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....

Boys at the beach

Just in case it seems that all I ever photograph are girls doing girly business (look out for the tea party on the fairy mushroom table coming soon)....here are two totally gorgeous boys (okay, in the last one my girls snuck in there somehow)...

My mermaid

Well, at what point does it seem that my daughter has become my muse...this delicate creature whom I am only just getting to know? She is nearly 6, is so incredibly wise, and serious, and precious and intense. I adore her, and am more besotted by her daily, and take back all the things I said about her when she was 3.
Gosh we had some fun on this holiday, and I am certainly having some fun with the post processing of these images. I have so many I could post, but I will try to restrain myself where I can :-)

Summer Holiday

So, of course I have lots of the usual 'Hey, honey, lets put on this frou-frou-skirt and go play on the rocks at sunset" type nonsense photography. And then, I have these... A torturously extracted (don't know if that makes sense in English, but anyway) group portrait of my three delicious little peanuts, and three fun candids. Hope you've had as good a 10 days as I have :-)

Sneak Peek - Baby G

Thank you so much Baby G for spending last Saturday morning with me, and thank you also to your lovely parents and divine big sisters. I hope you like your photos, and please tell your sisters that I look forward to photographing them in those pettiskirts when the weather is a bit warmer! Lots of Love....

I just had to...

include these images from Baby R's session! P and J I promise the proofs are coming soon :-), but in the meantime, enjoy these!