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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waiting for baby – our maternity session with Tanja

waiting for baby – our maternity session with Tanja

Tanja de Maesschalk and I first met during a photography workshop early last year. I was instantly captivated by the beauty of her work. Her soft, pure style of photography is romantic and timeless with an air of magic about it. Tanja has a wonderful natural way of...

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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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Choosing the right travel pram system for your baby

Choosing the right travel pram system for your baby

Who would have thought that one of the most difficult decisions to make in preparation for the arrival of our sweet baby girl, would be which pram-pushchair system to buy! Honestly, it has taken us forever to decide! When it came time to make a decision, we headed to...

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the birth of Olivia Pearl

the birth of Olivia Pearl

Audra's calm approach to labour was both admirable and inspiring; labouring gracefully through the night, Olivia Pearl was welcomed into the world at 07:22 on Friday 2nd December 2011. I feel blessed to have been there to document all the special moments on the day...

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