connection

With every minute we make count, I try and make every frame + experience count.  I have shifted my focus on what speaks to me and that is embracing the good, with the bad.  This was one of those times.....admittedly I had to re shoot twice. The weather was off during our first attempt + perhaps my focus was a little off too.  BUT I am ok with that.  I have found that since approaching my work with the value of being vulnerable - I've just not met many more clients, but life - long friends.  But mostly it is the opportunity I often get - to rub shoulders with the most beautiful people through my work.  Our conversation + connection goes so much deeper than photography + those occasional off days.

last days of summer

And it literally was....I managed to capture this gorgeous gang in their happy place.  Almost all my family sessions happen around the water.  We have such a connection with it - creeks, ponds, lakes + oceans.  So this happened on this very last warm day we had on the beach.   Only 170 more days until summer.  Yep.

beauty + chaos

If direction was given, the authenticity is gone....AND when there is beauty + chaos....magic unfolds.  A bunch of my favourites from this recent session X

laughter

Life is all about the people you meet + laughter.  Laughter is beautiful, vulnerable, lovely, wild + utterly free.  Full fledge belly laughs that cannot be contained.  Are the best.  To people, laughter + the beautiful nooks + crannies of our lives X

beauty of joy

I met this family...fours years ago, when Elle had three.  I had three.  We talked about four.  Now Elle has four.  I have four.  We have stopped now.  But this time every year, we hook up. The beauty of joy is as unique and inimitable as a fingerprint.  I capture that + also the things that get a little out of order.  These are always the happiest moments though.  When we have no rules and no schedules.  Just love, the air, sun + each other.

*It is always an honour for me to photograph this sweet tribe* 

otis

When it doesn't even feel like there could have been a before...

She has taught one of our son's + we call her Little Miss Sunshine because...

ann-marie

She is a special human.  There is definitely something special about Ann-Marie AND I am still NOT convinced....that she is actually entirely human?  

As I walked through a busy Brisbane Airport, I was searching for Ann-Marie (because we had actually never really met).  I had driven from the Sunshine Coast and Ann-Marie had just arrived from Adelaide - with 4 week old baby Wynter, clutched tightly in her arms.  I  must admit, we were a little bit weepy at first glance.  Once we worked through that, we hit the road to Byron Bay.  As they tend to do, things fell right into their perfectly off-beat place.  ONE HUNDRED + SIXTY EIGHT km's later, we had arrived to our photography workshop location.  We talked a lot on the road. *A lot*  But mostly, we talked about mothering our FOUR children - the losses, the break downs, the break throughs, the hustle, the sweat, the tears and plus more.  AND Obviously, Wynter is Ann-Marie's fourth and was our youngest and most adorable workshop attendee.  

The workshop we attended  - along with 16 other incredible, just incredible talented women -  was amazing and intense, inspiring and refreshing.  I learnt a lot, you know some more technical stuff, light, content and connection.  As we workshopped, Ann-Marie would be quietly tucked away at the back of the room feeding. Thank you for letting me share these Ann-Marie.  I love how we met and how our special little friendship we now share x