Summer is sitting beneath the portrait of our girls that I gave Jesse for Father’s Day this morning (click the slide show link below to see a better view of the actual image).

A last minute call to the framers regarding a portrait of the girls on our bed may be a developing theme for Father’s Day. You may recall this image from two years ago, which was even more last minute than this one. This time I managed to take the photo a week in advance – but it was still a mad dash to the framer.

For those that are interested this is a 12″x18″ print I have framed, which is not a bad size for a wall print, and works really well over a mantle, but as you can see it really is a bit small for over a bed. It’s really worth thinking about the size of the wall and the furniture a portrait will hang over and choosing the right size print. In time I think I will put is side by side with the print from two years ago, but for now this was the easiest place to get it straight onto the wall. If this was the final resting place for this print I would have chosen a 20″x30″ print, matted up to approximately 30″x40″ once framed, or a 30″x40″ canvas.

I know that I mention all the time how I love capturing newborns. Well the longer I do this the more I realise I love telling a family’s whole story – the maternity session as they are waiting for their first baby. The newborn session. That baby sitting up and smiling. And eventually the waiting for the next baby a few years later!

The whole journey of building a family is so precious, and kids love to look back and see their own story in pictures – again and again and again. I think I have mentioned before, that all I have are some pretty dreadful snaps in the case of my own first pregnancy eight years ago – so I know first hand how painful it is to look at bad snap shots of yourself heavily pregnant on a regular basis. Where as I have beautiful portraits of my second and third pregnancies.

Which is why it always makes me so happy to think how lovely it will be to sit and look through an album with a child and show them such beautiful memories of their parents “before”. And these two parents-to-be could not be more in love if they tried. They were so sweet and gentle and kind to each other every moment of our meander around their neighbourhood. I can’t wait to meet the little one that is growing “in there” as my girls like to say.

My last baby is growing up. And that means she is growing out of my favourite baby outfits. So sad. I knit this hat and cardigan for Grace four years ago and I have made sure to put Summer in it often. I was determined to get a portrait of her wearing it before it got too small.

Thanks so much for your patience guys – my replacement computer finally I arrived and I am making my way through all my editing as fast as I can!

Welcome to the world sweet baby girl, you are surrounded by love.

I have been without a computer for over two weeks, so this blog post is long over due and there will be a few more hot on it’s tail, including a sneak peak from the newborn shoot for this beautiful family.

Well here he is now, very grown up indeed and a very loving big brother to the sweetest little baby girl – who absolutely did NOT want to curl up for me, but would sleep through almost anything swaddled up with her legs out dead straight. This beautiful little girl was the first breech baby I have captured and she taught me a thing or two about how breech babies like to bend – or not, as the case may be. But we worked with that and captured some beautiful images of her and her doting family.

Being an accredited member of the peak professional body for Australian photographers has always been very important to me and is something I am very proud to have achieved.

Likewise, having my work peer reviewed through entering the AIPP Australian Professional Photography Awards, at both state and national levels, is an important part of my professional development. I am delighted to have won a number of Silver awards in the two years I have been an AIPP member and am looking forward to entering the national competition as a full member this year.