While I am cheating...

I was just making a CD up for a friend, from images taken in June (moving with the speed of several startled turtles, I know) and couldn't resist posting this... a picture of the extremely talented Miss C, (among other things - Cello player extraordinaire), who shortly after this cut all her hair off an inch from her skull, as you do one quiet evening with nothing better to do....I do hope her parents enjoy this little reminder of her hair :-)

Another cheaty little mini-post

Real posts coming soon, as soon as I have mastered the art of Quicken (I would not have made a very good accountant, so is lucky I married one)....(or maybe unlucky, come to think of it....). Anyway, here is the Arch-meister cuddling on the beach with the aformentioned accountant.

P.S I have given up the struggle with customising blogspot templates ....BUT the good news is (as my little Miss M is fond of saying) a new blog/website AND logo (I lurrvvv it) are all coming soon. And by soon, I mean, when they are done :-)

I must not get distracted, I must not get....

But just playing with one image from Prue's Maternity shoot wouldn't hurt, would it? Hardly any editing at all required? Really only wasting 5 mins.....Anyway, it's not my fault I have no self control; with light like this, how could a girl with a camera resist....

Spinning around...

There has been no time at lately over here for anything, certainly not the luxury of blog updates. So, for the benefit of all you lurkers out there who are fond of telling me at functions that you love my blog but you NEVER leave me a comment :-), here are a couple of storyboard samples that were done up for a client, so you know I am still actually working over here. See if you can guess which one they chose.
And anyone thinking about a session before Christmas, I have just decided that before my young children forget what I look like, and only recognise me by the 'shhhh, mummy's busy' noises emanating from the study, I have decided to only take on one more booking before that magical date (this, of course, does not include existing bookings for that period). And please note that there are only limited weekend dates/times available (weekdays ar emuch more flexible).
HOWEVER, I am still booking all sorts of Portfolio building exercises in the coming months, so be sure to check the blog for those images, including the second instalment featuring my gorgeous sister Prue, which was shot on Friday evening and is, might I say, pretty darn marvellous. If you are curious, go here for a sneak peek from my good friend Jessie Broome, of J-Studios who came out with us and shared the afternoon light....Keep well.

One Big Family

Presenting an absolutely delightful extended family (the cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents of the adorable Baby A featured last week) who spent rather a long time with me in a local park the weekend before last. I am so sorry you've had to wait this long for your preview, but as you can see, we have rather a lot of images on our hands. Despite tricky lighting situations, and some rather self-conscious 'young adults', I think we still managed some great images. Here are some of my favourites, and I have made sure to include everyone at least once (I have kept these images small because there are so many of them)!! And thanks again for a lovely day with a truly lovely bunch of people.

Urban Maternity Session - my lil sis

Well I am so excited about these images that they are going up literally 3 hours after we had the shoot. This was a portfoliobuilding shoot of my youngest sister, who is 33 weeks pregnant with her 2nd child - yes, we should all look so good (really, it would be totally impossible to take a bad photo of her)! Because she has kindly agreed to a couple of different maternity shoots, each with a different flavour; the aim here was for an urban, grungy look. Something a bit different, and lots of fun.
Coming soon will be a more traditional indoor soft-light shoot, and a stark naked shoot at the beach. Ok, only joking. Maybe half-naked.

Baby A - Sneak Peek

Now, according to those in the child portrait photography business, 8 weeks is a tough age to do so-called 'newborn' photographs. Babes can be colicky, are a bit more tied to their routine, can fuss a little more about all the manoevring. AND most crucially, will not just nod off any old place as long as the heating is cranked up to 28degrees, and let you squish them up into a ball. So, Baby A's shoot should have been terrible!! But looking at her, you'd have to agree she is totally divine, none of the above was at all true! And she did fall asleep just before the end of the shoot, but unfortunately we all had somewhere else to be and so there was no time to whip her clothes back off and start squishing. Thanks so much mum and dad, I do hope you like your sneak peek, and the rest of the extended family images are coming soon....