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Family Photos

August 21, 2010

I have so many photographs to blog and I have often said I wish I had family photos like the ones I take for my clients of my own family?  Well feeling exhausted after two family photo shoots today I came home to my beautiful little girl waiting for me at the bottom of our entrance steps.  Before smothering her with kisses I put my camera bag down, attached a lens on my new camera and focussed on her.  This is what greeted me :) I thought I’d quickly edit these before I start my backing up and editing and blogging – yes, to all my clients your photos will be on their way shortly – Its my turn for some family portraits.

Rebecca’s portraits

April 15, 2010

Ok, so my previous post was supposed to be uploaded this morning but the internet was playing up and I didn’t have the patience to wait around till it had sorted itself out.  So these portraits were inspired by my previous post.  I went out and photographed Rebecca as I hadn’t yet taken her “official” 1 year old portraits.  So one month after her 1st birthday her portraits have been taken :)

Portraits of Rebecca

April 15, 2010

We went to the Animal Farm in Ballito, just outside Durban a couple of weekends back to show Rebecca the animals.  We had so much fun. A horse blew her hat right off her head while sneezing on her, the cow was scratching it’s horns on her pram and well, she loved it.  Can’t say I enjoyed wiping the horse snot and cow saliva off her pram.  I think these photographs capture so many of her expressions and the I had to include the shot of her pointing finger… I really do need to take some more portraits of her – don’t think I’ve taken a proper one yet to document her 1st birthday, will have to take my camera out :) She’s no longer our little baby – but a toddler inspecting the world around her!

Our 1st Birthday party

March 14, 2010

Today we had our 1st Birthday party! No more baby portraits for Rebecca she is a little toddler! :) I don’t think I have even put up her Newborn portraits yet… Sheez, a whole year has gone by so fast.  Nick & I were reminiscing about when we first met her – I almost feel like I need to have another baby to remind myself of that warm fuzzy feeling of absolute infinite love you have for your precious little baby.  I remember going into hospital on the morning of my c-section and while waiting in the ward to have my details taken I heard babies crying.  But they sounded like cats shrieking! I even commented to Nick and he agreed that they did indeed sound like cats.

When Rebecca came out, she was crying but she had a deep voice.  A beautiful voice.  She was gorgeous.  I could hardly sleep during my last night in hospital as I was so excited to bring MY baby home.

Ok, so I am beginning to remember that warm fuzzy feeling so I won’t have to have another baby to remind myself… well at least not this year anyways.

Exploring

March 12, 2010

It was so interesting watching Rebecca exploring our verandah area this evening.  Watching her and recording her moving around has really forced me to change my perspective and how I see things.  Its so different to shooting other people’s baby portraits and newborn portraits – I’m loving the challenge of following my almost one year old around.  Yes she’ll be one on Sunday!!! So bear with me at the moment – there may be a few more photos of Rebecca for my photo-a-day challenge :)

Bath Time

March 11, 2010

I was so saddened when I read Jules Morgan’s blog this evening.  I admire her strength.  She has been in my thoughts often.  She writes “This experience has emphasized to me exactly how important photos are – at the end of the day they really are the only thing that you have left over.”  My heart sinks.

I suddenly thought about Rebecca and how I have recorded her 1st year of life.  I often aspire to take beautiful studio shots of her, and plan my lighting set up, but then as life unravels I never get around to it and months go by before I take a photo of her.  So I have decided that I will simply “record” her life and capture real moments.  Real moments for her, God Willing, to look back on and know that she was loved and adored and treasured.