I met the Cerutti family this morning at Delta Park for their family photoshoot.  Nichole had been given the photoshoot as a birthday gift by her friend Lee-Anne whose baby photoshoot I did at the end of last year.

Today’s photoshoot started off a little dramatically when Isabella fell while I was taking photos of her baby sister Sophia, and the only thing that got her smiling again was the playground … normally the part that I leave til last because the kids don’t usually want to leave there once they start having fun.

Isabella was a little preoccupied with her sore knee

Hasn’t she got the most gorgeous green eyes?!

I just loved dad’s tattoo of Isabella’s name

There are also a few more images on my Facebook page

One of Connor’s school friends came over this afternoon for a quick visit.  Shannon’s mom and I decided to take the kids to the veld so that I could help her with low light portraits… it was quite dark this afternoon with heavy cloud cover and we started this mini shoot after 5pm.

Shannon is such a little cutie, and her older brother Jason got on so well with Bradley that we ended up having quite a bit of fun running around after the kids trying to capture them in action It was also fun for me to get photos of a little girl for a change

This is my favourite image from today…

And the 2 older boys eventually came back from their adventure

I met Heidi and her family in Delta Park this afternoon for their family photoshoot.  Heidi has booked a few photoshoots in the next few months leading up to the birth of their new baby, and then a baby shoot afterwards, and I’m thrilled that I’m going to be seeing them again… today was that much fun!

The kids were so lively, and it was so awesome to experience the wonderful relationship that they clearly have.

Our timing could not have been better actually… the cosmos was flowering all over the park and it was just a perfect setting for all the girls in the family

I met the Webb family at the Johannesburg Zoo this morning for their family photoshoot.  I’ve just implemented a new questionnaire for clients to complete after booking a shoot, and although Natalie booked this photoshoot months ago, she was the first client to actually complete one of these forms a few weeks ago.  And it really helped me so much… I felt that I knew so much about them by the time I met them so I think it made them feel at ease a lot faster, and it definitely made it easier to customise the shoot just for them.

Natalie booked this shoot to celebrate their youngest son, Duncan’s first birthday, but it was essentially a family shoot. Duncan’s big brother David, was so sweet, and collected a few pine cones for them to play with on the walk from the entrance to the park area where we started.

I cannot tell you how I love taking photographs of firsts… this was the first time Duncan stood… EVER!!

Bradley’s theme at school this week was “Marvellous Me” and he needed to take a photo of himself to school.  After looking through my hordes of photos, I realised that I haven’t done a proper photo of him in a few months… that’s just not on!!

So, this was a good opportunity… even though you can see he’s not all that happy about this