Miss Amelia

It has officially been a long time since I blogged. My apologies. I hope this beautiful family make up for the distance. They are all beautiful inside and out. It has been a delight to photograph them from marriage to burgeoning family. All so in love with each other it is quite infectious.

Nat X

"she is quite heavy"

Happiness

I asked my Facebook followers on Friday if I could take a photo for them this weekend what would they like to see. Some of the responses I could not fulfil unfortunately.


However, Blythe said "happiness" and it got me thinking. My weekends are normally spent running around and the question of what happiness is, was at first quite hard. My mind wandered to travel, sleep, a coffee, relaxation amongst others. All of this was gone as I wanted to see people that I hadn't for a while.


My first destination was dinner on Friday night and I won't share the photo for fear of retribution ;) but I must say that the happiness that the parents show looking at their new baby is quite wonderful.


My second visit was to my best friends house where happiness became abundantly obvious in the form of three little girls.

Relationships and sharing our lives I think make us happy. Given, they can also bring other emotions but it was clear from my friends little girl that the simplicity of dressing up and playing with friends was bringing her happiness.


Seeing the world through young and old peoples eyes is quite simple really, it brings us back to basics. I went to visit my Grandfather today and wondered what makes him happy. He likes structure, organisation and to know that everyone in his family is happy. He keeps a calendar and can probably tell us all what we are, were or want to do at any given time when we forget in the business of life. The calendar is good for him as he has something to look forward to and is generally always happy to see us.

Last destination was lunch at my fathers house and shadow the little jack russell always appreciates a pat and hug, that is happiness for him :) he repays me in kisses..very cute.

I do hope you feel the happiness I felt as I spent my weekend with close friends and family.

Mama Grace and her Boys

Some years ago I met Grace and Ewan at a mutual friends 40th birthday. Since then we have only seen each other on the internet. In the past months I have been avidly following Grace's blog "Musings of Mama Grace" where she eloquently talks about daily life as a mum to gorgeous twin boys. You may ask yourself why a single girl like me would follow a blog about kiddies, simply put, Grace writes so well that I can relate to something I have not experienced yet.

A little while back she contacted me to take some photos of the brood and I jumped, very excited about getting to see her again and head over to the Eastern Suburbs for some fun and to meet this family I felt quite close to but had not met.

The morning started out with some bottles for the boys, a coffee for me and even toast on arrival. Talk about feeling at home in an instant!

So here is a preview of this wonderful fun family. I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed my morning taking them, Nat.

The Family

When my sister asked me to take photos of my nieces and nephews for Christmas I jumped at the chance. A stunning family of photogenic children, who wouldn't? Oh they are cute, but I am bias of course.  Well, the catch is that they are not the most amiable in front of a lens, for some unknown reason they are not like the rest of their generation and don't get into it..at all..unless they are pulling faces and crack themselves up. Needless to say, this is not what the family want on the wall for years to come.

Prior to the shoot we had a lovely Christmas lunch at the Hyatt. Kids well fed, tick...but the kicker was bribing the poor babies with no Christmas presents unless they comply with photographer and take some nice shots (of course this was not my bribe, my sister) I was slightly compassionate to their plight and promised to make it quick and painless....

Aunty Nat

Crazy Kids...

Now children, didn't anyone tell you if the wind changed you would be in trouble? 

Best part is they did this by themselves...lol

Baby Love - Finn O'Keefe

Today I went to meet the newest addition to the O'Keefe family, little man Finn. What a gorgeous wee one, you wouldn't expect less with such beautiful parents. Not altogether happy with his session, there were more "no paparazzi" moments than less, but we did manage to get a couple of lovely shots of the family.

Hall Family

Today I had the pleasure of shooting the newest addition to the Hall family, Mia.

Unfortunately the whole family were sick, but rather than cancel we went ahead. I don't take a lot of baby photos but I do enjoy it when I get the chance. It is definitely not for the faint hearted, you would not want to be precious..I was urinated on, thrown up on and coughed on. I would not trade that for anything as the little ones are so sweet. I only wished Mia had of been able to sleep poor thing.

Comment of the day came from big sister Charli when we were in the bedroom and I quote a 4 year old here, "So, are we going to get this show on the road?" simply gorgeous!

I think you will all agree that this is one beautiful family. Enjoy! Nat

With very proud big sister Charli...