The Retreat

It has been an interesting, hectic, sad, exhilarating, enlightening, challenging and exhausting few months, but now I finally feel like can breathe.  A lot of that has to do with this place, my "Retreat" the place we now call home.

I look forward to many happy times here with the friends and family who have really supported me over the last year - I really can't thank you enough. 

Here's to a fabulous 2012!

Like chicken nuggets and tomato sauce....

Apparently they go together like chicken nuggets and tomato sauce?????, according to the best man.  Well I don't know about that, but I could tell love was definitely in the air. 

Last week I had the pleasure of photographing one of my "baby" cousin's weddings.  The family told me I wouldn't be able to get him to smile, but I think they forgot he was marrying the girl of his dreams, quite frankly you couldn't wipe the smile off his face.

Louise, you looked stunning and Ryan you didn't scrub up too badly either (although you still only look about 12)

I hope you guys are having a great time in New Zealand and I look forward to sharing the rest of your photos with you on your return.

Thank you so much for allowing me to be a part of your special day - it really meant alot to me.

 

Fabulous Family Pics

Nothing like a rainy Sunday to catch up on some editing and long awaiting blogging.  So hopefully you will be seeing a bit from me over the next couple of days.

I had great fun with this fabulous family.  These kids are so gorgeous and the girls could not ask for a better big brother, he was great.

Just love the one of Dad getting squashed!

Gallery will be up soon.

Happy school holidays everyone!

And the winners are!!

These guys won a session voucher at last year's Bears of Hope ball and luckily we managed to hook up before this year's ball.  It was great to meet them and we had lots of fun.

However this blog post is long overdue, my apologies to the fabulous J family your gallery will be up very soon!  But I did promise you a sneak peek so here are a few of my favourites so far.

Isn't he gorgeous - a super model in the making.

Just look at those eyes!

But when Mum and Dad look so good what do you expect!

Thanks for a fun session guys.  I look forward to seeing you at the Bears of Hope ball in a few weeks.  Your gallery will be up soon.

I wanna be a super model!

And this one could be.  I didn't have to wait for her to warm up to me or get used to my camera, she was ready and raring to go.  She has the looks and the moves.  Makes my job so easy.

If you look below, she obviously gets her looks and her moves from her gorgeous mum! 

These guys are another one of the wonderful Bears of Hope families.  In fact Toni is one of those amazing people on the executive committee who works tirelessly to raise money for this great organisation.  They brought along their bears and their angel babies' quilts, allowing us to create some beautiful images to put in our Bears of Hope book!

And lastly a gorgeous "couple" shot that miss cheeky pants managed to get in! 

If any other of Bears of Hope families wish to have a photo shoot, please do not hesitate to call me.

Hope you enjoyed your sneak peek, gallery to follow soon.

Live your dreams!

Kelly

http://www.bearsofhope.org.au/

The Rock

I had the best time on Saturday afternoon - the weather gods were good to me and I got to photograph a fabulous family.  In fact, if I wasn't so fond of my own family I would probably try to get myself adopted by this one.

Firstly, they made me traipse down the gully to the rock and although I took a (rather graceful) fall it was worth the hike.  A fantastic location to shoot, I completely understood why they wanted their photos taken there.

Then as I was taking photos of the "kids" they asked if they could do the "blue steel" - fantastic, love it.

Just to top it off, one beautiful toddler (with the biggest blue eyes) and a puppy!  And they thanked me, I really do have the best job in the world.

Thank you Welch family, I hope you enjoyed your preview, there are many more to come!

Self Portraits - I wish!!!!!

It is important for a photographer to keep learning and pushing themselves, there are a number of different ways we can do this but one great way is to sign up for various workshops.  Not only do you learn heaps from your tutor but you get to meet great photographers and share ideas.

Last week I did just that.  The fabulous Peter Coulson ran a fantastic workshop through Mentem Inc.  Here are a couple of the shots I took on the day.  As I said in the title - these are self portraits, well, this is what I look like on the inside (deep, deep inside).

This is the gorgeous Tara!

This is the stunning Natasha.



This one is my favourite from the day!

I had a great day, learnt a heap and met some great people!