Lovely Eddie is at that wonderful age of loads of smiles and fabulous noises…

These guys just love being a family… so much love and adoration.

New mama and her sleeping babe. Moments like this always make me smile.

Vanessa & Leon were the first couple to trust me to tell the story of their engagement and then their wedding. I was so honored to be part of their day, and since then we’ve become good friends. Vanessa wrote an email to me shortly after she saw her wedding photos, she signed off with this…”and I seriously can’t wait to have a baby so you can photograph my bump!!”

Fast forward a year or so, and they were pregnant! I was thrilled for them. With Vanessa’s due date looming we managed to find a morning last month, to take some photos, have a cuppa and talk babies. They had the nursery ready and were positively beaming with excitement.

Here are a few of my favourites…

Leon and all his wonderful silliness was with us for the start of the session…

Then the pace calmed down… as Leon left us to it.

Vanessa was so serene and dream like, I had to get the lensbaby out for a few shots.

Last week their daughter Lyla Rose arrived and apparently this new family are doing well… I can’t wait to go and see them all.

A new mama and her baba… there is nothing more beautiful.

Carly & Ben are waiting for their first baby to join them and their 3 chickens. There was much excitement and anticipation… I look forward to meeting the baba soon and I wish them all the best for their journey into parenthood.

Nothing quite like a beautiful bump and an adorable couple so excited about the arrival of their first child.

{More to come from this session}

I love photographing mamas-to-be…. capturing the beautiful form of the body and hearing all about the excitement as they wait for their new arrival. We talk birth and life with a new born…. It’s the start of an amazing journey and I adore being part of it.

This serene mama was carrying her second baby and we spent a lovely morning, hanging out in her gorgeous house just before Christmas. I visited again last week to meet her new baby girl, who was so tiny and absolutely perfect, and looked totally divine bundled up in her swaddle…. and the best part, I always get a cuddle before I go….

These are the moments to treasure.

This is the post I never finished before leaving for New York. This was meant to be a slide show of my favourite photos I’ve taken this year, but you know what, I made the slide show and I actually prefer the images to stand alone. I know I will be concentrating on moving images and putting photos together to tell a story more and more in this coming year, but 2011 was mostly about photos by themselves, so that’s what I will share here and I’ve updated my welcome video instead.

It’s been hard to select just a few from 2011… these photos mean so much to me as they tell the story I see and then like to tell…. the details, the memories, the connections, all with the colours and light that make me gasp as I press the shutter. Capturing these moments has be wonderful, thank you to all those that let me do what I love, I can’t wait to see what 2012 brings…

Oh my goodness, this little beauty had her baptism just before she turned one years old….. her parents were beaming. Happy birthday!

When I met Alex back in October she was waiting patiently for her first baby Isaac to arrive, during the session we talked babies and labour as Alex was having a home birth….. she was really calm about his imminent arrival.

Last week I got to meet (and have a cuddle with….) the delightful 3 week old Isaac, he was adorable and so relaxed….. mama and baby have a beautiful bond.

I wish them all the happiness together.