Busy, Busy... {Wagga Wagga Child Portrait Photographer}

It feels the more I have to blog about... the less time I have to blog it...

Things have been a little hectic, with school holidays and ironing out a few little business bits and pieces... such as designing my new portrait CD covers, getting things ready for sale at red Bubble and {very soon} at Etsy, as well as organising things for some local marketing!

I have just booked my very first wedding, which is absolutely amazing, incredible, fabulous and SCARY!

And I have also been asked if I would consider travelling all the way to the top end... that's right... to DARWIN... at some stage this year for a few days of sessions!!

I also have two sessions this weekend that I am really looking forward to...

it's something a little different and I just can't wait to experience it, and then share it!!

Whilst it has been busy...

There is always time for shooting...

so here is a little of what I have been up to over these weeks that I have so severely neglected my blog...

Enjoy...

My incredibly beautiful niece Ella... Oh how she makes me just melt... those lips, those eyes... 
that beautiful heart of hers... She really is something special! 

"Majesty"

"Wildflowers" aka "Weeds"... it's all about perspective really!

Lilly

"Softly"

A Trip to Darwin??? {Darwin Children and Baby Portrait Photographer}

I have NO doubt you remember my recent session with Lilly very well... with those beautiful blonde ringlets and HUGE blue eyes... who could forget?

Well... as promised I am finally posting some more from her session, along with some gorgeous storyboards and decorative borders that I am now offering...

I have had so much fun editing this session... she is just so beautiful and timeless and my options for editing were endless!

So, without further adieu... Here is the sweet Miss Lilly Pearl...

Calling Darwin!! {Darwin Portrait Photography}

I have absolutely no doubt that you remember the adorable Miss Lilly Pearl, with her too cute ringlets and those HUGE eyes... Well... as promised... I am finally adding some more of her session!

However... that's not all... You see, Lilly's family used to live here in Wagga Wagga... but have long since moved all the way to Darwin... and Lilly's Mum had arranged her portrait session for while they were here visiting for Christmas!
A few days ago... she ran a suggestion by me... that perhaps I could fly to Darwin in a few months if we could spark enough interest... and do some portraits!

So... here it is... I am putting it out there... Darwin... I am happy to come and document you, your family, your children... If this is something you think you might be interested in, please use the contact form below

La Bella Fine Art Collection {Wagga Wagga Fina Art Photographer}

I am so pleased to be able to announce that I now have a small collection of my Fine Art images for sale via Red Bubble.  I will be adding new work all of the time, so please take a look... and don't forget to check back often...

iHeart Faces Challenge {Wagga Wagga Portrait Photographer}

"BEST FACE PHOTO"

Again, it has been some time since I participated in an iHeart Faces challenge... But what better way to kickstart 2010 than to spend it sharing with some of the most,  inspiring, talented people???

This week's theme is "Best Face Photo", and while I just can not choose my "best" I have chosen one that is a little special to me...

This is special not just because she is the daughter of a friend... or because she is beautiful... but because it depicts all it is to be seven... the age my son is now...

teeth missing... adult teeth growing in...

a sparkle in her eye... filled with all the optimism and hope of the world...

Innocence...

There is something so special about seven.

I Heart Faces Challenge {Wagga Wagga Portrait Photographer}

BEST FACE PHOTO

Again, it has been some time since I participated in an iHeartFaces challenge... But what better way to kickstart 2010 than to share a little something with a lovely bunch of incredibly talented people.

This photo is special to me... I look at it and it screams "Seven"... missing teeth, adult teeth growing in...

a sparkle in her eye... filled with optimism and hope...

the world is her oyster.

Seven.  The age my son is now.

I Waited... But You Never Came

Most people might find it hard to believe that I remember my second birthday... But I do...

At least some of it...

The couches were arranged to face one another... I am sure this was not ordinary... For it still feels unfamiliar to me now... after all of these years.

I sat beside my mother, she was to my left... opposite us were an elderly couple.

A large stuffed toy sat on the floor between us... closer to them than I...

A cat... Black and White... With glass bead eyes...

It was not much smaller than I... if at all.

I remember the elderly couple vaguely... they sat slightly apart... watching me... cautious... careful to not overstep... to not make me uneasy.
How I would love that cat... from that day until the day he was retired... worn, torn, outgrown...

Oh, how I wish I could remember more about that day...
My second birthday...

that I could remember Him...

Sitting there...

Opposite me...

How I wish I could remember Him... Or even that he were there...

I might trade all of my memories of that day for just one tiny glimpse of Him.

I spent so long waiting...

Hoping he would come...

To tell me he loved me... To help me make sense...

He would be my answer to why my eyes were a different blue to my siblings...

Why my hair was curly...

Why I had freckles...

He would sweep me up in his arms and make everything in the world OK...

He would protect me...

Love me...

Save me.

I was sixteen when I began my search for him...
When the memories of my second birthday began to make sense...
An elderly couple...Grandparents...
A Nan I would never again see... Those memories all I would have to keep...
A Pop that I would quickly grow to love and cherish...
for not nearly long enough before he would be taken from me again... after all those years apart...
Years Filled with hope...
Perhaps I was naive...

Not prepared for the hurt...

The pain...

The loss...

I did not search long... The answers came so quickly...

That I would never see my father...

That I was too late...

That I had lost what was perhaps never mine to begin with...

My heart broke... Oh, the pain I felt that day...

and every day since...

 When I think that he left me just one month before I found him...

That I was so close... Yet, so far.

And so, To my Dad... Here is...

I waited... But you never came

As promised... A little slideshow