I have just turned 65, I have made the very emotional decision to retire and close my studio doors. This week will be my last in the studio.
This has not been an easy decision, because photography has been so much more than just a job to me. For so many years, I have had the absolute privilege of meeting the most beautiful families, cuddling your precious newborn babies, watching your children grow, and capturing moments that I know will be treasured for generations.
To every family who has stood in front of my camera — thank you. Thank you for trusting me with your memories, your stories, and some of the most special moments of your lives. Your support, kindness, and friendships over the years have meant more to me than words can ever say.
Although my studio will be closing, I will still be offering a limited number of outdoor and in-home sessions, as I’m not quite ready to put my camera away completely.
As I begin this new chapter, I will also be selling studio equipment, props, backdrops, and newborn photography items. If you are starting your own photography journey, or looking to add to your studio, please feel free to message me.
I will also be offering some newborn photography training for those who would love to learn more about photographing and safely posing newborn babies.
It is hard to close such a big chapter of my life, but I leave it feeling incredibly grateful, proud, and thankful for every single family who has supported me along the way.
From the bottom of my heart… thank you ❤️

I absolutely love doing maternity sessions, mums are at their most beautiful. And I especially enjoy doing these sessions outside somewhere. It just adds to the natural beauty of the moment.
This session, mum loved horses, so we met out at Te Karaka at the Riverview Treks & Pinehollow Riding School, what an awesome place, if you love horses get in touch with them, they are so lovely.
They had this beautiful white horse ready for us, and she was so gentle. She knew that she was with a pregnant mum, as she gently rubbed her head on the mums tummy, it was just beautiful to witness.
I cannot say enough how much I loved doing this session, the scenery was wonderful, the whole time we were there it was really special.

Please enjoy my little booklet on what to expect for your newborn session :)

I've had the pleasure of learning a lot of my craft with Creative Live. My specialty is newborn, maternity and family portrait photography which has been perfected by these amazing classes and bootcamps on Creative Live.

At the moment I'm enjoying a class from Sue Bryce and Kelly Brown, Bumps to Babies which covers some great posing techniques and tips for getting the image just right, using correct angles and lighting, techniques of posing baby with parents, maternity posing, and each monthly stage of baby over 12 months which is a fantastic idea to market with your business.

But not only do you learn the technical side, there is some great ideas for marketing  which is so important to our businesses, the ideas will keep you busy for a long time but the real bonus is the amount of tools that come with this class, Photoshop templates, marketing cards, posing guides, birth announcements, session reminders to name a few.

This course covers a lot of aspects of your business, for example; branding, how important your name and branding is to your business, this is the first thing your clients will see to  get to know you and your work.

How is your website performing? What are you specialising in? Pricing, marketing, blogging, social media...... I know I'm going to watch this class many times to let all the information sink in and keep me inspired. Learning from such successful business creatives has to be a "win win" for my business.

Creative Live is not only for photographers, the subjects and tutors are so varied. Anything you can do creatively you can find further knowledge from this site.
Something for everyone.
Channels are;

• photo & video
• art & design
• music & audio
• craft & maker
• money & life

Check it out for free with their free live classes which change every day,

"All the babies in your photos are so gorgeously perfect, not a blemish in sight, and when I look at my own little cherub I see little milk pimples everywhere, flaky skin and little scratches from her fingernails, how on earth can I go and get photos done when her skin is not so perfect?

My recent newborn session was with beautiful Grace, 2 weeks old and just starting to get a little more alert, but we got some very cute photos. She had a few little milk pimples, she looked stunning in her finished photos.

I say it all the time, but I love doing this!