Wednesday, May 18, 2016

wandering the streets......



well you just cant beat a relaxed stroll around your neighborhood......
especially when its as pretty as this.......... 
im a sucker for autumn colours, loads of play , and truckloads of cuddles...
and this family ticked all the boxes for me....
cute, uninterrupted , unconditional, love and such a feeling of calm.....
apart from the meltdowns at the end... cos we have to keep it real ya know ... heheh xxx













xxxxxx


Tuesday, May 10, 2016

two peas in a pod........

These two ................. 
its hard being over the other side of the world when your dear friends start their families and as a family photographer , i was literally dying to photograph their kids for them .............. 

so on a wet and wintery 2 degrees , day in march this year..... during my trip to the UK , i managed to slip in a special wee photoshoot with these two ......... 
my dear friend and her beautiful little human .................

it was so special to me on so many levels, the friendship, giving her something she had always wanted ....... and to do it in a beautiful town that was so close to my heart from my time spent there as a teenager......... ( where we originally met !) .........

im over the moon i got to tick this one off my list :) xxxxxx 















xxxx for you pippa xxxx





Thursday, May 5, 2016

YanFamWay workshop - auckland NZ

ive gone over this and over this in my head so many times.........
what to write .... what to write.............
can i even put it into words.......... i dont even know ............... i dont think i knew what i was needing to get from a workshop..... until i had this tall , long haired , long legged american from another time, standing in front of me ...............

it had been a long time coming.......
i'd tried 2 seperate occasions to get to AUS workshops with Yan, ( diana ) .... and never made it ........... i'd talked to her on line about mentoring years ago .......... and never made it .................
so finally ........... she was jumping the ditch from AUS and including little old NZ in her grand tour............. and there was no way i was going to miss it .............................
and , well ........ im just so glad i did.............

see now.... i wouldnt have really known what i really wanted to gain when i booked this and organised it .............but deep down in my gut i knew it would be great .......... the great wall kind of great ..........

Yan has this effect ... we like to call the Yan effect ...... she is pretty much a drop in a very big ocean ....... but theres so much depth to that drop that the ripples she creates......... well ............ it doesnt stop......

all the stuff you know that you know ...... but saying it out loud and hearing someone else say it ......... the ripples start ................

in a time of social media where so much is fake and staged with a desire for perfection..........and every one comparing them selves to the next person............. i had a craving to push myself further creatively and keep pushing...to get the real and raw back.......and to bring the kindness back out in the open ... pure kindness...... and love ..... but wasnt sure i could ...... or should......... what was i afraid of?
creating ripples..................?

theres so much to process............. but slowly and surely im starting to feel like i know the direction to start walking ............. staying true to myself ............... i love people ........ i love kindness........... its time to get real ............................

im very excited for this shift............. a deeper approach .............
i genuinely fall in love with all my families................ and always hold back a bit for fear of not being the norm ........ but im no longer afraid............ to show the true me in my work ....... and show the true you .......... your unconditional love beyond words for each other and i'll do it with all my heart ......
im excited ............................. and scared to death............................................



in the meantime i will leave you with some snaps from the workshop and our gorgeous Sokolich family who modelled for us out at the beautiful Boutique Barn , near waiwera, in north auckland...........















xxxxxxx 

Thursday, June 25, 2015

OUR MOTHERS DAY GIVEAWAY WINNER !!!

OMG i blogged !!!! OMG i said OMG !!!!
i reallllllly need to get back to blogging......... i love writing..... and i love sharing more piccies......... but i really have been rather slack .. or busy ...... or just plain lazy when its come to blogging lately....... like this year...... oh wow, the more i talk about it the worse it sounds....... hahha
anyway ............recently i had the pleasure of reading so many wonderful friends nominating their friends to win the mothers day giveaway.................
it was so heart warming to read so many people who loved so many of their girlfriends......... and how they wanted them to win..... it was so lovely and unselfish .... and i loved that cos i am all mushy and stuff.........
so anyway .... after really thinking hard on how i was to choose from all these amazingly deserving mummies......i had to do a random number type thing.... as i just couldnt choose............
and the very lucky and lovely winner was tash ........ with her gorgeous boy phoenix...........nominated by her friend kiara...............

the prize was a mummy and me session........... these sessions we do with you alone.... or in a large group ( coffeegroup styles ) ..... so we had a fun morning hangin with tash and phoenix and tash's nana at my house where the talented makeup artist nessa warne worked her magic on tash .................we drunk tea..... chatted ......... showed phoenix my goats.....all before heading out to location and capturing the sweet magic that unfolded.
phoenix's age is just awesome for this kind of shoot...... keeping mummy busy .... but still giving snuggles and cuddles and making for some pretty cute moments......................
we made a new friend that day .
and this is the total reason why we love doing some giveaways to give back ........... it was such a wonderful morning.....
 i will stop babbling now so you can see the lovely tash and phoenix ........











Sunday, November 23, 2014

30 minutes in the life............


well . i am extremely honoured to be asked to be a guest blogger for the wonderful blog that is
"30 minutes in the life".....  its a really inspiring way to shoot and it really did get my creative mind going........ not only did it come at the right time...... ( i was feeling rather heavy mummy guilts for not having shot my kids for a while !! ) but also from a creative perspective..... it was a great wee challenge......... and i would like to share with you my 30 minutes in the life..........

a simple late afternoon at home..... following my kids around the property as they did what they do.....there seems to be more of my daughter than my son.... as he ran off miles away into the back paddock and is less happy about the camera in his face ... hahah .......we witnessed cuddles with the animals..... lazing in the sun...... and trying to master skateboarding.........i really enjoyed doing this... just capturing them doing what they were doing.........i can see myself doing little doco shoots of them each month.... to keep tabs on their changing looks and likes.........

here are my pics to tell the story for you .... i hope you enjoy them . xxxx

30minutes in the life - thanks for having me !!!!

next up in the blog circle is the lovely   sara kelly ... please take the time to check out her blog and her 30 mins in the life aswell as her other work too ... gorgeous !!!