Maria - Newborn Art session

Another newborn session and what a lovely little sleepy girl Maria was. She did wake briefly a couple of times - but was so placid and asleep again quite quickly. Don't you love all that hair!
It was a pleasure to photograph this darling little girl. Her big brothers were great in the "helping" department too and very interested in my car's auto side-mirrors!

Lovely to meet you all and look forward to seeing you all again.

Floyd

Floyd - what a lovely little fella - the youngest of three boys (Floyd was thought to be a girl until his arrival!). I had a blast at the photo session, Floyd was great, with gorgeous eyelashes and blue eyes - mostly wakeful as he was nearly 2 months old:). His older brothers played "assistants" for me at times, drew me pictures and were a great helping, carrying in the gear and props!

It was a very cool day, had fun and a beautiful drive to Pukekawa - high up on the hill overlooking the Waikato river.

Happy Anniversary to Us and New look Website

A busy week and weekend, between house sitting (or rather Max sitting) while Ash was holidaying at the Fafa' resort in Tonga with Chris, I was catching up on processing, driving to photo sessions, lugging heavy gear, shooting , driving again, shooting again .. (Gee, I feel tired just thinking about it).

Then more processing, backing up files and much uploading of resized images to our new look website which has now gone live.
For those of you who will have a look (I know, I just tend to go to the blog too :) ) - it will take a wee while to load the first time - due to the number of larger images, but don't those images look so much better now on the big screen.

There is the option to go full screen the website - by clicking the little icon at the lower right hand side - it's an oblong with a square in it.
The client galleries now have a direct link in there too - which is good as it shows a thumbnail and not just a name on the page. I have also kept a link to some of the older galleries, with wedding photos taken at a few different wedding venues.
Nothing quite like copy and paste... plus a bit of html tweaking here and there...
A celebration also - as it is 10 years since the start of our company and photography business.

Glad to be home after a week of the "Vista" laptop... but I will miss that large flat screen TV and recording and watching MySky... and of course now I am back to sharing the remote...(well almost)..
Being back home in the old bungalow, where our large country garden, which is quite stunning at the moment, is rather nice too - as she is "peaking" :) That is where I like to be - - when I am not here....

Jake - newborn - aged 10 days

Jake's newborn session was fun -and we held it in his lovely newly decorated bedroom. He did sleep for a wee bit - until all the moving around got a bit much for him - and then we were wide awake again. But I got the chance to try out the new blue baby pod I knitted for his session! Many thanks to Kirstin and Mike for the opportunity to photograph their precious wee son . See you all again:)

Veezohn - newborn session

Lovely Veezhon - a gorgeous newborn boy who wanted to be awake most of the time during our photo session- but that gave us a chance to do some great shots with his Dad:) His shoulders were adorable and his calm nature shone through the images. By the time I had unloaded all my gear at his parents home - there looked to be a huge party going on - but luckily it was quick to clear away...Amazing really that so much stuff can fit into my car - the small hot red filly.. The joys of being a roving, natural light photographer - meeting such lovely families and beautiful babies.

Kelly and John a Wedding celebration at Castaways

Kelly and John recently celebrated their wedding at Castaways - Karioitahi. The day brought another rather arctic blast from the South-east and fingers were crossed all week for a rain free day. We were fairly well rewarded, as there had only been a light drizzle in the morning. After the getting ready shots in the lovely Chalets above Karioitahi beach, we headed down to a "mostly" sheltered part of Karioitahi beach with Kelly, John, bestman Paul and bridesmaid Ann. The surf however,was pretty fierce looking! The wind grew stonger into the photo session - so rather than freezing - we headed off to a hidden country road, amongest the hills, where there is shelter all around. One of the great points about living local - we have a few of these "wind free" zones up our sleeves!

Before long it was back to the west coast for the ceremony and reception. We had a great time and met some lovely guests. Natasha, Emily and Rhys, were such great kids and the girls did so well in their flower-girls roles, wearing some very cool jewellery made for them by their talented Mum. They were also pretty darn good in the jumping department - although Rhys I think managed to get his four year old legs slightly higher off the ground! We returned later in the night for the sunset shot, cake cutting and first dance....another benefit of being local:) The staff at Castaways were, as always, in top form and it was a pleasure to photograph in such a professional and outstanding venue.

The stunning flowers were by Katrina of Flowers by Katrina - who I met for the first time, such a nice talented florist, who's work was some of the very best I have had the pleasure of photographing.

Kelly and John's wedding cake was from Decor Cakes in Otahuhu

Congratulations Kelly and John - we had a wonderful time at your wedding celebration - such a gorgeous, relaxed couple - your family and friends were so nice to us:) Best wishes to you both and to your sweet daughter Emma, enjoy the short time back here in New Zealand before your return to the UK.