I have learnt I really need to take my camera out more, I need to document our lives more and not be so hung up on getting that perfect portrait for my families everyday life. I want to capture my family, my children as who they are and doing what they do. Sometimes to grasp that crappy lighting and work with it, use it to capture our everyday as it is So lesson learnt! Please join me.

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ps. I promise I will get better at this blogging … and decent images. Images taken with point and shoot, (thanks waitress )

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A BUSH CHRISTENING – A.B. “Banjo” Paterson

On the outer Barcoo where the churches are few,
And men of religion are scanty,
On a road never cross’d ‘cept by folk that are lost,
One Michael Magee had a shanty.

Now this Mike was the dad of a ten-year-old lad,
Plump, healthy, and stoutly conditioned;
He was strong as the best, but poor Mike had no rest
For the youngster had never been christened,

And his wife used to cry, “If the darlin’ should die
Saint Peter would not recognise him.”
But by luck he survived till a preacher arrived,
Who agreed straightaway to baptise him.

Now the artful young rogue, while they held their collogue,
With his ear to the keyhole was listenin’,
And he muttered in fright while his features turned white,
“What the divil and all is this christenin’?”

He was none of your dolts, he had seen them brand colts,
And it seemed to his small understanding,
If the man in the frock made him one of the flock,
It must mean something very like branding.

So away with a rush he set off for the bush,
While the tears in his eyelids they glistened-
“‘Tis outrageous,” says he, “to brand youngsters like me,
I’ll be dashed if I’ll stop to be christened!”

Like a young native dog he ran into a log,
And his father with language uncivil,
Never heeding the “praste” cried aloud in his haste,
“Come out and be christened, you divil!”

But he lay there as snug as a bug in a rug,
And his parents in vain might reprove him,
Till his reverence spoke (he was fond of a joke)
“I’ve a notion,” says he, “that’ll move him.”

“Poke a stick up the log, give the spalpeen a prog;
Poke him aisy-don’t hurt him or maim him,
‘Tis not long that he’ll stand, I’ve the water at hand,
As he rushes out this end I’ll name him.

“Here he comes, and for shame! ye’ve forgotten the name-
Is it Patsy or Michael or Dinnis?”
Here the youngster ran out, and the priest gave a shout-
“Take your chance, anyhow, wid ‘Maginnis’!”

As the howling young cub ran away to the scrub
Where he knew that pursuit would be risky,
The priest, as he fled, flung a flask at his head
That was labelled “Maginnis’s Whisky!”

And Maginnis Magee has been made a J.P.,
And the one thing he hates more than sin is
To be asked by the folk who have heard of the joke,
How he came to be christened “Maginnis”!

This dude is why, I am the way I am. The reason Im such a stinker at telling jokes, why I find saying ‘Onions’ bloody funny, why i love the outdoors and know how to build a camp fire, why I get into trouble at footy games, why i talk louder and faster to annoy him, why sometimes i encourage the girls to squeal, why I am me.

Dad, I want to thankyou so much for being the best Dad to the four of us. Thank you for showing us the true beauty of life.

xXx

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Even a bigger score, the job of doing the dishes was won by Taylee and Jack

(mind the messy house, I was busy )

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Today has been pretty eventful. Taylee had class assembly where she stood in front of the whole school and talked about her excursion. (I will try and upload the video I took with the Mark ii, just have to figure it out.) She is one funny little miss. It was so easy to get her out of the bed this morning. She would be so happy to sleep all day that kid. But I went it at 7:20am and whispered.. School assembly into her ear and she was UP!

After school assembly Ellie and I travelled to my girlfriends house to get my hair done. The regrowth was starting to offend some people. So now im looking all blonde again and all so natural.
And now its school pickup time, and then Friday night drinky poos begin

that is why we have a day 3 image already posted and taken so early haha.. Smart Girl.

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I had to drag the two little cherubs as this birth is any day now and I like to meet my clients before the day.
We stopped at a gorgeous park in prospect on the way, the girls had so much fun up until it was time to go, Ellie decided the running away from me game was the totally funniest thing to do. That kid!!!

. It was such a cool park with water features and cute little bridges. I have to go back with the big camera. I have a few shots on the iphone that i will upload tomorrow.

On our way home (after the hair pulling the screaming matches and the sining and laughter), my little stinker decided she would stop carrying on and snooze!

My little snoozer. I could’t help but not to run inside and grab the camera.. LOVE!

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Here is Day 1

My girls are ALWAYS like this……… Yeah right!

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How freezing this session was on a very cold and wet winters morning, we had such a great time.
Bubbles, blocks, story time, snuggles. You could see the love that mum and dad had for their precious little girl.
How amazing are her eyes?! I was warned that little Chelsea ducked for the camera but she was a star.

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I am always lost for words when someone asks me about birth photography. I can never find the word’s that quite describes the way I feel. I never had any of my girl’s birth photographed professionally. I have some cruddy pictures of Taylee, just after birth that Aaron took, with the old SLR camera that was broken and left horrid lines through images. (Yes Film days… No digital with Taylee) With Jazz everything went so fast and with Aaron helping me, and midwives delivering. And With Ellie, I actually have no idea what went on. I just wanted her birth to HURRY up! I didn’t think to get Aaron on the camera. I was all over the place. He ended up filming (I had no idea) Once again I don’t have those amazing images that truly tells a story in one image. I can’t watch Ellie’s Birth Video. It is so intense! TURN THE SOUND OFF PLEASE!!! lol!! Pictures have the ability to capture all emotion in one frame, tell the entire story in one frame. Whether you Birth your children or adopt. Those first moments when you meet your little one for the very first time, those moments are what Birth Photography is about. The raw emotion, new families, new beginnings. LIFE

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