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Bergan Family

Renee — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 06:19:11 +0000

Meet Jon & Marnie. Wonderfully creative owners of Bergan Blue. Parents to beautiful Sibella. And dear friends. If I lived around the corner from this gorgeous family, Marnie and I would be terrible housewives but expert bakers and tea drinkers in no time ;-) As it is we spend a decent chunk of our time emailing, SMSing, Facebooking, Instagraming already!

These guys made a flying visit to Brisbane to catch up with friends, so we thought we’d combine a catch up with some family, couple and individual portraits. We had a blast! It was also a real treat to see our girls meet and become fast friends.

I hope you guys enjoy your images. Very much looking forward to the next time we can catch up again xx

Is there anything sweeter…

Renee — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 01:52:36 +0000

… than itty bitty newborn details? :)

Have a great weekend xx

Ben

Renee — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 06:34:55 +0000

Meet our wonderful friend’s second baby, Ben. Little brother to Grace. This gorgeous man is such a chilled out fella, nothing much bothers him and he is so happy to go with the flow. A dream baby :)

Here are the images from both Ben’s very quick newborn session, and another session a few weeks later.

Evie’s First Year

Renee — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 05:22:17 +0000

A very quick post of our beautiful niece Evie over the first year of her life. We held four sessions at 10 days, 4 months, 8 months and 14 months (the weather and our schedules made it difficult to hold a session at 12 months). Here is a sample of those sessions for Pete & Mary of their lovely little lady. I’ll put together a full post from these sessions shortly.

- Renee xx

Paice Family

Renee — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 05:16:29 +0000

Yvonne is a new friend, a new cyber friend, we met in an online mothers group for women who were due to give birth in September last year. It’s a great mix of women, all of whom feel like trusted friends now - even though only a few of us have met in real life because we are spread all across Australia. So it was a real treat to meet Yvonne, Paicey and their gorgeous little man, Lachlan when they were holidaying on the Gold Coast.

When we first met online, Yvonne so kindly mentioned that she’d love to have me photograph her baby when he or she was born, but with her family living in Victoria and us in Queensland, that always seemed so unlikely. What a treat it was for us to make it happen recently! :)

Thank you for asking me to photograph your lovely little family Yvonne, it was a great afternoon. Most of all though, it was wonderful to meet you in person. How nice to know that ease of online chat just flows on into real life ;-) Here are a handful of your photographs …

- Renee xx

Michaela

Renee — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 03:05:11 +0000

I have known Michaela, and her twin Melissa, since they were born. I was 10 years old and spent every day after school playing with them. They lived next door for 5 years until their family moved back to New Zealand and we have kept in touch ever since. Michaela is 19 and at university studying to be a teacher – she will be such an awesome teacher! – and she flew to Australia for a bit of a break over Summer, so I took the opportunity to photograph her while she was staying with us.

Love you lots Tay xx

Neglected Blog

Renee — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:37:26 +0000

Just a quick note to apologise for my absence over the past couple of months, I’ve had a very good reason ;-)

We travelled here:

To do this:

Chris & I were married at the end of October in Tuscany!! These beautiful photographs are the gorgeous work of Jose Villa. Go & check out his amazing (film!) work :)

I’m only now getting caught up on my work, so expect to see shots from these sessions soon:

Oscar’s Newborn Session (Part II); Alicia & Brad’s Pregnancy Session; Talitha’s First Year & Smith Family Session; Arley’s Newborn Session; my beautiful brand new niece Evie’s Newborn Session; Amanda’s Celebration of Self Session (including some shots with & of her husband); Trish & Rowan’s New Year’s Eve Engagement Session; and, Michaela’s Portrait Session. Oi! Better get to work ;-)

Renee x

Alicia . 30 weeks .

Renee — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:57:05 +0000

Meet my beautiful friend, Alicia. I was a guest at Alicia’s baby shower a week ago, so I snuck her outside to grab a couple of very quick shots of her and her lovely round shape! After looking through this handful of images, Alicia & Brad have decided to work with me on a full pregnancy session, and then their son’s newborn session, and I can hardly wait!

Thank you for letting me share these images :)

Oscar James . newborn . part I

Renee — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:46:05 +0000

Introducing baby Oscar James! Oscar is the brand new son of my beautiful friends, Helena & Gleb (you can see their pregnancy session HERE). We have quickly learned that Os is a much bigger fan of cuddles than he is of having his photograph taken, and after three (THREE!!) attempts at photographing him as a newborn – at 10 days, 2 weeks and 3 weeks - these are the images we got. Good thing he’s completely adorable and gives his Aunty Nay lots and lots of cuddles!

We are so happy to have you here with us Os! It is plainly written on the faces of your parents how much love and joy you already bring to their lives, I don’t think anyone can imagine life without you now.

This is also my public apology to you for being so adamant that you were a baby girl all that time in your mummy’s belly! Oops …

Now, on to a few of my favourite images!

I just love this series of the brand new family :)

And I think these two take the cake for my favourites from the session – already full of cheekiness, just like both mummy and daddy!

And yes, this blog post title reads ‘Part I’ – there are more to come! Part II should be ready to pubish next week :)

And the winner is …

Renee — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:07:38 +0000

Entry #10 – Baby Grace ay 6 months old!

And our FOUR equal runners up are:

Entry #8 – Baby Oscar at 10 days

Entry #4 – Beautiful Brooklyn with Mum & Dad

Entry #19 – Talitha at 8 months

Entry #15 – Baby Jeremy at 3 weeks

Congratulations to you all! I’ll be in touch with you all to arrange delivery of your winning image!