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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hush, sleeping newborn baby girl *melting my heart*

hush, sleeping newborn baby girl *melting my heart*

oh-oh-oh my heart is in a flutter from all the cuteness! what a beautiful photo session I had with this gorgeous little lady, and how wide my smile was as I was editing these photos for the sneak peek! all my newborn clients are making me sooooo very happy, and Lana...

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baby Adrian, all fresh and new

baby Adrian, all fresh and new

I had a lovely photo session with Adrian, he's such a happy little baby, a real sweetheart! I'm so glad I was able to squeeze in his newborn session :-) Here he is, 16 days new, perfectly quiet, and observing the big wide world around him. But with his belly full, he...

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Featured on ‘A Letter from the Netherlands’

Featured on ‘A Letter from the Netherlands’

Shortly after receiving the WBII Social Innovation Award 2010 earlier this year, Amanda van Mulligen asked to interview me for the Expats@Home Newsletter on the subject of social responsibility. You can read the interview below:   Expat Entrepreneur Inspiration...

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CRAVE Amsterdam: Big on the Inside

CRAVE Amsterdam: Big on the Inside

It's probably high time I shared another CRAVE Amsterdam photo session! Meet Jacinta Noonan, the owner of Big on the Inside... Doesn't she look great? I love that shade of blue on her. Jacinta is a Personal Coach and Trainer, specialising in Weight Loss Coaching. Big...

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sleeping beauty…

sleeping beauty…

So tiny, so beautiful, and so perfect. This sweet baby girl, just 10 days new when I met her, was one of the sleepiest babies I've photographed. She really was a sleeping beauty! Introducing Claudia... Peacefully sleeping... And blowing kisses in her dreams too......

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