Baby snuggles while I still can, cleaning endless cloth nappies, diffusing toddler tamtrums (how can he want his banana cut and yet whole at the same time?!), trying to find two hands free to run this business and feeling the constant pull between the passion I have for my work and also not wanting to miss any moments with my kids.

My days are filled with:

Playing with my kids on the beach, at a yoga class, teaching high schoolers to speak languages or hiking in nature.

YOU CAN FIND ME:

Making things look unnecessarily pretty and Insta-perfect for the sake of a photo. There's rarely honesty in tidiness!

I'm NOT ABOUT:

Being kind. Being honest. Living simply. Being gentle on the earth. Encouraging women and helping them realise how much the world needs their skills.

I BELIEVE IN:

Now that I'm a mum, I see the world differently. I used to speedwalk down Melbourne streets to get into restaurants, and now I wander at a toddler's pace (geez they are slow), and my mind wanders to the way the light falls on the ocean, on my children, and I think about how I can capture that so I can remember it later. I'm trying really hard to take my real camera along, too, because iPhone photos just don't cut it. They really do look dreadful when printed (but more on that later).

Our lives are full and busy, spent between our two homes in Torquay, Australia and Vancouver Island, Canada, and as much as I love the chaos of life with children, I do wish it would all slow down a bit more so I could savour it.

Time. That fleeting little bugger. We worry we aren't photographing our kids enough and are missing out on seeing them grow. We waste time staring at a screen when we could be making art, or helping people, or getting to a yoga class, or being present with our children.

I've always loved creating. As a kid I made my friends act in my movies and spent hours playing with my dad's old film cameras. As a teenager I'd listen to Belle and Sebastian albums and paint all Sunday long. At uni I crammed my piano into my bedroom so I could muck around late into the evenings (with headphones, I'm not a d-bag). I've always thought I wasn't especially great at any one thing, but that I liked to dabble with everything. Then I decided to start clocking up my 10 000 required hours they say you need in order to master something - and I chose photography.