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Sara In The Studio

October 24, 2019

Ooooohhh, show me a baby with a full head of hair and I’ll show you a mum that is constantly asked about heartburn during pregnancy! 😉

Maybe it’s because my youngest had #allthehair that I have a soft spot for hairy newborns, I’m not sure. There’s just something so endearing about a mini human with a dark mop, and the temptation to run your fingers through it, is a difficult urge to ignore.

Lucky baby Sara had it in spades, along with the longest eyelashes. She recently dropped into the studio for a Pure Newborn Session and these are just a few of the images we captured during her time in front of the camera.

Welcoming Celeste

October 17, 2019

When Celeste visited the studio for her newborn shoot, she was joined not only by her parents and big sister, but the two family dogs as well. In all my years of shooting, this was the first time I’ve ever been asked to incorporate fur babies into a session and I have to admit, I did question how it successful it would be. I mean, they do say never to work with animals and children, right? Sometimes it’s an epic feat just to get a toddler to sit still – how on earth was I meant to micro-manage a toddler AND her canine companions?

It turns out the dogs are the extremely suspicious type and they barely took their eyes off me – they certainly weren’t shy in letting me know they didn’t consider me in their circle of trust! However, the massive shade they were throwing my way completely worked to our advantage and in the end, we were able to get a great family shot!

Here’s a few of the images we took during their session – including one with my new doggy friends 😉

Emme & Ivy

October 11, 2019

When you’re a photographer, people always assume you spend your time outside of work creating amazing images of your own children, but the reality couldn’t be further from the truth. After a day of capturing other people’s families and hours spent in front of a computer screen editing and answering emails, picking up a camera to chase my own children is the farthest thing from my mind. So it’s usually during the school holidays when we don’t have to worry about early daycare or school drop-offs and extra curricular activities, special school events or weekend sports – when pyjama days are the norm, not the exception – that I usually try to capture the girls together at least once. Not really doing anything in particular, just them being them. It’s never planned or thought out, and it’s typically during a minute window of time when they’re unusually happy for me to stalk them from behind the lens.

With a 6 year age gap, they’re so very different, but the mutual love and genuine adoration they have for the other, gives me all the feels.

Oh Wait! On to Plan B…

September 30, 2019

When you plan to go to a familiar location but arrive to find the areas you usually inhabit rendered unusable, a minor internal freakout usually ensues, and such was the case when Tash and I arrived on location for her session only to discover hundreds of newly planted trees and lots of hideously bright green plastic. With Tash and her young daughters having just travelled all the way from Colac for their session, the timing wasn’t ideal.

Luckily, this isn’t my first rodeo and after a quick recon of the surrounding area, I quickly discovered some fantastic hidden gems I’d never have noticed had I not been forced out of my comfort zone. With the overgrown greenery and pretty natives, I can actually see this location becoming a new favourite Spring hang!

It’s been exactly 12 months since their last session and the tiny one has done some pretty serious growing during that time. Bailee’s morphed from a sleepy babe into a toothy toddler and she’ll soon be giving her big sister, Layla, a run for her money!

I hope you enjoy looking through these images as much as I enjoyed taking them,