What makes us human? To me it is the emotions that we feel and the way we convey them to others. That is why I decided to focus on portraits. I love to freeze those beautiful reactions in time. From my perspective, the more you can connect to and feel the emotion you are viewing in my images, the more I feel I have been successful in my job.
By the way, the secret to success with kids aged 3 onward is to just say….. bottom
As a mother I see my beautiful baby. CHEEKY!
As a photographer I can’t help wishing he had moved his chin down ever so slightly to get the best angle.
He LOVES that pillow.
He leapt for the first time into the water unaided this summer.
There is an equal and opposite reaction.
That is, if you want to come back inside ever again!
I hadn’t planned on putting anymore photos of the gorgeous Miss A up, but while I was processing the last of the images I came across a couple that I couldn’t resist.
LOVE
I was outside watching my boys play in the yard. I was keeping little E entertained on a mat and he was helping me practise interesting composition. I was impressed that the zoom on my camera phone produced fairly clear images.
I sit here next to little E. I am suprised he can sleep through the noise of the camera going off every few seconds. Here are a few of the photos I have loved taking today.
Beautiful details. So important to try to capture for memories.
I am pregnant. Very pregnant. So pregnant that my husband now laughs at how big the tummy has become. You see the rest of my body hasn’t changed. Photoshop out the tummy and I would look like I did before this pregnancy.
I felt like I wanted to document the tummy. This will be our last pregnancy and its size needed capturing, but I’m not really into glamourizing it (pregnancy for a mum of two young kids and another on the way is not glamorous) and the image wouldn’t represent the situation at all. I also wanted to stay true to my lack of time. So I have used my camera phone and not my DSLR.
I decided to use a documentary or lifestyle type shot to just capture a moment.
I quite liked it and then tried a few filters for fun. Somehow the colour version seemed too personal to share?! Anyway, at least there is a record of the gigantic tum!…and my son’s interest in it.
I said yesterday I took my boys to the the playground. I mentioned that they gave me a flower. What I didn’t mention was that my 3 year old decided to pick ALL of the flowers growing in the park.
My 1 year old also decided to bring me flowers. Just like his big brother.
Anyway, I decided that since the flowers had been taken we had better put them to good use.
We divided them into 4 glasses of water coloured with food colouring and waited to see if they would take up the colour. I added a few white roses from the garden as I knew they would take the colour and wasn’t sure how well jonquils would go.
We waited.
Several hours later we noticed a slight change and got all excited.
The roses were taking up the colour faster than the jonquils.
We left them over night and this morning we had a rainbow!
The boys were very excited their experiment had worked! Hopefully we have instilled in them a desire to be curious and inventive for life!!
…well its a start.
Mum used it as an opportunity to take photos of course.
Fascinating.
Happy to be removing the stinky jonquils from the living room.
Learning the Light 