We are very excited to announce that Tristan is now an Accredited Professional Photographer with the Australian Institute of Professional Photographer – yay :)
The AIPP is the only professional body that represents photographers in Australia, and offers fantastic support to the photographic community. The images below are the ones submitted to the AIPP for assessment as part of Tristan’s accreditation process. A massive thank you goes out to all the clients to have supported us to date, he couldn’t have done this without you!
We had the pleasure of meeting Sharon and Dawson Cooke, their kids, and gorgeous dog Brenna a few weeks ago.
Sharon and Dawson have just started up a fantastic business called FamilyWorks, which focuses on providing parenting essentials to support mothers, fathers, and carers of young children. Between them, they offer up 30 years of experience in supporting parents, and are able to offer seasoned insight that helps to cut through the confusion many parents go through.
FamilyWorks will also be exhibiting at the Pregnancy, Babies, and Children’s Expo this year, and will be at stand E06 – be sure to stop by and check out some of our photos they have used for their stall :)
We have been busy planning an overseas family holiday for next year. As this will be our first time on a plane with the girls, we have decided to make it somewhere close and will be heading to Singapore :)
People have told us that it is notoriously difficult to take passport photos of babies and, as a result, not too many places offer the service. Since the guidelines online seemed pretty easy to follow, we decided to give it a go ourselves, and to do photos for the rest of the family at the same time.
Initially we thought that this blog post would be full of hilarious outtakes but the stars must have alligned, because there really aren’t any. There is a great guide to taking baby passport photos here but, since Amelie is almost 3 months old, we didn’t really need to use it. If we had tried any earlier, say when she was 6 weeks old, it would have been a struggle (unless we did it in the middle of the night!) because, being a premmie, she was very sleepy during the day.
The photos were taken first thing in the morning, in that short window of time between Amelie’s breastfeed and morning sleep, and that turned out to be the perfect time to do it. We showed the big girls the sample photos and explained that this time when we said “Don’t smile” we weren’t trying to make them giggle, we actually meant it :)
Looking at these photos we are struck by three things: the first is the crazy resemblance between all of us. You can literally pick and choose different features and see which parent they came from. The second is that the older you are the more awful you look in a passport photo – bleh. The third is the absolute lack of emotion, you can see that we are related but there is no other connection between us.
Our photography is definitely about the connection and interactions between families, so you can pretty much guarantee that these will not be going up on any walls in our house; we think that a friend summed it up well when he said that we look like a family of serial killers ;)
I had the pleasure of meeting these two while we were in Yallingup during the summer school holidays. We are fondly remembering that warm summer weather today, while huddling in front of our heater and putting multiple woolen layers on! Brrr!!!