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My kids are obsessed with trains, big and little. Mostly it is the little boy who is so keen. Some of our favorite together time has been spent packing up a picnic lunch and heading down to watch the metro trains as they head to and from the city. We have yet to get out [...]

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Lessons from dad.

by sesame on August 14, 2011

The two part sponsored blog post series for Australian Father’s Day has delivered the challenge this time to write about what I learned from my Dad. It has been nice to have the prompts to reflect back on how much my father meant to me. Hardly a day goes by where I don’t stop to [...]

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As the Australian father’s day comes up I am thinking about my husband, the father of my kids, but I am also thinking about my dad. It is many many years now since my father passed away, but he is still so present in my life. He gave me the gift of photography by footing [...]

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I don’t know if you have noticed, but we are a family that takes lots of photos. The twins have been aware of the camera for ages, but only recently have they begun to show interest in actually taking the pictures. Usually when I am shooting with my phone or Gemma’s point and shoot. I think they [...]

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Gemma: “Can I have a pet bunny, Mom, Please?” Me: “Nope” Gemma: “PLEEEEASE!” Me: “We have a cat” Gemma: “Sienna has a bunny.” Me: “Awesome.” That conversation happens every so often and I will admit, Sienna’s bunny IS really cute, but we have a cat and a bonus possum in the back yard. I am [...]

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Kid Fashion :: Tea Collection

by sesame on November 29, 2010

I have long been a fan of the gorgeous Children’s Clothing that is in the Tea Collection range. I love the attention to detail and the patterns and the fact that they easily make play clothes that look like they should only be saved for nice occasions. It was an opportunity to jump at when [...]

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holiday cards from tiny prints

by sesame on November 9, 2010

It has been a long time since we have had actual holiday cards printed. We sort of inadvertently took a couple of years off. I used to love planning the annual shoot with Gemma and getting the perfect photograph around which I enjoyed designing the perfect card. When they were printed and mailed out, I [...]

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With work on our book in full swing, I have been thinking about documenting family life through photography a lot lately.  I have always been one to carry my camera with me almost all the time and my D3 has never seen the inside of a closet…it is always out and ready to go.  With the book work taking [...]

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