tutu shoot round two

I set this post to come up while I am overseas to give y'all something groovy to look at while i'm gone! Bree was most impressed when I told her my choice of locations for our shoot. An old toilet block and a roof top car park. Ha ha! She looks amazing and did a fantastic job with all my crazy props and ideas.

These bottom ones are trying some new techniques with off camera flash. I love learning new stuff.

jazmin { part one }

Jazmin was a great model for this artists choice shoot. I wanted to do something with a formal dress, gorgeous shoes and kind a fashion style shoot.

With the formal season about to start, we thought this was a great idea. Instead of doing something in the studio, do something glamorous on location. Get glammed up, frocked up, made up, whatever you like, and do a shoot to celebrate not just your formal, but this time in your life.

break down

I am sitting in a rather dodgy internet place in Peru after spending the past two and a half hours trying to get my email and web site back up, and failing. So sorry folks but the web site and email will be down till further notice. Its kind of hard to fix it from here... but i'm working on it!

travels

hello from peru! we have travelled through ecuador and this is our first day in peru, we are on the beach drinking fresh squeezed juice and waiting for lunch to arrive. I was thinking of uploading some pics but the internet here is painfully slow so will just have to wait for that another time. A huge bus ride today and in a couple of days we will be trekking Machu Pichu. which i am very nervous about.

teagan

Teagan was part of a shoot we did to celebrate a birthday. I split the post up into seperate ones, cause they were just too good to have all in one post.

butterflies

It's hit home. Tomorrow I leave to go to South America. Finally the excitement kicks in! Everyone has been asking me if i'm excited, but all i've been thinking about is getting all the work done before i go. I got almost all done, but a few things will have to wait till i get back. I am now officially finished and heading out in the morning. Woo hoo! I did some cleaning today and put the music on full ball and danced like a crazy woman around the lounge room. This time tomorrow I will be driving to Sydney, and this time on Saturday i will be several thousand feet above the ground ( and trying not to think how many feet above the ground it really is ) and wondering how i am going to stay sane on a plane for 24 hours...

the countdown

Sooooo.... today is my last official day at work before i jet off to South America. The bookings have been coming thick and fast for when i get back and July is now booked out and we are taking bookings for August already. ( With the exception being for newborns, which we will find some space for somewhere! They are only newborn for such a little bit. )

Janice will be here starting Monday, checking email and taking appointments, but she wont be here all the time so you will need to make an appointment if you would like to pick prints up. I have HUGE to-do list for today, so wish me luck getting all that done!

murray

Maybe it was the hot chocolate that set the mood, or our fabulous rendition of "Wheels on the Bus" but Murray seemed to have a ball getting his photo taken. I tried to get a shot of him walking around the studio with his beanie on, but every time i tried to get his attention he would come running over, grab me around the middle for a cuddle and then run off again. Made it hard to get a shot, but he won me over in about three seconds. He certainly knows how to work the girls!

Murray could also do all the animal noises. I think this one was "what noise does a tiger make?"

layla

When I first saw Layla peeking up at me with those big blue eyes I knew i had to photograph her. Lucky for me her Mum had gotten a gift voucher so she came in armed with tutus, balloons and cupcakes. All my favourites! Although I think we were more impressed with the cupcakes than Layla was.

( And the pink hat is a marshmellow hat from the MILK collection )

oscar and archie

This was the second time I shot this family, because they are about to have a new addition very soon! Little Archie wasnt even walking last time I shot him, but this time he was running around showing me his belly so i could blow raspberries on him. Which makes it kind of hard to photograph him! Eventually I got Oscar to lay on him and hold him down.

sophia { seven days old }

Sophia Bella came to visit me when she was a bump in mummys tummy, and i squeezed her newborn shoot in before my trip away. How could i resist? Little squishy newborns. Sooooo sweet. And another apperance with an elf hat from the MILK collection ( mother-in-law knitted ) and then the little white hat was Sophia's mums when she was a baby.

harry

Beautifully simple with a blue background and then a cute cardigan for a hit of colour.

Isnt he gorgeous?

indi { one year old }

If there was a style competition, Indi would win. This girl has the coolest outfits. Every time she comes for her shoot I am like a kid in a candy store. Silver boots, wings, tutus, huggalugs, pink converse shoes... I love it all!

Indi was so smiley on this day! I kept waiting for her to stop and say 'enough' but she just kept giggling at me. Shes such a sweetie! I got some gorgeous shots of the family on location but am gonna save them for another post.

hugo { seventeen months old }

I shot Hugo's mum and dad's wedding a couple of years ago. I love it when my wedding clients come back so i can meet the new member of the family! Hugo was a super trooper for our shoot and looks so sweet in his stripey jim jammies. Just makes me want to snuggle.