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Hi there! I’m a portrait photographer specialising in families. I travel between Auckland, New Zealand and Brussels, Belgium, chasing the sun. This year I’m in Belgium until April 16th, returning again for summer July 1st till August 11th. Thanks for stopping by and enjoy!

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Cass and her Beautiful Family {Belgian Family Photographer}

September 29th, 2011

I met Cass through flickr of all places, it feels like many years ago, but was actually only a few. I love our friendship and I love our kids friendship. They do live on the other side of the world but not for long. They are moving to NZ! Ok they are not. Yet. But [...]

 

I met Cass through flickr of all places, it feels like many years ago, but was actually only a few. I love our friendship and I love our kids friendship. They do live on the other side of the world but not for long. They are moving to NZ!

Ok they are not. Yet. But I reckon we just need one more season of kiwi summer photos and that should convince them ;) Stay tuned.

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Beach Sessions {Belgian Family Photographer}

September 22nd, 2011

Loved shooting on the beach with it’s gorgeous light and wonderful colours. So much that I have decided next year to hang out out at the Belgian coast for a few weeks next year for beach sessions! Book yours now! This wonderful family were on their last day of a three week holiday. Three weeks [...]

 

Loved shooting on the beach with it’s gorgeous light and wonderful colours. So much that I have decided next year to hang out out at the Belgian coast for a few weeks next year for beach sessions! Book yours now!

This wonderful family were on their last day of a three week holiday. Three weeks at the beach with your family, bliss. Beautiful, kind, tons of fun and the kids so so sweet.

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Beautiful {Belgian Family Photographer}

September 15th, 2011

You may remember Emilia and her family from earlier this year. Introducing her gorgeous aunt and family! Belgium has some amazing locations and this is one of them. Coupled with the most incredible light from a darkening sky, a fantastic wardrobe, a beautiful family, a fun evening and well, check ‘em out.

 

You may remember Emilia and her family from earlier this year. Introducing her gorgeous aunt and family! Belgium has some amazing locations and this is one of them. Coupled with the most incredible light from a darkening sky, a fantastic wardrobe, a beautiful family, a fun evening and well, check ‘em out.

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Forest Flower {Belgian Child Photographer}

August 23rd, 2011

I held Louise as her Mum backed the car out over rough terrain. As her head nestled into my neck, she touched my heart and i didn’t want to let her go! She gave us the most wonderful laughs and smiles as we went on our evening adventure through forests and orchards and cropped fields. [...]

 

I held Louise as her Mum backed the car out over rough terrain. As her head nestled into my neck, she touched my heart and i didn’t want to let her go! She gave us the most wonderful laughs and smiles as we went on our evening adventure through forests and orchards and cropped fields.

Thanks Sarah and Louise for the fun evening!

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Don’t lose your photos {Portrait Photographer Auckland Brussels}

August 5th, 2011

I recently spent $1000 to recover my personal photos. I had them backed up on two separate external hard drives, both drives failed. 1999 (scans) to late 2009. I sent three disks in to be recovered. Two were not possible, all data lost, but thankfully one was (the backup). At a cost. I am still [...]

 

I recently spent $1000 to recover my personal photos. I had them backed up on two separate external hard drives, both drives failed. 1999 (scans) to late 2009. I sent three disks in to be recovered. Two were not possible, all data lost, but thankfully one was (the backup). At a cost. I am still trying to work out what I have lost from the other drives, but it will be minimal due to another backup.

What I have experienced and seen more and more recently is that external hard drives break easily, they need to be treated like eggs. And if they don’t break, they can be stolen along with the your computer as friends sadly have recently experienced.

Workout your backup procedure now. It is devastating to lose photos of your family, holidays, treasured memories.
Here is mine, please feel free to share what works for you on my facebook discussion page.

a) backup on two external hard drives
b) upload chosen and processed jpgs to zenfolio (an annual fee, if you do sign up, use code K72-GND-SNR to get 10% off)
c) copy jpgs from zenfolio to smugmug(also an annual fee, use code Emo0efDu4p702 to get US$5 off)
d) documents, recent pictures, videos, music etc are all located in my dropbox (up to 2gb is free). Anything and everything (except my huge image collection) is located there.
e) Timemachine (macs) so if my computer dies or is stolen, can start her up the way she was.

Whew. I think I’m now covered :)

Dropbox, smugmug, zenfolio, all these online sites also allow you to share pics, videos etc with friends and family. Zenfolio also allows you to print your images directly using the consumer lab photobox (not sure on the quality, will test and let you know).

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Close friends of one of my favourite clients (who have now moved to la plage, south of france, so jealous) have got married, yah. I was very honoured to be chosen as their photographer.

They are an amazing couple with a beautiful child, surrounded by gorgeous family and a ton of wonderful friends.
They seemed to be having the day of their lives. Food was Divine, flames coming out of the desert, slow dance turned into a flash mob as their friends suddenly joined in to a synchronised dance, and I left them as they partied on into the night.

Congratulations to you both x

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Family {Auckland Family Photographer}

June 11th, 2011

These so make me smile. My cousin booked this session for photos of her granddaughter. So happy that we have such beautiful pictures of her with her parents too. Family. So precious to have gorgeous photographs of family laughing together. Love shines through. ps: no babies were left dangling on the side of a pool [...]

 

These so make me smile. My cousin booked this session for photos of her granddaughter. So happy that we have such beautiful pictures of her with her parents too. Family. So precious to have gorgeous photographs of family laughing together. Love shines through.

ps: no babies were left dangling on the side of a pool at any time during this shoot! Her mum was hiding behind the pool holding on to her leg :)

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Ah can’t wait to show you photos from this shoot. My cousin’s gorgeous daughter’s family.
In the meantime, here is a very happy rubber ducky. He has stunning views from where he floats.

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High Tea for Three {Auckland Family Photographer}

June 6th, 2011

Twas a beautiful late autumn afternoon to have a tea party in the park. A trailer and strong men were organised to lift the couch over fences and chairs through gorgeous fields. Stephanie is a work colleague from many many many years ago I am so happy to have re-connected with. Her creativity in setting [...]

 

Twas a beautiful late autumn afternoon to have a tea party in the park. A trailer and strong men were organised to lift the couch over fences and chairs through gorgeous fields. Stephanie is a work colleague from many many many years ago I am so happy to have re-connected with. Her creativity in setting up (and baking for) this shoot has paid off tenfold. So much love and lots of laughter.

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