Before baby was born: an in-home maternity photoshoot

Are you pregnant? Is a baby growing in your belly? Pause a while, take a deep breath, inhale this moment and capture it in your mind. What is life like right now? What do you feel right now? In this moment. What would you like to remember? Step forward into a future...

Memories. They’re timeless.

Time is not something we can buy. Time is a gift. The passing of time is most noticeable in nature's cycles and seasons and children growing up. There is always enough time. Spend it wisely. Photograph the everyday as well as the important moments. One day you'll look...

Life is amazing

Life is amazing. And then it's awful. And then it's amazing again. And in between the amazing and awful it's ordinary and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale during the ordinary. That's just living...

To be comforted by photographs

I believe our photographs belong in the real world; on walls, in frames and in albums. We want to see them and have them easily accessible. Every day. I'm curious about the generations who follow me. What will they want? I have boxes of old sepia and black and white...

Baby

peaceful baby girl

peaceful baby girl

Sleeping babies, they exude a gentle feeling of peace and it's so wonderful when you can feel that peacefulness wrap around you. Looking at these images takes me right back to those wonderful peaceful moments and I find myself letting out a gentle sigh of happiness....

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welcome baby Reuben, 7 days new

welcome baby Reuben, 7 days new

Introducing sweet baby Reuben, a tiny bundle of joy and an absolute delight to photograph. I adore the first image (above in colour) - his parents ordered this on canvas and it looks absolutely stunning! I love Reuben's cute little hat too :) *happy sigh* another...

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sweet baby Amankay, 5 weeks old

sweet baby Amankay, 5 weeks old

Amankay, such a sweet and gentle baby girl, waited for her father to join her mother and big sister in Chile before she was born. At 5 weeks old, she was both quietly alert and sleeping soundly during her newborn session here in The Netherlands. It was certainly not...

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Thinking of treating your family to a lifetime of precious memories? Are you pregnant and thinking of booking a newborn photoshoot? I arranged for my family to have a photoshoot a couple of weeks after the birth of our second baby. I regret not doing the same with our...

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