Oh, I’m so excited, you have to check out this gorgeous range of stuff from a local WA producer:

www.aromabals.com.au

It’s not new stuff, Leeanne has been making it for years, but it’s now online and accessible to everyone!  Yes Chels, that means YOU too…every Alaskan needs to try a Wash Rock! 

Amazing all natural products free of chemicals and detergents, and containing delicious essential oils to nourish you body and soul.  Safe for your baby, your kids, and even your dog!  I just love keeping the Wash Rocks in my bathroom for the scent!

Congrats Leeanne, beautiful site, for a beautiful product.

I plan on spending some time at Kings Park this September to catch the attractions at the Wildflower Festival.  It is just such an amazing place with so much to see and so many beautiful views.  I went up today and took some pics of the wildflowers while I could still get a front row seat with my camera. 

Make sure you pick up the latest copy of Cosmo Pregnancy.  We’re featured in it once again.  Or should I say, our clients are!  Never mind that the magazine gave credit to another photographer for OUR images lol.  Images of two of our beautiful bubs are included, along with  interviews with their mum’s discussing life in the first six weeks home. 

Having worked until close to 3am, I was hardly awake when Eli came in this morning.  A few minutes later I heard the distinctive chink of a spoon on a china bowl, and thought perhaps I had better investigate.  I wander out to find him sitting up at the kitchen table, place mat, glass of orange juice, spoon, and eating something smothered in yoghurt.

On closer inspection, I realised the something was stuffed green Spanish Olives - at leas 20 of them…with strawberry yoghurt on top!  I said to him ‘eeew, you don’t eat olives with yoghurt’.  His reply?  ‘You do if it’s Bob the Builder yoghurt mum!’  See, I’ve been wrong all along in trying to assure him the highly expensive miniscule tubs of Bob yoghurt are in fact no different from the much cheaper bulk variety! 

Later he came inside from playing telling me he was cold and was getting changed (his latest thing, to change himself) I came outside later to find him jumping on the trampoline with a striped t-shirt around his waist, worn like a dress.  He put it on because it ‘matched’ his top.  I cracked up and took a couple of pics, but I didn’t realise at the time he really didn’t know it was a t-shirt!  Even the dog is looking at him funny. 

Photography is more than just a job, it’s a hobby, a lifestyle, and, well….an obsession really.  As those cyber-colleagues who sit up with me across the globe every night sharing images and talking shop will understand, it’s a constant learning curve.  There is always some new technology to master, new ideas to explore, new presets to play with, new albums to look at….the list goes on.  And I think most of us generally feel that things like kids, shopping, and even sleep, really get in the way of doing this business, lol.  As part of this ongoing learning I try to attend workshops and seminars where I can, and the latest of these was a workshop on studio lighting this week.  It was fun to get some hands on with other people, see how they do it, look at their approach, and work with a model…poor Amy, who willingly changed into short shorts and a strapless dresses in the middle of winter, and let her hair be blown around by a waving esky lid in the absence of a fan!  Two of my faves from the shoot below:

What a cutie this little girl is, and doesn’t her daddy just know it!  Rightfully so, he is besotted, and the feeling seems entirely mutual.  L was very relaxed and happy during her session….how gorgeous is she?   A sneak peek for you Jon and Kim, and your previews to follow soon. 

Well, I feel very privileged to have been one of the only people who knew the name of this newborn prior to his arrival a few weeks back.  Mum and dad wanted a pic of his name across the belly, so it was a little hard for them to hide it from me. 

So, here is Thomas.  He’s totally adorable.  And suprising!  Mum has long thick jet black hair, which one would one think would assume genetic dominance, but nope, Thomas has a shock of white blonde hair!  No doubt it will go dark, but for now it is very very cute.  F and S, your gallery is on it’s way, and I look forward to your next session when Thomas is a little older.

I first met K and M when their little girl was only a few weeks old.  They returned to the studio with her in tow, now 17 months, and their new baby boy.  As always when a toddler is involved, this session was a little more disrupted, and I have some of those classic shots that I so love of the baby lying screaming while the elder sibling showers them with ‘kindness’ (you know, the odd slightly-too-tight-squeeze-of-the-hand variety) and smiles towards the camera!  I’ve refrained from including them here no matter how much they amuse me, but I have included some in your gallery K, which I will be posting to you shortly!

It’s such a shame I can’t post the majority of my pregnancy images to the web…C is a gorgeous expecting mum, and we got some very classic portraits for her to remember this special time with.  Here’s a sneak peek below C and B, and I look forward to seeing you again in a few weeks.

I have just completed the calendar with available sessions left for Christmas.  To ensure that time is allowed for printing, framing if necessary, stretching of canvas and printing of Christmas cards, the cut off date for Christmas sessions will be November 15th…at the very very latest!

This means, if you want your images back in time for Christmas, you will need to book your session before that date.

Remember that we do gorgeous personalised Christmas Cards, either flat 5×7 postcards that you can write on the reverse, or the standard folded cards.  Production and delivery of these does take time, so if you are considering using images from your session for your Christmas cards, make you session booking sooner rather than later!