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Before all of my sessions I ask my families a few questions. I want to get a feel for you, your family dynamic and what’s important to you. When Jamie wrote to me the 1st thing she put was quality time. This made me so happy and excited to get toghether to do exactly that. I believe in qulaity time, I believe giving quality time is one of the most valuable things we can do. I try to give each of my kids quaity one on one time each week but it’s not always easy inbetween work, school, activities and being a family. So I was so happy to have a family in front of my camera enjoying each others time, giving each other space to be themselves and loving on each other.

It was such a pleasure to watch this family unfold infront of me. We walked, danced, played and snuggled. They were all thrilled to be enjoying one anothers company. It was a beautiful enriching moring as they loved on one another creating and documenting these beautiful memories together.

 

It’s not everyday you become a parent.

There is nothing else in life that shifts you as much as becoming a parent either.
Settling into becoming a family is truly an enriching experience, it provokes you reassess your values, it somehow almost immediately illuminates what matters most to you and can set you on a different path than you were previously wondering in this life.

These two, becoming, have embraced changes with an infectious energy, filled with love. Gently easing there way into parenthood without expectation and taking each day, each moment as it comes.

Spening my morning documenting these early days of this little and of life as they now know it was a beautiful experience, seeing the calm but also the nerves, the way they reassured each other and embraced their beautil boy. Day like this make me ever so grateful for this career and spending my time with nurturing and creative souls.

 

Many of us grow up planning our lives, what kind of guy we’ll meet, when we will marry, how many kids and all the other detials in between. Then as we get older life takes us on the journey it has planned for us, completely out of our control and often not how we thought it would be.

Life conditions us, our experiences shape and mould us. We react to things as we have seen others in the past, we set expectations upon others we don’t yet know were only our own and will never come to fruition.

Life for this woman, has been one of uncertainty growing up in a broken family brought feelings of unease, it left a mark in her life experiece, a mark that would change her reactions to many things in the years to come.

When her now husband came along and swept her off her feet, loved her for all she is and lifted her up she did the same for him but the pureness of this love brought feelings of unease, of uncertaint longevity. It brought her both the happiest moments and unease in her life. Did she deserve this?
Would it last? How did life turn out so picture perfect?

Sometimes getting all we ever wanted, feeling completely comfortable and having someone to rely on, to build a life with feels so scary it has you wanting to run and hide, to open your eyes from the dream your living, waiting for the walls to crash. Life shapes us all in such different ways. But it also shows us the power of love, that we deserve more than we could ever dare to ask for. In January Sherryn celebrated her 1 year anniversay with her lover and they have recently welcomed a beautiful baby boy.
Life is more than picture perfect with a suburban home, a dog and a baby and she deserves it all.

 

In December last year I booked in a mentor session with Amy Rushbrook, I have followed and chatted with Amy for a while now, I came across her work and at that time she was local to me so I reached out.
I have watched her work flourish as she opened up, shared her values and her art.

In April along with two other wonderful women we spent a day being mentored by Amy, chatting, asking questions and soul searching. For me this was just the beginning, I haven’t stopped doing all of these things since. I have looked deeper into the work I love of others, I pushed past my comfort zone of well lit rooms and golden hour, to shoot more, grow more and find MY voice.

Now I am seeking more,  I have my drive back, that I had lost for a little while.
There’s a clarity, in why I do what I do and what brought me to photography many years ago.
I am creating more meaningful work, meaningful for me and meaningful for you. As I am sure you have noticed, my work has changed, because I have. We face many things in life and each thing shapes us in ways we aren’t always aware of until later. Having children changed me, going through the highs and lows of a long term relationship has changed me, seeing my son suffer through severe trauma has changed me and guiding another through anxiety has too. Each of these things, some big and some small has impacted me and brought me to where I am today. Hungry for raw, honest, grattitude and connection. Filled with joy and warmth for love and coming undone, an appreciation for openness, of lifes chaos and calm.

If you believe in Honesty, in the value of being present with your loved ones and that the things we should treasure most are moments and people, not things.  Then I am here for you, to see you, hold space for you and create some priceless moments, ones that will fill you up for years to come, that in the hard times will remind you of the connection you share.

 

If you are a personal friend you may find this confusing. All of those close to me know I am honest, sometimes it’s a quality I am not proud of, sometimes I am too much for people.
In my relationship with my husband it’s my only “rule” to be honest in how we are feeling, what we are thinking and where we are heading.
Now it’s time for me to be honest with you. If you have followed my work or been a client you will know I love newborns, they are divine, I have all the time in the world for them. They are the reason I chose this path, to be in the presence of the pure love and joy a newborn brings is a gift – one I am so grateful for. This hasn’t and never will change, I have had this love of newborns, babies and children as long as I can remember. All of my family are in shock I don’t have the 6 kids I always said I would  have.
Currently the way I photograph newborns forgets to be completely transparent. In my studio sessions it’s there, we all chat about the joy, the tears, the good and the bad. We wrap these little beings in soft fabrics, comfort and love it IS all there. However when I get to the computer later on there is this tug, the expectation of prefect skin, prefect poses, of toddlers who sit still and look straight at the camera, when the reality is that most babies have flakey fingers and toes, most toddlers don’t have a lot or any understanding of this new baby in their home, that this ideal of perfection is created under a pressure I take on to create the prefect image, of what you want, not what I perceive.
The reason you don’t see lots of props or distracting things in my work is because I truly believe they are prefect just as they are. They don’t need things to make them “pretty” or “girly”, “manly” or anything like that, they are beautiful. Untainted by the world, pure with no wants just needs, no preconceived ideas or conditioning from their upbringing. Divine in every sense of the word.
I fell in love with photography because it captures a moment, real and true. It tells a story of it’s time, transparent and raw. It shows beauty, from the eye behind the lens and the way the photographer viewed the subject. For me it’s always pure, innocent and with love.
I love people setting the intention of being present, in the moment together soaking up the love shared between one another. So much of our lives are spent in a hurry, at a workplace, in front of a screen. Intentionally setting time to be present fully together, to create joy and share love. This is why I love photography, it shows truth, transparency, emotion and it’s so much more that ever meets the eye.

So I will leave you with me, in my comfy pants minimal make up and a new chapter of more personally meaningful work. I would love to see and capture you, get in contact if your brave enough to show me.