our new favourite place

mud, sand + water = happy children

This is what my girls mean when they ask to go to the beach - a local river that's just been "renaturalized", the concrete flash flood controls have been removed and the bed widened allowing the river to meander again. It's still a bit of a wasteland, but makes them just as excited as a trip to the real thing.

class of 2023

Well, the time has come: in less than a month Lisi will no longer be a Kindergartner. Today I was given the task of taking her group's "graduation photo". Have you ever tried to get 9 five-year-olds in one place, looking in the same direction, no fingers in noses? It all started so well, but inevitably descended into chaos! 

 

Ho hum.

Miss K

Last week I met one of town's newest inhabitants. She'd been long awaited, and I was given the slightly daunting honour of photographing her. 

 

 

I'd photographed my own babies as newborns with point and shoot cameras hoping for the best. Last Thursday I discovered quite how difficult photographing newborns really is. I only used the natural light coming in through the window, it was thankfully a beautiful, sunny day but Miss K had her own very definite ideas about which direction she wished to face. I tried moving her just so, but she thought she looked better just so... there was a moment where she slept, but just a moment. I really have to quiz a proper photographer about just how they take all those beautifully lit, perfectly posed sleepy shots!

Anyhow,the theme of this week's  I heart faces photo challenge is "motherhood". There's nothing revolutionary in this shot, but I find the joy in the eye contact between a new mother and her baby makes me stop and smile every time I see it.