We never know the love of a parent

“We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.” – Henry Ward Beecher Never more is this true than when your children are sick.

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Family Portraits: Centennial Park with crazy kids

  A few years back we first met Nita and Damien’s family, and shot some great family portraits at Coogee Beach with their son when he was about a year

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Love is our true destiny

“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.” – Thomas Merton The difficult thing in creating

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Rilien’s Second Operation on his Toes

  Some of you may remember Rilien had an operation on his funky big toes at about 10 months old. The documentary posts are here (part 1) and

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That best portion of a good man’s life

“That best portion of a good man’s life; His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and love.” – William Wordsworth I think this quote says it all, really.

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Family Portraits: Sporty Kids at Centennial Park

Liz wanted her family portraits to be taken in Centennial Park. I met her for the first time when I turned up to meet her at the start

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Love Thy Self

“Love Thy Self.” I can’t count the number of times this phrase has bounced through my head over the past eighteen months. Despite this, I seem to have

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Home is where

“Home is where the heart is.” The one person missing from this portrait is my beautiful wife, who was so excited to see me that she nearly vaulted

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A little chocolate

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” – Charles M. Schulz I think Chuck said it all. Happy Easter. And chocolate.

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Family Portraits: Why I Disagree With My Clients All The Time

Lucinda’s portraits were going to be all about the kids. She was very clear on this point. She didn’t want to be photographed, and wanted me to focus

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