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Simple Nothings on the Other Side.

Well, after a month in California you’d think I’d have exciting travel tales to share, or at least some pretty pictures of sunlight and palm trees.  Um, no.    Don’t get me wrong – we’ve had a wonderful time here but with the many trips we’ve made out in recent years, familiarity sets in and the things that would have once had me squealing with glee or scratching my head in dismay have become more the norm.   I’ve traded “How are you going?” for “How are you doing?”, I fill up the car with “gas” and I’ve stopped saying  ”triple” when relaying our phone number. (I do actually love saying five-five-five..it’s just so, well, American).  Oh, and chips are now french fries and they’re covered in ketchup.   What were once those cute yellow Sesame St fire hydrants are now just regular hydrants.   I no longer hear  the accents like I used to and  I can find my way to the nearest Home Depot. Without the GPS.   See, I’m almost local.  When the exciting becomes more like the every day, it takes work to want to keep recording it.  Or perhaps I’m just back to noticing the things that matter most.

Like watching my children at the start of day.
Seeing their eyes flutter open and the beginnings of a smile and sleepy fists stretching out.
Snuggling together and talking in hush and planning simple nothings.
Laying with three and thinking of four and wishing for different but grateful for this.

Images that won’t make slide night but are more than enough for me,   palm trees or not.

Sheye xx

ps..Images edited with Eye Candy Actions Little Darling and Muted Wash.  And, a quick note that the next Eye Candy Explore Workshop (online, for beginners) starts mid August.  If you wish to enrol, you may do so here. xx

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Pastel Skies

More Tash & Andrew & Briar & Naima goodness.  Same day, different sky.
x

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Tuesday Loves.

Some beautiful new music, sent to me from Jennifer.

So, I listened and I fell in love and I wanted to share it with all of you. I thought I best ask first and wondered if the gorgeous voice would be just as sweet over email and guess what? She really was.
Now I’m twice as in love with Elle Graham.
I hope you are too.
xx

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Natasha and Andrew and Briar and Naima

The first email I got from Natasha was in the form of a session enquiry but rather quickly, it turned into a chat about kids fashion.  A chat that’s continued for three years now :)  Along the way, we’ve discussed many a new season frock, swooned over the latest Room Seven linen and shared tales about a must have French iron bed.  I had no doubt that when the perfect time arrived to capture her family, we’d have no problems in the wardrobe  department.   The perfect time did come up, but the perfect location was yet to be sorted when Natasha mentioned they’d be away in Byron Bay around the time we planned for the shoot.  Byron?  As in take-your-shoes-off, put-your-sari-on, eat-fantastic-sushi Byron?  Not.A.Problem.

A few weeks later, Fran and I packed up our chattels and checked ourselves out for the weekend, bound for the border.  It would be the longest post ever to describe all the things I loved about our time in Bryon so let me just say it really was magical.   We waited for gorgeous skies, we found the perfect forest, we played games and sang songs and Tash and I talked of things much more important than small people’s clothing.  Just how I love my time with clients..happy, relaxed, easy..with a camera in hand.

If there’s something else I love about photography, it’s the way in which you get to know a family so much more as you work with their images.  Yes, the time spent alongside them lets you gain a sense of their bond but it’s not until you sit down with their photos, when you sift them one by one..absorbing their expressions and their connections..the stillness and the moments..that’s when you really get to see them.   When I sat alone with these images, they spoke so loudly to me of all things that family should be full of.  Happiness and  laughter and encouragement and pride and more than anything, wrapped around it all, just so much love.

Here’s Part One of our time spent with a truly beautiful family in a truly breath-taking location.   Thank you Tash and Andrew, for letting me see you.

xx

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See You At Byron.

Issue at hand:  Arranging date and location for photoshoot with client.
Minor point:    Client unavailable for one week while on vacation in unbelievably gorgeous location.
Best Solution:  Meet them there.

Natasha’s beautiful family coming up next!

xx

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