"When people ask what was it like, the photographer says, "See!" On the eve before Stage 4 Lockdown in Melbourne, I combined my two great loves. History and Photography. This quote had been floating around in my head for many weeks. As a historian, I understand...
Just a short trip from Melbourne (traffic dependent) lies a storybook garden that will have you believing in fairy tales again. The path down towards the garden is quite accessible if you are reasonably fit. Most likely your children will run ahead and you will...
I was so excited for the opportunity to shoot an outdoor newborn shoot. It was such a glorious Autumn morning (the first day of Autumn to be exact). I have found newborns to be sensitive to the cold and they don't like the wind either. However,...
This family has three boys and life is certainly busy. Mama C said to me she would never have managed to get these boys to sit for a regular photo shoot. Luckily we didn't have to. Instead we had fun. It was a glorious end of Summer...
I was very lucky to land in a mother's group filled with a diverse group of supportive, warm and non-judgemental mothers. It has been such a pleasure to watch our children grow and quite literally blossom into gorgeous human beings. Valerie and I talked often...
To me Autumn means we are heading into Winter and I am not a fan of Winter, but it really is a magical time of year. I had a wonderful weekend out and about. Autumn in Melbourne is the stuff picture books are made of. If...
I was so honoured to be able to photograph these two perfect blessings. Brandon and Joseph were my first twins and so I wasn't sure what to expect. However, they were a dream to photograph. They were two such peaceful little souls. When I placed...
I had the pleasure of attending a Lifestyle Photography Retreat with the incredibly talented Janine Harris from White Salt Photography last weekend. Janine's photography is emotive, joyful, intimate, and evoke such a sense of the extraordinary in the ordinary so I jumped at the opportunity to...
This month I was both thrilled and surprised to receive the news that I had come in the top twenty of the Australian Photography Magazine Photographer of the Year Awards for portraits. I was just shy of the top ten by one. Helen Whittle took out the first prize, and...
When I was young I thought the words to Dirty Deeds by ACDC was "dirty knees and sunburnt cheeks." In my mind it captured my Australian summertime childhood perfectly. And now I am trying to capture this summer perfectly, as it will be, of course, much...