on both marii and i!
he lives in a gorgeous apartment
he has gorgeous, doting parents
was born 2 weeks early
he is so very cute!

marii and callum, thanks so much for this afternoon, will be in touch xx

love these little praying feet

gotcha!

love these two with all the hands

told ya he was cute, didn’t i?

seriously. SERIOUSLY???? no one should look this good just after having a baby!

my apologies…i will haven’t posted the remainder of my photo-a-day photos. things are crazy here. i had a workshop last week (exhausting, but wonderful), and am still trying to catch up on everything!

anyway, today’s session was held at the perfect time…only because we were lucky enough to miss both the rain before the session and the huge storm after the session! the gorgeous ruby held out in the heat so very well.

a few facts:

ruby is 10 months old today
she has 2 doating aunts that came along to help get the smiles!
she has 4 teeth
she can stand on her own and has taken a few steps
she has killer eyelashes
she also has killer eyes (look out mum and dad in 15 years time!!!)
she was so very happy (10 months is a wonderful age to photograph kids!)

see what i mean about the eyes?



as i was watching ruby do this to the flowers, her mum, melanie said something about how she loves how ruby picks things up…the two fingers are so cute!

such a happy girl

she only “almost” fell out of this basket twice. lucky i’m quick! note to self: use for younger babies!


check out those lashes!

thanks for a lovely morning, melanie. enjoy your sneak peek and i’ll be in touch xx

it seems i’m fast becoming the army-family-photographer-of-choice in brisbane! this is yet another amazing family who is about to say goodbye to a husband and father for 8 months. i gotta say, i’m so glad to be able to capture these memories for these wonderful families to look at and smile and laugh and remember and dream about the day they are all back together again!

a few fun facts:

– zane turned 2 today!
– he LOVED the water – the deeper the better!
– we all got soaking wet (hope your mobile survived, adam!)
– sonya got hit on by a drunk guy
– zane preferred rice crackers over my lollipops!
– i should bring chocolate next time! zane loved me for that 10secs of the sugar rush!
– this family is gorgeous!

all the best guys, and i’ll be in touch soon

ps, just realised I didn’t finish posting my photo-a-day photos here. will do that tomorrow!

love the mud, and the reflections, and the smiles in this one!

adorable, isn’t he?

there were storm clouds rolling in…..with the sun peeking behind. gorgeous, isn’t it?

their gorgeous dog, luga (i know i will have spelt that wrong, my apologies!)

the colours are a bit muted in this one, which i don’t normally do, but for some reason i loved it like this. something about all that white maybe?

i sometimes get worried about photographing girls…i don’t “know” girls, so worry i won’t know how to relate to them. i never worry like that with boys. i know that all i need to do is run with them, encourage stupid faces, or in taj’s case, get him to try and hit me with his scooter!

a few things (i’ve decided i’m better at dot points, lol):

– sarah has her own hair and beauty business (check it out here – she is amazing!).
– she also has 2 adorable boys, tyler and taj.
– she introduced me to this very cool tunnel, that is literally 5 mins from my house….i’ve driven over it a million times and never knew it was there!
– 2 year olds make you run
– 8 year olds love to pose

tyler

taj

this is oh so familiar (my boys LOVE to pull faces for photos!)

love this one of sarah and taj

this one is my absolute fav

will be back in the next few days with the last photo-a-day photos!

way behind again. just can’t seem to find the time to blog these lately. but here we go.

day 20.
i’ve done this type of photo a million times. but i needed one for my photo-a-day book, as i love it so much! our street is so cool, i love that we can play out there with no fear of getting run over!

day 21.
i was hosting a workshop for the wonderfully talented dale taylor and today was the photo shoot to start it all off. my husband was going to be late home from work, so i had to take my boys…which really turned out to be a bit of a disaster, and I didn’t get anywhere near as many photos as i would have liked. i did end up with this one of max that is very typical of him! he loves to perform!

day 22.
this is the sunset that we would have LOVED at yesterday’s photo shoot. instead we were stuck with no sun and just cloud. this sunset would have made spectacular photos for our workshop. SPECTACULAR! but alas, it was not to be. instead it made for a spectacular photo-a-day photo for day 22!

day 23.
the last day of dale’s workshop and i was exhausted. the kids were playing peek a boo over the fence and this was all i had the energy to muster up! if i had’ve had more energy i would have made them move a bit so the house wasn’t in the background. would have made a much stronger photo. oh well.

day 24.
we had promised max a trip to australia zoo for his birthday, while ben10 was there. this was the last day we could do it. so off to australia zoo we went! it was a wonderful, hot, exhausting day. but totally worth it! also my big sister’s happy birthday. not telling how old she is!

day 25.
the kids are into making forts in our house. and they end up being huge and messy. but they love it! (and yes, max seems to be pulling a face of some sort in almost every photo. i’m very aware of that. can’t stop him though!)

day 26.
happy australia day!
subtitled: how many kids can you squeeze into one clam shell?

and lastly.
day 27.
sambo’s first day of school. something that i was excited and terrified about. i managed to get his lunch ready, and get there on time. that in itself is a miracle. sambo went through a few different emotions, and it ended up with us both crying when i had to say goodbye (i don’t think he realised i was crying though, hopefully not anyway). clydey was dropping max off at his new daycare and went through the exact same thing! at the end of the day, sambo came out with a big grin in his face and told us how much he LOVED his new school. he doesn’t go again until monday, so fingers crossed he remembers just how much he loves it, lol. i am so proud of him – my big school boy!

first of all, happy australia day!

and let me introduce you to the adorable abby. her mum and dad welcomed her into the world 11 days ago. and she’s simply gorgeous! the sweet little girl didn’t want to do much sleeping for us….but lucky she’s just too cute for us not to care too much!

congrats, sarah and mark on your gorgeous little girl. hope she slept all afternoon for you!

PS, have a huge backlog of photo-a-day photos to post on here – look out for Sam’s first day of school photo tomorrow and think of me as I prepare lunches and be dressed by 8am!!

these guys are waiting on their sneak peek, and my bed is waiting on me. so i’m going to keep it very short and sweet.

- this family rocked.
- this family was GORGEOUS.
- the light was so spectacular that i couldn’t convert any to b&w
- i got to visit north shore on the sunshine coast for the first time ever – which included a little ferry ride over in the car. so cool.
- i found out that only old people call it WWF. it’s now called WWE.
- i love my clients.

the girls – emily and georgia

the boys, harrison and max




my fave

thanks guys, i’ll be in touch soon xx

so our lovely weekend away means i’m a little behind the eight ball at the moment. i have sessions to edit. and photos-a-day to catch up on. and sneak peeks to put up. i promise i’ll get there. my apologies if you are waiting on me. once school starts next week, i should get back on track. well, that’s the plan stan.

so, for now i prioritise. sneak peek tomorrow. editing tonight. photo-a-day now.

day 14.
that was our first day of “ho-ye-days” as my boys call it (neither of them can pronounce their l’s. i make them say “lollies” and giggle to myself when they say “yoh-yees”). we met up with friends for a swim. these boys have turned into little fish in the last week alone. sam is still very cautious, but max….well, he’s always been the crazier of the two. sambo only let me get this photo if i let him get back into the pool. so swim he did (or rather, walk around in the water where he could touch). and i got my shot.

day 15.
our weekend at kingscliff. the boys loved being close to the beach, and loved having a pool in “our backyard”. they also loved running back and forth from the pool to the “sparkle” (took me a while to work out what max was talking about with this one!!!).

day 16.
sambo is getting more and more confident around water. i’m glad i didn’t force him into more swimming lessons once it was plain he was terrified. he’s coming around. and i’m sure he’ll learn to swim in his own good time. 12 months ago there is no way he would even get this close to the ocean. it was too big, too noisy, and just way too scary for him. and now look at him!!!

day 17.
home from our holiday. and the novelty of this photo-a-day challenge is starting to wear off. max was literally running from me. time for me to beg, plead, cry or blackmail to get my photos from now on.

day 18.
up to the sunshine coast (yes, we are exhausted!!!). a session took us up there, and as chance would have it, my nephews, and the boys’ much adored cousins are there too so we get to spend the afternoon with them. you can see poor lach’s sunburn…but he bravely played with the boys anyway.

day 19.
my gorgeous eldest boy. and he is gorgeous. or beautiful. it’s probably wrong to describe a boy as being beautiful, but he is. i never thought he would be – he was a fat baby. actually make that FAT baby. obscenely so. if you had’ve told me 4 years ago that he would be tall and skinny and gorgeous, i would have laughed in your face. i know mother’s are meant to think their kids are gorgeous…but i wasn’t silly. i mean, i adored him and thought of him as my gorgeous boy, but i knew he wasn’t actually gorgeous. he was fat, and smiley and happy, and seriously the best baby EVER. but he wasn’t cute.

i had to kind of set up this shot – he’s at that age where he gives fake smiles. (and i hate fake smiles!) he’s a bit complex, my sambo. well, not so much for me – he’s my mini me, right down to his personality. i *get* him, but not everyone does (including his dad!!!). i know what makes him tick, i know how to get him to do something (most of the time). he is headstrong (like me), and cocky (like me) and stubborn (like me) and super dooper, ultra cool (like me.) (ok, not so much with the cool for me). i sometimes feel a little sad for him – everyone loves max straight away. max is a little bit crazy (in a good way) and knows how to make people laugh, and he’s one of those really cheeky kids, but cheeky in a “how on earth do i get mad at you” way. everyone loves max. but sam is a bit more reserved, and it takes you a bit longer to get to know him properly. persevere and you’ll realise how amazing he is. he’s funny, and cheeky, and smart, and determined and brave and he is going to go a long, long way – i just know it. he’s sweet too (most of the time), and i absolutely 100% adore him. and god damn……i just can’t bring myself to cut off that hair! i know it’s wrong to think that his hair defines him, because it most certainly does not. but he just wouldn’t be my sambo without it. it will be a sad day when he does eventually decide he wants it chopped off. i have asked him many a time if he would like short hair, and he always, always says “nah, mum, i like my hair long”. although he has also said that he will chop it off when he turns 6. that’s in 6 months time. fingers crossed he forgets about that.