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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Winner of the WBII Social Innovation Award 2010

Winner of the WBII Social Innovation Award 2010

Wow, first of all I would just like to say a huge THANK YOU! :-) I have been a member of the Women's Business Initiative International (WBII) since I first started my business, back in March 2008 (Yes, Tigs Creations turns 2 later this month!!) Each year they host an...

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little angel, 6 days new

little angel, 6 days new

I'm not sure you can time a birth, newborn portraits, and a holiday as good as this! This little one's due date was exactly one week before I was due to leave on a 2-week trip to Kenya and Tanzania! No problem, she arrived right on time and her newborn portraits were...

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Helping Hearts for Haiti | and the winner is…

Helping Hearts for Haiti | and the winner is…

With your donations you give the people of Haiti hope for the future. Giro555.nl announced on Thursday that the Netherlands has raised 100.6 Million Euros - that's incredible! And the donations still continue... For Haiti, we're hoping for another Kobe miracle. It's...

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Helping Hearts for Haiti | and the winner is…

Helping Hearts | Let’s do something to help Haiti

On 13 January, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7 hit Haiti; the devastation is unimaginable. The death toll has risen above 150,000 people in the Port-au-Prince area alone. 1.5 million people have been left without a home, and more than 750,000 children have been...

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Seasons Greetings

Seasons Greetings

Wishing you all a wonderful Christmas and a very Happy New Year! With love and best wishes, Natalie :)

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