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    Thanks for visiting the Figments Photography blog.  I'm Janine, a professional photographer located in Perth, Western Australia.  I work both on location, and from my studio based just out of Fremantle, offering wedding photography, along with a maternity and newborn specialty. I know, what can I say, seems a wierd combination, but I like beginnings...and being closely involved with people at pivotal and emotional times of their lives. I see the best of their lives, I see the important stuff, and I try to capture that honestly, emotionally, and with heart.

    Use the links above to go to either my portrait or weddings sites, or browse through the posts for studio updates and news and latest session sneak peeks. And don't forget to leave a comment and let me know you've stopped by!  You are the people that make this job so special, and enrich my life on a daily basis :)

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Beautiful Bali | Perth wedding and portrait photographer

Well, so much for being caught up on work and not having too much to do.  It’s taken me a week to get back to this post.

Bali was, quite simply, lovely.  I can see why so many Australians flock there, and I have to confess I was pleasantly suprised.  Yes, at times it caters so well to the Australian tourists you forget you are overseas, but the Balinese are so beautiful and warm, and it is such a fantastic place for kids.

The trip began with me checking the Air Asia website three hours before flying to see if I was able to book food on the plane.  While I was there, I printed out my ticket and briefly considered if I should risk taking my passport as photo ID, or just my driver’s license.  Then suddenly it twigged…PASSPORT!!!!!  OMG, despite being totally organised and completely packed, I’d given NO thought to our passports.  Luckily they were up to date and I simply had to grab them, but what a goose, I nearly didn’t even think of them.  Not that it mattered as it turned out, our flight was delayed by 2 hours and there was ample time to go home and get them if need be:(

Eli hasn’t flown since he was 2, so this one was exciting for him.  He was full of questions like, ‘Mum, if the clouds make rain, then where is it all?  We just drove through them and it’s raining in Perth, and the plane isn’t wet” – which wore thin pretty quickly I can tell you!  We arrived at The Breezes Bali to cool fruit juice and smiling faces, and it was just the perfect way to ease into our holiday.  The other family were already there, enjoying the resort, and the kids wasted no time at all getting into the pool.   I’ve never seen Eli have so much fun.  He had a grin that split his face from ear to ear every day.  He adores his cousins, Ellie and Jaime, so just to have them to himself for 10 days was heaven for him, but the other two boys who came along, Harry and Alex, were gorgeous also, and they all really hit it off.  He was exhausted mostly, just trying to keep up with them all, but he soldiered on.   On two nights we let the kids go across to the restaurant by themselves and it was so cool to see them, all grown up, ordering from the menu and sipping their mocktails by candlelight (btw, we WERE just across the pool watching…they weren’t totally unsupervised!)

The resort was fantastic for kids.  While it didn’t have a kids club as such, it was very kid friendly, and every day the kids had activities they could take part in, from feeding the fish, to watermelon eating competitions, to making Balinese decorations for the Balinese dancing that evening.  When we weren’t lounging around the resort, we were off to Waterbom Park, the Bird Park, Safari Park or a day trip to Kuta or Ubud, and when we weren’t doing any of that, we’d try to sneak out for a massage, or a spot of shopping around Seminyak.

All in all, it was perfect, and as much as I love my job, and my life in Freo, I’d kill for another two weeks of that Bali heaven:)

Bali 2010

Home again!

Just a quick post today….we’re home from Bali having lost an iphone but gained a few kilos  (oh how I wish that were the other way around!)  We’ve had a fabbo time, particularly the kids.  The resort was just made for them, and Eli is totally exhausted after keeping up with much older kids for 10 days.

And, the best thing of all, we are pretty much caught up workwise!!  So, to celebrate, we are offering free sessions!  Yep, seriously, no session fee for any sessions booked before the end of July…regardless of when you hold your session!  Combine that with our special on session albums, and you can actually score yourself the session, and a gorgeous, matted, archival quality album of 20 5×7 enlargements, all for just $700!

Check out the full details here.

I’ll be back later with some Bali images, and studio updates:)

My super assitant

I rarely take Eli to the studio but I had a few deliveries to take there today in order to finalise client orders before I go on leave.  Maybe it was the Superman costume, but for a change, not only was he happy to be there, he also helped, then willingly posed for a couple of snaps!  I grab them where I can these days:)

“Photo baby” | baby and child photographer perth

This photo was recently sent in to my by a client.  I photographed this gorgeous girl, Lily, when she was a few months old, and recently photographed her baby sister Indy.  Lily took a liking to our studio ‘dolly’, so much so, that she really didn’t want to give her up when she left.  Seeing what a gorgeous and deserving little mother she is, I decided studio dolly was better off in her capable hands than buried in the bottom of our toy box, so she found a new home with Lily.  Her mother tells me she loves her dollies, and seems to have one for every occasion!  Here she is giving ‘photo dolly’ some breakfast!  She’s adorable isn’t she?  Thanks for sending in the photo Vickie, keep me posted on the girls as they get bigger, and thank Lily for taking such good care of our baby:)

Dream baby | newborn baby photographer Perth

I met Janine and Joey to do their pregnancy session, and a few weeks later they arrived back in studio with this beautiful baby girl.  I’m told she has her moments in the evening, but seriously, there was no sign of it during her session, she seemed the most placid, adorable thing.  She was quite happy snoozing while we curled her up, wrapped her up, put her in prams/blankets/nappy covers/baskets, all without a protest.  Dream baby!

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