I had the most wonderful, wonderful session yesterday with the adorable seven month old Lillian.
This is absolutely THE best age to have baby portraits done, and if you only ever hire a professional photographer once, make it at this age. I think I’ll let the photos do the talking….
Thank you so much S & A: Lillian was a dream to work with, and I was grinning from ear to ear while editing these shots. I have so many favourites! I’ll be in touch with your gallery soon. xo
Wow, it’s the last day! I’m a bit sad.
I am off to a workshop this morning, so I had to do my last January pic early, and what better subject than a bit of morning madness from my favourite 2.5 year old?! He’s not going to be able to do this when his new big boy bed arrives next week, but he had a great time this morning with his ‘pallows’, jumping around like a maniac.
And so, there will be no more daily photos from me for a while. I really hope you’ve all enjoyed seeing a month of my life as much as I enjoyed capturing it. I encourage everyone to give this project a go; it is so rewarding and such a beautiful record of memories to look back on.
Toby and Daddy were off on a ‘vencha’ this morning, and were going to drop me off at my session on the way, but we were running early, so we stopped first for some photos at the foot of Mount Taylor. I can’t tell you exactly what it is I love about this image so much, but I just do. 5 seconds after I took it, Toby did a massive faceplant, and got completely covered from head to toe in dust and dirt.
I had a bit of an awful day today, but as always my passion for photography made it all better for me for a good 30 minutes, while I shot Toby picking tomatoes in the veggie garden. They are getting out of CONTROL!
I loved watching the deliberation and confidence with which he picked each ripe tomato on this stem, and decided it had to be my photo for today. But I couldn’t resist including some outtakes as well. He has grazed both knees about 3 times in the last two weeks, and I really wanted to capture today’s effort. Plus the unself-conscious way he oozes coolness wearing his hat backwards like that (he puts it on like that, it has nothing to do with us!).
Toby was not a happy chappy today, reported as ‘on edge’ all day at daycare. I took his t-shirt off after dinner because he was hot, and he threw one of the biggest ones I’ve ever seen. I know, I am probably cruel getting the camera out at such times, but these are the REAL moments of toddlerhood, and before I know it, they’ll be over and I’ll forget how intense life can be for a two year old, and how beautiful he was, even when hurt and angry.
In 1999, while travelling and working overseas, I bought a pair of red doc marten mary-janes and they were my most worn pair of shoes over the ensuing 10 years of my life. I’ve actually been looking for a replacement now for, oh, about 4 years. I have high standards. They had to be a colour, but not red. They had to have cool buckles. They had to be kinda different.
I finally found them. I seriously doubt these ones will last 10 years, but I love them anyway.
My little bookworm.
Left: The Eleventh Hour.
Right: Thomas & the Jet Engine.
This was taken at the Australia Day Eve concert on the Parliament House lawns this evening.
Possibly one of the most exciting, awesome moments in Toby’s life to date. I thought his eyes were going to pop out of his head. Every time the planes came back into view, his whole body would stiffen with excitement, and then as soon as they disappeared out of view, he would get all quivery and shout for them to come back. He LOVED it.
I actually had him him on my shoulders for a good three quarters of the airshow, and it was awesome to be totally in the moment, without the camera for a change. But then I couldn’t resist and had to grab it!
On another note, I took this with my old 30D, which I don’t use much these days, but maaaaan, it’s filthy. Check out the crap on the sensor. Sheesh.
This is a seriously overdue sneak peek, but it’s here now!
I met little baby C just two days before the start of 2010; she is the second gorgeous daughter of my dearest friend Jen, who has featured on my blog on several occasions with her amazing glowing pregnancies and chubby cheeked daughter #1, the divine Miss S.
She was already 7 weeks old when I met her, and my fellow photographers will know that it’s a less than ideal time to get squishy sleeping shots, although I tried, oh how I tried! Do not be fooled, this audacious little bundle slept for all of about 20 minutes during the shoot, and 19 of those minutes were in mum’s arms!
Despite the lack of sleep, she was an awesome little model, just like her big sister, and extremely chilled out with divine skin just like her mum. And how beautiful is Little Miss S in that adorable dress? I just love her wispy hair and cheeky smile.
Now enough of my gushing… here are the pics…
We got all kinds of stuff done today, a lot of which involved new things and changes in Toby’s little life. For example, yesterday we finally bought him a big boy’s bed, and even though we won’t have it for two weeks, today we decided to dismantle his cot, and get him used to a bigger sleeping space by setting up the mattress on the floor in the space the bed will go. We also said goodbye to the highchair, and until we get hold of a decent booster seat, he’ll be eating his dinner at his little table and chair – which he did tonight without any pants on.
So there were plenty of photo ops, and I did snap away on several occasions, but it was these totally impromptu shots I grabbed right before bed while he was putting on a little performance for us that I loved the most. This child sure does love being silly and making a racket (and yes, he gets it from me), and these facial expressions are so perfectly him (and probably very me too), it makes me smile all over.
