Levi was born only a few days after my little girl Lola as it turns out, If you read the previous post and saw the images of Lola on the shelf, I mentioned how nervous my wife Heidi was while doing this shot.  She said to me at the time “Do you get your clients to do this” well now I can say yes, there was a very similar shelf in Levi’s room so I thought why not recreate the shot.

The shoot went off without a hitch except for the end where Levi decided to relieve himself all over his dad.

Enjoy!

what a cool shirt

family portrait

the famous shelf photo

fun family photo

artistic portrait

We have a special offer for anyone wanting to update their family photos this weekend.  We have 3 spots open to anyone interested for Saturday, and we are waiving the $185 sitting fee so first in best dressed.  If you are keen or know someone who is call the studio on 9733 4854 to book now!

We headed to Selby to get some natural portraits of the Burgess family and Michael’s tricked up Tarana.  We had a great time and got some shots they made into a nice framed collage for their home.

For the Smidt’s Family portraits we just took some fun shots in the backyard, when people are in their natural surroundings they are quite comfortable and relaxed which makes it easy to get the shots I want.  We had a lot of fun getting the photos and watching their three dogs go crazy while we were taking the pics.

The Wylie family were the luck winners of a $900 voucher we donated to the Bimbadeen Pre School fundraising night and we headed to Lilydale lake for their shoot.  The girls had a great time running around and I got quite a bit of exercise that day.

This is the second shoot we have done of little Cruz, he is the son of Lauren & Michael a wedding couple we photographed a few years ago.  We are doing a 3, 6, 9month and 1 year shoot then putting them all together for a nice canvas collage for their house.  He enjoyed this shoot much more than the first and he didn’t stop smiling the whole time.

Every year I do a photo of my niece and two nephews for their family Christmas cards, it is great to put all the cards together and see how the family has grown, I think we have done about 5 now.  While we did the photo I also got a shot of Mitch for Charlie & Claude which is a shop in Berwick for their catalogue modelling some of their new stock.

Kyah was great to photograph, she smiled and posed and didn’t cry once which made my job very easy.  I really like the shot where she is lying in Simon’s arm with his tattoo’s showing, he did get a little wet just before this shot which was quite funny.

We photographed Brodie on Tuesday but had to process the photos quickly as Narelle & Craig live in Dubbo and are only down for a few days for a wedding.  He wasn’t too keen on the whole photography thing at the start but slowly warmed into it and we even got a nice shot of his grandparents who’s house we did the shoot in.

Aria the gorgeous little baby below was down from Sydney for her Christening so Hayley & John (who’s wedding we did back in 2004) took the opportunity to get some pictures to mark the occasion.  We got some beautiful shots and also one of the funniest baby photos I have taken, take a close look at Aria’s face and hand gesture in the first family photo it’s a classic.

We have had a few enquiries from Sydney families about doing shoots so JD Digital Photography are coming to Sydney.  If we get enough interest we will be heading to Sydney for a few days to photograph Sydney families early next year, if you are interested or know someone who is please forward your interest to johl@jddigitalphotog.com the first 10 families to email will get a special sitting rate of $195.

Aria in a cute little ballerina costume.

What a classic! we didn’t even realise until going back through the photos

Olivia is a sweet 18month old that we photographed a few weeks ago and was great fun, it was hard to get a shot where she wasn’t smiling which is always a bonus.

It was hard work but we finally got a shot with the family dog, he wasn’t really interested in being in front of the camera.

Ella is one of the most expressive little girls I have photographed, that coupled with the fact that she had beautiful blue eyes made my job quite easy.

This is my favourite from the session.

Bailey is an old hand at getting his photo taken as this is his second shoot, we photographed his parents Chris & Emma’s wedding a few years ago.  It is great catching up with our past wedding couples and capturing the next chapter in their lives. 

We went down to Ringwood lake for the shoot and Bailey had a great time exploring around the playground.

The Slattery family won a voucher we donated to their school fundraising night so we headed down to a park in Vermont South and got some great shots of them all.  The kids had a great time and we managed to get some fun natural shots for them to display in their home.