Welcome! On this blog I share all my best tips and tricks for preparing for brand, newborn and family photo sessions, as well as all my nuggets of fried wisdom for improving your own photography skills. Hope you're wearing comfy pants, because you should make a cuppa and stick around for a yarn!
The countdown is on until baby arrives! You’ve bought a car seat, a cot and every neighbour in town has been offering you their hand-me-downs… but what about newborn photography? Have you thought about how you want to capture your new baby? There’s a pretty wide range of styles of newborn photographer around Geelong and […]
In August 2020, I asked West Coast Canadian artist Fiona Dalrymple if I could photograph her with her girls and her art. I wanted to explore the story that exists at the intersection of motherhood, art and business. I’d been photographing landscapes and families for a couple of years and her art gave me all […]
Carlie Reidlinger N.D. offers the perspective of being a mother to young children in her approach to helping parents improve their health. Want to have a goosey inside a personal branding photoshoot? Naturopathic Doctor Carlie Reidlinger is a mum of two and all-round lovely warm person who really knows how to help you lift your […]
Some fun brand photos for two incredibly talented Torquay artists.
Mum friends get you through those long days and don’t judge you when there’s baby puke on your top.
I think bringing home a second baby might just be the absolute best time to hire a lifestyle photographer!
West Coast BC artist Christina Clarke does a relaxed hiking and painting personal branding photo shoot with photographer Kristen Turner MacDonald.
This Canadian-New Zealand family had a life full of joy and fun, and when they decided to add a fourth baby to the menagerie, they received a wonderful surprise in the form of… twins! A few weeks after the little girls were born, I joined them at their house for what has been the most […]
Home sweet home! How perfect and hot and summery it was to travel back to my home town of Torquay, Australia last summer. I had a three-month-old baby wrapped on my front wearing only a nappy, with his chubby little legs hanging out the sides while I photographed our friend Libby’s beautiful plant nursery, Arizona […]
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