Home and Abroad

I was approached a little while ago to capture another family shoot for a gorgeous and loving family. One of the daughters lives O/S in England and was coming over to visit. But wanted to take some family memories home with her to lessen the distance between them. We spent a lovely couple of hours in the Adelaide Botanical Gardens. Everyone loved what we captured and I know the shots on the disc that made it's way O/S are very Treasured. Thanks to Jade and Carly for allowing me into your lives.

Meet Master Logan

This little man was only 10 days on when I got to spend a couple of hours with him.
Such an alert little boy he was too. Made capturing the shots we wanted a challenge. That is why I go into every new shoot with no preconceived ideas on what we are going to achieve.

I also had the pleasure of being Master Logan's Mumy and Daddy's 2nd shoot photographer at their wedding. So have a close bond with this family.

Far and Wide

Another family shoot, just before Christmas, so the discs made great pressies, and the shots were going as far abroad as Singapore.

This family wanted shots done of all the sisters while one was over from Singapore (no she isn't singaporean just resides there).

A Mother, her three daughters (one with hubby), and four grandkids.

The weather was perfect and the location allowed for a couple of different backdrops.

The kids were well behaved and all had a good time. We even roped two local surf life savers into the shoot aswell.

A Mothers Love...

Recently got to capture some fun and loving moments with Lyn and her boys. It was a lovely morning, even dodging the showers. The boys were great fun to work with, and if I ever need boy models I certainly know who to call.

For the Love of the Game

I had the pleasure of capturing a very lovely family in one of the favourite locations last weekend, Alberton Oval, Alberton, South Australia.

Heather, Brenton and their 11 year old twins, Reece and Chloe are big Port Adelaide Magpie fans, so for their family shoot they decided to walk across the road literally to have them done.

Brenton had one a gift voucher I had supplied as a sponsor to one of our local cricket clubs for their quiz night.

Reece was your typical boy, not into smiling and being all mushy, but I did manage to get some lovely shots of him, while Chloe loved the camera and almost seemed a natural.

I had ideas for photos, but like to let the subjects have just as much input. I think this can work well. I think for a freebie shoot we did have lovely time. I did a quick slideshow preview on the back of the camera and they were happy with what I had captured.

Early On

Thought I would blog one of the first shoots I was asked to do. It was a christening, which to me was going to be challenging, for a couple of reasons.

1) It was in part an inside shoot, which I was extremely concerned, I had only really shot outside and 2) the godmother of the little boy being Christened is an extremely accomplished photographer and short film maker. To me there was no greater pressure. Yes, I was extremely nervous.

Beach photos were fine, no dramas, as Mum and Dad had their wedding photos at this particular jetty, they had created their own tradition of having family shots done there every year.

Onto the church, more family shots with extended family, then inside for the ceremony itself. A very pretty little church. I was nervous about shooting inside, as I didnt want to set the camera to auto, and have the flash going off left, right and centre. So I found myself with a mixture of shots and I did use the flash on occassions. All the while wondering what others where thinking.

I wasn't unhappy with what I acheived that day, but do look at every session as a learning curve. I think we need take something from every session that we shoot, to improve.

My Interstate Escape

Last week my two gorgeous kids and I jumped on a plane headed for Canberra, to catch up with my Brother, Sister in Law and my Nephews, their cousins. We were there for 4 and a half days.

We had the house and the first two days to ourselves, before the weekend, which we got to spend all together.

I had no real plans, except to try and see Floriade and of course take plenty of pics of the kids. Well I definetely succeeded with the later.

Got to see Floriade, but sadly not the chance to take pics. Bit hard wrangling two kids and stroller, and everything else associated when travelling with kids, oh and of course the camera bag.

It was a lovely break away from home, although extremely tiring. But the kids had the best time. We don't get to see my family very often, so like to make to the most of it when we can.

Happy Birthday Miss Yasmin

Happy Birthday Miss Yasmin.

Sunday I was invited to capture a special little girls 1st Birthday. I was booked as a gift to Yasmin's Mum to capture her precious little girls special day.

Was booked to start at 2:30/3:00pm, but the birthday girl decided she was going to have a nap, which being a mother of two myself I fully understood. I arrived about 4pm, to find most guests had arrived and a very happy little birthday girl.

There were soo many photos I could have added here, but we would be here all day loading them. So I chose just a few to show off. Mum had a look at the shots off the back of the camera, and loved them. Wait til she sees them in big size on her monitor and a handful enlarge.

Thanks you Nicolette for letting me be a part of Yasmin's 1st Birthday, and thank you April, for having faith in my work for wanting to book me.

Beachside Fun

Think I should have called this beach challenge and where I should have heeded the old adage of never work with children or animals, but I am sure Master Jacob had fun while I was trying to get the shots we wanted. The goal of the day was to get some family shots for to a) put up on the wall and b) to get printed framed and given to family as christas gifts.

We made the shoot late in the day, giving Jacob time to attend to his social calendar in the morning and also get a nap in during the afternoon, in hoping that he would be fresh and ready to go, not grumpy.

Well he wasn't grumpy, but being a toddler wasn't going to listen to anyone let alone let be get the shots that Mum had requested. So I improvised following him around (trying to keep up) with camera and snapping away.

We did manage to get a few mother/son shots, and also father/son shots, nothing like I had envisioned in my head, so was a little disappointed, but I still think I got some lovely natural shots.