Winter and Lincoln

I met 2 week old Winter last week for a newborn session. Sweet little man who slept quite well and bravely ignored "toe" distraction courtesy of his big brother Lincoln:) But what a gorgeous distraction Lincoln was, with his big blue eyes! It was great to meet the family and take a few casual shots of them all together too- which is the style of family photography I enjoy and do best. Hope to catch up with you all again soon.

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.