I had a lovely afternoon with Lauren's family. Lauren is a Mum who attends the Farmhouse Playgroup, but as she couldn't make it the day I was photographing there, she booked me for a portrait session.
Photographing Finn and Miri among these yellow flowers, was as their dad, Steve said "Like shooting fish in a barrel".
Beautiful. Easy.
Miri's friend Leia, also from the playgroup, came and joined in at the end for some pretty pink-ness...
Belle has been blessed with thick, luscious, fast growing locks, and for the last while has been growing them with the thought of selling her hair.
That is until she found out about the 'Beautiful Lengths' charity, where people can donate their hair (as long as it's in good condition and over 20cm long) which is then made into wigs that are then given to cancer sufferers who have lost their own hair, and just want to feel a bit more like their old selves again.
I regularly cut Evan's hair, quite well I think, but cutting girls' hair straight is a whole other ball game.
India's fringe was scary enough!
We got it in the bag! (boom tish)
To post tomorrow.
At the time of writing, there were 6054 ponytails collected, and their goal is for 10000. Of course it's not something everyone can do, but it's a worthy cause if you can contribute.
I love doing portraits in people's own environments.
More of a story can be told, and the vibe is generally realxed, which helps when you want to hold a camera in front of someone.
Karen, Paul and the "very cute" Fletcher live in a very cute house in Annandale. She is an interior designer, and he is a builder, and the house lives up to all expectations.
Karen was quite specific in her brief - she wanted casual shots of the three of them, nothing too staged. I was more than happy to oblige.
How gorgeous is this connection between Fletcher and Paul, then Karen!
She told me the mums who attended the playgroup had trouble remembering the other mum's names, and Lena had requested they bring in photos of themselves with their kids, to put on a board, for a bit of name recognition.
The mums had lots of photos of their kids, but so few of themselves. It seemed they were always looking through the lens rather than at it.
I know the feeling. Of course I have thousands of photos of my kids, but the rare picture of me is usually with a camera in front of my face!
So my task was to photograph the mums and their families during a playgroup session.
The sittings were super quick, but it was lots of fun, and a different way for me to shoot portraits, which is great because I love variety.
Thanks so much to all the mums for having me there, and huge thanks to Lena for her clever organisation!
Ashley and I had booked this shoot a long time in advance, as she wanted to get her extended family together, but the afternoon we had planned for saw Manly shrouded in an orange glow from the bushfire smoke.
We held off for a couple of days, and luckily the weather was on our side.
You can see in the colours, there was still quite a bit of haze, but it looked really pretty.
Ashley likes the vintage look, so I made these black and whites quite dark and heavy for her.
Alyssa and Milana.
Three generations. Ashley, her parents Gwen and Brian, and niece Alyssa.
It was a glorious, full sun kind of day for Vanessa and Matt's wedding at Peats Bite on the Hawkesbury River.
The location is accessible only by boat and sea-plane, which makes the wedding so much more of an adventure. A journey for the guests.
That's Matt out there on the boat, ferrying us early arrivals between the restaurant area, the boys' putting-on-ties-and-having-a-yarn area, and the house where the girls were getting ready.
My kind of wedding... An oyster table
and a lollies and cake table!
Beautiful Vanessa.
Matt, and his men.
Vanessa's parents were so lovely!
The day was all glorious sunshine,
but it was also pretty windy. Vanessa's veil was everywhere, except neatly placed where it should be,
but at least she could laugh about it.
When it came to walking down aisles, it was more a case of wooden jetties, which with high heels are a tricky negotiation at the best of times, but add a big dress and a gusty wind and you are definitely going to need help!
Vanessa kept very busy with four changes of dress (three dresses, but she wore the white one twice because, well, it was beautiful and she probably wouldn't wear it on another day).
She changed into red, which would be the traditional colour for a Chinese wedding, for the tea ceremony.
Matt's family (the Eatons) showed everyone how to do the Nutbush...
Matt's Pop was gorgeous. He told us (wearing the speech-maker's cap) that Matt had stolen his thunder by proposing to Vanessa in front of the whole family, who were gathered at a party to celebrate his 'significantly' numbered birthday!
And that's what I love about photographing weddings - you journey, for a day or so, alongside someone else's family and friends, and experience with them the highs and lows, camaraderie and humour, and the warmth and love of their circle,
and it always makes me smile.
Congratulations Vanessa and Matt.
And thank you for letting me share such a beautiful day.
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