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...
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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...
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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...
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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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Raising Bilingual Children

Raising Bilingual Children

May 17, 2013

Yesterday evening, my husband and I attended Eowyn Crisfield's seminar on 'Raising Bilingual Children: Six Steps to Success' which was organised by Passionate Parenting. This is a topic we've been curious about for a long time and it couldn't have been more timely for...

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Celebrating five years in business!

Celebrating five years in business!

Mar 28, 2013

I always knew, before I even started my business, that working with newborns would be a great passion of mine. I'm so grateful to those early clients who entrusted my vision and allowed me to photograph such beautiful moments as you see in the photo above. I adore the...

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Love letters

Love letters

Jan 21, 2013

To my baby girl, It's exactly nine months since the day you were born. Every day of those nine months is filled with wonderful memories. I want to freeze time; to catch all those moments, and put them into words and images so I can treasure them always, and never ever...

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Images to Inspire Hope | A moment spent with family

Images to Inspire Hope | A moment spent with family

Dec 19, 2012

I love working with Vinita Salomé, a dear friend and talented children and family photographer with a heart of gold. Early last year, we teamed up to launch Images to Inspire Hope as a way to give back through our photography. We are delighted to share a preview of...

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