Gorgeous little boy/goy twins from a recent photography session. Please got our facebook page and in the June album you will find more images from this session.
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Twin Newborn Photographer {Melbourne Photographer}
Tuesday, June 18th, 2013Pregnancy and Newborn photography Package – {Melbourne Photographer}
Thursday, June 13th, 2013Are you currently pregnant and thinking of getting some beautiful portraits captured? Contact us to book in your pregnancy session during June or July 2013 and get a COMPLIMENTARY newborn photography session! That’s right, just the one session fee covers both sessions! We’ve also got some great new pregnancy packages available!
Here is a recent image from one of our newborn photo sessions. To see more from this session and other recent sessions please visit our facebook page.
Mother’s Day Mini Sessions 2013 {Melbourne Family Photographer}
Thursday, March 28th, 2013
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How will your children remember you?
Tuesday, March 26th, 2013Mother’s day is nearing us again. It’s a time I think of many things, but mostly of my own mother who passed away in August of 2004. My children were 5, 2 and 5 months at the time, my youngest of course was not born yet.
My mother hated her photograph being taken, she avoided it. That saddens me today because whilst I have many memories in my head of her there are also many many things I can not remember. I have no photographs of me with my mother under the age of 18 months and then from 2 -30 yrs of age I have only a small handful. I worry, that over time my memories of her will fade.
I’m only able to show my children, her grand children, a small amount of photos of her from her life. We treasure those images greatly…. But there should be a lot more I can share with them.
I too, despise my photo being taken. Over the years since I’ve had children I put off getting a professional session done. I had every excuse needed in my mind…. I was going to lose weight, I was going to get my hair coloured, I looked too old, I felt too tired, I didn’t have enough money, there was never enough time…. Etc etc…
If the camera came out at parties, at home, with family I tended to duck away (like mother like daughter) or stand behind others or point blank refuse!
So how will my children remember me? How will their children know me? How will future generations get to see me? They won’t if I continued to hide.
Over the past 4 years I have had 2 professional sessions done. I LOVE the images in them. It’s me and my children. Am I perfect looking? NO. Did I lose weight first? NO. Did I have lots of disposable spare money? NO. I just decided it was important. And I did it.
When I look back at photographs of my mother and my grandmothers I never ever look them and think ‘Gee she was fat there’ ‘oh gosh you were grey’ ‘ Gosh how old do you look’. Those and any other negative emotions never ever enter my mind.
When I look back at photographs of my mother and my grandmothers I smile. I look for resemblances with myself, my siblings and my children. I wonder what they were like at that point in their life. What sort of things did they enjoy doing? How happy they looked. I look at the hair do’s and the fashion, it shows me a lot about the era and time the images were taken. I see them with their families and their friends enjoying life. And it makes me smile.
Our children don’t look at photos of us and think ‘gee mum you were fat/ugly/old (insert any other negative here)’ All they see is their mum. Someone who they love. Someone who makes them smile. Someone who loves them.
So I encourage you, don’t hide from the camera. Stop hiding behind it. Get in front of it. Let your kids snap your photo. Book a session with a professional photographer, jump in photos at get togethers and on family outings. Capture the every day. Because one day you won’t be here and your children deserve photographs to remember you by, your grand children deserve it and your grand children’s children deserve it!
You are who you are. Right now. And that is more than ok.
That’s me, with my mum and my grandmother.
Family Portrait Photography {Mt Waverley}
Wednesday, March 6th, 2013People often ask me ‘what age is the best age to get my babies professional portraits done?’ If you haven’t had portraits captured professionally before, my answer is usually ‘right now’.
We do have some suggestions for recommended ages to be photographed.
We begin with pregnancy photography , which we recommend photographing maternity sessions at around 32-36 weeks of pregnancy. This way you’ve got a nice bump but you hopefully are not too tired or feeling too bloated yet (and helps to capture those babies who are in a hurry to enter the world early!)
Next of course is the newborn photography session. This we recommend for as soon as you feel up to it. The advantage of us coming to your home to capture your images is you don’t have to stress about packing up everything and getting out the door with a new baby. We recommend photographing newborn babies at roughly 5-21 days of age. Most of our newborn clients book in for their photo shoot when they are still pregnant. We are then always flexible with moving dates if your baby arrives early or decides its too comfy inside to come out on time.
After newborn, the next step is baby photography, capturing your little baby between 5 and 8 months is ideal. At these ages we get to capture fabulous smiles and expressions. We photograph them playing with their toes, sitting and clapping, cuddling mum and dad and ofcourse much more. At 5-8 months we can photograph in your home or we can photograph outdoors or better still we can do a combination of both.
Then we have the next stage in baby photography. The 10 month to 18 month stage. This is the time where you child is pulling themselves up onto things, crawling and walking. Playing and laughing. Holding hands with mum and dad. The world has become a place they like to explore so we love to get outdoors for these photo sessions.
If your child is outside of any of these ages you can still have beautiful baby portraits captured of them. If you are not sure give us a call at the studio 9568 1441 and we can help you out.
Now to share a sweet little 11 month old we photographed recently. To view more images from this recent photo session please visit the February album on my Facebook page
