Penny Lane (Canberra Children’s Photographer)

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 / Canberra children's photographer, Canberra family photographer, Canberra portrait photographer

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Busy season is upon us. I know this because I’m frantically trying to download as many “productivity” applications on my iPad, iPhone, iMac and MacBookPro. (Downloading these apps won’t suddenly make my lists shorter… but they’ll make them prettier!) (And yes, I listed out all my gadgets because I am a NERD and revel in all things technology. Please, Apple and Stevie Jobs, for the sake of my bank account and marriage, do not make any more gadgets. Unless they’ll help with my productivity.)

Busy season means that I’m behind in emails. Really really behind. So if you’re waiting on a response from me, a million gazillion apologies. It also means that I’m trying to revamp everything: website, products + packaging, perfectionising my Mentor Sessions (yes, perfectionising is a real word), and possibly getting a new studio manager. As well as an intern. But all of these things require lots and lots of time and money, the latter of which is being spent on aforementioned Apple products. And this is my dilemma. :)

But in spite of all this, I’m happy. Incredibly happy with everything that’s happened and happening. I have so much NEWS to share with you and I’m bursting at the seams to write it all out now. But alas, the timing just isn’t right. Perhaps the next blog post? Or the next next one? Yes. Until then, please enjoy these photos of pretty Penny and her beautiful family. Thank you oh beautiful family for being such wonderfully willing subjects. But most of all, thank you Penny for your ability to crack me up with your affable + extremely lovable nature. :)

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What’s news in your world? Anything exciting to share? And on the subject of iPhones and iPads, Consumer Christine would appreciate any application “musts” that she should download!! :)

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Adelaide Sandy (Canberra Photography Mentor Sessions)

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 / *FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS*, Canberra children's photographer, Mentor sessions

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I’m sure that’s not what my mentee, Sandy, wants to be forever known as: “Adelaide Sandy.” But I can’t help it. This talented mother of two travelled all the way from beautiful RADelaide to spend a day with me to learn, shoot, edit, chat, organise, price, plan, market and HAVE FUN! :) There must be something pretty magical that connects me with my blog readers – because after talking to her for all of ten minutes, I already knew we’d be great friends. In fact, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I always connect with my mentees. And I feel so very lucky that they all become such wonderful people in my life!

Sandy, you have every talent in the world and have such a wonderfully natural eye for photography. (Not to mention your awesome way with the kids!!) I just know that this year is going to be great for you and I can’t wait to see where your photography journey takes you. Above all, I’m so pleased that our mentor session has motivated you to get a website + blog + your business running. I can’t wait to see it all when it’s ready!! Can’t wait to catch up again! xoxo

And to our wonderful models: thank goodness the weather played nice, hey? :) You guys were absolutely lovely models, and Karen: thanks again for bringing your kids along for our shoot! We had a great time getting to know your family and hope it was as enjoyable for you as it was for us! :)


[FYI: To those interested in Mentor Sessions, I've added more dates to this year so I'll try my best to accommodate you all! :) If you'd like more info, please message me via email and I'll send through the flier!]

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Fiji (Canberra Photographer)

Friday, August 27th, 2010 / Personal

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Husband recently turned the big 3-0. Yup… We are officially adults! :) To celebrate this awesome milestone, I booked us tickets to Fiji not that long ago and gave hubby the honour of planning it all. Whatever he wanted to do; wherever he wanted to stay. I promised I’d be game so long as it didn’t involve jumping into caves and swimming with eels (he tricked me into doing this last year in New Zealand… and since then I vowed never to let him plan a holiday again. Until now that is).

We had the best holiday of our lives. Not only did we celebrate his 30th, we got to celebrate our two year wedding anniversary: a lifetime in celebrity years! :) We took the Yasawa Flyer (a big big boat) and cruised out to the Yasawa Islands (4.5 hours away!) and spent nearly a week in isolation with the locals. It was seriously one of the most beautiful places I had ever seen in my life. Everything about this trip was so magical. Meeting the local Fijians. Sharing in a ritual bowl of Kava. Snorkeling and swimming in the clear blue waters. Eating freshly caught fish and lobster. Making friends with other tourists. It was just perfect. Husband did the awesomest job planning the best trip ever.

I’ll let the pictures do the rest of the talking. :)
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