So, recently I've been doing a bit of soul searching. Nothing too crunchy, just working out some things in my head. Mainly, trying to figure out the direction I'm want to steer my photography. Where to direct my learning, and start to push the business towards...

At the moment, I'm feeling a need to create photos that are more than just of people. I want to take photos of feeling and emotion and to paraphrase the photographer Jesh de roux 'people think photos are about what they see. To me photos are about what you feel'.

Photos allow us to see a time gone. Whether that time was 5 minutes ago or 5 year ago. And the reason we take photos is to remember something. Why do we want to remember something? Because maybe it was of someone we love? Because we were having a great time and we want to remember how much fun we were having? Because we saw something beautiful and it made you stop and catch you breath for a second and look. Because something made us laugh. Or cry. These are emotions. We take photos because we want to remember that feeling. At least that's what I do.

So to get to my latest blog! These photos were taken during a gorgeous in-home family session in Albury earlier this month. Nicola booked me months ago, excited because she had stumbled across my website on Google! Yay! I was pretty excited that someone had found me out of the blue on the internet! She booked me because she saw my portfolio and loved what I do. Hearing that someone else also feels that about my photography is a pretty good feeling!

These guys were a breeze to photograph. They absolutely got what I do. I don't think I ever had to utter the sentence 'stop looking at me, look at each other'. They were naturals. Even down to talking about what they were going to cook for dinner - which if anyone has been photographed by me, has probably heard me say that as a prompt to talk to each other! Thanks James for stealing my line!

I deliver all my sessions in a combination of black and white and colour. Some days I'm really drawn to black and white photos. I think they show so much more connection and emotion than colour images. The take away distracting backgrounds and you find yourself focusing on faces, not the colour of the walls or a cushion behind. Don't get me wrong, I also love colour too. But there's something so timeless to a black and white.