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This is the home of all old posts from my blog... Please feel free to read and view images, but don't forget to pop on over to the new and improved BLOG!!!!

... Hayley x

It's Been Far Too Long....

It has been far too long since I posted words of note... images that make my heart sing... there has been no lack of inspiration... I have just become overwhelmed with work and the many networks to which I now belong and suddenly I find myself falling behind.... I promised just days before I would post a session dear to my heart, and yet weeks have passed... Sessions slipping through my fingers... longing to be blogged... Never quite getting there... I have so much to share with you... and soon I will... Life gets crazy~busy sometimes... and just gets in the way... but I wouldn't have it any other way!  

Have you seen my new website?  I adore it... This makeover screams ME... I love it to bits... Sometimes I visit it myself, just to sit a while, to listen to the music that inspires me in my work, and in life... to watch the images of the beautiful people I have been blessed to document, fade in and out... paving way for the next.  Won't you stop by... I would love to share it with you!

www.hayleyjohnson.com.au

A Little Bit Of Whimsy (Wagga Wagga Portrait Photographer)

Recently I shared with you, the family of one of my dearest, dearest friends... and next, I will bring you the gorgeous family of yet another dear, darling companion... with whom my friendship has spanned almost a decade... I can not wait to introduce her darling little ones, who are just so sweet and cheeky and fun...

A couple of days at most... I promise!

I Found Her (Wagga Wagga Portrait Photographer)

I always wondered whether perhaps someday I would make one of those profound, beautiful, long term friendships that are made of laughter... of tears... of moments shared... or moments lost... friendships that outlive tragedies, and outweigh drama... that might distance, but never fade.

I wondered... as the years passed me by... as we moved from town to town... as friends came and went... 

I thought those friendships grew only from childhood... in order to last a lifetime... I thought perhaps it was a luxury... That I might never experience. 

But as I grew... and moved into adulthood... suddenly there she was... My someone that I thought I had missed... My someone that has been by my side every day since... whether in person... on the phone... or in spirit... her presence is always felt.

My someone who will be with me... Holding my hand as I walk through my days... Through the amazing beauty of motherhood... The deepest darkest depths of my own despair... Through that overwhelming happiness of being blessed in this life... Through the tears I have shed of the past, and will shed of the future... Through this life...

My beautiful, profound, special someone.

My friend, who has become my sister... My dear, long time friend... who gives me strength to help me climb... upward... onward... forward... who keeps me humbled... who fights in my corner....

My friend, who is my biggest fan... 

We have shared in so much together...

In our many years of friendship...

We have shared in secrets, in stories, in moments and grief...

And I adore her... For everything that she is...

and everything that she strives to be...

She teaches me... Through her grace... Her strength... Her esteem...

and the greatest honour of all... is that she shares with me...

Her greatest joys... Her heart and soul... Her family...

Her beautiful, amazing family...

TESTING

"He Is Hunter" I Heart Faces - Dramatic Black and White Week

I don't even know how long it has been since I entered a challenge at I Heart Faces... FAR too long!

But I have missed it... I have missed the challenge, the social aspect, the inspiration... I have missed sharing and visiting and spreading blog love across the land, and so, here I am... back in the game... at least for this week.

Hunter is a little client of mine... His eyes are simply incredible...

  They are endless pools of soul and wisdom.

I watched him closely in our family session... The way he looks at his Mum...

I can see already that he will be her protector...

Her warrior...

As most first born sons tend to be.

He is so darling, and sweet, and incredibly sensitive...

His eyes share a sense of knowing...

of familiarity much beyond his years...

He is special.

"He is Hunter"

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