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...

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Babywearing: we love our ERGObaby carrier!

Babywearing: we love our ERGObaby carrier!

I've previously shared our challenge over deciding which travel pram system to buy so I thought I'd share one of our other purchases: the ERGObaby carrier. We LOVE the ERGObaby! It goes everywhere with us. In fact, I actually don't remember the last time we used the...

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perfection – newborn baby girl, 13 days new

perfection – newborn baby girl, 13 days new

Oh, she is just absolute perfection! There is something magical that happens when brand new babies are awake... all those gorgeous little sounds and movements they make as they discover the world around them is just as captivating to watch as when they are quietly...

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unscripted moments of a family waiting for baby

unscripted moments of a family waiting for baby

Oh, such wonderful memories! I was just browsing through client images with the intention to update my product samples and came across these images of a wonderful family I had the pleasure to work with and they made me smile so SO much. I love these special little...

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a love letter to my baby girl

a love letter to my baby girl

To my baby girl, You are growing up so fast, but we knew that you would. You learned to walk on your own this week, and you were so proud. That joyful look on your face when you realised you could do it was priceless. Papa was working in Belgium that day and couldn't...

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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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