Today is world suicide prevention day and r u ok day. Suicide is preventable, yet, sadly, 2,500 Australians die by suicide every year and more than 60,000 make an attempt. If someone in your life is struggling with mental health issues and you don't know how to talk...
A few months ago my lovely friend Chris was organising a fundraiser for her Let's Build a School initiative. Dave and I aren't big fans of trivia so we donated vouchers to ease the guilt of not attending the night. Mint and Jazz's owner bought both the Ruthless...
Who remembers Archie the Cattle Dog that I photographed last year? His people recently added a puppy to their family. Her name is Jet and she was just 11 weeks old when I did this session. John took a month off work to invest in training and socialising her, so she...
It's been a while since I've used my fancy before & after slider. Editing my RAW files has always held just as much enjoyment for me as rolling around in the dirt taking the photos in the first place. People often say to me "I have good gear but my photos don't look...
Sorry it's been quiet around here again. I wasn't on another holiday, I've been on bed rest under doctor's orders. BORING! Unless you follow me on Facebook and Instagram you may not have heard that I had to abruptly end a session two weeks ago and get taken to the ER....
Towards the end of last year I received an enquiry from someone whose email signature told me she lived in New York. Her brother was getting married soon, in Mexico, and she wanted to buy him and his wife a voucher for a Portrait Session and my Deluxe Collection as a...
I recently introduced a new session type called Puppy's First Year. I absolutely love photographing puppies but they change so much in their first year so I wanted to make it a viable option to have three sessions during that time. Then, if you want, you can wait...
A couple of weeks ago I had the HUGE pleasure of photographing two dogs that wear our leather wares but I'd yet to meet. Cruize is a photographer's dream in the head-tilt department. I had to actually only make tiny noises so he didn't do the full 90 degree tilt and...
I've photographed plenty of old dogs in my many years as a pet photographer, but Perrin was the first dog I'd been booked to photograph who was days away from being given his wings. He was old and had arthritis and it had become impossible to manage his pain. His...
International readers of my blog might wonder if I've moved back to Ireland with all my mentions of bad weather, but no, I'm still in Sydney. To date, 2015 has been a really difficult year for me as a natural light photographer. I haven't had a single session go ahead...
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